1517

October 31: Martin Luther nails his theological manifesto, the Ninety-five Theses, to the door of the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg and begins the Protestant Reformation.

Template:C16 year in topic Year 1517 (MDXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

• January 22 – Battle of Ridaniya: The Holy Ottoman army of the sultan Selim I defeats the Mamluk army in Egypt, commanded by the king Tuman Bay II.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• January 30 – Cairo is captured by the Ottoman Empire after a three day battle,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and the Mamluk Sultanate falls.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The Abbasid Caliphate, reestablished in 1261, falls to the Ottomans and the last Caliph, Al-Mutawakkil III, is deported along with his family to Constantinople.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• February 3 – The Ottoman Sultan Selim I makes a triumphant entry into Cairo after his Janissaries have cleared the area of the Mamluk defenders.
• February 8 – Bernal Díaz del Castillo, a chronicler who documents the conquest of Mexico, sets out with the Hernández de Córdoba expedition from Jaruco.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> They arrive at Cape Catoche twenty-one days later, and are met with hostility by the natives. Henry's 25-year-old sister Anne of Navarre serves as the regent until 1518, when Henry reaches the age of majority.
• February 12 – At the age of 13, Henry II becomes the King of Navarre, by then limited to the part of the Iberian peninsula north of the Pyrennes, upon the death of his mother, Queen Catherine in the capital, Pamplona.
• March 4 – The first intentional landing by Europeans on the coast of Mexico takes place as the Cordoba Expedition arrives at Cabo Catoche on the Yucatán Peninsula, now in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The Spaniards are attacked by the Mayans after being invited to visit, and a battle breaks out with 13 Spaniards ambushed and 15 Mayans killed.<ref name=Diaz>Bernal Díaz del Castillo, 1963, The Conquest of New Spain, London: Penguin Books, pages 72-81 Template:ISBN</ref>
• March 16 – The Fifth Council of the Lateran ends after almost five years of conferences on discussing reforms within the Roman Catholic Church.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• March 26 – More than two months after fleeing Cairo and attempting a counterattack against the Ottomans, Tuman Bay II is captured alive with many of his Mamluk officers. Selim initially plans to exile Tuman Bey and other former Mamluk nobles to Constantinople, but changes his mind.

April–June

• April 12 – Lopo Soares de Albergaria of Portugal begins the siege of Jeddah (now part of Saudi Arabia), attempting to invade, but is unable to land because of artillery fire from the Ottoman and Mamluk defenders.<ref name=Meloy>.J. L. Meloy, Imperial power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the later Middle Ages (University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2010) p.223</ref> Bad weather prevents the Portuguese fleet of 15 ships from navigating for the next two weeks.
• April 13 – Tuman Bey II, the former King of Egypt, is executed along with his aides, bringing an end to the Abbasid dynasty.<ref>Yaşar Yüce and Ali Sevim, Türkiye tarihi Cilt II (İstanbul, 1991) p.250.</ref>
• April 14 – On Easter Tuesday, Dr. Bell, a preacher standing at St Paul's Cross in front of London's Old St Paul's Cathedral, delivers an inflammatory sermon at the instigation of a local broker, John Lincoln and accuses foreign immigrants of stealing jobs from English workers and taking away bread from "poor fatherless children."<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• April 15 – The Ottoman–Mamluk War officially ends as the Ottoman Empire annexes the Mamluk Sultanate territories in the Middle East (the Levant), the Arabian Peninsula (Hejaz) and Egypt as provinces.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• April 22 – In what is now Romania, Stephen IV becomes the new Prince of Moldavia at Suceava upon the death of his father, Bogdan III the One-Eyed.
• April 25 – After 13 days of continuous storms and being unable to do more than destroy one Jeddah ship (while losing two of its own), the Portuguese fleet abandon its planned invasion of the Arabian peninsula.<ref name=Meloy/>
• April 30 – Anticipating a riot in London, the Lord Mayor announces at 8:30 in the evening that a curfew will begin within 30 minutes, at 9:00. An attempt by a local alderman, John Mundy, to enforce the curfew triggers the attack by a mob hours later.<ref>Steve Rappaport, Worlds Within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London (Cambridge University Press, 2002) p.15; Template:ISBN</ref>
• May 1 – Evil May Day: Xenophobic riots break out in London as English citizens attack foreigners, including Flemish shoemakers and French royal courtiers.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The Duke of Norfolk leads a private army of 1,300 men to put down the rioting.
• May 10 – The coronation of Queen Consort Claude of France, wife of King Francis I, takes place at the Basilica of St Denis with Cardinal Philippe de Luxembourg performing the ceremony.<ref>Nicolas Menin: An Historical and Chronological Treatise of the Anointing and Coronation of the Kings and Queens of France, p. 249. [Retrieved 28 December 2014].</ref>
• June 17 – A fleet of eight ships of the navy of Portugal, commanded by Fernão Pires de Andrade and dispatched from Goa by Portuguese India's Governor Lopo Soares de Albergaria on orders of King Manuel I, arrives in China at Canton (now Guangzhou) and brings the Ambassador Tomé Pires and his diplomatic corps to start trade and foreign relations.<ref>Frederick Charles Danvers: The Portuguese in India, volume I, London, W. H. Allen & Co. Limited, 1894, p. 338.</ref>
• June 24 – Pier Gerlofs Donia, leader of a rebellion of the Frisians minority of the Netherlands, leads 4,000 of his Arumer Zwarte Hoop soldiers on an attack against the Dutch inhabitants of Medemblik, then moves on to a massacre of the residents of the village of Asperen.

July–September

• July 1 – In an unprecedented move, Pope Leo X increases the number of Roman Catholic cardinals, naming 31 people to the cardinalate including the Dutch-born Adriaan van Utrecht, bishop of Tortosa, who will later become Pope Adrian VI.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• 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).
• September 13 – Yunus Pasha, the Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire and the Ottoman Governor of Egypt after leading the Egyptian conquest, is fired by the Ottoman Sultan Selim I and then executed by decapitation.

October–December

• October 31 – Martin Luther publishes his 95 Theses (posting them on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church), and begins the Protestant Reformation.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> This story is possibly apocryphal.<ref>Krämer, Walter and Trenkler, Götz. "Luther" in Lexicon van Hardnekkige Misverstanden. Uitgeverij Bert Bakker, 1997, 214:216.</ref>
• November 21 – In India, Ibrahim Khan Lodi becomes the new Sultan of Delhi upon the death of his father, Sikandar Khan Lodi. Ibrahim will reign until 1526, when the Sultanate of Delhi is conquered by the Afghan Mughal king, Babur.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• December 6 – Bona Sforza of Italy, daughter of the late Duke of Milan, Gian Galeazzo Sforza, marries King Sigismund of Poland by proxy at Naples, then begins a three month journey to Kraków to assume the throne.

Date unknown

• Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy conquers Ryazan.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• A third outbreak of the sweating sickness in England hits Oxford and Cambridge.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> It is said that in Oxford that upwards of 400 students died in less than a week.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Births

Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk

Amalia of Cleves

• January 17
  • Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk, English duke (d. 1554)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Antonio Scandello, Italian composer (d. 1580)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• January 30 – Joannes Aurifaber Vratislaviensis, German theologian (d. 1568)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• January 31 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (d. 1590)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• February 2 – Gotthard Kettler, Duke of Courland and Semigallia (d. 1587)
• February 12 – Luigi Cornaro, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1584)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• March 29 – Carlo Carafa, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1561)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• May 1 – Svante Stensson Sture, Swedish count (d. 1567)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• June 18 – Emperor Ōgimachi, Japanese emperor (d. 1593)
• June 29 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish botanist (d. 1585)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• July 10 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant (d. 1571)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• July 16 – Frances Grey, Duchess of Suffolk, English duchess (d. 1559)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• July 20 – Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, Governor of the Habsburg Netherlands (d. 1604)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• July 25 – Jacques Pelletier du Mans, French mathematician (d. 1582)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 20 – Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, statesman, French Catholic cardinal (d. 1586)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• August 23 – Francis I, Duke of Lorraine (d. 1545)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• September 6 – Francisco de Holanda, Portuguese artist (d. 1585)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• October 17 – Amalia of Cleves, German princess and writer (d. 1586)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• October 18 – Manuel da Nóbrega, Spanish Catholic priest (d. 1570)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• December 15 – Giacomo Gaggini, Italian artist (d. 1598)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• date unknown
  • Hayashi Narinaga, Japanese samurai (d. 1605)
  • Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English aristocrat (d. 1547)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

Deaths

Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal

• January 5 – Francesco Raibolini, Italian painter (b. c. 1450)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• January 7 – Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples (b. 1454)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• January 22 – Hadım Sinan Pasha, Ottoman grand vizier (b. 1459)
• March 7 – Maria of Aragon, Queen of Portugal (b. 1482)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• March 26 – Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer (b. c. 1450)
• April 14 – Tuman bay II, last Mamluk sultan of Egypt (b. c. 1476)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• June 19 – Luca Pacioli, Mathematician, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci and 'father of accounting' (b. c. 1447)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• September 13 – Yunus Pasha, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• September 21 – Dyveke Sigbritsdatter, mistress of Christian II of Denmark (b. 1490)
• September 24 – Frederick IV of Baden, Dutch bishop (b. 1455)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
• October 31 – Fra Bartolomeo, Italian artist (b. 1472)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• November 6 – Wiguleus Fröschl of Marzoll, Bishop of Passau (1500–1517) (b. 1445)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• November 8 – Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish Catholic cardinal and statesman (b. 1436)<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• date unknown
  • Badi' al-Zaman, Timurid ruler of Herat<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
  • Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Spanish conquistador<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
  • Marcus Musurus, Greek scholar and philosopher (b. 1470)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
• probable
  • Gaspar van Weerbeke, Dutch composer (b. 1445)<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>