Centuries:	15th century - 16th century - 17th century
Decades:	1480s  1490s  1500s  - 1510s -  1520s  1530s  1540s
Years:	1515 1516 1517 - 1518 - 1519 1520 1521

1518 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology - Architecture -

Art - Literature - Music - Science

Leaders:   State leaders - Colonial governors

Category: Establishments - Disestablishments

Births - Deaths - Works v • d • e

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

Events of 1518

January - June

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

Hispaniola: In 1518 tropical ants devastate crops on Hispaniola.

• May 26 - A Transit of Venus occurs.

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 Manchester Grammar School opens.
• 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.