1517
year
1517 (MDXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar, the 1517th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 517th year of the 2nd millennium, the 17th year of the 16th century, and the 8th year of the 1510s decade. As of the start of 1517, the Gregorian calendar was 10 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.
| 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 |
| 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 |
Events
change- 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
change- Jacques Peletier du Mans, French mathematician (died 1582)
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English aristocrat (died 1547)