1517
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Template:C16YearInTopicX Year 1517 (MDXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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[edit] Events of 1517
[edit] 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.
[edit] July - December
- August 15 - Portuguese merchant Fernao Pires de Andrade meets Chinese officials through an interpreter at the Pearl River estuary and lands at Hong Kong.
- October 31 - Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther publishes his 95 Theses(legend states that he posted it on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church).
[edit] 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.
[edit] Births
| Gregorian calendar | 1517 MDXVII
|
| Ab urbe condita | 2270 |
| Armenian calendar | 966 ԹՎ ՋԿԶ |
| Bahá'í calendar | -327 – -326 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2061 |
| Coptic calendar | 1233 – 1234 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1509 – 1510 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5277 – 5278 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1572 – 1573 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1439 – 1440 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4618 – 4619 |
| Holocene calendar | 11517 |
| Iranian calendar | 895 – 896 |
| Islamic calendar | 922 – 923 |
| Japanese calendar | Eishō
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| - Imperial Year | Kōki 2177 (皇紀2177年) |
| Julian calendar | 1562 |
| Korean calendar | 3850 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2060 |
- 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 (d. 1545)
- date unknown
- Jacques Peletier du Mans, French mathematician (died 1582)
- Henry Howard, English aristocrat (died 1547)
- See also 1517 births.
[edit] 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
- 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 (born 1445)
- Gaspar van Weerbeke, Dutch composer (born 1445)
- See also 1517 deaths.
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[edit] People of the year 1517 at Familypedia
3 people were born in 1517
1 children were born to the 1 women born in 1517
2 people died in 1517
177 people lived in 1517
[edit] Events of the year 1517 at Familypedia
1 people were married in 1517.
| Joined with | |
|---|---|
| Philipp I. von Braunschweig-Grubenhagen (c1476-1551) | Katharina von Mansfeld zu Vorder-Ort (1501-1535) |
There were 0 military battles in 1517.
