1517

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

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 - Cairo is captured by the Ottoman Empire; the Mamluk Sultanate falls.
* Organized western merchants make their first contact with China after Rafael Perestrello was the first to land in southern China in 1513; European merchants venture into port at Guangzhou and trade with Chinese merchants there.

July - December

* August 15 - Portuguese merchant Fernao Pires de Andrade meets Ming Dynasty Chinese officials through an interpreter at the Pearl River estuary and lands at what is now in the jurisdiction of Hong Kong. Although the first European trade expeditions to China took place in 1513 and 1516 by Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, respectively, Andrade's mission is the first official diplomatic mission of a European power to China commissioned by a ruler of Europe—Manuel I of Portugal.
* October 31 - Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther publishes his 95 Theses (posting them 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 Israel and Egypt and declares himself Caliph.
* A third outbreak of the sweating sickness in England hits Oxford and Cambridge.
* The Dutch city of Ommen is devastated by fire.
* The Fifth Council of the Lateran ends.

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"
**Jacques Peletier du Mans, French mathematician (d. 1582)
**Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English aristocrat (d. 1547)

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Deaths

* January 5 - Francesco Raibolini, Italian painter (b. c. 1450)
* March 7 - Maria of Aragon, queen consort of Portugal (b. 1482)
* March 26 - Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer (b. c. 1450)
* October 31 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (b. 1472)
* November 8 - Francisco Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish Cardinal and statesman (b. 1436)
*"date unknown"
**Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Spanish conquistador
**Dyveke Sigbritsdatter, mistress of Christian II of Denmark
**Badi' al-Zaman, Timurid ruler of Herat
*"probable"
**Luca Pacioli, Italian mathematician (b. 1445)
**Gaspar van Weerbeke, Dutch composer (b. 1445)

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