1514

July 14: Six days of torture of Hungarian rebel leader György Dózsa begins, lasting until his death.
September 8: Poland and Lithuania defeat a much larger Russian force in the Battle of Orsha.
1514 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1514
MDXIV
Ab urbe condita2267
Armenian calendar963
ԹՎ ՋԿԳ
Assyrian calendar6264
Balinese saka calendar1435–1436
Bengali calendar920–921
Berber calendar2464
English Regnal yearHen. 8 – 6 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar2058
Burmese calendar876
Byzantine calendar7022–7023
Chinese calendar癸酉年 (Water Rooster)
4211 or 4004
    — to —
甲戌年 (Wood Dog)
4212 or 4005
Coptic calendar1230–1231
Discordian calendar2680
Ethiopian calendar1506–1507
Hebrew calendar5274–5275
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1570–1571
 - Shaka Samvat1435–1436
 - Kali Yuga4614–4615
Holocene calendar11514
Igbo calendar514–515
Iranian calendar892–893
Islamic calendar919–920
Japanese calendarEishō 11
(永正11年)
Javanese calendar1431–1432
Julian calendar1514
MDXIV
Korean calendar3847
Minguo calendar398 before ROC
民前398年
Nanakshahi calendar46
Thai solar calendar2056–2057
Tibetan calendarཆུ་མོ་བྱ་ལོ་
(female Water-Bird)
1640 or 1259 or 487
    — to —
ཤིང་ཕོ་ཁྱི་ལོ་
(male Wood-Dog)
1641 or 1260 or 488

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

Events

Albrecht Dürer creates engraving Melencolia I.


January–March

April–June

  • April 29 – After a month of negotiations at Linz between the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Denmark, representatives of the two nations sign an alliance agreement, to be secured by the marriage of the Emperor's 13-year-old daughter Isabella, to the new King of Denmark, Christian II, along with payment of a dowry to King Christian of 250,000 Rhenish gulden, equivalent to $118,000,000 USD 500 years later.[4]
  • May 2 – The Poor Conrad peasant revolt against Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg begins in Beutelsbach.[5]
  • May 15 – The earliest printed edition of Saxo Grammaticus' 12th century Scandinavian history Gesta Danorum, edited by Christiern Pedersen from an original found near Lund, is published as Danorum Regum heroumque Historiae, by Jodocus Badius in Paris.
  • June 13Henry Grace à Dieu, at over 1,000 tons the largest warship in the world at this time, built at the new Woolwich Dockyard in England, is dedicated.[6][7]

July–September

October–December

  • October 9 – King Louis XII marries Mary Tudor (sister of King Henry VIII) at Abbeville, as part of the Kingdom of England's peace with France.[12]
  • November 5 – Mary Tudor is formally crowned as the Queen consort of France.[11]
  • November 23 – King Henry VIII of summons the English Parliament, to assemble at Westminster on February 5.
  • November 28 – Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha steps down as Grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
  • December 4 – Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca and Pietro Martire d'Anghiera complete the first printed map of Central America as they record their data from the Pinzón–Solís voyage of 1508-1509.
  • December 18 – Ottoman General Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha is appointed by the Sultan Selmi I as the new Grand Vizier, but serves for less than three months before he is removed and executed.
  • December 29 – Giovanni Carlo Tramontano, Count of Matera, is assassinated in Matera, the day after demanding that the aristocracy and people of his realm pay 24,000 ducates in taxes to clear up his personal debts.[13]

Date unknown


Births

Andreas Vesalius
  • January 1 – George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, Scottish noble (d. 1562)
  • January 23 – Hai Rui, Chinese official of the Ming Dynasty (d. 1587)
  • January 27 – Bernardino Maffei, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1553)
  • February 8 – Daniele Barbaro, Venetian churchman, diplomat and scholar (d. 1570)
  • February 10 – Domenico Bollani, Bishop of Milan (d. 1579)
  • February 16 – Georg Joachim Rheticus, Austrian cartographer and scientific instrument maker (d. 1574)
  • February 22 – Tahmasp I, Shah of Iran (d. 1576)
  • February 22 – Johannes Gigas, German theologian (d. 1581)
  • February 26 – Otto Truchsess von Waldburg, German Catholic cardinal (d. 1573)
  • March 8 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1561)
  • March 23 – Lorenzino de' Medici, Italian writer and assassin (d. 1548)
  • April 2 – Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Italian condottiero (d. 1574)
  • April 5 – Joachim Mörlin, German bishop (d. 1571)
  • April 30 – Alexander Stewart, Duke of Ross, Scottish prince (d. 1515)
  • May 28 – Shimazu Takahisa, daimyō and fifteenth head of the Shimazu clan (d. 1571)
  • June 16 – John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (d. 1557)
  • August 29 – García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca, Spanish noble and admiral (d. 1577)
  • September 12 – Philip, Duke of Mecklenburg, (d. 1557)
  • September 20 – Philipp IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1590)
  • September 24 – Prospero Santacroce, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1589)
  • October 7 – Queen Inseong, Korean royal consort (d. 1578)
  • October 31 – Wolfgang Lazius, Austrian historian (d. 1565)
  • November 29 – Andreas Musculus, German theologian (d. 1581)
  • November 30 – Andreas Masius, German Catholic priest (d. 1573)
  • December 31Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (d. 1564)
  • date unknown
    • Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (d. 1563)
    • George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, Scottish nobleman (d. 1562)
    • Charles de Mornay, Swedish (originally French) court official, diplomat and royal favorite (d. 1574)
    • John Knox, Scottish clergyman, theologian and writer (d. 1572)
    • Barbara Uthmann, German businessperson (d. 1575)

Deaths

Donato Bramante

References

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  3. ^ Catherine Charlotte, Lady Jackson, The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century, 1514-1539 (Joseph Knight Company, 1896) p.20
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