The 16th century began with the Julian year 1501 (represented by the Roman numerals MDI) and ended with either the Julian or the Gregorian year 1600 (MDC)...

The 16th century BC was a century that lasted from 1600 BC to 1501 BC. 1700 BC – 1500 BC: Hurrian conquests. 1601 BC: Sharma-Adad II became the King of...

This article presents lists of literary events and publications in the 16th century. 1501 Italic type (cut by Francesco Griffo) is first used by Aldus Manutius...

In 16th-century Christianity, Protestantism came to the forefront and marked a significant change in the Christian world. During the age of discovery,...

leaders in the 18th century See also: List of state leaders in the 16th-century Holy Roman Empire List of state leaders in 16th-century South Asia List of...

wages and abundance of available land seen in the late 15th and early 16th centuries were replaced with low wages and a land shortage. Various inflationary...

Entertainment in the 16th century included art, fencing, painting, the stocks and even executions. While the 16th century and early 17th century squarely fall...

This is a list of philosophy-related events in the 16th century (16th-century philosophy). 1501 – Nilakantha Somayaji, Tantrasamgraha 1532 – Niccolò Machiavelli...

During the 16th century, Paris was the largest city in Europe, with a population of about 350,000 in 1550.[citation needed] The 16th century saw the Renaissance...

in the 17th century BC – State leaders in the 15th century BC – State leaders by year This is a list of state leaders in the 16th century BC (1600–1501...

The art of the late 16th century in Milan developed, as elsewhere, along several strands and styles summarized in Mannerism, Counter-Reformation art, and...

Thomas Hayward (by 1507–1534), of Ipswich, Suffolk, was an English politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Ipswich in 1529. "HAYWARD, Thomas...

artistic movement that spread among German thinkers in the 15th and 16th centuries, which originated with the Italian Renaissance in Italy. This was a...

poet: 109–125  Tecayehuatzin of Huexotzinco (second half of 15th to early 16th century), poet and philosopher (Huexotzinco was a semi-independent state, alternately...

The 16th century in Canada saw the first contacts, since the Norsemen 500 years earlier, between the indigenous peoples in Canada living near the Atlantic...

Sir Henry Seymour (c. 1503 – 5 April 1578) was an English landowner and MP, the brother of Jane Seymour, queen consort of Henry VIII, and consequently...

French Empire and the Napoleonic Wars, and marks the start of almost half a century of peace throughout Europe. 7 July Second Restoration: With Napoleon exiled...

sciences. 16th century: Gerolamo Cardano solves the general cubic equation (by reducing them to the case with zero quadratic term). 16th century: Lodovico...

John Ratcliffe (c. 1536 – 1590) of Ordsall, Lancashire, England, was an English politician. He was a Member (MP) of the Parliament of England for Wigan...

16th century. However, mining in the Americas became reliant on mercury amalgamation after it was developed and popularized in the mid-16th century....

Estêvão da Gama (c. 1505–1576) was the Portuguese governor of Portuguese Gold Coast (1529–1535) and Portuguese India (1540–1542). Named after his paternal...

permanent navy was first established during the ninth century, it quickly disappeared and pre-16th century monarchs largely relied upon requisitioned merchant...

летопись, romanized: L'vovskaya letopis') is a Rus' chronicle from the 16th century, containing annalistic entries until the year 1533. It is named after...

the 20th century: il Quattrocento (that is 'the four hundred', the 15th century) il Cinquecento (that is 'the five hundred', the 16th century). These terms...

Edward Lloyd (by 1508 – 1547) was an English politician. Lloyd was an MP for Buckingham in 1529. He was a yeoman of the wardrobe to Queen Anne Boleyn....

Ireland. Prehistory / centuries: 1st · 2nd · 3rd · 4th · 5th · 6th · 7th · 8th · 9th · 10th · 11th · 12th · 13th · 14th · 15th · 16th · 17th · 18th · 19th ·...

Became Chinese: Dutch, Spanish, and Han Colonization in the Seventeenth Century, Columbia University Press Andrade, Tonio (2008b), "Chapter 2: A Scramble...

Richard Johnson (1573 – c. 1659) was a British romance writer. All that is known of his biography is from internal evidence in his works: he was a London...

The 15th century was the century which spans the Julian calendar dates from 1 January 1401 (represented by the Roman numerals MCDI) to 31 December 1500...

A list of people, who died during the 16th century, who have received recognition as Blessed (through beatification) or Saint (through canonization) from...