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| Years: 1516 1517 1518 - 1519 - 1520 1521 1522 | |
| Decades: 1480s 1490s 1500s - 1510s - 1520s 1530s 1540s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
Events
- March 4 - Hernán Cortés lands in Mexico.
- June 28 - Charles I of Spain becomes Emperor of Holy Roman Empire as Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor (ruled until 1556).
- September 20 - Ferdinand Magellan leaves Europe to circumnavigate the world.
- November 8 - Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning god.
- Erasmus publishes his Colloquia .
- Martin Luther questions the infallibility of papal decrees.
- Mannerism, artistic form appears in Italy and spreads.
- Spanish find Barbados.
- Cacao comes to Europe.
- Panama founded.
Births
- February 16 - Gaspard de Coligny, French Huguenot leader (d. 1572)
- March 31 - King Henri II of France (d.1559)
- April 13 - Catherine de Medici, Queen of France (d. 1589)
- June 12 - Cosimo I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1575)
- June 15 - Henry Fitzroy, 1st Duke of Richmond and Somerset, illegitimate son of Henry VIII of England and Elizabeth Blount
- July 22 - Pope Innocent IX (d. 1591)
- Thoinot_Arbeau (anagram of Jehan Tabourot), author of Orchesographie
Deaths
- January 12 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
- January 21 - Vasco Núñez de Balboa, Spanish explorer
- May 2 - Leonardo da Vinci, inventor, painter and widely regarded genius (b. 1452).
- June 24 - Lucrezia Borgia, illegitimate daughter of deceased Pope Alexander VI (b.1480)
- August 11 - Johann Tetzel, Dominican priest.
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