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

[edit] Events of 1518

[edit] 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.

[edit] July–December

• July – Dancing Plague of 1518, a case of dancing mania in Strasbourg in which many people died from constant dancing.
• October 3 – The Treaty of London temporarily ensures peace in Western Europe.

[edit] Undated

• A plague of tropical fire ants devastates crops on Hispaniola.
• The Manchester Grammar School opens.
• The African slave trade begins.

[edit] Births

• April 22 – Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (d. 1610)
• August 8 – Conrad Lycosthenes, humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561)
• September 29 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (d. 1594)
• 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)

See also Category: 1518 births.

[edit] 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 Khair ad-Din
  • Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din, sultan of Adal (assassinated) (b. c. 1473)

See also Category: 1518 deaths.