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

Events

March - With the death of Ferdinand II of Aragon, his grandson Charles of Ghent becomes King of Spain as Carlos I.
July - Selim I of the Ottoman Empire declares war on the Mameluks and invades Syria.
August 13 - Treaty of Noyon - Peace between France and Spain. Francis recognizes Charles's claim to Naples, and Charles recognizes Francis's claim to Milan.
August 24 - Battle of Merj-Dabik. The Ottomans defeat the Mameluks, who abandon Syria.
October 28 - Battle of Yaunis Khan. Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza.
December 4 - Treaty of Brussels - Peace between France and the Empire.
Pedro de Solis discovers the La Plata River.
The Reinheitsgebot is instituted in Bavaria regulating the purity of Beer permissible for sale.
The Concordat of Bologna

Literature

Ludovico Ariosto - Orlando Furioso.
Desiderius Erasmus - new Latin translation of the New Testament.
Thomas More - Utopia.

Births

January 1 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, queen of Gustav I of Sweden (died 1551)
February 18 - Queen Mary I of England (died 1558)
March 26 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (died 1565)
Georg Fabricius, Protestant German poet (died 1571)
John Foxe, biographer (died 1587)
James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran (died 1572)
Martin Heilwig, Silesian cartography (died 1574)
Matthew Stewart, 4th Earl of Lennox (died 1571)
Charlotte de Valois, 6 (died 1524)
Manco Inca Yupanqui, ruler of the Inca (died 1544)
Cangali khan, khan of Qasim and Kazan

Deaths

March 13 - King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456)
March 17 - Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1478)
April 25 - John Yonge, English diplomat (born 1467)
June 23 - King Ferdinand II of Aragon (born 1452)
December 13 - Johannes Trithemius, German scholar and cryptographer (born 1462)
Giovanni Bellini, Italian painter (born 1430)
August - Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch painter (born 1450)
Juan Díaz de Solís, Spanish navigator and explorer (born 1470)
King John III of Navarre (born 1469)
Giuliano da Sangallo, Italian sculptor and architect (born 1443)