Here’s our next instalment of things that happened in ..24 years of yore.

Notable Events in 1524

17 January. Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, on board La Dauphine, in the service of Francis I of France, sets out from Madeira for the New World, to seek out a western sea route to the Pacific Ocean.

17 April. Verrazzano’s expedition makes the first European entry into New York Bay, and sights the island of Manhattan.

August. Protestant theologians Martin Luther and Andreas Karlstadt have a theological dispute at Jena.

24 December. Death of Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (b. c1469).