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| Decades: 1480s 1490s 1500s - 1510s - 1520s 1530s 1540s | |
| Centuries: 15th century - 16th century - 17th century | |
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Events
- January 22 - Battle of Ridanieh. The Turkish forces of Selim I defeat the main Mamluk army in Egypt under Touman Bey.
- February 3 - Capture of Cairo by the Ottoman Empire; Fall of Mamluk Sultanate.
- First contact of organized western merchants with China.
- August 15 - Portuguese merchant Fernao Pires de Andrade met Chinese officials through an interpreter at Pearl River estuary and landed at Hong Kong.
- October 31 - Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Wittenberg Castle Church.
- Conquest of Riazan by Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy.
- Selim I, Sultan of the Ottoman Empire conquers Palestine and Egypt, and declares himself Caliph.
- Third outbreak of the sweating sickness in England, especially bad in Oxford and Cambridge
Births
- Jacques Pelletier du Mans, French mathematician (died 1582)
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, English aristocrat (died 1547)
Deaths
- March 26 - Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer
- October 31 - Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist (born 1472)
- November 8 - Francisco Cardinal Jiménez de Cisneros, Spanish Cardinal and statesman (born 1436)
- Francisco Hernández de Córdoba, Spanish conquistador
- Luca Pacioli, Italian mathematician (born 1445)
- Francesco Raibolini, Italian painter
- Dyveke Sigbritsdatter, mistress of Christian II of Denmark
- Gaspar van Weerbeke, Dutch composer (born 1445)
- Badi' al-Zaman, Timurid ruler of Herat
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