1499
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This article is about the year 1499. For the number see 1499 (number).
| Millennium: | 2nd millennium |
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| Centuries: | 14th century – 15th century – 16th century |
| Decades: | 1460s 1470s 1480s – 1490s – 1500s 1510s 1520s |
| Years: | 1496 1497 1498 – 1499 – 1500 1501 1502 |
| 1499 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 |
| 1499 in poetry |
| Gregorian calendar | 1499 MCDXCIX |
| Ab urbe condita | 2252 |
| Armenian calendar | 948 ԹՎ ՋԽԸ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6249 |
| Bahá'í calendar | -345–-344 |
| Bengali calendar | 906 |
| Berber calendar | 2449 |
| English Regnal year | 14 Hen. 7 – 15 Hen. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2043 |
| Burmese calendar | 861 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7007–7008 |
| Chinese calendar | 戊午年閏十一月二十日 (4135/4195-intercalary 11-20) — to —
己未年十一月廿九日(4136/4196-11-29) |
| Coptic calendar | 1215–1216 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1491–1492 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5259–5260 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1555–1556 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1421–1422 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4600–4601 |
| Holocene calendar | 11499 |
| Igbo calendar | |
| - Ǹrí Ìgbò | 499–500 |
| Iranian calendar | 877–878 |
| Islamic calendar | 904–905 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiō 8 (明応8年) |
| Juche calendar | N/A (before 1912) |
| Julian calendar | 1499 MCDXCIX |
| Korean calendar | 3832 |
| Minguo calendar | 413 before ROC 民前413年 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2042 |
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Year 1499 (MCDXCIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.
Events [edit]
January–December [edit]
- January 8 – Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany, in accordance with a law set by his predecessor, Charles VIII.
- April 14 – By the Treaty of Krakow, Poland and Hungary recognize the independence of Moldavia.
- July 22 – Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeat the army of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
- July 28 – First Battle of Lepanto: The Turkish navy wins a decisive victory over the Venetians.
- August – Polydore Vergil completes De inventoribus rerum, the first modern history of inventions.
- August 24 – Lake Maracaibo is discovered.
- September 18 – Vasco da Gama arrives at Lisbon, returning from India, and is received by King Manuel of Portugal.
- September 22 – Treaty of Basel: Maximilian is forced to grant the Swiss de facto independence.
- October 25 – The Pont Notre-Dame in Paris, constructed under Charles VI of France, collapses into the Seine.
- November 5 – The Catholicon is published in Treguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary had been written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first dictionary of either French or Breton.
- November 23 – Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the throne of England, is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London.
- November 28 – Edward, Earl of Warwick, last male member of the House of York, is executed for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London.
Date unknown [edit]
- The French under Louis XII seize Milan, driving out Duke Ludovico Sforza. Leonardo da Vinci flees to Venice.
- Montenegro, the last free monarchy in the Balkans, is annexed by the Ottoman Empire as part of the sanjak of Shkodër.
- Johannes Trithemius inadvertently reveals interests in magic by writing a letter to a Carmelite monk about a treatise he was writing on steganography.
- Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa matriculates at Cologne University.
Births [edit]
- January 20 – Sebastian Franck, German humanist. (d. 1543)
- January 29 – Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther
- February 10 – Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)
- March 31 – Pope Pius IV (d. 1565)
- September 3 – Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henry II of France (d. 1566)
- October 13 – Claude of France, queen of Louis XII of France (d. 1524)
- date unknown
- Hans Asper, Swiss painter (d. 1571)
- Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (d. 1592)
- Cesare Hercolani, Italian military leader (d. 1534)
- Jan Łaski, Polish Protestant reformer (d. 1560)
- Laurentius Petri, Archbishop of Uppsala (d. 1573)
- Giulio Romano, Italian painter (d. 1546)
- Bernardino de Sahagún, Franciscan missionary (d. 1590)
- Niccolo Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician (d. 1557)
- probable – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (d. 1543)
Deaths [edit]
- January 9 – John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455)
- August 29 – Alessio Baldovinetti, Florentine painter (b. 1427)
- October 1 – Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (b. 1433)
- November 23 – Perkin Warbeck, Flemish imposter (b. c. 1474) (executed)
- November 28 – Edward, Earl of Warwick, last male member of the English House of York (b. 1475)
- date unknown
- John Cabot, Italian explorer (b. c. 1450)
- Rennyo, leader of the Ikko sect of Buddhism (b. 1415)
- Muhammad Rimfa, ruler of Kano
