1516
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 15th century – 16th century – 17th century |
| Decades: | 1480s 1490s 1500s – 1510s – 1520s 1530s 1540s |
| Years: | 1513 1514 1515 – 1516 – 1517 1518 1519 |
| 1516 in topic: |
| Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture – Art – |
| Literature – Music – Poetry – Science |
| Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors |
| Category: Establishments – Disestablishments |
| Births – Deaths – Works |
Year 1516 (MDXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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Events of 1516
January–June
- March – With the death of Ferdinand II of Aragon, his grandson Charles of Ghent becomes King of Spain as Carlos I.
- April 23 – The Reinheitsgebot is instituted in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, regulating the purity of beer permissible for sale.
July–December
July – Selim I.
- July – Selim I of the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Mameluks and invades Syria.
- August 13 – The Treaty of Noyon is signed. Francis recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.
- October 28 – Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
- December 4 – Treaty of Brussels: Peace is declared between France and the Empire.
Undated
- Pedro de Solis discovers the Río de la Plata.
- King Francis I of France and Pope Leo X sign the Concordat of Bologna.
- Desiderius Erasmus publishes a new Greek translation of the New Testament.
- Thomas More publishes Utopia.
- Leonardo da Vinci accepts Francis I's invitation to France.
- The Italian explorer Rafael Perestrello trades with Chinese merchants at Canton during the Ming Dynasty.
- Gillingham School founded – the oldest school in Dorset
Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1516 MDXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 2269 |
| Armenian calendar | 965 ԹՎ ՋԿԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -328 – -327 |
| Bengali calendar | 923 |
| Berber calendar | 2466 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2060 |
| Burmese calendar | 878 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7024 – 7025 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙亥年十一月廿八日 (4152/4212-11-28) — to —
丙子年十二月初九日(4153/4213-12-9) |
| Coptic calendar | 1232 – 1233 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1508 – 1509 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5276 – 5277 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Bikram Samwat | 1572 – 1573 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1438 – 1439 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4617 – 4618 |
| Holocene calendar | 11516 |
| Iranian calendar | 894 – 895 |
| Islamic calendar | 921 – 922 |
| Japanese calendar | Eishō 13 (永正13年) |
| Korean calendar | 3849 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2059 |
- January 1 – Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1551)
- February 18 – Queen Mary I of England (d. 1558)
- March 26 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565)
- April 23 – Georg Fabricius, Protestant German poet (d. 1571)
- September 21 – Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (d. 1571)
- 5 November – Martin Helwig, German cartographer of Silesia (d. 1574)
- date unknown
- probable
- James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault (d. 1572)
- See also Category: 1516 births.
Deaths
- January 20 – Juan Díaz de Solís, Spanish navigator and explorer (b. 1470)
- January 23 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
- March 13 – King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456)
- March 17 – Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1449)
- April 25 – John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467)
- June 14 – King John III of Navarre (b. 1469)
- August – Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter (b. 1450)
- December 13 – Johannes Trithemius, German scholar and cryptographer (b. 1462)
- date unknown
- Giuliano da Sangallo, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1443)
- probable
- Giovanni Bellini, Italian painter (b. 1430)
- See also Category: 1516 deaths.