Finally painted over in the sixteenth century, it has left an indelible memory in my consciousness and that of Prague.

WHITEHOUSE: Letter from Prague: Every Day a Miracle

Built for Sultan Selim II in the sixteenth century, it has withstood numerous earthquakes and can accommodate more than five thousand kneeling worshippers.

NEWYORKER: The Next Crusade

In the sixteenth century, the wide circulation of English Bible translations and the Book of Common Prayer brought a new degree of standardization.

NEWYORKER: Globish For Beginners

In the sixteenth century, he is a conquistador in the jungles of Central America and she is the queen who sends him there.

NEWYORKER: The Fountain

The Brotherhood, which is nowadays open to all without distinction of sex or origin, was founded in the sixteenth century by African slaves and people of mixed origin.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

Even less remembered are the Portuguese pilots who steered Spanish ships along both coasts of the continent in the sixteenth century, probing upriver to Bangor, Maine, and all the way to Oregon.

NPR: Unearthing History in 'A Voyage Long and Strange'

Sir Walter Raleigh had lived there briefly in the late sixteenth century.

NPR: Cockburn's 'Broken Boy,' a Memoir of Survival

Excavations have revealed that the earliest remains in Miletus date from the second half of the sixteenth century B.

WSJ: 'Aladdin's Lamp'

Sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan set out from Seville, Spain, to circumnavigate the globe in 1519.

FORBES: Magellan Sails Again