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1514
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Year 1514 (MDXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

March 12 – A huge exotic embassy sent by King Manuel I of Portugal to Pope Leo X defiles in Rome.

May 15 – Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.

June - Battle of Hornshole between England and Scotland takes place near Hawick, Scotland.http://www.discovertheborders.co.uk/places/154.html

July – Peace is declared between England and France.

September 8 – Battle of Orsha: In one of the biggest battles of the century, the Belarusians and Poles defeat the Russian army.

Albrecht Dürer makes his famous engraving Melencolia I.

February 16 – Georg Joachim Rheticus, cartographer and scientific instrument maker (d. 1574)

March 8 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)

June 16 – John Cheke, English classical scholar and statesman (d. 1557)

December 31 – Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (d. 1564)

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Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (d. 1563)

Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1571)

See also :Category: 1514 births.

January 2 – William Smyth, English bishop and statesman (b. 1460)

March 11 – Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)

May 3 – Anna of Brandenburg, queen consort of Denmark (b. 1487)

October 25 – William Elphinstone, Scottish bishop and statesman (b. 1431)

December – Henry, Duke of Cornwall, third son of Henry VIII of England (stillborn)

: See also :Category: 1514 deaths.