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| Years: | 1513 1514 1515 - 1516 - 1517 1518 1519 |
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Year 1516 (MDXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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 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.
Births[]
| Gregorian calendar | 1516 MDXVI
|
| Ab urbe condita | 2269 |
| Armenian calendar | 965 ԹՎ ՋԿԵ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -328 – -327 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2060 |
| 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
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| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2176 (皇紀2176年) |
| Julian calendar | 1561 |
| Korean calendar | 3849 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2059 |
- January 1 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (died 1551)
- February 18 - Queen Mary I of England (died 1558)
- March 26 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (died 1565)
- April 23 - Georg Fabricius, Protestant German poet (died 1571)
- September 21 - Matthew Stewart (died 1571)
- date unknown
- John Foxe, biographer (died 1587)
- Martin Heilwig, Silesian cartographer (died 1574)
- Manco Inca Yupanqui, ruler of the Inca (died 1544)
- Canghali of Kazan, khan of Qasim and Kazan
- Shri Gusainji, son of Shri Vallabhacharyaji.
- probable
- James Hamilton (died 1572)
- See also 1516 births.
Deaths[]
- January 20 - Juan Díaz de Solís, Spanish navigator and explorer (born 1470)
- March 13 - King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (born 1456)
- March 17 - Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (born 1478)
- April 25 - John Yonge, English diplomat (born 1467)
- June 14 - King John III of Navarre (born 1469)
- June 23 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (born 1452)
- August - Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter (born 1450)
- December 13 - Johannes Trithemius, German scholar and cryptographer (born 1462)
- date unknown
- Giuliano da Sangallo, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1443)
- probable
- Giovanni Bellini, Italian painter (born 1430)
- See also 1516 deaths.
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People of the year 1516 at Familypedia
16 people were born in 1516
8 children were born to the 7 women born in 1516
15 people died in 1516
1006 people lived in 1516
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16 people were married in 1516.
There were 0 military battles in 1516.