This article is about the year 1497.
Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
Decades: | 1460s 1470s 1480s – 1490s – 1500s 1510s 1520s |
Years: | 1494 1495 1496 – 1497 – 1498 1499 1500 |
1497 by topic |
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Arts and science |
Architecture - Art |
Politics |
State leaders - Sovereign states |
Birth and death categories |
Births - Deaths |
Establishments and disestablishments categories |
Establishments - Disestablishments |
Art and literature |
1497 in poetry |
Gregorian calendar | 1497 MCDXCVII |
Ab urbe condita | 2250 |
Armenian calendar | 946 ԹՎ ՋԽԶ |
Assyrian calendar | 6247 |
Bahá'í calendar | -347–-346 |
Bengali calendar | 904 |
Berber calendar | 2447 |
English Regnal year | 12 Hen. 7 – 13 Hen. 7 |
Buddhist calendar | 2041 |
Burmese calendar | 859 |
Byzantine calendar | 7005–7006 |
Chinese calendar | 丙辰年十一月廿八日 (4133/4193-11-28) — to — 丁巳年十二月初八日(4134/4194-12-8) |
Coptic calendar | 1213–1214 |
Ethiopian calendar | 1489–1490 |
Hebrew calendar | 5257–5258 |
Hindu calendars | |
- Vikram Samvat | 1553–1554 |
- Shaka Samvat | 1419–1420 |
- Kali Yuga | 4598–4599 |
Holocene calendar | 11497 |
Iranian calendar | 875–876 |
Islamic calendar | 902–903 |
Japanese calendar | Meiō 6 (明応6年) |
Julian calendar | 1497 MCDXCVII |
Korean calendar | 3830 |
Minguo calendar | 415 before ROC 民前415年 |
Thai solar calendar | 2040 |
Year 1497 (MCDXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events
January–December
- February 7 (Shrove Tuesday) – Followers of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of "immoral" objects at the Bonfire of the Vanities in Florence.
- May – Cornish Rebellion in England incited by war taxes.[1]
- May 10 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.
- May 13 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
- May 20 – John Cabot sets sail from Bristol on his ship the Matthew, looking for a route to the west (some sources give a May 2 date).[1]
- June 17 – Cornish rebels under Michael An Gof are soundly defeated by Henry VII at the Battle of Deptford Bridge near London.[2]
- June 24 – John Cabot lands in North America (near present day Bonavista, Newfoundland).
- July 8 – Vasco da Gama's fleet departs from Lisbon, beginning his expedition to India.
- September 7 – Second Cornish Uprising in England: Perkin Warbeck lands near Land's End; on September 10 he is proclaimed as King in Bodmin.[2]
- September 30 – Treaty of Ayton establishes a seven-year peace between England and Scotland.[2]
- October 4 – Leaders of the Second Cornish Uprising surrender to the King at Taunton; the following day, Warbeck, having deserted his army, is captured at Beaulieu Abbey in Hampshire.[1]
- December 5 – King Manuel I of Portugal proclaims an edict in which he demands that Jews convert to Christianity or leave the country.
Date unknown
- Ivan the Great issues his law code, the Sudebnik.
- The Ottomans give Russian merchants freedom of trade within the empire.
- Iamblichus De mysteriis Aegyptorum edited by Marsilio Ficino is published.
Births
- January 26 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557)
- February 16 – Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (d. 1560)
- March – Giovanni Paolo I Sforza, Italian condottiero (d. 1535)
- April 2 – Georg Giese, German merchant (d. 1562)
- August 18 – Francesco Canova da Milano, Italian composer (died 1543)
- October 29 – Benedetto Accolti the Younger, Italian cardinal (d. 1549)
- date unknown
- Jean Fernel, French physician (d. 1558)
- Mōri Motonari, Japanese daimyo (d. 1571)
- Anne Seymour, Duchess of Somerset, English noblewoman (d. 1587)
- Gonzalo de Sandoval, Spanish conquistador (d. 1528)
- Johann Wild, German preacher (d. 1554)
- probable
- Francesco Berni, Italian poet (d. 1536)
- John Heywood, English playwright (d. 1580)
Deaths
- January 2 – Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan (b. 1475)
- January 30 – Lê Thánh Tông, King of Vietnam (b. 1442)
- February 6 – Johannes Ockeghem, Flemish composer (b. c. 1410)
- June 14 – Giovanni Borgia, Duke of Gandia (assassinated) (b.1474)
- June 24 – Leaders of the Cornish Rebellion (executed)
- Michael An Gof, blacksmith
- Thomas Flamank, lawyer
- June 28 – James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley (b. c. 1463)
- July – Estêvão da Gama, explorer
- October 4 – John, Prince of Asturias, only son of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile (b. 1478)
- November 7 – Philip II, Duke of Savoy (b. 1443)
- date unknown
- Al-Mutawakkil II, Caliph of Cairo
- Al-Sakhawi, Egyptian scholar (b. 1428)
- Albert Brudzewski, Polish astronomer (b. 1445)
- probable – Elia del Medigo, Italian philosopher (b. 1460)