1517

This article is about the year 1517.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	15th century – 16th century – 17th century
Decades:	1480s  1490s  1500s  – 1510s –  1520s  1530s  1540s
Years:	1514 1515 1516 – 1517 – 1518 1519 1520

1517 by topic

Arts and science

Architecture - Art - Literature - Music - Science

Lists of leaders

Colonial governors - State leaders

Birth and death categories

Births - Deaths

Establishments and disestablishments categories

Establishments - Disestablishments

Works category

Works

1517 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1517 MDXVII
Ab urbe condita	2270
Armenian calendar	966 ԹՎ ՋԿԶ
Assyrian calendar	6267
Bahá'í calendar	-327–-326
Bengali calendar	924
Berber calendar	2467
English Regnal year	8 Hen. 8 – 9 Hen. 8
Buddhist calendar	2061
Burmese calendar	879
Byzantine calendar	7025–7026
Chinese calendar	丙子年十二月初十日 (4153/4213-12-10) — to — 丁丑年十二月十九日 (4154/4214-12-19)
Coptic calendar	1233–1234
Ethiopian calendar	1509–1510
Hebrew calendar	5277–5278
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1573–1574
- Shaka Samvat	1439–1440
- Kali Yuga	4618–4619
Holocene calendar	11517
Iranian calendar	895–896
Islamic calendar	922–923
Japanese calendar	Eishō 14 (永正14年)
Korean calendar	3850
Minguo calendar	395 before ROC 民前395年
Thai solar calendar	2060

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

Events

January–June

• January 22 – Battle of Ridaniya: 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.

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).

Date unknown

• 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.
• Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy conquers Ryazan.
• Selim I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, conquers 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)

Deaths

• January 5 – Francesco Raibolini, Italian painter (b. c. 1450)
• January 23 – Hadım Sinan Pasha, Ottoman (Turkish) grand vizier
• 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 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)