1497

This article is about the year 1497.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
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
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

1497 in other calendars

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)
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 – Followers of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of "immoral" objects at the Bonfire of the Vanities in Florence on Shrove Tuesday.
• 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 Mathew, looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).
• June 17 – Battle of Deptford Bridge: Forces under King Henry VII of England soundly defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.
• 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.
• 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)