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 - 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.

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

• 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)
• date unknown
  • John Foxe, biographer (d. 1587)
  • Martin Heilwig, Silesian cartographer (d. 1574)
  • 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.

Deaths

• January 20 - Juan Díaz de Solís, Spanish navigator and explorer (b. 1470)
• March 13 - King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456)
• March 17 - Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1478)
• April 25 - John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467)
• June 14 - King John III of Navarre (b. 1469)
• June 23 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1452)
• 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.