In the year 1528, Gustav I of Sweden is crowned king of Sweden (Jan 12), the French fleet crushes the Spanish squadron trying to run the blockade of Naples (Apr 28), Genoese admiral Andrea Doria defeats his former allies, the French, and establishes the independence of Genoa (Sep 12), Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his crew become the first known Europeans to set foot on the shores of today’s Texas (Nov 6), Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Montejo attempts an invasion of the Yucatán, but is driven out by the Maya peoples, Montenegro gains autonomy under Ottoman power - and all these fine people were born:
1528-xxxx Paolo Veronese* painter – Verona, Venetian Republic (1588/c.60)
1528-0229 Domingo Báñez* theologian - Medina del Campo, Valladolid, Spanish Empire (1604/76)
1528-0310 Akechi Mitsuhide* 明智 光秀 samurai general in the Sengoku period/the assassin of Oda Nobunaga - Tara Castle, Mino Province, Japan (1582/54)
1528-0325 Jakob Andreae* German theologian/Protestant Reformer - Waiblingen, Duchy of Württemberg (1590/61)
1528-0607 Cyriacus Spangenberg* German theologian - Nordhausen, Thuringia (1604/75)
1528-0621 Maria of Austria* Holy Roman Empress – Madrid, Spain (1603/74)
1528-0629 Julius, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg* German nobleman - Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony (1589/60)
1528-0707 Archduchess Anna of Austria* member of the Imperial House of Habsburg/daughter of King Ferdinand I - Prague, Bohemia, Holy Roman Empire (1590/62)
1528-0726 Diogo de Paiva de Andrade* theologian - Coimbra, Kingdom of Portugal (1575/47)
1528-0810 Eric II* Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg* - Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Holy Roman Empire (1584/56)
1528-0925 Otto II* Duke of Brunswick-Harburg - Celle, Holy Roman Empire (1603/75)
1528-1004 Francisco Guerrero* priest/ composer - Seville, Spanish Empire (1599/71)
1528-1010 Adam Lonicer* German botanist - Marburg, Hesse, Holy Roman Empire (1586/57)
1528-1102 Petrus Lotichius Secundus* (b Lotz) German scholar/neo-Latin poet - Niederzell, Hesse (1560/32)
1528-1106 Gabriel Goodman* Dean of Westminster/re-founder of Ruthin School - Ruthin, Denbighshire, England (1601/72)
1528-1112 Qi Jiguang* 戚繼光 Chinese military general/writer - Shandong, Ming Dynasty (1588/59)
1528-1116 Jeanne d’Albret* Queen of Navarre - Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Kingdom of France (1572/43)
Updated 12.8.2022
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