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

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Events of 1516

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

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 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 Latin translation of the New Testament.

★ Thomas More publishes ''Utopia''.

Births

★ January 1 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (died 1551)

★ February 18 - Queen Mary I of England (died 1558)

★ March 26 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (died 1565)

★ April 23 - Georg Fabricius, Protestant German poet (died 1571)

★ September 21 - Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (died 1571)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ John Foxe, biographer (died 1587)

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★ Martin Heilwig, Silesian cartographer (died 1574)

★
★ Manco Inca Yupanqui, ruler of the Inca (died 1544)

★
★ Canghali of Kazan, khan of Qasim and Kazan

★ ''probable''

★
★ James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault (died 1572)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ January 20 - Juan Díaz de Solís, Spanish navigator and explorer (born 1470)

★ March 13 - King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (born 1456)

★ March 17 - Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (born 1478)

★ April 25 - John Yonge, English diplomat (born 1467)

★ June 14 - King John III of Navarre (born 1469)

★ June 23 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (born 1452)

★ August - Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter (born 1450)

★ December 13 - Johannes Trithemius, German scholar and cryptographer (born 1462)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Giuliano da Sangallo, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1443)

★ ''probable''

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★ Giovanni Bellini, Italian painter (born 1430)
: ''See also .''