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Year 1516 is the 516th year of the first millennium. of the Julian calendar. In December, Thomas More's most famous work, Utopia, completed this year, is published.

Events

• Date unknown: Manuel begins his Totentanz

January–June

• March – With the death of Ferdinand II of Aragon, his grandson Charles of Ghent becomes King of Spain.
• March 1 – Desiderius Erasmus publishes a new Greek translation of the New Testament, Novum Instrumentum omne, in Basel.
• 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 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 relationships between church and state in France.
• October 28 – Battle of Yaunis Khan: Ottoman forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks 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

• The fall of the Nantan meteorite possibly observed near the city of Nantan, Nandan County, Guangxi (China).
• Juan Díaz de Solís discovers the Río de la Plata.
• 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.
• The Venetian Ghetto is instituted, the first ghetto anywhere in the world.
• Leonardo da Vinci accepts Francis I's invitation to France.
• Gillingham School is founded, the oldest in Dorset, England.
• The predecessor of the Royal Mail, known as the "Master of the Posts", is established by Henry VIII of England.
• Fuggerei established in Augsburg (Bavaria) as the world's oldest social housing complex still in use.

Births

• January 1 – Margareta 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, 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 11 – Lord Henry Brandon, nephew of King Henry VIII (d.1523)
• 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 noble (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, Poet; 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
  • Shri Gusainji, son of 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)
• March 13 – King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456)
• March 17 – Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1449)
• April 25 – John Yonge, English diplomat (b. 1467)
• June 14 – King John III of Navarre (b. 1469)
• July 30 – Johann V of Nassau-Vianden-Dietz (b. 1455)
• 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)