Editing 1517 (section)

=== January&ndash;March ===
* [[January 22]] &ndash; [[Battle of Ridaniya]]: The Holy [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] army of the sultan [[Selim I]] defeats the [[Mamluk]] army in [[Egypt]], commanded by the king [[Tuman Bay II]].<ref>{{cite book|author=R. G. Grant|title=1001 Battles That Changed the Course of History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2ZNADwAAQBAJ&pg=PA249|date=24 October 2017|publisher=Book Sales|isbn=978-0-7858-3553-0|pages=249}}</ref>
* [[January 30]] &ndash; [[Cairo]] is captured by the [[Ottoman Empire]] after a three day battle,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Clot |first1=André |title=Suleiman the Magnificent |date=13 February 2012 |publisher=Saqi |isbn=978-0-86356-803-9 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zz0hBQAAQBAJ |access-date=19 July 2023 |language=en|quote=The battle was fierce, the city conquered one house at a time. It lasted three days and nights as more and more corpses piled up in streets red with blood. On 30 January 1517, the Mamluks surrendered.}}</ref> and the [[Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo)|Mamluk Sultanate]] falls.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Öztuna |first1=Yılmaz |title=Türkiye tarihi: baslangicindan zamanimiza kadar |date=1963 |publisher=Hayat Kitaplari |page=266 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pFw8AAAAMAAJ&q=%2230+Ocak+1517%22+Memluk+Sultanl%C4%B1%C4%9F%C4%B1+Kahire |access-date=19 July 2023 |language=tr}}</ref> The [[Abbasid Caliphate]], reestablished in [[1261]], falls to the Ottomans and the last Caliph, [[Al-Mutawakkil III]], is deported along with his family to [[Constantinople]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bosworth |first1=C. E. |title=Islamic Dynasties |date=1996 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |location=Edinburgh |page=9 |url=https://archive.org/details/bosworth-1996-dynastic-tables-02/page/9/mode/2up |access-date=19 July 2023}}</ref></onlyinclude>
* [[February 3]] &ndash; The Ottoman Sultan Selim I makes a triumphant entry into Cairo after his Janissaries have cleared the area of the Mamluk defenders.
* [[February 8]] &ndash; [[Bernal Díaz del Castillo]], a chronicler who documents the conquest of Mexico, sets out with the [[Hernández de Córdoba expedition]] from [[Jaruco]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Del Castillo |first1=Bernal Diaz |last2=Maudslay |first2=A.P. |title=The Discovery And Conquest Of Mexico 1517 1521 |date=1928 |publisher=George Routledge Amp Sons Ltd. |location=London |pages=10–11 |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.152204/page/n25/mode/2up |access-date=19 July 2023}}</ref> They arrive at [[Cape Catoche]] twenty-one days later, and are met with hostility by the natives. Henry's 25-year-old sister [[Anne of Navarre]] serves as the regent until 1518, when Henry reaches the age of majority.
* [[February 12]] &ndash; At the age of 13, [[Henry II of Navarre|Henry II]] becomes the [[List of Navarrese monarchs|King of Navarre]], by then limited to the part of the Iberian peninsula north of the Pyrennes, upon the death of his mother, [[Catherine of Navarre|Queen Catherine]] in the capital, [[Pamplona]].
* [[March 4]] &ndash; The first intentional landing by Europeans on the coast of Mexico takes place as the Cordoba Expedition arrives at [[Cabo Catoche]] on the [[Yucatán Peninsula]], now in the Mexican state of [[Quintana Roo]]. The Spaniards are attacked by the [[Maya people|Mayans]] after being invited to visit, and a battle breaks out with 13 Spaniards ambushed and 15 Mayans killed.<ref name=Diaz>Bernal Díaz del Castillo, 1963, ''The Conquest of New Spain'', London: Penguin Books, pages 72-81 {{ISBN|0140441239}}</ref>
* [[March 16]] &ndash; The [[Fifth Council of the Lateran]] ends after almost five years of conferences on discussing reforms within the Roman Catholic Church.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Minnich |first1=Nelson H. |title=The Decrees of the Fifth Lateran Council (1512–17): Their Legitimacy, Origins, Contents, and Implementation |date=24 October 2018 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-351-89173-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jn10DwAAQBAJ&dq=%2216+march+1517%22+Fifth+Council+of+the+Lateran&pg=PT262 |access-date=19 July 2023 |language=en|quote=In the bull Constituti iuxta verbum that closed the Fifth Lateran Council on 16 March 1517, Leo X (1475-1521, pope 1513-21) provided a brief history of the council to demonstrate how it had accomplished the goals set for it and thus should be concluded.}}</ref>
* [[March 26]] &ndash; More than two months after fleeing Cairo and attempting a counterattack against the Ottomans, Tuman Bay II is captured alive with many of his Mamluk officers. Selim initially plans to exile Tuman Bey and other former Mamluk nobles to [[Constantinople]], but changes his mind.