In 1517, Sir Brian Tuke was appointed by King Henry VIII as " Master of the King's Post ".

* Sir Thomas Pert in 1517

Between 1517 and 1522, Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon paid separate visits to the shrine, as did Sir Thomas More and Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who was born in Ipswich.

* Ye Oldest Diarie of Englysshe Travell: Being the hitherto unpublished narrative of the pilgrimage of Sir Richard Torkington to Jerusalem in 1517 ( c. 1890 ) editor

Clinton was born in Scrivelsby in Lincolnshire, the son of Thomas Clinton, 8th Baron Clinton ( 1490 – 1517 ), by his marriage to Joan, a daughter of Sir Edward Poynings.

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.

On 16 January 1508 / 9, at Edinburgh, Sir Robert Lauder of The Bass ( d. 1517 / 8 ), knight, was appointed " Captain and Keeper of the King's castle and fort of Lochmaben, with all pertinentes " and other privileges etc., for three years.

* 1510 – 1517 Thomas Thompson

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

** Thomas Sampson, English Puritan theologian and translator ( born c. 1517 )

Thomas Cooper ( or Couper ) ( c. 1517 – 29 April 1594 ) was an English bishop, lexicographer, theologian, and writer.

* Thomas Cooper ( bishop ) ( c. 1517 – 1594 ), English bishop of Lincoln and Winchester

* Thomas Clinton, 8th Baron Clinton ( 1490 – 1517 )

In 1517, the Portuguese built the St. Thomas Fort in Thangasseri, which was destroyed in the subsequent wars with the Dutch.

Thomas Cajetan ( pronounced Ca -' je-tan ), also known as Gaetanus, commonly Tommaso de Vio ( 20 February 1469-9 August 1534 ), was an Italian cardinal from 1517 until his death and the Master of the Order of Preachers 1508-18.

In 1517 New Hall was sold by Thomas Boleyn to Henry VIII of England.

Towards the end of 1517 Dietenberger was appointed Regens studiorum and interpreter of Thomas Aquinas at Trier, where he opened his lectures on 27 January 1518.

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

It was 1517 before another expedition from Cuba visited Central America, landing on the coast of Yucatán in search of slaves.

Biringuccio traveled about Italy, and visited Sicily in 1517.

In the 7th century an independent Muslim state emerged in the archipleago, but it was subsequently conquered by Yemen, then intermittently by the Kingdom of Medri-Bahri ( Land of the Sea ) 1517, when the Ottoman Turks conquered them and placed the islands under the rule of the Pasha at Suakin as part of the province of Habesh.

In 1517 he was a member of the " Ausseren Rates ", the council on external affairs, and in this capacity was involved in the expulsion of the Jews, the destruction of the synagogue and in its place the construction of a church and shrine to the Schöne Maria that occurred in 1519.

On March 16, 1517, the Fifth Council of the Lateran closed its activities with a number of reform proposals ( on the selection of bishops, taxation, censorship and preaching ) but not on the major problems that confronted the Church in Germany and other parts of Europe.

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.

A coherent treatise on anatomy was said to have been observed during a visit by Cardinal Louis ' D ' Aragon's secretary in 1517.

For Europe as a whole, 1500 is often considered to be the end of the Middle Ages, but there is no universally agreed upon end date ; depending on the context, events such as Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Americas in 1492, conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453, or the Protestant Reformation in 1517 are sometimes used.

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

This document was used in the defence of indulgences after Martin Luther pinned his 95 Theses to a church in Wittenberg on 31 October 1517.

In 1517, Luther famously posted his grievances on a church door in Wittenberg, Germany.

The Protestant Reformation began on 31 October 1517, in Wittenberg, Saxony, where Martin Luther nailed his Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences to the door of the Castle Church, in Wittenberg.

The protests against the corruption emanating from Rome began in earnest when Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk at the university of Wittenberg, called in 1517 for a reopening of the debate on the sale of indulgences and the authority to absolve sin and remit one from purgatory.

Leo closed the council on 16 March 1517.

In response to concerns about misconduct from some servants of the church, in 1517 Martin Luther read his Ninety-Five Theses on the topic of indulgences in the church courtyard at Wittenberg.

Year 1517 ( MDXVII ) was a common year starting on Thursday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

After it became clear that Maximilian's policies in Italy had been unsuccessful, and after 1517 Venice reconquered the last pieces of their territory from Maximilian, the emperor now started to focus entirely on the question of his succession.

The city's records show that on 10 December 1517, he was fined five livres for fighting in the street with a goldsmith called Caspar, who was fined the same amount.

Isaac died on 26 March 1517.

Because the medieval city was largely built of wood and stone houses were the exception, fire was a constant risk and a series of fires in 1517, 1750 and again on 7 May 1862 earned the people from Enschede the nickname Brandstichters ( arsonists ).

The Reformation was started on 31 October 1517 by Martin Luther, who posted his 95 Theses criticizing the practice of indulgences to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, commonly used to post notices to the University community.

The Mamluke Sultanate survived in Egypt until 1517, when Selim captured Cairo on 20 January.

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.