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Years: 1515 1516 1517 - 1518 - 1519 1520 1521

Decades: 1480s 1490s 1500s - 1510s - 1520s 1530s 1540s

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Events

• A plague of tropical fire ants devastates crops on Hispaniola.

Births

• April 22 - Antoine de Bourbon, father of Henry IV of France (died 1610)
• James Halyburton, Scottish reformer (died 1589)
• Hubert Languet, French diplomat and reformer (died 1581)
• Edmund Plowden, English legal scholar (died 1585)
• Tintoretto, Italian painter (died 1594)

Deaths

• August 16 - Loyset Compère, French composer
• November 20 - Marmaduke Constable, English soldier
• November 20 - Pierre de La Rue, Flemish composer
• Moxammat Amin, khan of Kazan
• Kabir, Indian mystic (born 1440)
• Jean Sauvage, advisor to Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
• Aruj Barbarossa Ottoman Corsair, brother of Khair ad-Din