1497

	1497 in topic:
	Subjects: Archaeology – Architecture –
	Art – Literature – Music – Science
	Leaders: State leaders – Colonial governors
	Category: Establishments – Disestablishments
	Births – Deaths – Works v • d • e

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

Year 1497 (MCDXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

[edit] Events of 1497

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 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.
Ivan the Great issues his law code, the Sudebnik.
The Ottomans give Russian merchants freedom of trade within the empire.

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)
- Mori 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)

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
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)