1518

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century 16th century 17th century
Decades:	1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s
Years:	1515 1516 1517 1518 1519 1520 1521

1518 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1518 MDXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2271
Armenian calendar	967 ԹՎ ՋԿԷ
Assyrian calendar	6268
Balinese saka calendar	1439–1440
Bengali calendar	925
Berber calendar	2468
English Regnal year	9 Hen. 8 – 10 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2062
Burmese calendar	880
Byzantine calendar	7026–7027
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4215 or 4008     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4216 or 4009
Coptic calendar	1234–1235
Discordian calendar	2684
Ethiopian calendar	1510–1511
Hebrew calendar	5278–5279
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1574–1575
- Shaka Samvat	1439–1440
- Kali Yuga	4618–4619
Holocene calendar	11518
Igbo calendar	518–519
Iranian calendar	896–897
Islamic calendar	923–924
Japanese calendar	Eishō 15 (永正１５年)
Javanese calendar	1435–1436
Julian calendar	1518 MDXVIII
Korean calendar	3851
Minguo calendar	394 before ROC 民前394年
Nanakshahi calendar	50
Thai solar calendar	2060–2061
Tibetan calendar	阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 1644 or 1263 or 491     — to — 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1645 or 1264 or 492

Tropical ants devastate crops on Hispaniola.

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

Events

January–June

• April 18 – Bona Sforza is crowned as Queen of Poland.
• May 26 – A Transit of Venus occurs.

July–December

• July – Dancing Plague of 1518, a case of dancing mania in Strasbourg in which many people die from constant dancing.
• August – Construction of the Manchester Grammar School is completed in England.
• October 3 – The Treaty of London temporarily ensures peace in Western Europe.

Date unknown

• A plague of tropical fire ants devastates crops on Hispaniola.
• Erasmus publishes his Colloquies.
• Henricus Grammateus publishes Ayn neu Kunstlich Buech in Vienna, containing the earliest printed use of plus and minus signs for arithmetic.
• The African slave trade begins.

Births

• February 2
  • Johann Hommel, German astronomer and mathematician (d. 1562)
  • Godfried van Mierlo, Dutch Dominican friar and bishop (d. 1587)
• February 7 – Johann Funck, German theologian (d. 1566)
• February 13 – Antonín Brus z Mohelnice, Moravian Roman Catholic archbishop (d. 1580)
• February 20 – Georg, Count Palatine of Simmern-Sponheim, (d. 1569)
• February 21 – John of Denmark, Danish prince (d. 1532)
• February 28 – Francis III, Duke of Brittany, Duke of Brittany (d. 1536)
• March 8 – Sidonie of Saxony, Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg (d. 1575)
• April 22 – Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (d. 1610)
• July 3 – Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist and mineralogist (d. 1593)
• August 8 – Conrad Lycosthenes, humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561)
• September 29 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (d. 1594)
• October 26 – John Basset, Devonshire gentleman (d. 1541)
• November 26 – Guido Ascanio Sforza di Santa Fiora, Catholic cardinal (d. 1564)
• 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)
• date unknown
  • James Halyburton, Scottish reformer (d. 1589)
  • Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (d. 1581)
  • Connor MacLeod, Scottish Highlander and Immortal (d. 2002)
  • Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (d. 1585)
• possible – Catherine Howard, fifth queen consort of Henry VIII of England (born in between 1518 and 1524; d. 1542)

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)
• December 27 – Mahmood Shah Bahmani II, sultan of the Bahmani Sultanate (b. c. 1470)
• date unknown
  • Moxammat Amin of Kazan, khan of Kazan (b. c. 1469)
  • Kabir, Indian mystic (b. 1440)
  • Aruj, Ottoman Corsair, brother of Hayreddin Barbarossa
  • Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din, sultan of Adal (assassinated) (b. c. 1473)