1517

Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century

Decades: 1460s 1470s 1480s 1490s 1500s - 1510s - 1520s 1530s 1540s 1550s 1560s

Years: 1512 1513 1514 1515 1516 - 1517 - 1518 1519 1520 1521 1522

• January 22 - Battle of Ridanieh[?]. The Turkish forces of Selim I defeat the main Mameluk 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 a interpreter at Pearl River[?] estuary and landed at Hong Kong.
• October 31 - Martin Luther posts his 95 theses in Wittenberg
• Conquest of Riazan[?] by Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy

Births

• Emperor Ogimachi of Japan

Deaths

• March 26 - Heinrich Isaac, composer
• Fra Bartolommeo, Florentine[?] artist