1518

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Tropical ants devastate crops on Hispaniola.

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

Events

January–June

• April 18 – Bona Sforza is crowned as Queen of Poland.
• May 26 – A Transit of Venus occurs.

July–December

• July – Dancing Plague of 1518, a case of dancing mania in Strasbourg in which many people died from constant dancing.
• August – Construction of the Manchester Grammar School is completed in England.
• October 3 – The Treaty of London temporarily ensures peace in Western Europe.

Date unknown

• A plague of tropical fire ants devastates crops on Hispaniola.
• Erasmus publishes his Colloquies.
• Henricus Grammateus publishes Ayn neu Kunstlich Buech in Vienna, containing the earliest printed use of plus and minus signs for arithmetic.^[1]
• The African slave trade begins.

Births

• February 2
  • Johann Hommel, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1562)
  • Godfried van Mierlo, Dutch Dominican friar and bishop (d. 1587)
• February 7 – Johann Funck, German theologian (d. 1566)
• February 13 – Antonín Brus z Mohelnice, Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1580)
• February 20 – Georg, Count Palatine of Simmern-Sponheim, (d. 1569)
• February 21 – John of Denmark, Danish prince (d. 1532)
• February 28 – Francis III, Duke of Brittany, Duke of Brittany (d. 1536)
• March 8 – Sidonie of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg (d. 1575)
• April 22 – Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (d. 1610)
• July 3 – Li Shizhen, Chinese polymath and scientist (d. 1593)
• August 8 – Conrad Lycosthenes, humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561)
• September 29 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (d. 1594)
• October 26 – John V Basset, Devonshire gentleman (d. 1541)
• November 26 – Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora, Catholic cardinal (d. 1564)
• 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)
• date unknown
  • James Halyburton, Scottish reformer (d. 1589)
  • Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (d. 1581)
  • Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (d. 1585)
  • Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist, and mineralogist (d. 1593)*
• possible
  • Catherine Howard, Fifth Queen of Henry VIII of England, (born in between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)

Deaths

• August 16 – Loyset Compère, French composer (b. c. 1445)
• August 27 – Joan 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 Hayreddin Barbarossa
  • Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din, sultan of Adal (assassinated) (b. c. 1473)

References