Calendar year
July 14 : Six days of torture of Hungarian rebel leader György Dózsa begins, lasting until his death.
September 8 : Poland and Lithuania defeat a much larger Russian force in the Battle of Orsha .
Year 1514 (MDXIV ) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar .
Albrecht Dürer creates engraving Melencolia I .
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.[ 4]
May 2 – The Poor Conrad peasant revolt against Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg begins in Beutelsbach .[ 5]
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.[ 6] [ 7]
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.[ 8]
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 .[ 9] [ 10]
September 15 – Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York in England.[ 11]
Andreas Vesalius
January 1 – George Gordon, 4th Earl of Huntly , Scottish noble (d. 1562 )
January 23 – Hai Rui , Chinese official of the Ming Dynasty (d. 1587 )
January 27 – Bernardino Maffei , Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1553 )
February 8 – Daniele Barbaro , Venetian churchman, diplomat and scholar (d. 1570 )
February 10 – Domenico Bollani , Bishop of Milan (d. 1579 )
February 16 – Georg Joachim Rheticus , Austrian cartographer and scientific instrument maker (d. 1574 )
February 22 – Tahmasp I , Shah of Iran (d. 1576 )
February 22 – Johannes Gigas , German theologian (d. 1581 )
February 26 – Otto Truchsess von Waldburg , German Catholic cardinal (d. 1573 )
March 8 – Amago Haruhisa , Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1561 )
March 23 – Lorenzino de' Medici , Italian writer and assassin (d. 1548 )
April 2 – Guidobaldo II della Rovere, Duke of Urbino , Italian condottiero (d. 1574 )
April 5 – Joachim Mörlin , German bishop (d. 1571 )
April 30 – Alexander Stewart, Duke of Ross , Scottish prince (d. 1515 )
May 28 – Shimazu Takahisa , daimyō and fifteenth head of the Shimazu clan (d. 1571 )
June 16 – John Cheke , English classical scholar and statesman (d. 1557 )
August 29 – García Álvarez de Toledo, 4th Marquis of Villafranca , Spanish noble and admiral (d. 1577 )
September 12 – Philip, Duke of Mecklenburg , (d. 1557 )
September 20 – Philipp IV, Count of Hanau-Lichtenberg (d. 1590 )
September 24 – Prospero Santacroce , Italian Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1589 )
October 7 – Queen Inseong , Korean royal consort (d. 1578 )
October 31 – Wolfgang Lazius , Austrian historian (d. 1565 )
November 29 – Andreas Musculus , German theologian (d. 1581 )
November 30 – Andreas Masius , German Catholic priest (d. 1573 )
December 31 – Andreas Vesalius , Flemish anatomist (d. 1564 )
date unknown
Donato Bramante
January 2 – William Smyth , English bishop and statesman (b. 1460 )
January 9 – Anne of Brittany , queen of Charles VIII of France and Louis XII of France (b. 1477 )[ 14]
March 11 – Donato Bramante , Italian architect (b. 1444 )[ 15]
April 21 – Ichijō Fuyuyoshi , Japanese court noble (b. 1465 )
May 3 – Anna of Brandenburg , Duchess consort of Schleswig and Holstein (b. 1487 )
June 23 – Henry IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1463 )
June 25 – Suster Bertken Dutch anchorite (b. 1426)
July 20 – György Dózsa , Transylvanian peasant revolt leader (b. 1470 )
October 21 – Alexander, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken and Count of Veldenz (1489–1514) (b. 1462 )
October 25 – William Elphinstone , Scottish bishop and statesman (b. 1431 )
November 28 – Hartmann Schedel , German cartographer (b. 1440 )
December – Henry, Duke of Cornwall , third son of Henry VIII of England (stillborn)
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^ This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Bain, Robert Nisbet (1911). "Dozsa, György ". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 462.
^ Plewczyński, Marek (2016). "The Battle of Orsha 8th September 1514". In Jasiński, Grzegorz; Włodarkiewicz, Wojciech (eds.). Polish battles and campaigns in 13th–19th centuries (PDF) . Wojskowe Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej im. płk. dypl. Mariana Porwita Stowarzyszenie Historyków Wojskowości. p. 41. ISBN 978-83-65409-12-6 .
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