1516

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1480s  1490s  1500s  – 1510s –  1520s  1530s  1540s
Years:	1513 1514 1515 – 1516 – 1517 1518 1519

1516 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1516 MDXVI
Ab urbe condita	2269
Armenian calendar	965 ԹՎ ՋԿԵ
Assyrian calendar	6266
Balinese saka calendar	1437–1438
Bengali calendar	923
Berber calendar	2466
English Regnal year	7 Hen. 8 – 8 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2060
Burmese calendar	878
Byzantine calendar	7024–7025
Chinese calendar	乙亥年 (Wood Pig) 4212 or 4152     — to — 丙子年 (Fire Rat) 4213 or 4153
Coptic calendar	1232–1233
Discordian calendar	2682
Ethiopian calendar	1508–1509
Hebrew calendar	5276–5277
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1572–1573
- Shaka Samvat	1437–1438
- Kali Yuga	4616–4617
Holocene calendar	11516
Igbo calendar	516–517
Iranian calendar	894–895
Islamic calendar	921–922
Japanese calendar	Eishō 13 (永正１３年)
Javanese calendar	1433–1434
Julian calendar	1516 MDXVI
Korean calendar	3849
Minguo calendar	396 before ROC 民前396年
Nanakshahi calendar	48
Thai solar calendar	2058–2059
Tibetan calendar	阴木猪年 (female Wood-Pig) 1642 or 1261 or 489     — to — 阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 1643 or 1262 or 490

1516 (MDXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1516th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 516th year of the 2nd millennium, the 16th year of the 16th century, and the 7th year of the 1510s decade. As of the start of 1516, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Events

• The Royal Mail is established

Births

• January 16 – King Bayinnong, king of the Toungoo dynasty of Burma
• February 18 – Mary I of England

Deaths

• January 23 – King Ferdinand II of Aragon
• August 9 – Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter
• November 26 – Giovanni Bellini, Italian Renaissance painter