1518

Year '1518' (MDXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1518

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1518

January - June

★ April 18 - Bona Sforza is crowned as Queen of Poland.


★ May 26 - Transit of Venus.

July - December

★ October 3 - The Treaty of London temporarily ensures peace in western Europe.

★ November 10 - Catherine of Aragon gives birth to a daughter, who dies shortly afterwards.

Undated

★ A plague of tropical fire ants devastates crops on Hispaniola.

Births

★ April 22 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (died 1610)

★ August 8 - Conrad Lycosthenes, humanist and encyclopedist (died 1561)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ James Halyburton, Scottish reformer (died 1589)

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★ Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (died 1581)

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★ Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (died 1585)

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★ Tintoretto, Italian painter (died 1594)

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★ Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist, and mineralogist (d. 1593)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ August 16 - Loyset Compère, French composer (born c1445)

★ August 27 - Giovanna of Naples, queen consort of Naples (born 1478)

★ November 20

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★ Marmaduke Constable, English soldier (born c1455)

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★ Pierre de La Rue, Flemish composer (born c1452)

★ November 24 - Vannozza dei Cattanei, mistress of Pope Alexander VI (born 1442)

★ December 5 - Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, military commander (born c. 1440)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Moxammat Amin of Kazan, khan of Kazan (born c1469)

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★ Kabir, Indian mystic (born 1440)

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★ Aruj, Ottoman Corsair, brother of Khair ad-Din

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★ Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din, sultan of Adal (assassinated) (born c1473)
: ''See also .''