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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| 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.[1]
- 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 break out 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 – Reformation: Martin Luther publishes his 95 Theses (posting them on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church).[2]
Births
Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk
Amalia of Cleves
- January 17
- 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
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)
- June 19 – Luca Pacioli, Mathematician, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci and 'father of accounting' (b. c. 1447)
- 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)[4]
- 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
- Gaspar van Weerbeke, Dutch composer (b. 1445)
References
- R. G. Grant (October 24, 2017). 1001 Battles That Changed the Course of History. Book Sales. p. 249. ISBN 978-0-7858-3553-0.
- Friedrich Schiller (1887). Schiller's Wallenstein: Das Lager. Macmillan and Company. p. 16.
- "Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey | English poet". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved April 10, 2019.
- Harold Edwin Wethey; Titian (1969). The Paintings of Titian, Complete Edition: The mythological and historical paintings. Phaidon. p. 146. ISBN 978-0-7148-1425-4.
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