* Rohl also asserts that the record in the Ebers papyrus of the rising of Sirius in the ninth regnal year of Amenhotep I, which is used in conventional chronology to fix that year to either 1542 BC or 1517 BC, has been misread, and instead should be understood as evidence for a reform in the Egyptian calendar.

A heliacal rising of Sothis was recorded in the reign of Thutmose's predecessor, Amenhotep I, which has been dated to 1517 BC, assuming the observation was made at Thebes.

In 1517, he supported the foundation at the University, by his friend Jeroen Van Busleyden, of the Collegium Trilingue for the study of Hebrew, Latin, and Greek — after the model of the College of the Three Languages at the University of Alcalá.

* Asino d ' oro ( 1517 ) — The Golden Ass is a terza rima poem, a new version of the classic work by Apuleius.

* 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.

His encounter with Ming China in 1517 — after initial contacts by Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello in 1513 and 1516, respectively — marked the resumption of direct European commercial and diplomatic contact with China.

Two years later, together with his father Matteo Gentili ( 1517 — 1602 ), a renowned medical doctor, and one of his brothers, Scipione Gentili, he had to flee from Italy because of their Protestant beliefs.

The most common dating of the Protestant Reformation begins in 1517, when Luther published The Ninety-Five Theses, and concludes in 1648 with the Treaty of Westphalia that ended years of European religious wars.

In addition to conflicts between his Spanish and German inheritances, conflicts of religion would be another source of tension during the reign of Charles V. Before Charles even began his reign in the Holy Roman Empire, in 1517, Martin Luther initiated what would later be known as the Reformation.

The work continued between 1245 and 1517 and was largely finished by the architect Henry Yevele in the reign of Richard II.

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.

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 ).

The reign of the Mamluks ( 1250 – 1517 AD ) marked a breathtaking flowering of Islamic art which is most visible in old Cairo.

In 1517, the Ottoman Turks conquered the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt and Syria, during the reign of Selim I.

He was succeeded by his son, Bogdan III the One-Eyed ( 1504 – 1517 ) whose reign was troubled by a long series of military conflicts with Poland and Wallachia.

The good relations with Poland were reestablished under the reign of Stephen IV the Younger ( 1517 – 1527 ).

During his reign the Curtea de Argeş Monastery was built ( in 1517 )-legend names Meşterul Manole as the chief craftsman ; the account also fuses Neagoe with yet another legendary figure, Prince Radu ( who would've caused Manole's death by ordering for the scaffolding to be removed while the builders were on the roof, ensuring that nobody would use Manole's craft, and thus preserving the uniqueness of the structure ).

It took over a century to build, starting in 1386 and ending circa 1517, spanning the reign of seven kings.

Born in 1517 and dying in 1583, ordained in the reign of Henry VIII, selected to preach before Edward VI, presented to an important benefice in the north of England in the reign of Mary, and holding it until his death, he might seem an obvious butt for satire on the laxity of conscience in those who conformed throughout the Reformation period.

One of Sir Richard's descendants was Sir Edward Waldegrave ( c. 1517 – 1 September 1561 ) of Borley, Essex, and West Haddon, Northamptonshire, who was imprisoned during the reign of King Edward VI for his loyalty to the princess, afterwards Queen Mary.

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

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

* June 12 – Francis I, Duke of Lorraine ( b. 1517 )

* June 29 – Maria of Aragon, Queen of Manuel I of Portugal, daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile ( d. 1517 )

In 1517 King Manuel I of Portugal handed Lopo Homem a charter giving him the privilege to certify and amend all compass needles in vessels.

Le Havre was provisionally renamed Franciscopolis in the documents, after King Francis I, who developed the city in 1517.

The city was founded in 1517, when it was named Franciscopolis after Francis I of France, and subsequently named Le Havre-de-Grâce (" Harbour of Grace ") after an existing chapel of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (" our Lady of Grace ").

In 1517, the Turkish Ottoman Empire under Selim I conquered Jerusalem from the Mamluks who had held it since 1250.

In October 1517, seventeen-year-old Charles I arrived in Asturias at the Bay of Biscay.

King Manuel I authorized a trade mission in 1517 when Andrade set sail with 7 cannon-armed merchant vessels with a Muslim interpreter on June 17, 1517.

In 1517, the construction of Le Havre was ordered by Francis I of France as a new port.

On 17 July 1517 the Sharif of Mecca capitulated to the Ottoman Sultan Selim I.

A Morisco worked as a military advisor for Sultan Al-Ashraf Tumanbay II of Egypt ( the last Egyptian Mamluk Sultan ) during his struggle against the Ottoman invasion in 1517 led by Sultan Selim I.

In addition to such secular titles, the Ottoman sultan became the Caliph of Islam bearing the title Khalifeh ül-Rasul Rub al-A ’ alimin ( i. e. Successor of the Prophet of the Lord of the Universe ), starting with Selim I, who became Caliph in 1517 after Al-Mutawakkil III, the last of the Abbasid Caliphs in Cairo, formally surrendered the caliphal titles and regalia ( the sword, mantle and other relics of Muhammad ) to Selim in Constantinople the same year.

From 1508 to 1517, the city was in the power of the Emperor Maximilian I.

In 1517 the Ottoman empire conquered the region and gave its name to the period that lasted until 1917, when the British conquered it in World War I.

In 1517 King Manuel I of Portugal handed Lopo Homem a charter giving him the privilege to certify and amend all compass needles in vessels.

Later, Portuguese merchants began direct trade over the sea route with the Ming Dynasty in 1517 and were followed by Dutch merchants in 1598.

He was followed by Nopaltzin ( 1232 – 1263 ), Tlotzin ( 1263 – 1298 ), Quinatzin ( 1298 – 1357 ), Techotlalazin ( 1357 – 1409 ), Ixlilxochitl ( 1409 – 1418 ), Nezahualcoyotl ( 1420 – 1472 ), Nezahualpilli ( 1472 – 1516 ), Cacama ( 1517 – 1519 ), Coanchochtzin ( 1520 – 1521 ), and Don Fernando Ixtlilxochitl ( 1521 – 1531 ).

Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle ( 20 August 1517 – 21 September 1586 ), Comte de La Baume Saint Amour, was a Burgundian statesman, made a cardinal, who followed his father as a leading minister of the Spanish Habsburgs, and was one of the most influential European politicians during the time which immediately followed the appearance of Protestantism in Europe ; " the dominating Imperial statesman of the whole century ".

* De Maria Magdalena, 1517, followed in 1519 by another entitled: De tribus et unica Magdalena.

In 1507 a second, less widespread outbreak occurred, followed in 1517 by a third and much more severe epidemic.

She followed her brother to Spain in 1517.

Several Spanish expeditions followed in 1517 and 1519, making landfall on various parts of the Yucatán coast.