1517

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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 Ottoman Empire ; Fall of Mamluk Sultanate.

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 .

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

Jacques Pelletier Du Mans , French mathematician (died 1582 )

Henry Howard, Earl Of Surrey , English aristocrat (died 1547 )

Deaths

March 26 - Heinrich Isaac , Flemish composer

October 31 - Fra Bartolommeo , Italian artist (born 1472 )

November 8 - Francisco Cardinal Jiménez De Cisneros , Spanish Cardinal and statesman (born 1436 )

Francisco Hernández De Córdoba , Spanish conquistador

Luca Pacioli , Italian mathematician (born 1445 )

Francesco Raibolini , Italian painter

Dyveke Sigbritsdatter , mistress of Christian II Of Denmark

Gaspar Van Weerbeke , Dutch composer (born 1445 )

Badi' Al-Zaman , Timurid ruler of Herat

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