- 1518
Year 1518 (MDXVIII) was a
common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of theJulian calendar .Events of 1518
January - June
*April 18 -Bona Sforza is crowned as Queen ofPoland .
*May 26 - A Transit of Venus occurs.July - December
* July –Dancing Plague of 1518 , a case ofdancing mania in Strasbourg in which many people died from constant dancing.
*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 .
* TheManchester Grammar School opens.
* TheAfrican slave trade begins.Births
*April 22 -Antoine de Bourbon , father ofHenry IV of France (d.1610 )
*August 8 -Conrad Lycosthenes , humanist and encyclopedist (d.1561 )
*"date unknown"
**James Halyburton , Scottish reformer (d.1589 )
**Hubert Languet , French diplomat and reformer (d.1581 )
**Edmund Plowden , English legal scholar (d.1585 )
**Tintoretto , Italian painter (d.1594 )
**Li Shizhen , Chinese physician, pharmacologist, and mineralogist (d.1593 ): "See also ."Deaths
*August 16 -Loyset Compère , French composer (b. c.1445 )
*August 27 -Giovanna of Naples , queen consort of Naples (b.1478 )
*November 20
**Marmaduke Constable , English soldier (b. c.1455 )
**Pierre de La Rue , Flemish composer (b. c.1452 )
*November 24 -Vannozza dei Cattanei , mistress ofPope Alexander VI (b.1442 )
*December 5 -Gian Giacomo Trivulzio , military commander (b. c. 1440)
*"date unknown"
**Moxammat Amin of Kazan , khan of Kazan (b. c.1469 )
**Kabir , Indian mystic (b.1440 )
**Aruj , Ottoman Corsair, brother ofKhair ad-Din
**Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din , sultan of Adal (assassinated) (b. c.1473 ): "See also ."
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