sixteenth century
Tudor England's time
The sixteenth century spans the years 1501 to 1600.
In historical usage, it refers to the era of the Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and European exploration of the Americas: sixteenth-century art, a sixteenth-century manuscript.
As with all century terms, the number is one higher than the years' hundreds digit.
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