1514

January–March

• January 10 - A great fire breaks out, in the Rialto of Venice.
• February 12 - War of the League of Cambrai: In what is now the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Giacomo Badoer, administrator of the Republic of Venice, orders a retreat from the approaching forces of the Holy Roman Empire, abandoning Udine, Cividale and Cormons and falling back on Sacile.
• 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 13 - Louis XII of France makes peace with Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.

  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.
• 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.

  July–September

• July 14 - The Hungarian rebel leader György Dózsa is defeated in battle at Temesvár in Transylvania in Hungary in the Battle of Orsha.
• September 15 - Thomas Wolsey is appointed Archbishop of York in England.

  October–December

• October 9 - King Louis XII marries Mary Tudor at Abbeville, as part of the Kingdom of England's peace with France.
• November 5 - Mary Tudor is formally crowned as the Queen consort of France.
• November 23 - King Henry VIII of summons the English Parliament, to assemble at Westminster on February 5.
• November 28 - Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha steps down as Grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire.
• December 4 - Juan Rodríguez de Fonseca and Pietro Martire d'Anghiera complete the first printed map of Central America as they record their data from the Pinzón–Solís voyage of 1508-1509.
• December 18 - Ottoman General Dukaginzade Ahmed Pasha is appointed by the Sultan Selmi I as the new Grand Vizier, but serves for less than three months before he is removed and executed.
• December 29 - Giovanni Carlo Tramontano, Count of Matera, is assassinated in Matera, the day after demanding that the aristocracy and people of his realm pay 24,000 ducates in taxes to clear up his personal debts.

  Date unknown

• Albrecht Dürer makes his famous engraving Melencolia I.
• Paolo Ricci moves to Augsburg.
• Nicolaus Copernicus's Commentariolus is written by this date.