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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