1516

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century 16th century 17th century
Decades:	1490s 1500s 1510s 1520s 1530s
Years:	1513 1514 1515 1516 1517 1518 1519

1516 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1516 MDXVI
Ab urbe condita	2269
Armenian calendar	965 ԹՎ ՋԿԵ
Assyrian calendar	6266
Balinese saka calendar	1437–1438
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 (Wood Pig) 4213 or 4006     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4214 or 4007
Coptic calendar	1232–1233
Discordian calendar	2682
Ethiopian calendar	1508–1509
Hebrew calendar	5276–5277
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1572–1573
- Shaka Samvat	1437–1438
- Kali Yuga	4616–4617
Holocene calendar	11516
Igbo calendar	516–517
Iranian calendar	894–895
Islamic calendar	921–922
Japanese calendar	Eishō 13 (永正１３年)
Javanese calendar	1433–1434
Julian calendar	1516 MDXVI
Korean calendar	3849
Minguo calendar	396 before ROC 民前396年
Nanakshahi calendar	48
Thai solar calendar	2058–2059
Tibetan calendar	阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 1642 or 1261 or 489     — to — 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 1643 or 1262 or 490

July: Selim I declares war on the Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo.

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

Events

January–June

• January – Juan Díaz de Solís discovers the Río de la Plata (in future Argentina).
• January 23 – With the death of Ferdinand II of Aragon, his grandson, Charles of Ghent, becomes King of Spain.
• March 1 – Desiderius Erasmus publishes a new Greek translation of the New Testament, Novum Instrumentum omne, in Basel.
• 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 Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo and invades Syria.
• August 13 – The Treaty of Noyon is signed. Francis I of France recognizes Charles I of Spain's claim to Naples, and Charles recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.
• August 18 - King Francis I of France and Pope Leo X sign the Concordat of Bologna, agreeing on the relationship between church and state in France.
• October 28 – Battle of Yaunis Khan: Ottoman forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
• December 4 – Treaty of Brussels: Peace is declared between the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire.
• c. December – Thomas More's most famous work, Utopia, completed this year, is published in Leuven (in Latin).

Date unknown

• Italian explorer Rafael Perestrello, a cousin of Christopher Columbus, commands an expedition from Portuguese Malacca to land on the shores of mainland southern China, and trade with Chinese merchants at Guangzhou, during the Ming Dynasty.
• Portuguese soldier Fernão Lopes becomes the first known permanent inhabitant of Saint Helena.
• The Venetian Ghetto is instituted, the first ghetto anywhere in the world.
• Leonardo da Vinci accepts Francis I's invitation to France.
• Gillingham School is founded, the oldest in Dorset, England.
• The predecessor of the Royal Mail, known as the Master of the Posts, is established by Henry VIII of England.
• Fuggerei is established in Augsburg (Bavaria), as the world's oldest social housing complex still in use.
• The fall of the Nantan meteorite is possibly observed near the city of Nantan, Nandan County, Guangxi (China).

Births

Margaret Leijonhufvud

Charlotte of Valois

• January 1 – Margaret Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (d. 1551)
• January 14 – Herluf Trolle, Danish admiral (d. 1565)
• January 16 – Bayinnaung, King of Burma (d. 1581)
• February 2 – Girolamo Zanchi, Italian theologian (d. 1590)
• February 16 – Prospero Spani, Italian sculptor (d. 1584)
• February 18 – Queen Mary I of England, daughter of King Henry VIII of England and Queen Catherine of Aragon (d. 1558)
• March 26 – Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565)
• April 16 – Tabinshwehti, King of Burma (d. 1550)
• April 23 – Georg Fabricius, Protestant German poet (d. 1571)
• June 28 – Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy, English courtier and patron of learning (d. 1544)
• July 27 – Emilie of Saxony, German nobleman (d. 1591)
• July 28 – William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg, German nobleman (d. 1592)
• August 13 – Hieronymus Wolf, German historian (d. 1580)
• September 2 – Francis I, Duke of Nevers (d. 1561)
• September 21 – Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (d. 1571)
• October 4 – Archangelo de' Bianchi, Italian cardinal (d. 1580)
• October 23 – Charlotte of Valois, French princess (d. 1524)
• October 27 – Ruy Gómez de Silva, Portuguese noble (d. 1573)
• November 5 – Martin Helwig, German cartographer of Silesia (d. 1574)
• December 21 – Giuseppe Leggiadri Gallani, Italian poet and dramatist (d. 1590)
• date unknown
  • Antonio Bernieri, Italian painter during the Renaissance period (d. 1565)
  • John Foxe, biographer (d. 1587)
  • Manco Inca Yupanqui, ruler of the Inca (d. 1544)
  • Canghali of Kazan, khan of Qasim and Kazan
  • Margaretha Coppier, Dutch heroine (d. 1597)
  • Shri Gusainji, son of Shri Vallabhacharyaji.
• probable
  • James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault (d. 1572)

Deaths

Ferdinand II of Aragon

Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary

• January 20 – Juan Díaz de Solís, Spanish navigator and explorer (b. 1470)
• January 23 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
• February 4 – Anthony of Supraśl, Polish Orthodox priest and saint
• March 13 – Vladislaus II, king of Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia (b. 1456)
• March 17 – Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours, ruler of Florence (b. 1449)
• April 25 – John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467)
• June 14 – King John III of Navarre (b. 1469)
• July 10 – Alice FitzHugh, English heir (b. 1448)
• July 30 – Johann V of Nassau-Vianden-Dietz, Dutch count (b. 1455)
• August 9 (bur.) – Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter (b. 1450)
• August 21 – John III of Egmont, Dutch count (b. 1438)
• c. November 26? – Giovanni Bellini, Venetian painter (b. 1430)
• December 13 – Johannes Trithemius, German scholar and cryptographer (b. 1462)
• date unknown – Giuliano da Sangallo, Florentine sculptor and architect (b. 1443)