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* The first African slaves brought to the [[New World]] arrive at the island of [[Hispaniola]] (modern-day [[Haiti]] and [[Dominican Republic]]).
* [[Bristol]] merchants return from [[Newfoundland]] (first so named this year from a letter) to [[England]], carrying three native people and [[cod]] from the [[Grand Banks of Newfoundland|Grand Banks]].<ref name=Fabyan>{{cite book|first=Robert|last=Fabyan|author-link=Robert Fabyan|title=The New Chronicles of England and France|year=1516}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=In Northern Mists: Arctic Exploration in Early Times|url=https://archive.org/details/innorthernmistsa01nans|first=Fridtjof|last=Nansen|year=1911|author-link=Fridtjof Nansen}}</ref>
* [[Moctezuma II]] is elected [[emperor]] of the [[Aztec]]s, following the death of [[Ahuitzotl]].
* [[Meñli I Giray]] defeats the [[Golden Horde]] and sacks their capital, Sarai.
* [[Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg|Wittenberg University]] is founded.
* In [[Holy Roman Empire|Germany]], [[Peter Henlein]] of [[Nuremberg]] uses iron parts and coiled springs to build a portable timepiece.
* In [[Italy]], [[Asher Lämmlein]] declares that the [[Jewish Messiah]] will arrive in the next 6 months, resulting in the ''year of penance''.
* [[The King's School, Macclesfield]], England, is founded by Sir John Percyvale.
* [[Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa]] receives the degree of ''[[magister artium]]'' from the [[University of Cologne]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Valente|first=Michaela|chapter=Agrippa, Heinrich Cornelius|title=Dictionary of Gnosis and Western Esotericism|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionarygnosis00hane|url-access=limited|editor=Hanegraaff, Wouter J.|pages=[https://archive.org/details/dictionarygnosis00hane/page/n34 4]–8|publisher=Brill|location=Leiden|year=2006|isbn=90-04-15231-8}}</ref>
* Wilhelm Bombast moves to [[Villach]] with his son, [[Paracelsus]].</onlyinclude>