Calendar year
July 14 : Dancing mania breaks out in Strasbourg in EuropeMay 19 : Titian's masterpeiceAssumption of the Virgin is unveiled in RomeTropical ants devastate crops onHispaniola .Year1518 (MDXVIII common year starting on Friday of theJulian calendar . Within much of Christian Europe,New Year's Day was celebrated on January 1, the rule in the Roman Empire since 45 BC, and in 1518, the year ran from January 1, 1518 to December 31, 1518. In England (until 1752) and Scandinavia, the year ran from theFeast of the Annunciation (March 25, 1518) to March 24, 1519; and in France (funtil 1565) fromEaster Sunday (April 4, 1518) to April 23, 1519. For instance, the will ofLeonardo da Vinci , drafted inAmboise on 23 April 1519, shows the legend "Given on the 23rd of April 1518, before Easter".[ 1] 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Easter ".
January 25 –Piri Mehmed Pasha is appointed as the newGrand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire by the SultanSelim I , replacingYunus Pasha , who was executed four months earlier on September 13.[ 2] January 27 – SirJohn Ernley is selected as the newChief Justice of the Common Pleas of England by KingKing Henry VIII to replace the lateRobert Rede , who died on January 8. Emley. He is replaced asAttorney General for England and Wales byJohn FitzJames .[ 3] February 2 – InValladolid in Spain, FrenchmanJean Sauvage ,Chancellor of Burgundy is appointed by Spain's Prince Charles as the Chief Judge of theCortes of Valladolid . The choice of a foreigner is resented by the members of the court and Sauvage is replaced at the Cortes by the Spanish BishopPedro Ruiz de la Mota .March 5 – The Dutch priestErasmus ofRotterdam sends the newNinety-five Theses Martin Luther to England, delivering the Protestant manifesto to SirThomas More .[ 4] March 22 –King Charles of Spain gives his approval for theMagellan expedition , initially for the purpose of finding a westward route from Spain to the "Spice Islands " (now the Maluku Islands inIndonesia ), to avoid the more frequently-used eastward route around Africa. Veteran seamanFerdinand Magellan and navigatorRui Faleiro , both of Portugal, had turned to Spain to fund the expedition after being refused by King Manuel of Portugal. The voyage proves to be further than expected and becomes the first to sail around the world.[ 5] April 8 – Spanish conquistadorJuan de Grijalva embarks fromCuba on a mission to explore and conquerMexico , departing fromMatanzas with four ships and 170 people.[ 6] April 18 – The widowedSigismund I the Old ,King of Poland andGrand Duke of Lithuania , marriesMilanese noblewomanBona Sforza inWawel Cathedral and she is crowned asQueen consort ofPoland .[ 7] April 26 –Martin Luther makes the first public defense of his views at a gathering of the Roman Catholic order ofAugustinians , at what becomes known as theHeidelberg Disputation at a lecture hall atHeidelberg in theElectoral Palatinate inGermany .[ 8] Johann Eck , the German leader of the anti-Reformation movement.May 3 – Girjalva and his crew become the first Europeans to findCozumel in Mexico.[ 6] May 9 – A fleet of four Portuguese ships, commanded byJoão da Silveira fromPortuguese India , arrived inChittagong (now part ofBangladesh , but at the time part of the Sultanate of Bengal), reputed to be the wealthiest region in the Indian subcontinent.[ 9] May 19 – InVenice , Renaissance artistTiziano Vecellio , known as "Titian", unveils his paintingAssumption of the Virgin [ 10] [ 11] May 26 – Atransit of Venus occurs, but a transit will not be observed or recorded until 120 years later, onDecember 4, 1639 .[ 12] May 30 – At the request ofPope Leo X of the Roman Catholic Church,Martin Luther , father of theProtestant Reformation , writes a lengthy summary of his theology.June 8 – The Girjalva expedition brings the first Europeans to the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, arriving at what is now theTabasco state.[ 6] Sidonie of Saxony Clara of Saxe-Lauenburg February 2 February 7 –Johann Funck , German theologian (d.1566 )[ 26] February 13 –Antonín Brus of Mohelnice , Moravian Catholic archbishop (d.1580 )[ 27] February 20 –Georg, Count Palatine of Simmern-Sponheim , (d.1569 )[ 28] February 21 –John of Denmark , Danish prince (d.1532 )[ 29] February 28 –Francis III, Duke of Brittany , Duke of Brittany (d.1536 )[ 30] March 8 –Sidonie of Saxony , Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg (d.1575 )[ 31] April 22 –Antoine de Bourbon , father ofHenry IV of France (d.1562 )[ 32] July 3 –Li Shizhen , Chinese physician, pharmacologist and mineralogist (d.1593 )August 8 –Conrad Lycosthenes , Alsatian humanist and encyclopedist (d.1561 )[ 33] September/October –Tintoretto , Italian painter (d.1594 )[ 34] November 26 –Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora , Italian Catholic cardinal (d.1564 )[ 35] 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 )[ 36] date unknown possible –Catherine Howard , fifth queen consort ofHenry VIII of England (b. between 1518 and1524 ; d.1542 )[ 41] ^ The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Oxford University Press, 1980, p.391 ^ Yılmaz, Mehmed, "Mehmed Paşa (Piri)", (1999)Yaşamları ve Yapıtlarıyla Osmanlılar Ansiklopedisi , İstanbul:Yapı Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık A.Ş. 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