1518

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1480s  1490s  1500s  – 1510s –  1520s  1530s  1540s
Years:	1515 1516 1517 – 1518 – 1519 1520 1521

1518 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1518 MDXVIII
Ab urbe condita	2271
Armenian calendar	967 ԹՎ ՋԿԷ
Assyrian calendar	6268
Balinese saka calendar	1439–1440
Bengali calendar	925
Berber calendar	2468
English Regnal year	9 Hen. 8 – 10 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2062
Burmese calendar	880
Byzantine calendar	7026–7027
Chinese calendar	丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4214 or 4154     — to — 戊寅年 (Earth Tiger) 4215 or 4155
Coptic calendar	1234–1235
Discordian calendar	2684
Ethiopian calendar	1510–1511
Hebrew calendar	5278–5279
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1574–1575
- Shaka Samvat	1439–1440
- Kali Yuga	4618–4619
Holocene calendar	11518
Igbo calendar	518–519
Iranian calendar	896–897
Islamic calendar	923–924
Japanese calendar	Eishō 15 (永正１５年)
Javanese calendar	1435–1436
Julian calendar	1518 MDXVIII
Korean calendar	3851
Minguo calendar	394 before ROC 民前394年
Nanakshahi calendar	50
Thai solar calendar	2060–2061
Tibetan calendar	阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 1644 or 1263 or 491     — to — 阳土虎年 (male Earth-Tiger) 1645 or 1264 or 492

1518 (MDXVIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1518th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 518th year of the 2nd millennium, the 18th year of the 16th century, and the 9th year of the 1510s decade. As of the start of 1518, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

• A plague of tropical fire ants devastates crops on Hispaniola.