1517

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

1517 in other calendars

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

• 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)

Deaths