1516

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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

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; his mother Queen Joanna of Castile also succeeds as Queen of Aragon and co-monarch with Carlos, but remains confined at Tordesillas.
* March 1 – Desiderius Erasmus publishes a new Greek edition of the New Testament, ''Novum Instrumentum omne'', in Basel.
* March 29 – The Venetian Ghetto is instituted in the Republic of Venice.
* 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.
*August 24– Battle of Marj Dabiq (Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17)): The Ottoman Sultan Selim I defeats the mamluk forces commanded by the sultan Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri.
* October 28 – Battle of Yaunis Khan (Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17)): Ottoman forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mamluks 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.
* Leonardo da Vinci accepts Francis I's invitation to France.
* The predecessor of the Royal Mail, known as the ''Master of the Posts'', is established by Henry VIII of England.
* Gillingham School is founded, the oldest in Dorset, 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

* 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 15 – Alqas Mirza, Safavid prince (d. 1550)
* 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 (d. 1535)
** Margaretha Coppier, Dutch heroine (d. 1597)
** Gusainji, Shri Gusainji, son of Vallabha Acharya, 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)
* February 4 – Anthony of Supraśl, Polish Orthodox priest and saint
* March 13 – Vladislaus II of Hungary, 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 – John V, Count of Nassau-Siegen, German count (b. 1455)
* August 9 ''(bur.)'' – Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter (b. 1450)
* August 21 – John III of Egmont, Dutch count (b. 1438)
* August 24 – Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri, Mamluk sultan (b. c. 1441)
* 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)

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