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Thursday, February 28th, 2008

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

  • 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 Greek 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
    • John Foxe, biographer (died 1587)
    • Martin Heilwig, Silesian cartographer (died 1574)
    • Manco Inca Yupanqui, ruler of the Inca (died 1544)
    • Canghali of Kazan, khan of Qasim and Kazan
    • Shri Gusainji, son of Shri Vallabhacharyaji.
  • probable
    • James Hamilton, Duke of Châtellerault (died 1572)
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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
    • Giuliano da Sangallo, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1443)
  • probable
    • Giovanni Bellini, Italian painter (born 1430)
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