* 1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.

Fifth Council of the Lateran ( 1512 – 1517 ) addressed church reform.

Martin Luther's lectures on Romans in 1515 – 1516 probably coincided with the development of his criticism of Roman Catholicism which led to the 95 Theses of 1517.

* 1590 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer ( b. 1517 )

Fra Bartolomeo or Fra Bartolommeo ( di Pagholo ) ( March 28, 1472 – October 6, 1517 ), also known as Baccio della Porta, was an Italian Renaissance painter of religious subjects.

Egyptian Mamluk Sultan, Baibars ( 1260 – 1277 ) conquered Palestine and the Mamluks ruled it until 1517, regarding it as part of Syria.

* 1517 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal ( d. 1571 )

* 1517 – Emperor Ōgimachi of Japan ( d. 1593 )

Fra Luca Bartolomeo de Pacioli ( sometimes Paccioli or Paciolo ; 1445 – 1517 ) was an Italian mathematician, Franciscan friar, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci, and seminal contributor to the field now known as accounting.

* 1583 – Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman, " Apostle of the North " ( b. 1517 )

* 1517 – Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish statesman and cardinal ( b. 1436 )

Selim I conquered the Ottoman – Mamluk War ( 1516 – 1517 ) | Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt, making the Turks the dominant power in the Islamic world.

Philip of Burgundy, 57th Bishop of Utrecht ( 1517 – 1524 ), through a family connection with Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, secured a significant concession from Pope Leo X, granting internal autonomy in both church and temporal affairs for himself and his successors without interference from outside their jurisdictional region.

* 1517 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.

* 1586 – Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French cardinal ( b. 1517 )

" Architectural survey ", in Ottoman Jerusalem: The Living City 1517 – 1917.

Erasmus probably coined the modern usage of the Latin word in his Adagia (" Adages "), published in the winter of 1517 – 1518, to designate the coherence of dissenters in spite of their differences in theological opinions.

* 1510 – 1517 Thomas Thompson

* April – Pierre Belon, French naturalist ( b. 1517 ) ( murdered )

* April 29 – Thomas Cooper, English bishop, lexicographer, and writer ( b. c. 1517 )

* February 14 – Odet de Coligny, French cardinal and Protestant ( b. 1517 )

* June 18 – Robert Crowley, London stationer ( b. 1517 )

* March 10 – Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist ( b. 1517 )

The Ottomans completed the conquest of the peninsula in 1517 with the taking of Halicarnassus ( modern Bodrum ) from the Knights of Saint John.

* A History of the Franciscan Order: From Its Origins to the Year 1517 by John Richard Humpidge Moorman, Franciscan Institute Publications, 1988.

* A History of the Franciscan Order: From Its Origins to the Year 1517 by John R. H. Moorman, Oxford University Press, Oxford, ( 1968 ) ISBN 0-19-826425-9 ; reprint: Franciscan Herald Press, Chicago, IL ( 1988 ) ISBN 0-8199-0921-1

In 1517, Nectarios and Theophanes built the monastery of Varlaám, which was reputed to house the finger of St John and the shoulder blade of St Andrew.

Before the reign of John III, the Portuguese had already reached Siam ( 1511 ), the Moluccas ( 1512 ), the Chinese littoral ( 1513 ), Canton ( 1517 ) and Timor ( 1515 ).

* John Paulet, 2nd Marquess of Winchester ( c. 1517 – 1576 )

Many wealthy wool merchants added to the town's heritage: for example, John Greenway ( 1460 – 1529 ) added a chapel to St Peter's parish church in 1517, and a small chapel and almshouses in Gold Street which still stand ; the Almshouse Trust still houses people today.

# From John Wyclif to Martin Luther: 1300 – 1517

In 1517, John XXII formally condemned the group of them known as the Fraticelli.

His De Maria Magdalena et triduo Christi disceptatio ( 1517 ), which argued that Mary the sister of Lazarus, Mary Magdalene and the penitent woman who anointed Christ's feet were different people, provoked violent controversy and was condemned by the Sorbonne ( 1521 ) and Saint John Fisher.

It was also printed with slightly varying titles by the same printer in 1517, by J. Wayland in 1554, by Richard Tottel and by John Waley in 1555.

It was, however, restored to his brother John in 1455 ; and it fell into abeyance on the death, in 1517, of Geoffrey, 11th Baron Scrope of Masham, without male heirs.

Crowley was born in about 1517 in Gloucestershire, possibly in Tetbury, although John Bale says that he was a native of Northamptonshire, and A.

It was instigated at the behest of the Elector August of Saxony, and it was the joint work of a group of Lutheran theologians and churchmen of the latter sixteenth century, who met from April 9 to June 7, 1576 in Torgau, the seat of government for the Electorate of Saxony at the time: Jakob Andreä ( 1528 – 90 ), Martin Chemnitz ( 1522 – 86 ), Nikolaus Selnecker ( 1528 – 92 ), David Chytraeus ( 1531 – 1600 ), Andreas Musculus ( 1514 – 81 ), Christoph Körner ( 1518 – 94 ), Caspar Heyderich ( 1517 – 86 ), Paul Crell ( 1532 – 79 ), Maximilian Mörlin ( 1516 – 84 ), Wolfgang Harder ( 1522 – 1602 ), Daniel Gräser, Nicholas Jagenteufel ( 1520 – 83 ), Johannes Cornicaelius, John Schütz ( 1531 – 84 ), Martin Mirus ( 1532 – 93 ), Georg Listenius ( d. 1596 ), and Peter Glaser ( 1528 – 83 ); and a smaller set of this group ( Andreä, Chemnitz, Selnecker, Chytraeus, Musculus, and Körner ) a year later in Bergen Abbey, near Magdeburg, both from March 1 – 14, and in May, 1577.

* Frederick Albert ( 1529 – 1530 )

* 1530 – Ivan the Terrible, Russian Tsar ( d. 1584 )

* 1530 – Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet ( b. 1458 )

Christopher Báthory ( Hungarian: Báthory Kristóf ) ( 1530 – May 27, 1581 ) was a prince of Transylvania.

* 1530 – Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands ( b. 1480 )

* 1483 – Babur, Moghul emperor of India ( d. 1530 )

* 1604 – John Whitgift, Archbishop of Canterbury ( b. 1530 )

* 1530 – Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord ( d. 1578 )

Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun (; full title: Al-Sultan al -' Azam wal Khaqan al-Mukarram, Jam-i-Sultanat-i-haqiqi wa Majazi, Sayyid al-Salatin, Abu ' l Muzaffar Nasir ud-din Muhammad Humayun Padshah Ghazi, Zillu ' llah ; OS 7 March 1508 – OS 17 January 1556 ) was the second Mughal Emperor who ruled present day Afghanistan, Pakistan, and parts of northern India from 1530 – 1540 and again from 1555 – 1556.

* 1530 – At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.

* 1597 – Elias Ammerbach, German organist ( b. 1530 )

* 1530 – Claude Fauchet, French historian ( d. 1601 )

* 1486 – Andrea del Sarto, Italian painter ( d. 1530 )

* 1468 – Juan del Encina, Spanish composer, poet, and playwright ( d. 1530 )

* 1480 – Margaret of Austria, Regent of the Netherlands ( d. 1530 )

* Patriarch Jeremias II of Constantinople ( c. 1530 – 1595 ), Greek religious leader

# Margaret ( 29 September 1511 – 1577 ), married on 23 January 1530 George I, Duke of Pomerania and after his death in 1534 John V, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst.

** Grand Masters of Malta, 1530 – 1798

* 1530 – Louis, Prince of Condé, French general ( d. 1569 )

* 1530 – Étienne de La Boétie, French judge and writer ( d. 1563 )

* 1530 – The St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands.

Cabot returned to Spain in 1530 and informed Emperor Charles V ( 1519 – 56 ) about his discoveries.

by Preserved Smith, Charles Michael Jacobs, The Lutheran Publication Society, Philadelphia, Pa. 1913, 1918. vol. I ( 1507 – 1521 ) and vol. 2 ( 1521 – 1530 ) from Google Books.