Year in Japan

1524 in Japanese History

3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Muromachi period (室町時代, 1336 – 1573).

Era name: Daiei 大永 (year 4 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Feb 17 Siege of Edo 高輪原の戦い · Siege — 1524 siege of Edo Castle in Japan
Kanamori Nagachika 金森長近 · Samurai — 16th century Japanese Samurai
Yamagata Masakage 山県昌景 · Samurai — samurai

Reading the year 1524 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1524 corresponds to Daiei 大永 (year 4 of the era). Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".

The year itself is read 1524年 (1524ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 16th century for its neighbours.