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Year 1518 (MDXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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.

The arts

Literature

• The first copyright privilege in England bears date 1518 and was issued to Richard Pynson, King's Printer, the successor to William Caxton.

Fiction

• The Mandrake written (first printed in 1524) by Niccolò Machiavelli

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

Visual art

• The Deposition[1] by Francesco Bacchiacca
• The Judgment of Paris (c. 1517/18) by Niklaus Manuel (1484–1530)

Music

Architecture

Births

• Mayken Verhulst (1518–1599), miniature, tempera and watercolor painter
• Tintoretto, Italian painter (d. 1594)

Deaths

• Heinrich Bebel
• November 24 – Vannozza dei Cattanei, mistress of Pope Alexander VI (b. 1442)