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File:Merian - Execution of György Dózsa.jpg: Six days of torture of Hungarian rebel leader György Dózsa begins, lasting until his death.]]

File:Autor nieznany (malarz z kręgu Lukasa Cranacha Starszego), Bitwa pod Orszą.jpg: Poland and Lithuania defeat a much larger Russian force in the Battle of Orsha.]]

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Year 1514 (MDXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

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= January–March =

= 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.{{Cite book |last=Jørgensen |first=G. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rukjzQEACAAJ |title=Dronning Elisabeth af Danmark |date=1901 |pages=46–47 |publisher=G.E.C. Gad |isbn=978-1172156450 |language=da}}
  • May 2 – The Poor Conrad peasant revolt against Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg begins in Beutelsbach.{{cite book|author=Paul Warde|title=Ecology, Economy and State Formation in Early Modern Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OoWFbdNcVzEC&pg=PA200|date=29 June 2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-139-45773-6|pages=200}}
  • 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.{{cite book|last1=Palmer|first1=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=139–142|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}{{cite book|first=Lincoln P.|last=Paine|year=1997|title=Ships of the World: an Historical Encyclopedia|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|isbn=0-85177-739-2}}

= 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.{{EB1911 |wstitle=Dozsa, György |volume=8 |page=462 |first=Robert Nisbet |last=Bain}}
  • 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.{{cite book |last1=Plewczyński |first1=Marek |editor1-last=Jasiński |editor1-first=Grzegorz |editor2-last=Włodarkiewicz |editor2-first=Wojciech |title=Polish battles and campaigns in 13th–19th centuries |date=2016 |publisher=Wojskowe Centrum Edukacji Obywatelskiej im. płk. dypl. Mariana Porwita Stowarzyszenie Historyków Wojskowości |isbn=978-83-65409-12-6 |page=41 |url=https://wceo.wp.mil.pl/y/pliki/rozne/2020/07/POLISH_BATTLES.pdf |chapter=The Battle of Orsha 8th September 1514}}{{cite book |title=Polish Perspectives |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z4ziAAAAMAAJ |year=1978 |publisher=Pałac Kultury i Nauki |page=79}}
  • September 15 – Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York in England.{{cite book|last=Williams|first=Hywel|title=Cassell's Chronology of World History|url=https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/197|url-access=registration|location=London|publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson|year=2005|isbn=0-304-35730-8|pages=197–204}}

= October–December =

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= Date unknown =

Births

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Deaths

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References

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