1518
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Year 1518 (MDXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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Events
- July – Dancing Plague of 1518: A case of dancing mania breaks out in Strasbourg, in which many people die from constant dancing.
- October 3 – The Treaty of London temporarily ensures peace in Western Europe.
- A plague of tropical fire ants devastates crops on Hispaniola.
- Henricus Grammateus publishes Ayn neu Kunstlich Buech in Vienna, containing the earliest printed use of plus and minus signs for arithmetic.
- The African slave trade begins.
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The arts
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Literature
- The first copyright privilege in England bears date 1518 and was issued to Richard Pynson, King's Printer, the successor to William Caxton.
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Fiction
- The Mandrake written (first printed in 1524) by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Non-fiction
- John Oecolampadius writes a letter against Risus Paschalis custom, which was published in 1518 by Wolfgang Capito
- Erasmus publishes his Colloquies.
- The Quodlibeta Theologica by Henry of Ghent
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Visual art
- The Deposition[1] by Francesco Bacchiacca
- The Judgment of Paris (c. 1517/18) by Niklaus Manuel (1484–1530)
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Music
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Architecture
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Births
- Mayken Verhulst (1518–1599), miniature, tempera and watercolor painter
- Tintoretto, Italian painter (d. 1594)
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Deaths
- Heinrich Bebel
- November 24 – Vannozza dei Cattanei, mistress of Pope Alexander VI (b. 1442)
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