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.
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Events
- January 10 – Great fire in the Rialto of Venice.
- March 12 – A huge exotic embassy sent by King Manuel I of Portugal to Pope Leo X arrives in Rome, including Hanno, a white Asian elephant.
- 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.
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Literature
- Nicolaus Copernicus's "Commentariolus", outlining his theory of heliocentrism, is ====Fiction====
Non-fiction
Visual art
- Albrecht Dürer makes his famous engraving Melencolia I.
Music
Architecture
Births
- February 8 – Daniele Barbaro, Venetian churchman, diplomat and scholar (d. 1570)
- December 31 – Vesalius, Flemish anatomist (d. 1564)
Deaths
- March 11 – Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
- July 20 – György Dózsa, Transylvanian peasant revolt leader (b. 1470)
- November 28 – Hartmann Schedel, cartographer (b. 1440)
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