1517

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

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

1517 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1517 MDXVII
Ab urbe condita	2270
Armenian calendar	966 ԹՎ ՋԿԶ
Assyrian calendar	6267
Balinese saka calendar	1438–1439
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 (Fire Rat) 4213 or 4153     — to — 丁丑年 (Fire Ox) 4214 or 4154
Coptic calendar	1233–1234
Discordian calendar	2683
Ethiopian calendar	1509–1510
Hebrew calendar	5277–5278
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1573–1574
- Shaka Samvat	1438–1439
- Kali Yuga	4617–4618
Holocene calendar	11517
Igbo calendar	517–518
Iranian calendar	895–896
Islamic calendar	922–923
Japanese calendar	Eishō 14 (永正１４年)
Javanese calendar	1434–1435
Julian calendar	1517 MDXVII
Korean calendar	3850
Minguo calendar	395 before ROC 民前395年
Nanakshahi calendar	49
Thai solar calendar	2059–2060
Tibetan calendar	阳火鼠年 (male Fire-Rat) 1643 or 1262 or 490     — to — 阴火牛年 (female Fire-Ox) 1644 or 1263 or 491

Martin Luther publishes his 95 Theses on the door of Wittenberg Castle Church.

Events

January–June

• January 22 – Battle of Ridaniya: The Holy Ottoman army of the sultan Selim I defeat the Mamluk army in Egypt, under Tuman bay II.
• February 3 – Cairo is captured by the Ottoman Empire, and the Mamluk Sultanate falls.
• March 16 – The Fifth Council of the Lateran ends.
• May 1 – Evil May Day: Xenophobic riots in London.

July–December

• August 15 – Portuguese merchant Fernão 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

• Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy conquers Ryazan.
• A third outbreak of the sweating sickness in England hits Oxford and Cambridge.
• Since the reestablishment of the Abbasid Caliphate of Cairo in 1261, the caliphate fall to the Ottomans.

Births

Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk

Amalia of Cleves

• January 17
  • Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English duke (d. 1554)
  • Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (d. 1580)
• January 30 – Joannes Aurifaber Vratislaviensis, German theologian (d. 1568)
• February 2 – Gotthard Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia (d. 1587)
• February 12 – Luigi Cornaro, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1584)
• March 22 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (d. 1590)
• March 29 – Carlo Carafa, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1561)
• May 1 – Svante Stensson Sture, Swedish count (d. 1567)
• June 18 – Emperor Ōgimachi, Japanese emperor (d. 1593)
• June 29 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist (d. 1585)
• July 10 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (d. 1571)
• July 16 – Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, English duchess (d. 1559)
• July 20 – Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (d. 1604)
• August 20 – Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, statesman, French Catholic cardinal (d. 1586)
• August 23 – Francis I, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1545)
• September 6 – Francisco de Holanda, Portuguese artist (d. 1585)
• October 17 – Amalia of Cleves, German princess and writer (d. 1586)
• October 18 – Manuel da Nóbrega, Spanish Catholic priest (d. 1570)
• December 15 – Giacomo Gaggini, Italian artist (d. 1598)
• approx. date – Isabella Parasole, Italian artist (d. ca. 1620)
• date unknown
  • Jacques Pelletier du Mans, French mathematician (d. 1582)
  • Hayashi Narinaga, Japanese samurai (d. 1605)
  • Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English aristocrat (d. 1547)[1]

Deaths

Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal

• January 5 – Francesco Raibolini, Italian painter (b. c. 1450)
• January 9 – Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples (b. 1454)
• January 22 – Hadım Sinan Pasha, Ottoman grand vizier (b. 1459)
• March 7 – Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (b. 1482)
• March 26 – Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer (b. c. 1450)
• April 15 – Tuman bay II, last Mamluk sultan of Egypt (b. c. 1476)
• September 21 – Dyveke Sigbritsdatter, mistress of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1490)
• September 24 – Frederick IV of Baden, Dutch bishop (b. 1455)
• October 31 – Fra Bartolomeo, Italian artist (b. 1472)
• November 6 – Wiguleus Fröschl of Marzoll, Bishop of Passau (1500–1517) (b. 1445)
• November 8 – Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1436)
• date unknown
  • Badi' al-Zaman, Timurid ruler of Herat
  • Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Spanish conquistador
  • Marcus Musurus, Greek scholar and philosopher (b. 1470)
• probable
  • Luca Pacioli, Italian mathematician (b. 1445)
  • Gaspar van Weerbeke, Dutch composer (b. 1445)

References

1. "Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey | English poet". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 10, 2019.