1514

September 8: Battle of Orsha.

Year 1514 (MDXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1514

[edit] January - June

• March - Louis XII of France makes peace with Emperor Maximilian.
• May 15 - Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.

[edit] July - December

Albrecht Dürer.

• July - Peace is declared between England and France.
• August 23 - Battle of Chaldiran: Selim I crushes the Persian army of Shah Ismail I.
• September 8 - Battle of Orsha: In one of the biggest battles of the century, the Belarusians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
• September 15 - Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York.
• October 9 - Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor are married.

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• Albrecht Dürer makes his famous engraving Melencolia I.

[edit] Births

• February 16 - Georg Joachim Rheticus, cartographer and scientific instrument maker (d. 1574)
• March 8 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)
• June 16 - John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (d. 1557)
• December - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, third son of Henry VIII of England, stillborn
• December 31 - Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (d. 1564)
• date unknown
  • Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (d. 1563)
  • George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, Scottish nobleman (d. 1562)
  • Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1571)

See also Category: 1514 births.

[edit] Deaths

• January 2 - William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (b. 1460)
• January 9 - Anne of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France and Louis XII of France (b. 1477)
• March 11 - Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
• May 3 - Anna of Brandenburg, queen consort of Denmark (b. 1487)
• June 23 - Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1463)
• October 25 - William Elphinstone, Scottish bishop and statesman (b. 1431)
• November 28 - Hartmann Schedel, cartographer (b. 1440)
• December - Henry, Duke of Cornwall, third son of Henry VIII of England (stillborn)

See also Category: 1514 deaths.