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

Events of 1518

January - June

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

July - December

October 3 - The Treaty of London temporarily ensures peace in Western Europe.

November 10 - Catherine of Aragon gives birth to a daughter, who dies shortly afterwards.

Undated

A plague of tropical fire ants devastates crops on Hispaniola.

The African slave trade begins.

Births

April 22 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (d. 1610)

August 8 - Conrad Lycosthenes, humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561)

date unknown

James Halyburton, Scottish reformer (d. 1589)
Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (d. 1581)
Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (d. 1585)
Tintoretto, Italian painter (d. 1594)
Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist, and mineralogist (d. 1593) ť See also .

Deaths

August 16 - Loyset Compère, French composer (b. c. 1445)

August 27 - Giovanna 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)

date unknown

Moxammat Amin of Kazan, khan of Kazan (b. c. 1469)
Kabir, Indian mystic (b. 1440)
Aruj, Ottoman Corsair, brother of Khair ad-Din
Muhammad ibn Azhar ad-Din, sultan of Adal (assassinated) (b. c. 1473)

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