1514

Year '1514' (MDXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1514

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1514

January - June

★ March - Louis XII of France makes peace with Emperor Maximilian.

★ May 15 - Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo’s ''Gesta Danorum,'' the oldest known version of that work.

July - December

★ July - Peace between England and France.

★ August 23 - Battle of Chaldiran. Selim I crushes the Persian army of Shah Ismail I.

★ September 8 - Battle of Orsha - In one of the biggest battles of the century, Belarusians and Poles defeat the Russian army.

★ September 15 - Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York.

★ October 9 - marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.

Undated

★ Albrecht Dürer makes his famous engraving ''Melencolia I''.

Births

★ February 16 - Georg Joachim Rheticus, cartographer and scientific instrument maker (died 1574)

★ March 8 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (died 1562)

★ June 16 - John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (died 1557)

★ December - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, third son of Henry VIII of England, stillborn

★ December 31 - Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (died 1564)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (died 1563)

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★ George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, Scottish nobleman (died 1562)

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★ Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (died 1571)
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Deaths

★ January 2 - William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (born 1460)

★ January 9 - Anne of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France and Louis XII of France (born 1477)

★ February 11 - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, third son of Henry VIII of England

★ March 11 - Donato Bramante, Italian architect (born 1444)

★ May 3 - Anna of Brandenburg, queen consort of Denmark (born 1487)

★ June 23 - Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (born 1463)

★ October 25 - William Elphinstone, Scottish bishop and statesman (born 1431)

★ November 28 - Hartmann Schedel, cartographer (born 1440)
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