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[[File:Three_Mamelukes_with_lances_on_horseback.jpg|thumb|right|July: [[Selim I]] declares war on the [[Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)|Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo]].]]
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Year '''1516''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MDXVI]]''') was a [[leap year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]], there is also a [[leap year starting on Saturday]] of the [[Gregorian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Juan Díaz de Solís]] arrives in what is now [[Punta del Este]] in [[Uruguay]], where he becomes the first European to sail into the [[Río de la Plata]] (in future [[Argentina]]).  Díaz and nine of his men are attacked and killed by the local [[Charrúa]] people shortly after their arrival.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=3 February 2016 |author=[[El País (Uruguay)|El País]] |date=3 February 2016 |title=Recrearon desembarco de Solís en playa Mansa, a los 500 años |url=http://www.elpais.com.uy/informacion/recrearon-desembarco-solis-playa-mansa.html}}<!-- auto-translated from Spanish by Module:CS1 translator --></ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Grimshaw |first1=William |title=The History of South America, from the Discovery of the New World by Columbus, to the Conquest of Peru by Pizarro |date=1830 |publisher=Collins & Hannay |page=89 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TXMOAAAAYAAJ&dq=Juan+D%C3%ADaz+de+Sol%C3%ADs+Juan+D%C3%ADaz+de+Sol%C3%ADs+%22january+1516%22&pg=PA89 |access-date=16 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> although there was likely an expedition earlier in 1511-1512 by [[João de Lisboa]] and Estevão de Fróis.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=H. B. |title=Colonial Brazil |date=1987 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-34925-3 |pages=1–38 |chapter-url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/colonial-brazil/portuguese-settlement-15001580/FC806C3693A5B6570D835FA828EDDA15 |access-date=16 July 2023 |chapter=Portuguese settlement, 1500–1580}}</ref>
* [[January 23]] &ndash; With the death of [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]], his grandson, [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles of Ghent]], becomes [[King of Spain]];<ref>{{cite book|author=Joseph F. O'Callaghan|title=A History of Medieval Spain|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yA3p6v3UxyIC&pg=PA675|date=31 August 1983|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=0-8014-9264-5|pages=675}}</ref> his mother [[Queen Joanna of Castile]] also succeeds as Queen of Aragon and co-monarch with Carlos, but remains confined at [[Tordesillas]].
* [[February 18]] &ndash; After two months in [[Bologna]], part of the [[Papal States]] in [[Italy]], [[Pope Leo X]] concludes two months of negotiation with [[Francis I of France|King François I]] of France. Their talks result in the abrogation of the French Pragmatic Sanction, and the conclusion of a new Concordat between the Papacy and France.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gaetano Moroni|title=Dizionario di erudizione storico-ecclesiastica da S. Pietro sino ai nostri giorni ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ALtDAAAAIAAJ|year=1840|publisher=Tipografia Emiliana|language=it|pages=299–300}} Jules Thomas, [https://archive.org/details/leconcordatde15101thomuoft/page/n11 ''Le concordat de 1516, ses origines, son histoire au XVIe siècle''] (Paris: Picard 1910), pp. 307–343.</ref>
* [[February 21]] &ndash; Sir [[Edward Poynings]] becomes England's ambassador to Spain a second time and meets with [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|King Carlos I]] to negotiate a treaty.<ref name=ODNB>{{Cite ODNB |last=Ellis |first=Steven G. |id=22683 |title=Poynings, Sir Edward |year=2004}}</ref>
* [[February 25]] &ndash; In his capacity as [[Lord of Ireland]], [[Henry VIII]] opens the first of six assemblies of parliament during his reign of the [[List of parliaments of Ireland|Parliament of Ireland]] at [[Dublin]]. The parliament holds three sessions, ending on October 2, when it is dismissed.
* [[March 1]] &ndash; [[Desiderius Erasmus]] publishes a new Greek edition of the [[New Testament]], ''[[Novum Instrumentum omne]]'', in [[Basel]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bruce |first1=Archibald Kay |title=Erasmus and Holbein |date=1936 |publisher=F. Muller |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B-YeAAAAMAAJ&q=%221%20march%201516%22 |access-date=17 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[March 13]] &ndash; At the age of 9, [[Louis II of Hungary|Louis II of Jagiellon]] becomes the new King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia upon the death of his father, [[Vladislaus II of Hungary|King Vladislaus II]].<ref>{{Cite EB1911|wstitle= Louis II. of Hungary | volume= 17 |last= Bain |first= Robert Nisbet |author-link= Robert Nisbet Bain| pages = 49–50 |short= 1 }}</ref>
* [[March 29]] &ndash; The [[Venetian Ghetto]] is instituted in the [[Republic of Venice]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Davis |first1=Robert C. |last2=Ravid |first2=Benjamin |title=The Jews of Early Modern Venice |date=28 March 2001 |publisher=JHU Press |isbn=978-0-8018-6512-1 |page=8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JejQqwa5Q94C&dq=Venetian+Ghetto+%2229+march+1516%22+republic+of+venice&pg=PA8 |access-date=17 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 19]] &ndash; England, represented by Ambassador Poynings and Spain's King Carlos I conclude a treaty of alliance.<ref name=ODNB/> 
* [[April 23]] &ndash; The [[Reinheitsgebot]] is instituted in [[Ingolstadt]], Bavaria, regulating the purity of [[beer]] permissible for sale.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Drewes |first1=Michael |title=Hopfen und Malz, Gott erhalt's : eine kleine Ökonomik des Biers zum 500. Geburtstag des Reinheitsgebots |journal=Wirtschaftswissenschaftliches Studium |date=December 2016 |volume=45 |issue=12 |pages=652–656 |doi=10.15358/0340-1650-2016-12-652 |url=https://www.econbiz.de/Record/hopfen-und-malz-gott-erhalt-s-eine-kleine-%C3%B6konomik-des-biers-zum-500-geburtstag-des-reinheitsgebots-drewes-michael/10011703547 |access-date=17 July 2023|url-access=subscription }}</ref>
* [[May 6]] &ndash; A Category IX earthquake strikes [[Dubrovnik]] in what is now Croatia.<ref>{{cite book | chapter-url = https://www.pilar.hr/wp-content/images/stories/dokumenti/zbornici/40/mpd_knjiga_265.pdf | language = hr | first1 = Davorka | last1 = Herak | first2 = Marijan | last2 = Herak | chapter = Seizmičnost i potresna opasnost na makarskom području | series = Biblioteka Zbornici | volume = 40 | title = Makarsko primorje danas. Makarsko primorje od kraja Drugog svjetskog rata do 2011. | editor-first1 = Marko | editor-last1 = Mustapić | editor-first2 = Ivan | editor-last2 = Hrstić | publisher = Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar | location = Zagreb | year = 2012 | isbn = 978-953-6666-87-4|page=271}}</ref>
* [[May 8]] &ndash; In what is now [[Vietnam]], [[Le Tuong Duc]], Emperor of [[Dai Viet]], since 1509, is murdered at his palace at Thang Long (now in [[Hanoi]]) by his bodyguards. Le Tuong Duc's 12-year-old nephew, [[Le Chieu Tong]], is installed as the new Emperor by the conspirators.<ref>{{Citation|author=Đại Việt's Office of History|title=[[Đại Việt sử ký toàn thư]]|edition=Nội các quan bản|year=1993|language=vi|publisher=Social Science Publishing House|location=Hanoi}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] &ndash; In Spain, King [[John III of Navarre]] dies after a reign of 32 years and is succeeded by his widow, [[Catherine of Navarre|Queen Catherine]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Queens Regnant of Navarre |first=Elena |last=Woodacre |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |year=2013 }}</ref>

=== July&ndash;September ===
* [[July 4]] &ndash; King [[James V of Scotland]] opens the Scottish Parliament at Edinburgh.
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[Selim I]] of the [[Ottoman Empire]] captures the city of [[Malatya]] (located in what is now southeastern Turkey) as the first conquest in his  [[Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17)|war]] against the [[Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)|Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt]] and then proceeds to invade [[Syria]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mauder |first1=Christian |title=In the Sultan's Salon: Learning, Religion, and Rulership at the Mamluk Court of Qāniṣawh al-Ghawrī (r. 1501–1516) |date=4 June 2021 |publisher=Brill |isbn=978-90-04-44421-8 |pages=98–99 |chapter-url=https://brill.com/display/book/9789004444218/BP000002.xml |access-date=17 July 2023 |language=en |chapter=Historical Context and State of Research}}</ref>
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[John V, Count of Nassau-Siegen]] dies in [[Siegen]], now in Germany, leaving his realm to be divided by his two sons. The transition is smooth because of a 1509 agreement between [[Henry III of Nassau-Breda]] and [[William I of Nassau-Dillenburg]]. William receives all of John V's possessions in Germany, while Henry inherits those in the [[Low Countries]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Nederlandse historische bronnen 4 · dbnl |last=Kluiver |first=J.H. |publisher=DBNL |date=1984 |access-date=15 August 2022 |url=https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_ned017198401_01/_ned017198401_01_0002.php |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20220815191551/https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_ned017198401_01/_ned017198401_01_0002.php|archivedate=2022-08-15 |language=nl |page=9}}</ref>
* [[August 13]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Noyon]] is signed. [[Francis I of France|King François I]] of France recognizes [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles I of Spain]]'s claim to [[Naples]], and Charles recognizes Francis's claim to [[Milan]]. The treaty also promised [[Louise of France (1515–1518)|Louise of France]] to Charles.<ref>{{cite book |title=Collection des ordonnances des rois de France: Catalogue des actes de François Ier |date=1887 |publisher=Imprimerie nationale |location=Pairs |page=85 |url=https://archive.org/details/collectiondesord01acad/page/84/mode/2up?q=%2213+aout%22 |access-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[August 18]] &ndash; King [[Francis I of France]] and [[Pope Leo X]] sign the [[Concordat of Bologna]], agreeing on the relationship between church and state in France.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Knecht |first1=R. J. |title=Francis I |date=26 April 1984 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-27887-4 |page=55 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rvEBMIIcHQkC&dq=%2218+august+1516%22+Concordat+of+Bologna&pg=PA55 |access-date=17 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[August 24]] &ndash; [[Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17)]]: The Ottoman Sultan [[Selim I]] defeats the Mamluk forces commanded by the sultan [[Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri]] in the [[Battle of Marj Dabiq]], bringing all of the Middle East.<ref>{{cite book |title=Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt |date=1978 |volume=15|publisher=American Research Center in Egypt |page=80 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BbTiAAAAMAAJ&q=%2224%20august%201516%22 |access-date=17 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> The Mamluk Sultan, [[Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri]], is killed while leading his troops in the battle, and Prime Minister [[Tuman Bay II|Al-Ashraf Tuman Bay]], who was left in charge in Cairo by the Sultan Qansuh, becomes the Sultan of Egypt, the last remaining part of the [[Mamluk Sultanate]].
*[[September 16]] &ndash; German theologian [[Andreas Karlstadt]] completes his series of 151 theses, an attack against corruption in the Roman Catholic Church.<ref>{{cite EB1911|wstitle=Carlstadt|volume=5|pages=348–349}}</ref>
*[[September 17]] &ndash; Based in [[Kamaran]], an island in the [[Red Sea]], the Mamluk Egyptian Admiral [[Selman Reis]] leads of fleet 19 ships in an unsuccessful attempt to take [[Yemen]] and [[Aden]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=Ovg_RQlklU4C&pg=PA321 ''An Economic and Social History of the Ottoman Empire'', Volume 1], by Halil İnalcik p.321''ff''</ref>

=== October&ndash;December ===
* [[October 28]] &ndash; [[Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–17)]]: [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] forces under the [[Grand Vizier]] [[Hadım Sinan Pasha|Sinan Pasha]] defeat the Mamluks in the [[Battle of Yaunis Khan]] near [[Gaza City|Gaza]].
* [[November 29]] &ndash; The "Treaty of Perpetual Peace" is signed in the city of [[Fribourg]] in [[Switzerland]], between representatives of the [[Thirteen Cantons]] of the [[Old Swiss Confederacy]], and King Francis of the [[Kingdom of France]], confirming the French victory in the 1515 [[Battle of Marignano]]. The Swiss Confederacy renounces all claims to the French protectorate of [[Milan]] in Italy, in for  700,000 gold crowns in compensation.<ref>{{HLS|8898|Ewiger Frieden / Paix perpétuelle|author= André Holenstein |date=2010}}</ref>
* [[December 4]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Brussels 1516|Treaty of Brussels]]: Peace is declared between the [[Kingdom of France]] and the [[Holy Roman Empire]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Sporschil |first1=Johann |title=Die Geschichte der Deutschen von den ältesten Zeiten bis auf unsere Tage |date=1859 |publisher=G.J. Manz |page=546 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ms_AAAAYAAJ&dq=Vertrag+von+Br%C3%BCssel+%E2%80%9E4.+Dezember+1516%E2%80%9C&pg=PA536 |access-date=17 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* c. December &ndash; [[Thomas More]]'s most famous work, ''[[Utopia (More book)|Utopia]]'', completed this year, is published in [[Leuven]] (in [[Latin]]).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Morrish |first1=Jennifer |title=A Note on the Neo-Latin Sources for the Word 'Utopia' |journal=Humanistica Lovaniensia |date=2001 |volume=50 |pages=119–130 |jstor=23973826 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/23973826 |access-date=17 July 2023 |issn=0774-2908}}</ref>

=== Date unknown ===
* Italian explorer [[Rafael Perestrello]], a cousin of the [[Filipa Moniz Perestrelo|wife]] 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 (soldier)|Fernão Lopes]] becomes the first known permanent inhabitant of [[Saint Helena]].
* [[Leonardo da Vinci]] accepts Francis I's invitation to [[Kingdom of France|France]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Isaacson |first1=Walter |title=Leonardo da Vinci |date=17 October 2017 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-5011-3917-8 |page=497 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=67KuDgAAQBAJ&dq=Leonardo+da+Vinci+francis+i+invitation++%221516%22&pg=PA497 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* The predecessor of the [[Royal Mail]], known as the ''Master of the Posts'', is established by [[Henry VIII of England]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Postmasters General |url=https://gbps.org.uk/information/downloads/postal-museum/BPMA_Info_Sheet_Postmasters_General_web.pdf |website=gbps.org.uk |access-date=18 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[Gillingham School]] is founded, the oldest in [[Dorset]], [[Kingdom of England|England]].
* [[Fuggerei]] is established in [[Augsburg]] (Bavaria), as the world's oldest [[social housing]] complex still in use.<ref>{{cite thesis |last=Kovačić |first=Nedeljko |date=2015 |title=The Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Sustainable Cultural Communities |url=http://www.culturalmanagement.ac.rs/uploads/research_file_1/72b2519614d526a13d18f7f1e92ac1b46e3d2638.pdf |type=MA |chapter=Introduction|page=22 |publisher=University of Arts in Belgrade |access-date=18 July 2023}}</ref>
* The fall of the [[Nantan meteorite]] is possibly observed near the city of [[Nantan (City)|Nantan]], Nandan County, Guangxi (China).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Dekan |first1=Július |title=Composition of iron-bearing phases in Nantan meteorite as determined by Mössbauer spectrometry |journal=AIP Conference Proceedings |series=Applied Physics of Condensed Matter (Apcom 2021) |date=November 2, 2021 |volume=2411 |issue=1 |page=050002 |doi=10.1063/5.0067402 |bibcode=2021AIPC.2411e0002D |s2cid=242069262 |quote=Nantan meteorite was found in 1958 and its fall might have been observed in 1516.|doi-access=free }}</ref></onlyinclude>

== Births ==
[[File:Margareta Leijonhufvud.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Margaret Leijonhufvud]]]]
[[File:Jean Clouet Charlotte of France MIA 35798.jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Charlotte of Valois]]]]
* [[January 1]] &ndash; [[Margaret Leijonhufvud]], queen of [[Gustav I of Sweden]] (d. [[1551]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Margareta |url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=9099 |website=sok.riksarkivet.se |access-date=18 July 2023}}</ref>
* [[January 14]] &ndash; [[Herluf Trolle]], Danish admiral (d. [[1565]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Annaler for nordisk Oldkyndighed, udgivne af det kongelige nordiske Oldskrift-Selskab |date=1856 |publisher=L. Levin |location=Copenhagen |page=212 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZYlfAAAAcAAJ&dq=Herluf+Trolle+%2214+januar+1516%22&pg=PA212 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=da}}</ref>
* [[January 16]] &ndash; [[Bayinnaung]], King of Burma (d. [[1581]])
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Girolamo Zanchi]], Italian theologian (d. [[1590]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Zanchi |first1=Girolamo |last2=Baschera|first2=Luca|last3=Moser|first3=Christian|title=Girolamo Zanchi, De Religione Christiana Fides – Confession of Christian Religion |date=11 May 2007 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-16118-4 |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NkEmv7FDA94C&q=1516 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 16]] &ndash; [[Prospero Spani]], Italian sculptor (d. [[1584]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Spani, Prospero |url=https://www.oxfordartonline.com/benezit/display/10.1093/benz/9780199773787.001.0001/acref-9780199773787-e-00172999 |website=Benezit Dictionary of Artists |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 18]] &ndash; Queen [[Mary I of England]], daughter of King [[Henry VIII of England]] and Queen [[Catherine of Aragon]] (d. [[1558]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Alison Plowden|title=The House of Tudor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y1dnAAAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Stein and Day|isbn=978-0-8128-2079-9|page=223}}</ref>
* [[March 15]] &ndash; [[Alqas Mirza]], Safavid prince (d. [[1550]])<ref>{{cite encyclopedia | title = ALQĀS MĪRZA | last = Fleischer | first = C. | url = http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/alqas-alqasb-alqas-mirza-safawi | encyclopedia  = Encyclopaedia Iranica, Vol. I, Fasc. 9 | pages = 907–909 | year = 1989 }}</ref>
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[Conrad Gessner]], Swiss naturalist (d. [[1565]])<ref>{{cite book|last=Bay|first=Jens Christian|title=Conrad Gesner (1516–1565), the Father of Bibliography: An Appreciation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iWkhAQAAMAAJ|year=1963|orig-year=1916 Bibliographical Society of America|publisher=Kraus Reprint Corporation}}</ref>
* [[April 16]] &ndash; [[Tabinshwehti]], King of Burma (d. [[1550]])
* [[April 23]] &ndash; [[Georg Fabricius]], Protestant German poet (d. [[1571]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste |date=1844 |volume=1|publisher=Brockhaus |page=78 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=64Kory57or0C&dq=Georg+Fabricius+%2223+april+1516%22&pg=RA1-PA78 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[June 28]] &ndash; [[Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy]], English courtier and patron of learning (d. [[1544]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Blount, Charles, fifth Baron Mountjoy (1516–1544), courtier and patron of learning |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-2682?docPos=1 |year=2004 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/2682}}</ref>
* [[July 27]] &ndash; [[Emilie of Saxony]], German nobleman (d. [[1591]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stichart |first1=Franz Otto |title=Galerie der sächsischen Fürstinnen: biographische Skizzen sämmtlicher Ahnfrauen des königlichen Hauses Sachsen |date=1857 |publisher=Fleischer |page=233 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XH8AAAAAcAAJ&dq=Aemilia+von+Sachsen+%2227+juli+1516%22&pg=PA233 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg]], German nobleman (d. [[1592]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Knapp |first1=Johann F. |title=Regenten- und Volks-Geschichte der Länder Cleve, Mark, Jülich, Berg und Ravensberg Von Karl dem Großen bis auf ihre Vereinigung mit der Preußischen Monarchie (von 768 - 1815) |date=1836 |publisher=Becker |page=127 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xXAAAAAAcAAJ&dq=Wilhelm+%2228+juli+1516%22&pg=PA127 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[August 13]] &ndash; [[Hieronymus Wolf]], German historian (d. [[1580]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Ex libris: Buchkunst und angewandte Graphik |date=1894 |publisher=Druck von O. Holten |location=Gorlitz |page=46 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o58aAAAAYAAJ&dq=Hieronymus+Wolf+%2213+august+1516%22&pg=PA44 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[September 2]] &ndash; [[Francis I, Duke of Nevers]] (d. [[1561]])<ref>{{cite book |title=Les ducs de Nevers et l'État royal: genèse d'un compromis (ca 1550 - ca 1600) |first=Ariane |last=Boltanski |language=French |publisher=Librairie Droz |year=2006  }}</ref>
* [[September 21]] &ndash; [[Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox]] (d. [[1571]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Paul |first1=James Balfour |title=The Scots Peerage |date=1908 |publisher=D. Douglas |page=353 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ErEEAAAAIAAJ&dq=Matthew+Stewart,+4th+Earl+of+Lennox+%2221+september+1516%22&pg=PA353 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 23]] &ndash; [[Charlotte of Valois]], French princess (d. [[1524]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Houdard |first1=Georges |title=Les Châteaux Royaux de Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1124-1789: étude historique d'après des documents inédits, recueillis aux Archives Nationales et à la Bibliothèque Nationale |date=1910 |publisher=M. Mirvault |page=37 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BuJYAAAAYAAJ&dq=Charlotte+de+France+%2223+octobre+1516%22&pg=RA1-PA37 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=fr}}</ref>
* [[October 27]] &ndash; [[Ruy Gómez de Silva]], Portuguese noble (d. [[1573]])
* [[November 5]] &ndash; [[Martin Helwig]], German cartographer of Silesia (d. [[1574]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Karrow |first1=Robert W. |title=Mapmakers of the Sixteenth Century and Their Maps |date=1993 |publisher=Newberry Library |isbn=978-0-932757-05-0 |page=288 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BuMRAQAAIAAJ&q=%225%20november%201516%22 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 21]] &ndash; [[Giuseppe Leggiadri Gallani]], Italian poet and dramatist (d. [[1590]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rosa |first1=Angela Asor |title=GALLANI, Giuseppe Leggiadro |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giuseppe-leggiadro-gallani_(Dizionario-Biografico) |website=www.treccani.it |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=it-IT}}</ref>
* ''date unknown''
** [[John Foxe]], biographer (d. [[1587]])<ref>{{cite ODNB |title=Foxe, John |url=https://www.oxforddnb.com/display/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-10050 |year=2004 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=en |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/10050}}</ref>
** [[Manco Inca Yupanqui]], ruler of the Inca (d. [[1544]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Seaman |first1=Rebecca M. |title=Conflict in the Early Americas: An Encyclopedia of the Spanish Empire's Aztec, Incan, and Mayan Conquests |date=27 August 2013 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-59884-777-2 |page=228 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IXKjAQAAQBAJ&dq=Manco+Inca+Yupanqui+%221516%22&pg=PA228 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
** [[Canghali of Kazan]], khan of Qasim and Kazan (d. [[1535]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Muslimov |first1=Ilʹi︠a︡z Bulatovich |title=На стыке континентов и цивилизаций--: из опыта образования и распада империи X-XVI вв |date=1996 |publisher=ИНСАН |isbn=978-5-85840-280-0 |page=587 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ywQXAQAAIAAJ&q=%221516%22 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=ru}}</ref>
** [[Margaretha Coppier]], Dutch heroine  (d. [[1597]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=der Aa |first1=Abraham Hans van |title=Biographisch woordenboek der Nederlanden |date=1858 |volume=3|publisher=J.J. van Brederode |location=Haarlem|page=218 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jvtIogBQUwQC&dq=Margaretha+Coppier+%221516%22&pg=PA218 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=nl}}</ref>

== Deaths ==
[[File:Michel Sittow 004.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Ferdinand II of Aragon]]]]
[[File:Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary.jpg|110px|thumbnail|right|[[Vladislaus II of Hungary|Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary]]]]
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Juan Díaz de Solís]], Spanish navigator and explorer (b. [[1470]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lewis |first1=Daniel K. |title=The History of Argentina |date=15 October 2003 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-4039-6254-6 |page=20 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_mPgCgAAQBAJ&dq=Juan+D%C3%ADaz+de+Sol%C3%ADs+%22january+20+1516%22&pg=PA20 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[January 23]] &ndash; King [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] (b. [[1452]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Ferdinand II {{!}} Biography & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ferdinand-II-king-of-Spain |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=30 June 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Anthony of Supraśl]], Polish [[Orthodox priest]] and saint<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mironowicz |first1=Antoni |title=Św. Antoni Supraski |url=https://repozytorium.uwb.edu.pl/jspui/handle/11320/3480 |journal=Elpis: Czasopismo Teologiczne Katedry Teologii Prawosławnej Uniwersytetu W Białymstoku |access-date=18 July 2023 |pages=11–24 |language=pl |doi=10.15290/elpis.2015.17.02 |date=2015|volume=17 |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* [[March 13]] &ndash; [[Vladislaus II of Hungary|Vladislaus II]], king of Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia (b. [[1456]])<ref>{{cite journal |last1=von Güttner Sporzynski |first1=Darius |title=Contextualising the marriage of Bona Sforza to Sigismund I of Poland: Maximilian I's diplomacy in Italy and Central Europe |journal=Folia Historica Cracoviensia |date=1 January 2022 |volume=27 |issue=2 |pages=63–90 |doi=10.15633/fhc.4200 |s2cid=255899688 |url=https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/item/8y2yv/contextualising-the-marriage-of-bona-sforza-to-sigismund-i-of-poland-maximilian-i-s-diplomacy-in-italy-and-central-europe |language=en|doi-access=free }}</ref>
* [[March 17]] &ndash; [[Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours]], ruler of Florence (b. [[1449]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jungić |first1=Josephine |title=Giuliano de' Medici: Machiavelli's Prince in Life and Art |date=13 April 2018 |publisher=McGill-Queen's Press |isbn=978-0-7735-5369-9 |page=1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PJ1WDwAAQBAJ&q=%2217%20march%201516%22 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 25]] &ndash; [[John Yonge]], English diplomat (b. [[1467]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Sidney |title=Dictionary of National Biography: Wordsworth - Zuylestein |date=1900 |volume=LXIII|publisher=Smith, Elder, & Co |location=London |page=328 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=znIqYmlMF_MC&dq=John+Yonge+%2225+april+1516%22&pg=PA328 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[June 14]] &ndash; King [[John III of Navarre]] (b. [[1469]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lacarra |first1=José María |title=Historia del reino de Navarra en la Edad Media |date=1975 |publisher=Caja de Ahorros de Navarra |isbn=978-84-500-7465-9 |page=552 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uhhpAAAAMAAJ&q=%2217%20junio%201516%22 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[July 10]] &ndash; [[Alice FitzHugh]], English heir (b. [[1448]])
* [[July 30]] &ndash; [[John V, Count of Nassau-Siegen]], German count (b. [[1455]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ersch |first1=Johann Samuel |last2=Gruber |first2=Johann Gottfried |title=Allgemeine Enzyklopädie Der Wissenschaften und Künste |date=1982 |volume=21|publisher=Akademische Druck-u. Verlagstalt |isbn=978-3-201-00093-2 |page=138 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jC9NAAAAYAAJ&q=%20%2230%20juli%201516%22 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* [[August 9]] ''(bur.)'' &ndash; [[Hieronymus Bosch]], Dutch painter (b. [[1450]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Walter Bosing|title=Hieronymus Bosch, C. 1450-1516: Between Heaven and Hell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hCXN3R4_vpYC&pg=PA14|year=2000|publisher=Taschen|isbn=978-3-8228-5856-1|pages=14|language=en}}</ref>
* [[August 21]] &ndash; [[John III of Egmont]], Dutch count (b. [[1438]])
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri]], Mamluk sultan (b. c. [[1441]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Holt |first1=Peter Malcolm |last2=Lambton |first2=Ann K. S. |last3=Lewis |first3=Bernard |title=The Cambridge History of Islam |date=1978 |volume=2|publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-29135-4 |page=318 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4AuJvd2Tyt8C&dq=al-Ghawri+%2224+august+1516%22&pg=PA318 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[October 30]] &ndash; [[Louis Malet de Graville]], [[Admiral of France]], politician, military leader and art patron (b. c. [[1440]]).<ref name=malet>{{cite book |last1= Deldicque|first1= Mathieu|last2= Leprêtre|first2= Elisabeth|date= 2017|title= Être mécène à l'aube de la Renaissance : l'amiral Louis Malet de Graville|language= French|location= [[Ghent]]|publisher= Snoeck|isbn= 9789461613950|page=23|oclc= 1004773445}}</ref>
* [[November 26]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Bellini]], Venetian painter (b. [[1430]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bätschmann |first1=Oskar |title=Giovanni Bellini |date=2008 |publisher=Reaktion Books |isbn=978-1-86189-357-4 |page=16 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L7QtmU7JRrQC&q=%20%2229%20november%201516%22 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[Johannes Trithemius]], German scholar and cryptographer (b. [[1462]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Arnold |first1=Klaus |title=Johannes Trithemius (1462-1516) |date=1991 |publisher=Kommissionsverlag F. Schöningh |isbn=978-3-87717-045-8 |page=223 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TTsvAAAAYAAJ&q=%2213%20dezember%201516%22 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=de}}</ref>
* ''date unknown'' &ndash; [[Giuliano da Sangallo]], Florentine sculptor and architect (b. [[1443]])<ref>{{cite book |last1=Brothers |first1=Cammy |title=Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome |date=25 January 2022 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-22652-1 |page=142 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a545EAAAQBAJ&q=%221516%22 |access-date=18 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref>

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