Major Events
- Jan 10 Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished
- Apr 26 Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn
- May 15 Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo's "Gesta Danorum" (Deeds of the Danes), in Paris
- May 20 English King Henry VIII grants a charter to the Corporation of Trinity House to regulate pilotage on the river Thames in London (still in existence) [1]
- Aug 23 Battle of Chaldiran ended with a decisive victory for the Sultan Selim I, Ottoman Empire, over the Shah Ismail I, Safavids founder.
- Sep 8 Battle of Orsha: Polish Lithuania army defeats the Russian army
- Sep 15 Thomas Wolsey appointed English Archbishop of York
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Who Died in 1514
- Jan 2 William Smyth, English bishop & statesman, dies at ~54
- Jan 9 Anna of Brittany, Duchess of Brittany and the only woman to be Queen consort of France twice to Charles VIII (1491-98), and Louis XII (1499-1514), dies of a kidney stone attack at 36
- Mar 11 Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
- Jun 25 Berta Jacobsdr [Suster Bertken], Dutch hermit, dies at 87
- Nov 28 Hartmann Skull, German physician/historian (Skull's Liederbuch), dies
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Famous Weddings in 1514
- May 18 Francis, Duke of Valois, later Francis I, King of France, marries Claude, Duchess of Brittany
- Aug 13 French King Louis XII (52) marries by proxy Mary Tudor (18), sister of Henry VIII, at Greenwich Palace, England
- Oct 9 King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII (sister of Henry VIII)
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