1517

Year '1517' (MDXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

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Events of 1517

January - June

July - December

Undated

Births

Deaths

Events of 1517

January - June

★ January 22 - Battle of Ridanieh: The Turkish forces of Selim I defeat the main Mamluk army in Egypt under Touman Bey.


★ February 3 - Capture of Cairo by the Ottoman Empire; fall of Mamluk Sultanate.

★ First contact of organized western merchants with China.

July - December

★ August 15 - Portuguese merchant Fernao Pires de Andrade met Chinese officials through an interpreter at Pearl River estuary and landed at Hong Kong.

★ October 31 - Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church.

Undated

★ Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy conquers Riazan.

★ Selim I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, conquers Palestine and Egypt and declares himself Caliph.

★ A third outbreak of the sweating sickness in England hits Oxford and Cambridge.

Births

★ July 10 - Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (d. 1571)

★ July 16 - Lady Frances Brandon, granddaughter of Henry VII

★ July 20 - Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, Governor of the Netherlands

★ August 23 - Francis I, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1545)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Jacques Peletier du Mans, French mathematician (died 1582)

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★ Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English aristocrat (died 1547)
: ''See also .''

Deaths

★ January 5 - Francesco Raibolini, Italian painter (born c. 1450)

★ March 7 - Maria of Aragon, queen consort of Portugal (born 1482)

★ March 26 - Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer (born c. 1450)

★ October 31 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (born 1472)

★ November 8 - Francisco Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish Cardinal and statesman (born 1436)

★ ''date unknown''

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★ Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Spanish conquistador

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★ Dyveke Sigbritsdatter, mistress of Christian II of Denmark

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★ Badi' al-Zaman, Timurid ruler of Herat

★ ''probable''

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★ Luca Pacioli, Italian mathematician (born 1445)

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★ Gaspar van Weerbeke, Dutch composer (born 1445)
: ''See also .''