Historical Events
- Apr 18 Bona Sforza is crowned queen consort of Poland
- Apr 27 Treaty of St Truiden: anti-French Trapdoors and Bourgondisch covenant
- May 19 Public unveiling of Titian's masterpiece "Assumption of the Virgin" a painted altarpiece in the Basilica di Santa Maria Gloriosa dei Frari, Venice
- Oct 2 English cardinal Thomas Wolsey makes European plan
- Oct 12 Pontifical ambassador interrogates Martin Luther
Famous People Born in 1518
- Apr 22 Antoine of Navarre [de Bourbon], King of Navarre, 1555-62), born in La Fère, Picardy, France (d. 1562)
- Jul 3 Li Shi-zhen, Chinese physician and medical scholar (Compendium of Materia Medica), born in Qizhou, China (d. 1593)
- Jul 27 Elizabeth Talbot, Countess of Shrewsbury and builder of country houses, born in Derbyshire, England (d. 1608)
- Aug 8 Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561)
- Sep 29 Tintoretto, Italian Mannerist painter and notable exponent of the Renaissance school, born in Venice, Republic of Venice (d. 1594)
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Famous People in 1518
Martin Luther
Michelangelo
RaphaelWorld Leaders in 1518
Charles V
Francis I of France
Henry VIII
Famous People Who Died in 1518
- Aug 16 Loyset Compère, French composer
- Aug 26 Giberto X, Italian mister of Correggio, husband of Veronica Gambara
- Nov 20 Pierre de la Rue [aka Peter van Straten], Franco-Flemish the Renaissance singer and composer, dies at about 66 [birth date unconfirmed]
- Nov 20 Marmaduke Constable, English soldier (battle of Flodden), dies after swallowing a frog, at about 61