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

Events

• January 22 – Battle of Ridanieh. The Turkish forces of Selim I defeat the main Mamluk army in Egypt under Touman Bey.
• February 3 – Capture of Cairo by the Turks.
• First contact of organized western merchants with China.
• August 15 – Portuguese merchant Fernao Pires de Andrade met Chinese officials through an interpreter at Pearl River estuary and landed at Hong Kong.
• October 31 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church.
• Conquest of Riazan by Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy.
• Selim I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire conquers Palestine and Egypt, and declares himself Caliph.
• Third outbreak of the sweating sickness in England, especially bad in Oxford and Cambridge

Births

• Jacques Peletier du Mans, French mathematician (died 1582)
• Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English aristocrat (died 1547)