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Calendar year
Year 1514 (
MDXIV) was a
common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar.
Events
January–June
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January 10 – A great fire breaks out, in the
Rialto of
Venice.
[1]
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March 12 – A huge exotic embassy sent by King
Manuel I of Portugal to
Pope Leo X arrives in Rome, including
Hanno, an
Indian elephant.
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March –
Louis XII of France makes peace with
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
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May 2 – The
Poor Conrad peasant revolt against
Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg begins in
Beutelsbach.
[2]
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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.
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June 13 –
Henry 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.
[3]
[4]
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June –
Battle of Hornshole in the
Scottish Borders: Young men from
Hawick defeat a raiding party from
England.
[5]
July–December
Date unknown
Births
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January 1 –
George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, Scottish noble (d.
1562)
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January 23 –
Hai Rui, Chinese official of the Ming Dynasty (d.
1587)
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January 27 –
Bernardino Maffei, Italian Catholic cardinal (d.
1553)
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February 8 –
Daniele Barbaro, Venetian churchman, diplomat and scholar (d.
1570)
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February 10 –
Domenico Bollani, Bishop of Milan (d.
1579)
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February 16 –
Georg Joachim Rheticus, Austrian cartographer and scientific instrument maker (d.
1574)
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February 22 –
Tahmasp I, Shah of Iran (d.
1576)
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February 22 –
Johannes Gigas, German theologian (d.
1581)
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February 26 –
Otto Truchsess von Waldburg, German Catholic cardinal (d.
1573)
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March 8 –
Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d.
1561)
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March 23 –
Lorenzino de' Medici, Italian writer and assassin (d.
1548)
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April 2 –
Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino, Italian condottiero (d.
1574)
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April 5 –
Joachim Mörlin, German bishop (d.
1571)
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April 30 –
Alexander Stewart, Duke of Ross, Scottish prince (d.
1515)
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May 28 –
Shimazu Takahisa, daimyō and fifteenth head of the Shimazu clan (d.
1571)
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June 16 –
John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (d.
1557)
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August 29 –
García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca, Spanish noble and admiral (d.
1577)
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September 12 –
Philip, Duke of Mecklenburg, (d.
1557)
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September 20 –
Philipp IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d.
1590)
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September 24 –
Prospero Santacroce, Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (d.
1589)
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October 7 –
Queen Inseong, Korean royal consort (d.
1578)
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October 31 –
Wolfgang Lazius, Austrian historian (d.
1565)
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November 29 –
Andreas Musculus, German theologian (d.
1581)
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November 30 –
Andreas Masius, German Catholic priest (d.
1573)
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December 31 –
Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (d.
1564)
- date unknown
Deaths
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January 2 –
William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (b.
1460)
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January 9 –
Anne of Brittany, queen of
Charles VIII of France and
Louis XII of France (b.
1477)
[8]
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March 11 –
Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b.
1444)
[9]
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April 21 –
Ichijō Fuyuyoshi, Japanese court noble (b.
1465)
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May 3 –
Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess consort of Schleswig and Holstein (b.
1487)
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June 23 –
Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b.
1463)
-
June 25 –
Suster Bertken Dutch anchorite (b. 1426)
-
July 20 –
György Dózsa, Transylvanian peasant revolt leader (b.
1470)
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October 21 –
Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and Count of Veldenz (1489–1514) (b.
1462)
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October 25 –
William Elphinstone, Scottish bishop and statesman (b.
1431)
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November 28 –
Hartmann Schedel, German cartographer (b.
1440)
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December –
Henry, Duke of Cornwall, third son of
Henry VIII of England (stillborn)
- date unknown
References