1514

Years: 1511 1512 1513 - 1514 - 1515 1516 1517
Decades: 1480s 1490s 1500s - 1510s - 1520s 1530s 1540s
Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century


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1514 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

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.
July - Peace between England and France.
September 8 - Battle of Orsha - In one of the biggest battles of the century, Belarussians and Poles defeat the Russian army.
September 15 - Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York.
October 9 - marriage of Louis XII of France and Mary Tudor.
Albrecht Dürer makes his famous engraving Melancholia I.

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

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