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1518 March 2011 1518 thumb|200px|July 14: Dancing mania breaks out in Strasbourg in Europe 200px|thumb|May 19: Titian's masterpiece Assumption of the Virgin is unveiled in Rome thumb|right|Tropical ants devastate crops on Hispaniola. __NOTOC__ Year 1518 (MDXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar. Within much of Christian Europe, New Year's Day was celebrated on January 1, the rule in the Roman Empire since 45 BC, and in 1518, the year ran from January 1, 1518 to December 31, 1518. In England (until 1752) and Scandinavia, the year ran from the Feast of the Annunciation (March 25, 1518) to March 24, 1519; and in France (until 1565) from Easter Sunday (April 4, 1518) to April 23, 1519. For instance, the will of Leonardo da Vinci, drafted in Amboise on 23 April 1519, shows the legend "Given on the 23rd of April 1518, before Easter".The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Oxford University Press, 1980, p.391* See Wikisource "1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Easter". Events January–March January 25 – Piri Mehmed Pasha is appointed as the new Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire by the Sultan Selim I, replacing Yunus Pasha, who was executed four months earlier on September 13.Yılmaz, Mehmed, "Mehmed Paşa (Piri)", (1999) Yaşamları ve Yapıtlarıyla Osmanlılar Ansiklopedisi, İstanbul:Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık A.Ş. C.2 s.164 ISBN 975-08-0072-9 January 27 – Sir John Ernley is selected as the new Chief Justice of the Common Pleas of England by King King Henry VIII to replace the late Robert Rede, who died on January 8. Emley. He is replaced as Attorney General for England and Wales by John FitzJames.http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/69362?&docPos=44&backToResults=list=yes Oxford DNB article:Ernley, Sir John 2004 10.1093/ref:odnb/69362 2008-10-04 February 2 – In Valladolid in Spain, Frenchman Jean Sauvage, Chancellor of Burgundy is appointed by Spain's Prince Charles as the Chief Judge of the Cortes of Valladolid. The choice of a foreigner is resented by the members of the court and Sauvage is replaced at the Cortes by the Spanish Bishop Pedro Ruiz de la Mota. March 5 – The Dutch priest Erasmus of Rotterdam sends the new Ninety-five Theses of Martin Luther to England, delivering the Protestant manifesto to Sir Thomas More.Martin Brecht, Martin Luther, Volume 1, His path to the Reformation 1483–1521 (Stuttgart: Calwer Verlag, 1981) p. 199 March 22 – King Charles of Spain gives his approval for the Magellan expedition, initially for the purpose of finding a westward route from Spain to the "Spice Islands" (now the Maluku Islands in Indonesia), to avoid the more frequently-used eastward route around Africa. Veteran seaman Ferdinand Magellan and navigator Rui Faleiro, both of Portugal, had turned to Spain to fund the expedition after being refused by King Manuel of Portugal. The voyage proves to be further than expected and becomes the first to sail around the world.Joyner Tim Magellan 1992 International Marine 87, 296–298 25049890 April–June April 8 – Spanish conquistador Juan de Grijalva embarks from Cuba on a mission to explore and conquer Mexico, departing from Matanzas with four ships and 170 people.Cabrera Bernat Ciprián Aurelio. Viajeros en Tabasco: Textos. Texto 1: Juan Díaz, "Itinerario de la Armanda" (Government of the State of Tabasco, 1987. ISBN 968-889-107-X. pp=25 April 18 – The widowed Sigismund I the Old, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania, marries Milanese noblewoman Bona Sforza in Wawel Cathedral and she is crowned as Queen consort of Poland.https://www.history.ox.ac.uk/a-renaissance-royal-wedding-1518-2018#/ A Renaissance Royal Wedding 1518-2018 Faculty of History, Oxford University March 28, 2021 April 26 – Martin Luther makes the first public defense of his views at a gathering of the Roman Catholic order of Augustinians, at what becomes known as the Heidelberg Disputation at a lecture hall at Heidelberg in the Electoral Palatinate in Germany. Kittelson James Luther the Reformer https://books.google.com/books?id=GJHYAAAAMAAJ 2012-11-18 1986 Augsburg Publishing House Minneapolis 111–112 978-0-80662240-8 While there, he is challenged to a theological debate by Johann Eck, the German leader of the anti-Reformation movement. May 3 – Grijalva and his crew become the first Europeans to find Cozumel in Mexico. May 9 – A fleet of four Portuguese ships, commanded by João da Silveira from Portuguese India, arrived in Chittagong (now part of Bangladesh, but at the time part of the Sultanate of Bengal), reputed to be the wealthiest region in the Indian subcontinent.Ray Aniruddha 2012 Portuguese, The http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Portuguese,_The Islam Sirajul Sirajul Islam Jamal Ahmed A. Banglapedia: National Encyclopedia of Bangladesh Second Asiatic Society of Bangladesh May 19 – In Venice, Renaissance artist Tiziano Vecellio, known as "Titian", unveils his painting Assumption of the Virgin, to the public.Sheila Hale, Titian: His Life, 2012, HarperPress, p.161 978-0-00717582-6David Rosand, Painting in Sixteenth-Century Venice: Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, 1997, Cambridge University Press, 1997, pp.38-40 0521565685 May 26 – A transit of Venus occurs, but a transit will not be observed or recorded until 120 years later, on December 4, 1639.NASA - Catalog of Transits of Venus https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/transit/catalog/VenusCatalog.html eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov 21 July 2023 May 30 – At the request of Pope Leo X of the Roman Catholic Church, Martin Luther, father of the Protestant Reformation, writes a lengthy summary of his theology. June 8 – The Girjalva expedition brings the first Europeans to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, arriving at what is now the Tabasco state. July–September July 14 – Dancing plague of 1518: A case of dancing mania breaks out in Strasbourg as a woman identified as "Frau Troffea" begins constant dancing that lasts for six days, after which fellow residents begin to join in.Pennant-Rea Ned July 10, 2018 The Dancing Plague of 1518 https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-dancing-plague-of-1518/ 2023-04-25 The Public Domain Review en According to some historians, several people die from constant dancing.https://www.history.com/news/what-was-the-dancing-plague-of-1518#:~:text=In%20July%201518%2C%20residents%20of,silently%20twist%2C%20twirl%20and%20shake. What was the dancing plague of 1518? August 31, 2015 Evan Andrews History.com March 28, 2021 July 27 – Battle of Brännkyrka: The Kalmar Union, led by King Christian II of Denmark, is defeated by the Swedish regent Sten Sture the Younger. August 10 – Construction of the Manchester Grammar School is completed in England.Bentley James Dare to be wise : a history of the Manchester Grammar School 1991 James X James London 978-0-907383-04-8 13 https://archive.org/details/daretobewisehist0000bent/page/12/mode/2up?q=1518 21 July 2023 The total cost of the project was £218 13s 5d. August 28 – King Charles of Spain issues a charter authorizing the transportation of slaves directly from Africa to the Spanish Americas. His decision changes the nature and scale of the transatlantic slave trade.Keys David 17 August 2018 Details of horrific first voyages in transatlantic slave trade revealed The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/transatlantic-slave-trade-voyages-ships-log-details-africa-america-atlantic-ocean-deaths-disease-a8494546.html 21 August 2018 21 August 2018 https://web.archive.org/web/20180821003108/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/transatlantic-slave-trade-voyages-ships-log-details-africa-america-atlantic-ocean-deaths-disease-a8494546.html live September 8 – Diogo Lopes de Sequeira takes office as the new Governor of Portuguese India, replacing Lopo Soares de Albergaria. October–December October 3 – The Treaty of London temporarily ensures peace in Western Europe.Scarisbrick John Joseph Henry VIII 1968 University of California Press Berkley 978-0-520-01130-4 73 https://archive.org/details/henryviii00scar/page/72/mode/2up?q=%223+october%22 21 July 2023Henry VIII: October 1518, 1-15 https://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol2/pp1371-1383 www.british-history.ac.uk 21 July 2023 November 13 – Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar, the Spanish Colonial Governor of Cuba, is granted the office of Captain General of Yucatán, which comprises southern Mexico.Chamberlain Robert S. 1948 The Conquest and Colonization of Yucatan 1517–1550 Carnegie Institution of Washington Washington, DC Carnegie Institution of Washington Publication 582 2027/mdp.39015014584406 Velázquez is also granted the exclusive right to conquer and colonize the new Yucatan Province, but turns the rights over to Francisco de Montejo in 1526. December 7 – The Deccan sultanates in southern India of Ahmadnagar, Berar, Bidar, Bijapur, and Golconda formally declare their independence from the Bahmani Sultanate.https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.68551 The Bahmanis of the Deccan – An Objective Study Sherwani Haroon Khan 1946 Haroon Khan Sherwani Krishnavas International Printers, Hyderabad Deccan 3971780 386 Date unknown The Rajput Mewar Kingdom under Rana Sanga achieves a major victory over Sultan Ibrahim Lodi of Delhi. A swarm of stinging ants devastates crops on Hispaniola.Wilson Edward O. Early ant plagues in the New World Nature January 2005 433 7021 32 10.1038/433032a 15635401 4414148 en 1476-4687 free Johann Froben publishes Erasmus's work Colloquies, which was unauthorized, and it took until 1519 that an authorized version would be published.Erasmus Desiderius Colloquies 1 January 1997 University of Toronto Press 978-0-8020-5819-5 xxii https://books.google.com/books?id=L8RMHgRgEc4C&q=%22november+1518%22 21 July 2023 en Henricus Grammateus publishes Ayn neu Kunstlich Buech in Vienna, containing the earliest printed use of plus and minus signs for arithmetic.Miller, J. et al.. "Earliest Uses of Symbols of Operation" after Cajori, F. A History of Mathematical Notations. The remnants of The Abbasid Caliphate (stationed in Egypt under the Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo) hands over the title of caliph to the Ottoman Empire that had conquered Constantinople in 1453, 65 years earlier. Births thumb|110px|right|Sidonie of Saxony thumb|110px|right|Clara of Saxe-Lauenburg February 2 Johann Hommel, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1562)Gerlich Fritz Bettelheim Anton Wegele Franz X. von Liliencron Rochus Allgemeine deutsche Biographie 13 1881 Duncker & Humblot 58 https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=pur1.32754074391172&view=1up&seq=66&q1=hommel 21 July 2023 Godfried van Mierlo, Dutch Dominican friar and bishop (d. 1587)Gonnett C.J. Bijdragen voor de geschiedenis van het Bisdom van Haarlem 1911 G.F. Theonville 386 https://books.google.com/books?id=bfwZAQAAIAAJ&dq=Godfried+van+Mierlo+%222+februari+1518%22&pg=PA386 21 July 2023 nl February 7 – Johann Funck, German theologian (d. 1566)http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/f/funck_j.shtml Friedrich Wilhelm Bautz Funck, Johann Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon 2 154–155 https://web.archive.org/web/20070630010952/http://www.bautz.de/bbkl/f/funck_j.shtml June 30, 2007 de February 13 – Antonín Brus of Mohelnice, Moravian Catholic archbishop (d. 1580)Goll J. Rezek A. Český časopis historický 1896 Vydává Historický klub. 33 https://books.google.com/books?id=oKYDAAAAYAAJ&dq=Anton%C3%ADn+Brus+z+Mohelnice+13.+%C3%BAnor+1518&pg=PA33 21 July 2023 cs February 20 – Georg, Count Palatine of Simmern-Sponheim, (d. 1569)Back Friedrich Die evangelische Kirche im Lande zwischen Rhein, Mosel, Nahe und Glan bis zum Beginn 1873 Marcus 240 https://books.google.com/books?id=uNJgAAAAcAAJ&dq=Georg+%2220+februar+1518%22&pg=PA240 21 July 2023 de February 21 – John of Denmark, Danish prince (d. 1532)Bricka Carl Frederik Dansk biografisk Lexikon 1892 VI F. Hegel & Søn Copenhagen https://runeberg.org/dbl/6/0568.html 21 July 2023 da February 28 – Francis III of Brittany, Duke of Brittany (d. 1536)Knecht R. J. Francis I 26 April 1984 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-27887-4 88 https://books.google.com/books?id=rvEBMIIcHQkC&dq=Francis+III+%2228+february+1518%22&pg=PA88 21 July 2023 en March 8 – Sidonie of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg (d. 1575)Weber Karl von Aus vier Jahrhunderten: Mittheilungen aus dem Haupt-Staatsarchive zu Dresden 1858 B. Tauchnitz 40 https://books.google.com/books?id=ojcNAAAAIAAJ&dq=Sidonie+von+Sachsen+%228+marz+1518%22&pg=PA40 21 July 2023 de April 22 – King Antoine of Navarre, father of Henry IV of France (d. 1562)de Vimeur Eugène Achille Lacroix Antoine de Bourbon, iie due de Vendôme & roi de Navarre, & Jehanne d'Albret. (Galerie des hommes illustres du Vendômois). 1879 Lemercier and Son Typography Vendome 1 https://books.google.com/books?id=jDQOAAAAQAAJ&dq=Antoine+de+Navarre+%2222+avril+1518%22&pg=PA5 21 July 2023 fr July 3 – Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist and mineralogist (d. 1593) August 8 – Conrad Lycosthenes, Alsatian humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561)Grohmann Johann Gottfried Neues Historisch-biographisches Handwörterbuch 1798 Baumgärtner 154 https://books.google.com/books?id=CE7Et_qw1xkC&dq=Conrad+Lycosthenes+%228+august+1518%22&pg=PA154 21 July 2023 de September/October – Tintoretto, Italian painter (d. 1594)Joseph Archer Crowe Giovanni Battista Cavalcaselle Titian: His Life and Times: With Some Account of His Family, Chiefly from New and Unpublished Records https://books.google.com/books?id=2h0TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA437 1877 J. Murray 437 November 26 – Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1564)The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Biographical Dictionary - Consistory of December 18, 1534 https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1534.htm#Sforza cardinals.fiu.edu 21 July 2023 December 13 – Clara of Saxe-Lauenburg, Princess of Saxe-Lauenburg and Duchess of Brunswick-Gifhorn by marriage (d. 1576) December 17 – Ernest III, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (d. 1567) December 19 – Enrique de Borja y Aragón, Spanish noble of the House of Borgia (d. 1540)Nonell Jaime La santa duquesa: vida y virtudes de la Ven. y Excma. señora doña Luisa de Borja y Aragon, condesa de Ribagorza y duquesa de Villahermosa 1897 Estab. Tip. de San José 27 https://books.google.com/books?id=gkVT6arZ_2sC&dq=Enrique+de+Borja+y+Arag%C3%B3n+%2219+de+diciembre+de+1518%22&pg=PA27 21 July 2023 es date unknown James Halyburton, Scottish reformer (d. 1589)Stephen Leslie Lee Sir Sidney The Dictionary of National Biography 1908 Oxford University Press 1011 https://books.google.com/books?id=LBFbAAAAIAAJ&dq=James+Halyburton+%221518%22&pg=PA1011 21 July 2023 en Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (d. 1581)Chevreul Henri Hubert Languet 1856 L. Potier Paris 4 https://archive.org/details/hubertlanguet00chevuoft/page/4/mode/2up?q=1518 21 July 2023 Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (d. 1585)Richard O'Sullivan Edmund Plowden, 1518-1585 https://books.google.com/books?id=FNcfAAAAIAAJ 1952 Honourable Society of the Middle Temple at the University Press Mayken Verhulst (a.k.a. Marie Bessemers), Flemish artist (d. 1596 or 1599)Bruyn Eric de Peinen Ward De zotte schilders: moraalridders van het penseel rond Bosch, Bruegel en Brouwer 2003 Snoeck 978-90-5349-423-3 18 https://books.google.com/books?id=wIxOAAAAYAAJ&q=1518 21 July 2023 nl possible – Catherine Howard, fifth queen consort of Henry VIII of England (b. between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)Katherine [Catherine] [née Katherine Howard] https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-4892 2004 21 July 2023 en 10.1093/ref:odnb/4892 Deaths February 9 – Jean IV de Rieux, Breton noble and Marshal (b. 1447)Bulletin de la Société polymathique du Morbihan 1865 La Société 48 https://books.google.com/books?id=CfoWAAAAYAAJ&dq=Jean+IV+de+Rieux+%229+fevrier+1518%22&pg=RA2-PA48 21 July 2023 fr May 31 – Elisabeth of Brandenburg-Ansbach-Kulmbach, German margravine (b. 1494)Bumiller Casimir Ursula von Rosenfeld und die Tragödie des Hauses Baden 2010 Katz 978-3-938047-51-4 126 https://books.google.com/books?id=z0pCAQAAIAAJ&q=%20%2231%20mai%201518%22 21 July 2023 de July 10 – Sibylle of Baden, Countess consort of Hanau-Lichtenberg (b. 1485)Suchier Reinhard Festschrift des Hanauer Geschichtsvereins zu seiner fünfzigjährigen Jubelfeier 1894 Heydt 19 https://books.google.com/books?id=xns4eKVoLnkC&dq=Sibylle+von+Baden+%2210+juli+1518%22&pg=PA19 21 July 2023 de August 16 – Loyset Compère, French composer (b. c. 1445)Compère, Loyset https://www.oxfordmusiconline.com/grovemusic/display/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000006205 Grove Music Online 21 July 2023 en August 27 – Joan of Naples, queen consort of Naples (b. 1478)Cassetta Giuseppe Storia del regno di Napoli 1838 Per Gaetano Romeo Strada Tribunali 336 https://books.google.com/books?id=5hbanK5YnM0C&dq=Giovanna+d%27Aragona+%2227+agosto+1518%22&pg=PA336 21 July 2023 it November 20 Marmaduke Constable, English soldier (b. c. 1455)Constable, Sir Marmaduke https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-6108 2004 21 July 2023 en 10.1093/ref:odnb/6108 Pierre de La Rue, Flemish composer (b. c. 1452)Meconi Honey Pierre de la Rue and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court 2003 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-816554-5 47 https://books.google.com/books?id=kfEVGb_D-ukC&dq=Pierre+de+la+Rue+%2220+november+1518%22&pg=PA47 21 July 2023 en November 24 – Vannozza dei Cattanei, mistress of Pope Alexander VI (b. 1442)CATANEI, Vannozza https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/vannozza-catanei_(Dizionario-Biografico) www.treccani.it 21 July 2023 it-IT December – Moxammat Amin of Kazan, khan of Kazan (b. c. 1469)Pelenskyj Jaroslav Z. Russia and Kazan 26 June 2017 De Gruyter Mouton 978-3-11-152989-9 67 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783111529899/html en Russia and Kazan: Conquest and imperial ideology (1438–1560s) 10.1515/9783111529899 December 5 – Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, Italian military commander (b. c. 1440)Motta Emilio Libri di casa Trivulzio nel secolo XVo: con notizie di altre librerie milanesi del Trecento e del Quattrocento 1890 Libreria ditta C. Franchi de A Vismara 36 https://books.google.com/books?id=NkpFAAAAYAAJ&dq=Gian+Giacomo+Trivulzio+%225+dicembre+1518%22&pg=PA36 21 July 2023 it December 27 – Mahmood Shah Bahmani II, sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate (b. c. 1470) date unknown Kabir, Indian mystic (b. 1440)Hedayetullah Muhammad Kabir: The Apostle of Hindu-Muslim Unity 1 January 2009 Motilal Banarsidass 978-81-208-3373-9 190 https://books.google.com/books?id=P1HrDwAAQBAJ&q=%221518%22 21 July 2023 en Oruç Reis, Ottoman corsair, brother of Hayreddin BarbarossaSyed Muzaffar Husain Akhtar Syed Saud Usmani B. D. Concise History of Islam 14 September 2011 Vij Books India Pvt Ltd 978-93-82573-47-0 453 https://books.google.com/books?id=eACqCQAAQBAJ&dq=Oru%C3%A7+Reis+%221518%22&pg=PA453 21 July 2023 en Guido Mazzoni, sculptor (b. c. 1445)Queen's Gallery (London, England) Treasures from the Royal Collection https://books.google.com/books?id=iMtGAQAAIAAJ 1988 Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace 978-0-9513373-0-1 en Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din, sultan of Adal (assassinated) (b. c. 1473) Basil Solomon, Syriac Orthodox Maphrian of the East.Wilmshurst David 2019 West Syrian patriarchs and maphrians The Syriac World Routledge 811 Daniel King References