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Calendar year
July:
Selim I declares war on the
Mamluk Sultanate of Cairo .
Year 1516 (
MDXVI ) was a
leap year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
January–June
July–December
Date unknown
Italian explorer
Rafael Perestrello , a cousin of the
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 becomes the first known permanent inhabitant of
Saint Helena .
Leonardo da Vinci accepts Francis I's invitation to
France .
[13]
The predecessor of the
Royal Mail , known as the Master of the Posts , is established by
Henry VIII of England .
[14]
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.
[15]
The fall of the
Nantan meteorite is possibly observed near the city of
Nantan ,
Nandan County ,
Guangxi (China).
[16]
Births
Margaret Leijonhufvud
Charlotte of Valois
January 1 –
Margaret Leijonhufvud , queen of
Gustav I of Sweden (d.
1551 )
[17]
January 14 –
Herluf Trolle , Danish admiral (d.
1565 )
[18]
January 16 –
Bayinnaung , King of Burma (d.
1581 )
February 2 –
Girolamo Zanchi , Italian theologian (d.
1590 )
[19]
February 16 –
Prospero Spani , Italian sculptor (d.
1584 )
[20]
February 18 – Queen
Mary I of England , daughter of King
Henry VIII of England and Queen
Catherine of Aragon (d.
1558 )
[21]
March 15 –
Alqas Mirza , Safavid prince (d.
1550 )
[22]
March 26 –
Conrad Gessner , Swiss naturalist (d.
1565 )
[23]
April 16 –
Tabinshwehti , King of Burma (d.
1550 )
April 23 –
Georg Fabricius , Protestant German poet (d.
1571 )
[24]
June 28 –
Charles Blount, 5th Baron Mountjoy , English courtier and patron of learning (d.
1544 )
[25]
July 27 –
Emilie of Saxony , German nobleman (d.
1591 )
[26]
July 28 –
William, Duke of Jülich-Cleves-Berg , German nobleman (d.
1592 )
[27]
August 13 –
Hieronymus Wolf , German historian (d.
1580 )
[28]
September 2 –
Francis I, Duke of Nevers (d.
1561 )
[29]
September 21 –
Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (d.
1571 )
[30]
October 23 –
Charlotte of Valois , French princess (d.
1524 )
[31]
October 27 –
Ruy Gómez de Silva , Portuguese noble (d.
1573 )
November 5 –
Martin Helwig , German cartographer of Silesia (d.
1574 )
[32]
December 21 –
Giuseppe Leggiadri Gallani , Italian poet and dramatist (d.
1590 )
[33]
date unknown
Deaths
Ferdinand II of Aragon
Vladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary
January 20 –
Juan Díaz de Solís , Spanish navigator and explorer (b.
1470 )
[38]
January 23 – King
Ferdinand II of Aragon (b.
1452 )
[39]
February 4 –
Anthony of Supraśl , Polish
Orthodox priest and saint
[40]
March 13 –
Vladislaus II , king of Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia (b.
1456 )
[41]
March 17 –
Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours , ruler of Florence (b.
1449 )
[42]
April 25 –
John Yonge , English diplomat (b.
1467 )
[43]
June 14 – King
John III of Navarre (b.
1469 )
[44]
July 10 –
Alice FitzHugh , English heir (b.
1448 )
July 30 –
John V, Count of Nassau-Siegen , German count (b.
1455 )
[45]
August 9 (bur.) –
Hieronymus Bosch , Dutch painter (b.
1450 )
[46]
August 21 –
John III of Egmont , Dutch count (b.
1438 )
August 24 –
Al-Ashraf Qansuh al-Ghuri , Mamluk sultan (b. c.
1441 )
[47]
November 26 –
Giovanni Bellini , Venetian painter (b.
1430 )
[48]
December 13 –
Johannes Trithemius , German scholar and cryptographer (b.
1462 )
[49]
date unknown –
Giuliano da Sangallo , Florentine sculptor and architect (b.
1443 )
[50]
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