Examples of using "Xvi" in a sentence and their english translations:
Cast your mind back to the 16th century,
which began in the 16th century as an insult.
King Louis XVI was guillotined.
The French Revolution began during Louis XVI's reign.
The fundamental principles of classical mechanics were laid down by Galileo and Newton in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Ruy López de Segura, a priest and a famous Spanish chess player of the 16th century, wrote a book of 150 pages, called Libro del Ajedrez, about exhaustive studies he made on the opening (1.e4 e5 2.♘f3 ♘c6 3.♗b5) that is named after him.