| Millennium: | 1st millennium |
|---|---|
| Centuries: | 5th century – 6th century – 7th century |
| Decades: | 480s 490s 500s – 510s – 520s 530s 540s |
| Years: | 513 514 515 – 516 – 517 518 519 |
| 516 by topic | |
| Politics | |
| State leaders – Sovereign states | |
| Birth and death categories | |
| Births – Deaths | |
| Establishment and disestablishment categories | |
| Establishments – Disestablishments | |
| Gregorian calendar | 516 DXVI |
| Ab urbe condita | 1269 |
| Armenian calendar | N/A |
| Assyrian calendar | 5266 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -1328–-1327 |
| Bengali calendar | -77 |
| Berber calendar | 1466 |
| English Regnal year | N/A |
| Buddhist calendar | 1060 |
| Burmese calendar | -122 |
| Byzantine calendar | 6024–6025 |
| Chinese calendar | 乙未年十二月十二日 (3152/3212-12-12) — to —
丙申年十一月廿二日(3153/3213-11-22) |
| Coptic calendar | 232–233 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 508–509 |
| Hebrew calendar | 4276–4277 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 572–573 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 438–439 |
| - Kali Yuga | 3617–3618 |
| Holocene calendar | 10516 |
| Iranian calendar | 106 BP – 105 BP |
| Islamic calendar | 109 BH – 108 BH |
| Japanese calendar | |
| Korean calendar | 2849 |
| Minguo calendar | 1396 before ROC 民前1396年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 1059 |
Year 516 (DXVI) was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Petrus without colleague (or, less frequently, year 1269 Ab urbe condita). The denomination 516 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.