Editing 1517 (section)

=== April&ndash;June ===
* [[April 12]] &ndash; [[Lopo 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]] &ndash; 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]] &ndash; 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>{{Cite web|last1=Boissoneault|first1=Lorraine|title=On Evil May Day, Londoners Rioted Over Foreigners Stealing Their Jobs|url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/evil-may-day-1517-london-riots-over-foreigners-180963090/|access-date=2021-11-01|website=Smithsonian Magazine|language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 15]] &ndash; The [[Ottoman–Mamluk War (1516–1517)|Ottoman–Mamluk War]] officially ends as the Ottoman Empire annexes the [[Mamluk Sultanate]] territories in the Middle East (the [[Levant]]), the Arabian Peninsula ([[Hejaz]]) and Egypt as provinces.<ref>{{cite book |year=2006 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3amnMPTPP5MC&pg=PA183 |title=Dictionary of Battles and Sieges |author=Tony Jaques |publisher=Greenwood Press |isbn=9780313335365 |page=xxxiv}}</ref>
* [[April 22]] &ndash; In what is now Romania, [[Stephen IV of Moldavia|Stephen IV]] becomes the new [[Prince of Moldavia]] at [[Suceava]] upon the death of his father, [[Bogdan III the One-Eyed]]. 
* [[April 25]] &ndash; After 13 days of continuous storms and being unable to do more than destroy one Jeddah ship (while losing two of its own), the Portuguese fleet abandon its planned invasion of the Arabian peninsula.<ref name=Meloy/>
* [[April 30]] &ndash; Anticipating a riot in London, the Lord Mayor announces at 8:30 in the evening that a curfew will begin within 30 minutes, at 9:00. An attempt by a local alderman, John Mundy, to enforce the curfew triggers the attack by a mob hours later.<ref>Steve Rappaport, ''Worlds Within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London'' ([[Cambridge University Press]], 2002) p.15; {{ISBN|0-521-89221-X}}</ref> 
* [[May 1]] &ndash; [[Evil May Day]]: Xenophobic riots break out in London as English citizens attack foreigners, including Flemish shoemakers and French royal courtiers.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Scarisbrick |first1=J. J. |title=Henry VIII |date=1968 |publisher=University of California Press |page=67 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sF-yS-HQgyoC&dq=Evil+May+Day+%221+may+1517%22&pg=PA67 |access-date=19 July 2023 |language=en}}</ref> The [[Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk|Duke of Norfolk]] leads a private army of 1,300 men to put down the rioting.
* [[May 10]] &ndash; The coronation of Queen Consort [[Claude of France]], wife of [[King Francis I]], takes place at the [[Basilica of St Denis]] with Cardinal [[Philippe de Luxembourg]] performing the ceremony.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=GHQaAAAAYAAJ&dq=claude+of+france+coronation&pg=PA249 Nicolas Menin: ''An Historical and Chronological Treatise of the Anointing and Coronation of the Kings and Queens of France'', p. 249.] [Retrieved 28 December 2014].</ref>
* [[June 17]] &ndash; A fleet of eight ships of the navy of [[Portugal]], commanded by [[Fernão Pires de Andrade]] and dispatched from [[Goa]] by Portuguese India's Governor Lopo Soares de Albergaria on orders of [[Manuel I of Portugal|King Manuel I]], arrives in China at [[Guangzhou|Canton]] (now Guangzhou) and brings the Ambassador [[Tomé Pires]] and his diplomatic corps to start trade and foreign relations.<ref>Frederick Charles Danvers: ''The Portuguese in India'', volume I, London, W. H. Allen & Co. Limited, 1894, p. 338.</ref> 
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Pier Gerlofs Donia]], leader of a rebellion of the [[Frisians]] minority of the Netherlands, leads 4,000 of his Arumer Zwarte Hoop soldiers on an attack against the Dutch inhabitants of [[Medemblik]], then moves on to a massacre of the residents of the village of [[Asperen]].