1518
Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - Cite This SourceYear 1518 (MDXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events of 1518
January - June
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.
- The African slave trade begins.
Births
- April 22 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry 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 :Category: 1518 births.
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 of Pope 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 of Khair ad-Din
- Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din, sultan of Adal (assassinated) (b. c. 1473)
- See also :Category: 1518 deaths.
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