1518

1518 (MDXVIII) was a common year beginning on a Friday of the Julian calendar.

Events

• 2 February: the Courts of Valladolid (Spain) agree to the incorporation of the Indies into the Crown of Castile.
• 5 February: in Seville, Spain, the marine Sebastian Caboto is named a major driver of the House of Recruitment, after serving the British Crown.
• 7 February: Carlos I of Spain and V of Germany swears before the Cortes de Castilla in Valladolid the laws of Castilla.
• 22 March: in Valladolid, Spain, the Portuguese navigator Fernando de Magallanes signs a capitulations for which he is appointed captain general of the Navy and governor of the lands he discovers.
• June 8: in Tabasco (in the southeast of current Mexico), the Spanish conqueror Juan de Grijalva up to the river that currently bears his name.
• In July, in Strasbourg, France, the 1518 Dance Epidemic happens, where about 400 people danced without a break for weeks. Most died as a result of heart attacks, strokes and exhaustion.
• Juan Ecolampadio publishes his work Of risu paschaliin which he criticizes the obscene jokes that were said at Mass on Easter Sunday.
• In Valladolid, Spain, the Courts reject the oath to the king if he does not accept Spanish liberties and privileges before.
• Slave traffic from Africa to America.
• Pedro de Alvarado reaches the territory known as Atlizintla, which today occupies the city of Alvarado.
• On La Española Island, a smallpox pandemic kills half the indigenous population.
• The fourth part of the inhabitants of the valleys were considered and judged as witches (in Val Camonica, Italy, 64 people were burned).

Exceptions

France

In France, the year 1518 ran from April 4, 1518 to April 23, 1519. This was because the Roman Emperor Constantine, beginning around 325, decreed that the year should start on Sunday of Easter of Resurrection. This decree was in force in France until 1565.

For example, Leonardo da Vinci's will drawn up in Amboise, France, on April 23, 1519, bears the legend "Given on April 23, 1518, before Easter". this date of Holy Thursday coincides with the arrival of the fleet of Hernán Cortés in front of the beaches of Veracruz, where he disembarked the following day.

• See Wikisource "1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Easter"

Art and literature

• Rafael painted Michael defeats Satan.
• Titian paints The Assumption of the Virgin.
• Adam Ries publishes Rechnung auff der linihen.

Births

Unknown

• Giovan Maria Cecchi, Italian poet and playwright.
• Ñuflo de Chaves, conqueror and Spanish explorer.
• Hernando de Acuña, Spanish poet.

April

• April 22: Antonio de Borbón, father of Henry IV of France. (f.1562).

September

• September 29: Tintoretto, Italian painter. (f.1594).

Deaths

• Catherine de Foix, Queen of Navarre.
• Baba Aruj (Barbarosja), governor of Algiers.