* 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 – 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

* 1517 – 1530 John Watson

* 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 )

Portugal ’ s king Manuel I in 1517 commissioned a diplomatic and trade mission to Canton headed by Tomé Pires and Fernão Pires de Andrade.

Nevertheless, around that time early 16th century Polish geographer Maciej of Miechów in his influential Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis ( 1517 ) argued that there were no mountains in Eastern Europe at all, challenging the point of view of some authors of Classical antiquity, popular during the Renaissance.

** Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish Cardinal and statesman ( d. 1517 )

* September 21 – Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, French church leader ( b. 1517 )

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Fernão Pires de Andrade visited Canton in 1517 and opened up trade with China, where in 1557 the Portuguese were permitted to occupy Macau.

* 1517 — Fernão Pires de Andrade and Tomé Pires were chosen by Manuel I of Portugal to sail to China to formally open relations between the Portuguese Empire and the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.

* Francisco Hernández de Córdoba ( discoverer of Yucatán ) ( d. 1517 )

This was the main driving factor for the Portuguese explorations of the Indian Ocean, including the sea of China, resulting in the arrival in 1513 of the first European trading ship to the coasts of China, under Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, followed by the Fernão Pires de Andrade and Tomé Pires diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of Manuel I of Portugal, which opened formally relations between the Portuguese Empire and the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.

After the failed effort to found Antigua del Darién in 1506 by Alonso de Ojeda and the subsequent unsuccessful founding of San Sebastián de Urabá in 1517 by Diego de Nicuesa, the southern Caribbean coast became unattractive to colonizers.

Even to this day, the two bells in the church's belltower, named Maria and Salvator and cast in 1517 by Hendrick de Tremonia of Dordrecht, are rung every evening at nine o ' clock.

The next contact was in 1517 when Francisco Hernández de Córdoba sailed from Cuba in search of slaves to replace the native Cubans who had been dying off in great numbers.

" From ' Crónica de Juan II ' by Lorenza Galindez de Carvajal ( 1517 ).

He authorized various expeditions to explore lands further west, including the 1517 Francisco Hernández de Córdoba expedition to Yucatán ( see: Spanish Conquest of Yucatán ).

* Giovanni Domenico de Cupis ( 1493-1553 ) ( 1517, 1537 or 1541 )

As Governor he authorized expeditions to explore lands further west, including the 1517 Francisco Hernández de Córdoba expedition to Yucatán.

Jacques Peletier du Mans ( born 1517 ) was one of the scholars who reformed the French language.

** Jacques Peletier du Mans, French mathematician ( b. 1517 )

* July / August-Jacques Pelletier du Mans, French humanist poet ( born 1517 )

* April-Pierre Belon, French naturalist and travel writer ( born 1517 ; murdered )

Born in 1517 Pierre Belon was a French naturalist who did research and held discussions on dolphin embryos as well as the comparisons between the skeletons of birds to the skeletons of humans.

In June 1517 he was deciding disputes between English and French merchants at Calais, and in the same year he became chancellor of the order of the Garter.

In the autumn of 1517, Duns Market Cross was also the destination of the head of the Sieur de la Bastie, the French Ambassador and Warden of the Eastern March, following his murder at Preston, by Home of Wedderburn.

Anticipating the seventeenth-century French writer Jean de Santeul's well-known phrase " castigat ridendo mores ", Gil Vicente became famous for his satirical plays such as the " Triologia das Barcas " (" Auto da Barca do Inferno " ( 1517 ), " Auto da Barca do Purgatório " ( 1518 ); " Auto da Barca da Glória " ( 1518 )).

Francis I ( August 23, 1517, Nancy – June 12, 1545, Remiremont ) was a member of the French nobility.

Jacques Pelletier du Mans, also spelled Peletier, in Latin: Peletarius, ( 1517 – 1582 ) was a humanist, poet and mathematician of the French Renaissance.

By the sixteenth century the famous French surgeon Ambroise Paré ; ( 1517 – 1590 ), who championed more humane treatments in medicine and promoted the use of artificial limbs made casts of wax, cardboard, cloth, and parchment that hardened as they dried.

The Collegium Trilingue, often also called Collegium trium linguarum, or, after its creator Collegium Buslidianum ( French: Collège des Trois Langues, Dutch: Dry Tonghen ), was founded in 1517 under the patronage of the Luxembourgian humanist, Jérôme de Busleyden ( in Latin Hieronymus Buslidius ).

Among his many scholarly works was a translation into French of all Ottoman firmans, or edicts, sent to the governors and rulers of Egypt by the Sublime Porte from the Turkish conquest of Egypt in 1517 until the late 19th century.

He was a choirboy at the French royal court in 1506, and in 1517 was a singer for Louise of Savoy.

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

His first work, under the pseudonym Merlino Coccajo, was the macaronic narrative poem Baldo ( 1517 ), which relates the adventures of a fictitious hero named Baldo (" Baldus "), a descendant of French royalty and something of a juvenile delinquent who encounters imprisonment ; battles with local authorities, pirates, shepherds, witches, and demons ; and a journey to the underworld.

* Antoine d ' Arcy, ( d. 1517 ), French soldier, sieur de la Bastie.

On 7 April 1517, Louis II de la Trémoille married 16 year-old Louise Borgia, Duchess of Valentinois, the only legitimate child of Cesare Borgia, Duke of Valentinois by his French wife Charlotte of Albret.

Le Petit was listed by Pierre Moulu in his famous motet Mater floreat florescat as one of the leading composers of the day ( this work, probably written around 1517, provides to musicologists a particularly useful list of composers working at the time, naming the composers associated with the French royal chapel which Moulu thought the most eloquent of the time ).