1516

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 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)

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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)

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