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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 Turks.
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 declaries himself
Caliph
.
Major outbreak of the
sweating sickness
in England.
Births
June 18
-
Emperor Ogimachi of Japan
.
Henry Grey, 1st Duke of Suffolk
,
English
nobleman of the
Tudor period
.
January 31
or
March 22
-
Gioseffo Zarlino
, Italian music theorist, composer, and member of the
Venetian school
.
Deaths
March 26
-
Heinrich Isaac
,
composer
.
Fra Bartolommeo
,
Florentine
artist
.
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