1518

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1480s 1490s 1500s – 1510s – 1520s 1530s 1540s
Years:	1515 1516 1517 – 1518 – 1519 1520 1521

1518 in topic:
Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – Art –
Literature – Music – Poetry – Science
Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
Births – Deaths – Works

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

Events of 1518

Hispaniola: In 1518 tropical ants devastate crops on Hispaniola.

July – Dancing Plague of 1518, a case of dancing mania in Strasbourg in which many people died from constant dancing.
October 3 – The Treaty of London temporarily ensures peace in Western Europe.

April 22 – Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (d. 1610)
August 8 – Conrad Lycosthenes, humanist and encyclopedist (d. 1561)
September 29 – Tintoretto, Italian painter (d. 1594)
date unknown
- James Halyburton, Scottish reformer (d. 1589)
- Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (d. 1581)
- Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (d. 1585)
- Li Shizhen, Chinese physician, pharmacologist, and mineralogist (d. 1593)

See also Category: 1518 births.

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)
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)

See also Category: 1518 deaths.