1514

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July 14: Six days of torture of Hungarian rebel leader György Dózsa begins, lasting until his death.

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September 8: Poland and Lithuania defeat a much larger Russian force in the Battle of Orsha.

Template:C16 year in topic Year 1514 (MDXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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Albrecht Dürer creates engraving Melencolia I.

January–March

January 10 – A great fire breaks out, in the Rialto of Venice.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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.<ref>Template:DBI</ref>
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.
March 13 – Louis XII of France makes peace with Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.<ref>Catherine Charlotte, Lady Jackson, The Court of France in the Sixteenth Century, 1514-1539 (Joseph Knight Company, 1896) p.20</ref>

April–June

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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
May 2 – The Poor Conrad peasant revolt against Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg begins in Beutelsbach.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
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.
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.<ref name=CBH>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

July–September

July 14 – The Hungarian rebel leader György Dózsa is defeated in battle at Temesvár in Transylvania in Hungary (now Timișoara in Romania, and tortured over a period of six days until his death. Condemning Dózsa's ambition to be king, Hungary's monarch Stephen VIII Báthory orders that Dózsa be tied to an iron throne over a fire, then forced to wear a red-hot metal crown.<ref>Template:EB1911</ref>
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 XIV Johan in 1818.
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.
August 13 – Mary Tudor, sister of King Henry VIII, is married by proxy to France's King Louis XII in accordane with the August 7 peace treaty.
August 23 – Battle of Chaldiran: Selim I crushes the Persian army of Shah Ismail I.
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.
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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
September 15 – Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York in England.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology">Template:Cite book</ref>

October–December

October 9 – King Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor (sister of King Henry VIII of England) at Abbeville, as part of the Kingdom of England's peace with France.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
November 5 – Mary Tudor is formally crowned as the Queen consort of France.<ref name="Cassell's Chronology"/>
November 23 – King Henry VIII of summons the English Parliament, to assemble at Westminster on February 5.
November 28 – Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha steps down as Grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
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.
December 18 – Ottoman General Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha is appointed by the Sultan Selmi I as the new Grand Vizier, but serves for less than three months before he is removed and executed.
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.<ref>"Tramontano, Giancarlo", by Angelantonio Spagnoletti, in Dizionario biografico degli italiani (Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2019_</ref>