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 (Nature 433, 32 (06 January 2005); doi:10.1038/433032a)

Births

• Tintoretto (Jacopo Robusti), Italian painter.

Deaths

• Kabir, Indian mystic