Year 1514 (MDXIV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–June January 10 – A great fire breaks out, 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, an Indian elephant. March – Louis XII of France makes peace with Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor. May 2 – The Poor Conrad peasant revolt against Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg begins in Beutelsbach. 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. June – Battle of Hornshole in the Scottish Borders: Young men from Hawick defeat a raiding party from England. July–December July 20 – King Christian II is crowned King of Norway in Oslo. This coronation was the last in Norway for 304 years when King Charles III John was crowned king 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 23 – Battle of Chaldiran: Selim I crushes the Persian army of Shah Ismail I. September 8 – Battle of Orsha: In one of the biggest battles of the century, Jagiellonian dynasty forces comprising Belarusians of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Poles defeat the army of the Grand Duchy of Moscow. September 15 – Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York in England. October 9 – Louis XII of France marries Mary Tudor (sister of King Henry VIII of England) at Abbeville, as part of the English peace with France. Date unknown Albrecht Dürer makes his famous engraving Melencolia I. Paolo Ricci (Camillo Renato) moves to Augsburg. Nicolaus Copernicus's Commentariolus, outlining his theory of heliocentrism, is written by this date. Births 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