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 v • d • e

Year 1516 (MDXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Contents 1 Events of 1516 1.1 January–June 1.2 July–December 1.3 Undated 2 Births 3 Deaths

[edit] Events of 1516

[edit] 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.

[edit] July–December

• 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.

[edit] 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

[edit] Births

1516 in other calendars

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
- Vikram Samvat	1571 – 1572
- 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
v • d • e

• 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
  • John Foxe, biographer (d. 1587)
  • Manco Inca Yupanqui, ruler of the Inca (d. 1544)
  • Canghali of Kazan, khan of Qasim and Kazan
  • Shri Gusainji, son of Shri Vallabhacharyaji.
• probable
  • James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault (d. 1572)

See also Category: 1516 births.

[edit] 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.