1516 - Literature.
Ludovico Ariosto - Orlando Furioso.
Desiderius Erasmus - new Latin translation of the New Testament.
Thomas More - Utopia.
1516 - 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 ...
1469 - Events.
July 26 - Battle of Edgecote Moor
October 17 - Prince Ferdinand of Aragon wed princess Isabella of Castile. This event would lead to a unified Spain in 1516.
Sigismund of Austria sells upper-Elsass (Alsace) to the Charles the Bold in exchange of aid in a war against the Swiss
Uzun Hassan wins in Persia and defeats Abu Said
Lorenzo de' Medici takes power in Florence
Moctezuma I, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan dies and is succeeded by Axayacatl.
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1565 - Events.
The pencil is first documented by Conrad Gesner
March 1 - the city of Rio de Janeiro is founded
April 27 - Cebu City is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines.
August 28 - St. Augustine, Florida (named after St. Augustine), established. It is the oldest remaining European settlement in the United States.
September 4 - Spanish fleet of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés lands on modern-day Florida to oust the French under Jean Ribault. ...
1587 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.
1587 - Events.
February 8 - Mary, Queen of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she is implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.
July 22 - Colony of Roanoke: A group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off of North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony.
August 19 - Polish and Lithuanian noble ...
April 25 is the 115th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (116th in leap years). There are 250 days remaining.
April 25 - Events.
1607 - Eighty Years' War: Dutch fleet destroys the anchored Spanish fleet at Gibraltar.
1707 - An Allied Austrian army is defeated by Bourbon army at Almansa (Spain) in the War of the Spanish Succession.
1719 - Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe is published.
1792 - Highwayman Nicolas J. Pelletier becomes t ...
