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October 31: Martin Luther nails his theological manifesto, the Ninety-five Theses, to the door of the All Saints' Church in Wittenberg and begins the Protestant Reformation.

Template:C16 year in topic Year 1517 (MDXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.

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January–MarchEdit

April–JuneEdit

  • April 12Lopo Soares de Albergaria of Portugal begins the siege of Jeddah (now part of Saudi Arabia), attempting to invade, but is unable to land because of artillery fire from the Ottoman and Mamluk defenders.<ref name=Meloy>.J. L. Meloy, Imperial power and Maritime Trade: Mecca and Cairo in the later Middle Ages (University of Chicago Center for Middle Eastern Studies, 2010) p.223</ref> Bad weather prevents the Portuguese fleet of 15 ships from navigating for the next two weeks.
  • April 13 – Tuman Bey II, the former King of Egypt, is executed along with his aides, bringing an end to the Abbasid dynasty.<ref>Yaşar Yüce and Ali Sevim, Türkiye tarihi Cilt II (İstanbul, 1991) p.250.</ref>
  • April 14 – On Easter Tuesday, Dr. Bell, a preacher standing at St Paul's Cross in front of London's Old St Paul's Cathedral, delivers an inflammatory sermon at the instigation of a local broker, John Lincoln and accuses foreign immigrants of stealing jobs from English workers and taking away bread from "poor fatherless children."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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