Enjoying some beer in Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife

In the year 1516, the Reinheitsgebot is instituted in Ingolstadt, Bavaria, regulating the purity of beer permissible for sale (Apr 23), peace is declared between the Kingdom of France and the Holy Roman Empire (Dec 4), Thomas More publishes his most famous work Utopia, the Venetian Ghetto is instituted, the first ghetto anywhere in the world - and all these fine people were born:

1516-0101 Margaret Leijonhufvud* Queen of Sweden by marriage to Gustav Vasa  - Ekeberg Castle, Närke, Sweden (1551/35)

1516-0218 Mary I of England* Queen of England/daughter of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon/“Bloody Mary” - Palace of Placentia, Greenwich, England (1558/48)

1516-0326 Conrad Gessner* physician/ naturalist/philologist - Zürich, Swiss Confederacy (1565/49)

1516-0423 Georg Fabricius* (b Goldschmidt) German poet/historian/ archaeologist - Chemnitz, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (1571/55)

1516-0813 Hieronymus Wolf* historian/humanist - Oettingen, Bayern, Holy Roman Empire (1580/64)

1516-1023 Charlotte of France* the second child of King Francis I and his wife Claude - Château d’Amboise, Loire Valley, France (1524/7)

1516-1105 Martin Helwig* cartographer/and pedagogue - Neisse, Silesia (1574/57)

1516-1221 Giuseppe Leggiadri Gallani* poet/dramatist - Parma Papal States (1590/73)

Updated 22.11.2022
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