1514 CE

War of the League of Cambrai: In what is now the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Giacomo Badoer, administrator of the Republic of Venice, orders a retreat from the approaching forces of the Holy Roman Empire, abandoning Udine, Cividale and Cormons and falling back on Sacile. 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. Forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland, backed by Belarusians, with 30,000 troops, defeat the larger Russian army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow (80,000 soldiers) in the Battle of Orsha.

In the 1510s, the 16th century.

Geopolitics & Diplomacy

  • 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.source
  • August 7 – King Henry VIII of England concludes an independent peace treaty with France in the War of the League of Cambrai, negotiated by Thomas Wolsey.source
  • November 23 – King Henry VIII of summons the English Parliament, to assemble at Westminster on February 5.source
  • November 28 – Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha steps down as Grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire.source

Conflict & Security

  • February 12 – War of the League of Cambrai: In what is now the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Giacomo Badoer, administrator of the Republic of Venice, orders a retreat from the approaching forces of the Holy Roman Empire, abandoning Udine, Cividale and Cormons and falling back on Sacile.source
  • May 2 – The Poor Conrad peasant revolt against Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg begins in Beutelsbach.source
  • August 1 – Vasili III of Russia captured Smolensk from Grand Duchy of Lithuania.source
  • August 23 – Battle of Chaldiran: Selim I crushes the Persian army of Shah Ismail I.source
  • September 7 – The Ottoman Army, commanded by the Sultan Selim I, arrives at Tabriz, capital of Safavid Iran and accepts the surrender of Shah Ismail.source
  • September 8 – Forces of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland, backed by Belarusians, with 30,000 troops, defeat the larger Russian army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow (80,000 soldiers) in the Battle of Orsha.source

Exploration & Expansion

  • 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.source

Religion & Belief

  • 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.source
  • March 13 – Louis XII of France makes peace with Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.source
  • September 15 – Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York in England.source
  • 5 November – Mary Tudor is crowned Queen of France by the Bishop of Bayeux at the Abbey Church of Saint-Denis.Francesource
  • December 18 – Ottoman General Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha is appointed by the Sultan Selim I as the new Grand Vizier, but serves for less than three months before he is removed and executed.source
  • Rani Sipri's Mosque commissioned.Indiasource

Science & Discovery

  • 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.source
  • Nicolaus Copernicus's Commentariolus is written by this date.source
  • Paolo Ricci (Camillo Renato) moves to Augsburg.source

Disasters & Accidents

Culture & Society

  • 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.source
  • July 20 – King Christian II is crowned King of Norway in Oslo. This coronation will be the last in Norway for 304 years until the crowning of King Karl III Johan in 1818.source
  • August 13 – Mary Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII, is married by proxy to France's King Louis XII in accordance with the August 7 peace treaty.source
  • 3 October – The Earl of Worcester reports from Abbeville on King Louis XII's preparations for Mary Tudor's arrival.Francesource
  • 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.source
  • 9 October – Louis XII marries Mary Tudor (sister of King Henry VIII) at Abbeville, as part of the English peace with France.Francesource
  • November 5 – Mary Tudor is formally crowned as the Queen consort of France.source
  • Albrecht Dürer makes his famous engraving Melencolia I.source

Births

  • January 1 – George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly, Scottish noble (died 1562)source
  • January 23 – Hai Rui, Chinese official of the Ming Dynasty (died 1587)source
  • February 8 – Daniele Barbaro, Venetian churchman, diplomat and scholar (died 1570)source
  • February 16 – Georg Joachim Rheticus, Austrian cartographer and scientific instrument maker (died 1574)source
  • February 22 – Tahmasp I, Shah of Iran (died 1576)source
  • February 26 – Otto Truchsess von Waldburg, German Catholic cardinal (died 1573)source
  • March 8 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (died 1561)source
  • March 23 – Lorenzino de' Medici, Italian writer and assassin (died 1548)source
  • April 5 – Joachim Mörlin, German bishop (died 1571)source
  • June 16 – John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (died 1557)source
  • August 29 – García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca, Spanish noble and admiral (died 1577)source
  • September 20 – Philipp IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (died 1590)source
  • November 27 – Peter Carew, English adventurer in Ireland (born 1514?)Irelandsource
  • December 31 – Andreas Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (died 1564)source
  • John Knox, Scottish clergyman, theologian and writer (died 1572)source
  • Philibert de l’Orme, architect and writerFrancesource
  • Meherji Rana Parsi spiritual leader (died 1591)Indiasource

Deaths

  • January 2 – William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (born 1460)source
  • January 9 – Anne of Brittany, queen-consort of France to both Charles VIII and Louis XII (born 1477)source
  • January 9 – Anne of Brittany, Duchess of Brittany (born 1477).Francesource
  • March 11 – Donato Bramante, Italian architect (born 1444)source
  • April 21 – Ichijō Fuyuyoshi, Japanese court noble (born 1465)source
  • May 3 – Anna of Brandenburg, Duchess consort of Schleswig and Holstein (born 1487)source
  • June 23 – Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (born 1463)source
  • June 25 – Suster Bertken Dutch anchorite (born 1426)source
  • July 20 – György Dózsa, Transylvanian peasant revolt leader (born 1470)source
  • October 21 – Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and Count of Veldenz (1489–1514) (born 1462)source
  • October 25 – William Elphinstone, Scottish bishop and statesman (born 1431)source
  • November 28 – Hartmann Schedel, German cartographer (born 1440)source
  • 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.source
  • Agnes Fingerin, German philanthropist and businesspersonsource
  • Guillaume Briçonnet, cardinal and statesman (b.1445)Francesource
  • Pierre Desrey, chronicler, historian, genealogist and translator (born 1450)Francesource