1516

This article is about the year 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 by topic

Arts and science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1516 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1516 MDXVI
Ab urbe condita	2269
Armenian calendar	965 ԹՎ ՋԿԵ
Assyrian calendar	6266
Bahá'í calendar	-328–-327
Bengali calendar	923
Berber calendar	2466
English Regnal year	7 Hen. 8 – 8 Hen. 8
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	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
Minguo calendar	396 before ROC 民前396年
Thai solar calendar	2059

July: Selim I

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

Events

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 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.

Date unknown

• 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

• January 1 – Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1551)
• February 18 – Queen Mary I of England, daughter of King Henry VIII of England and Queen Catherine of Aragon (d. 1558)
• March 11 – Lord Henry Brandon, nephew of King Henry VIII (d.1523)
• 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)
• November 5 – 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)

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)