The word was coined in Greek by Sir Thomas More for his 1516 book Utopia, describing a fictional island in the Atlantic Ocean.

The word utopia was first used in this context by Sir Thomas More in his 1516 work Utopia.

The title of Sir Thomas More's 1516 fictional work Utopia is a double entendre because of the pun between two Greek-derived words that would have identical pronunciation: with his spelling, it means " no place " ( as echoed later in Samuel Butler's later Erewhon ); spelled as the rare word Eutopia, it is pronounced the same by English-speaking readers, but has the meaning " good place ".

In around 1699 Sir Richard Holford discovered the Inn's own Coat of Arms on a manuscript, granted to them in 1516.

He began his printing business sometime before 1516, for in his preface to the undated Liber Assisarum he announced the forthcoming publication of Sir Anthony Fitzherbert's Abbreviamentum librorum legum Anglorum, dated 1516.

Sir Thomas More ( 1478 – 1535 ), Catholic Lord Chancellor of King Henry VIII and author, described a world of almost complete religious toleration in Utopia ( 1516 ), in which the Utopians " can hold various religious beliefs without persecution from the authorities.

His children were his son Charles ( 1516 – 1544 ), a daughter Gertrude, and another daughter Catherine ( died 25 Feb. 1559 ), 1st wife of Sir Maurice Berkeley ( d. 1581 ) of Bruton.

The Denyses appear never to have lived at Kingston Russell, and in 1542 Sir Walter Denys ( 1501 – 1571 ) of Dyrham, great-great-grandson of Sir Gilbert Denys and Margaret Russell sold Kingston Russell to his younger brother Sir Maurice Denys ( 1516 – 1563 ), who sold it in March 1543 / 4 to the Crown.

* 1516: Sir Henry Marney

It passed, on their forfeiture in 1516, to the Douglas Earl of Angus, but was besieged and destroyed by the English under the Henry Percy, 6th Earl of Northumberland in the winter of 1532, and again under the Protector Somerset in 1547, when held by Sir George Douglas.

* 1516: Saint Sir Thomas More publishes " Utopia " in Latin.

Sir Nicholas Throckmorton ( or Throgmorton ) ( c. 1515 / 1516 – 12 February 1571 ) was an English diplomat and politician, who was an ambassador to France and played a key role in the relationship between Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots.

In November 1516 Hamilton married Janet Bethune of Easter Wemyss, daughter of Sir David Bethune of Creich, and widow of Sir Robert Livingstone of Easter Wemyss, who had been killed in the Battle of Flodden Field.

* Utopia, a name for an ideal community or society, taken from the title of a book written in 1516 by Sir Thomas More.

When she married Louis XII of France, he accompanied her to Paris, but by 1516 he had moved to Louvain ; Sir Thomas More wrote to Erasmus to recommend him to study law and classics there.

In the 1516 novel Utopia by Thomas More, the island called Utopia once had the name " Abraxa ", which scholars have suggested is a related use.

* Utopia ( 1516 ) by Thomas More

* Utopia ( 1516 ) by Thomas More.

However, Henry himself appears to have been much more influenced by the opinions on monasticism of the humanists Desiderius Erasmus and Thomas More, especially as found in Erasmus's work In Praise of Folly ( 1511 ) and More's Utopia ( 1516 ).

* Thomas Ruthall, Bishop of Durham ( 1516 – 1523 )

Parallels can be drawn from Thomas More's 1516 book Utopia, in which More describes an island with only one entrance and only one exit.

In 1516, New Hall was sold by Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire and 1st Earl of Ormond to Henry VIII of England for £ 1, 000 ..

Henry VIII created the Royal Mail in 1516, appointing Brian Tuke as " Master of the Postes ", while Elizabeth I appointed Thomas Randolph as " Chief Postmaster ".

* 1516 / 17 Richard Selyoke Thomas Hunt

Perhaps the first utopian socialist was Thomas More ( 1478-1535 ), who wrote about an imaginary socialist society in his satire Utopia, which was published in 1516.

* Utopia ( book ), a 1516 book by Thomas More

As long ago as 1516, Thomas More wrote in Utopia that,

The term Utopia was invented by Thomas More as the title of his Latin book De Optimo Reipublicae Statu deque Nova Insula Utopia ( circa 1516 ), known more commonly as Utopia.

In fact, satires and philosophical works like Thomas More's Utopia ( 1516 ), Rabelais's Gargantua and Pantagruel ( 1532 – 64 ), and even Erasmus's In Praise of Folly ( 1511 ) had established long fictions subservient to a philosophical purpose.

* 1516 – 1534 Thomas Benolte

The book was dedicated to Prince Charles, who later became Habsburg Emperor Charles V. It was written by Desiderius Erasmus in 1516, the same year as Thomas More finished his Utopia and only three years after Machiavelli had written his antithetical advice book for princes Il Principe.

statv, deque noua insula Vtopia, libellus uere aureus, nec minus salutaris quam festiuus ) is a work of fiction and political philosophy by Thomas More published in 1516.

In 1516, Francis I invited Leonardo da Vinci to Amboise and provided him with the Clos Lucé, then called Château de Cloux, as a place to stay and work.

Prior to 1858, land in Ottoman Syria, then a part of the Ottoman Empire since 1516, was cultivated or occupied mainly by peasants.

Judgment was not finally given till July 1516 ; and then, though the decision was really for Reuchlin, the trial was simply quashed.

In 1516, the secular prince Đurađ V Crnojević abdicated in favor of the Archbishop Vavil, who then formed Montenegro into a theocratic state under the rule of the prince-bishop ( vladika ) of Cetinje, a position transmitted from 1697 by the Petrović-Njegoš family of the Riđani clan, from uncle to nephew as the bishops were not allowed to marry.

The name " Cochinchina " was coined by Portuguese traders circa 1516, who named it then " Cochin-China " to distinguish it from the city and princely state of Cochin in India, their first headquarters in the Malabar Coast., from the Malay Kuchi which referred to all of Vietnam, a term derived from the Chinese Jiāozhǐ, pronounced Giao Chỉ in Vietnam.

On January 28, 1516 Ferdinand died, leaving Cisneros as regent of Castile for Charles ( afterward Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor ), then a youth of sixteen in the Netherlands.

Sheffield Manor, also known as the Manor Lodge or Manor Castle, is a lodge built about 1516 in what then was a large deer park east of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, to provide a country retreat and further accommodate George Talbot, the 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, and his large family.

The seven cartoons were probably completed in 1516 and were then sent to Brussels, where the Vatican tapestries were woven by the workshop of Pieter van Aelst.

The earliest datable print after one of the designs is an engraving of 1516 by Agostino Veneziano, then working in the workshop of Marcantonio Raimondi, of the Death of Ananias, This was probably made even before that tapestry was woven.

Though his father had destined him by 1516 for the daughter of George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, he fell in love with Anne Boleyn, then a young lady about the court.

Between 1513 and 1516, King Manuel I issued a new foral to Mafra, Ericeira and Cheleiros, and in 1519, conceded a foral to Enxara dos Cavaleiros, while confirming a foral to Gradil ( then originally donated by Afonso IV of Portugal in 1327 ).

In 1516, the secular montenegrin prince Đurađ V Crnojević abdicated in favor of the Archbishop Vavil, who then formed Montenegro into a theocratic state under the rule of the prince-bishop ( vladika ) of Cetinje, a position transmitted from 1697 by the Petrović-Njegoš family of the Riđani clan, from uncle to nephew as the bishops were not allowed to marry.

After the battle of Chaldiran, Selim I would then throw his forces southward to fight the Mamluk Sultanate in the Ottoman – Mamluk War ( 1516 – 1517 ).

Canghali ( also Jan Ali, Can Ali, Tatar: Canğäli, pronounced ) ( 1516 – 1535 ) was khan of Qasim in 1519 – 1532 and then Kazan in 1532 – 1535.

Angus withdrew to his estates in Forfarshire, while Albany besieged the queen at Stirling and got possession of the royal children ; then he joined Margaret after her flight at Morpeth, and on her departure for London returned and made his peace with Albany in 1516.