1517
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Year 1517 (MDXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
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Events
- March 16 – The Fifth Council of the Lateran ends.
- October 31 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther publishes his 95 Theses (posting them on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church).
- A third outbreak of the sweating sickness in England hits Oxford and Cambridge.
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Births
- August 20 – Antoine Perrenot de Granvelle, statesman, Roman Catholic cardinal (d. 1586)
- September 6 – Francisco de Holanda, Portuguese artist (d. 1585)
- Jacques Pelletier du Mans, French mathematician (d. 1582)
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English aristocrat (d. 1547)
- Frans Floris, Flemish painter
- John Foxe, English
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Deaths
- January 5 – Francesco Raibolini, Italian painter (b. c. 1450)
- October 31 – Fra Bartolomeo, Italian artist (b. 1472)
- November 8 – Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish cardinal and statesman (b. 1436)
- Luca Pacioli, Italian mathematician (b. 1445)
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Literature
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Fiction
- The Golden Ass (Machiavelli), satirical poem
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Non-fiction
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Visual art
- Girl and Death by Hans Baldung
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Music
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Architecture
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