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Calendar year
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 .
March – The
Russo-Swedish War (1495–1497) ends with a six year truce.
[1] Due to gathering unrest at home, the Swedish leader
Sten Sture the Elder was forced to offer a peace to
Ivan III of Moscow .
[2]
May – The
Cornish Rebellion breaks out in England, incited by war taxes.
[3]
May 10 –
Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves
Cádiz , for his first voyage to the
New World .
May 12 –
Pope Alexander VI
excommunicates
Girolamo Savonarola .
May 20 –
John Cabot sets sail from
Bristol , on the ship
Matthew (principally owned by
Richard Amerike ), looking for new lands to the west (some sources give a
May 2 date).
[3]
June 13 – The
Catholic Monarchs issue the ordinance of Medina del Campo, creating a money system based on the copper
maravedí , creating the
peso of 34 maravedis. In the next three centuries, this system will dominate international payments. It will be used in almost all parts of the Americas and large parts of Asia. It is the basis for a number of modern currencies, including the U.S. dollar.
June 17 –
Battle of Deptford Bridge near London: Cornish rebels under
Michael An Gof are soundly defeated by Henry VII.
[4]
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 .
[4]
September 28 –
Battle of Rotebro :
John, King of Denmark , defeats
Sten Sture the Elder .
September 30 – The
Treaty of Ayton establishes a seven-year peace between England and Scotland.
[4]
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 .
[3]
October 6 – Sten Sture the Elder is forced to resign and end his 27-year term as Regent of
Sweden . King John of Denmark and Norway is acknowledged by the estates as King of Sweden and formally elected on
October 18 , restoring the power of the
Kalmar Union .
December 5 – King
Manuel I of Portugal proclaims an
edict in which he demands that
Jews convert to
Christianity or leave the country.
December 23 – Sheen Palace is destroyed by fire.
Henry VII of England rebuilds it as
Richmond Palace .
Date unknown
Births
February 16 –
Philip Melanchthon , German humanist and reformer (d.
1560 )
[6]
February 19 –
Matthäus Schwarz , German fashion writer (d.
1574 )
March –
Giovanni Paolo I Sforza , Italian condottiero (d.
1535 )
April 2 –
Georg Giese , German merchant (d.
1562 )
April 16 –
Mōri Motonari , Japanese daimyō (d.
1571 )
April 17 –
Pedro de Valdivia , Spanish conquistador (d.
1553 )
May 3 –
Wilhelm IV of Eberstein , President of the Reichskammergericht (d.
1562 )
May 21 –
Al-Hattab , Tripolitanian Muslim jurist (d.
1547 )
June 27 –
Ernest I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d.
1546 )
July 15 –
Francis of Denmark , Danish prince (d.
1511 )
August 18 –
Francesco Canova da Milano , Italian composer (d.
1543 )
September 10 –
Wolfgang Musculus , German theologian (d.
1563 )
October 29 –
Benedetto Accolti the Younger , Italian cardinal (d.
1549 )
date unknown
probable
Deaths
January 3 –
Beatrice d'Este , Duchess of Milan (b.
1475 )
[8]
January 30 –
Lê Thánh Tông , Emperor of Vietnam (b.
1442 )
February 6 –
Johannes Ockeghem , Flemish composer (b. c.
1410 )
May 26 –
Antonio Manetti , Italian mathematician and architect (b.
1423 )
June 14 –
Giovanni Borgia, 2nd Duke of Gandía (assassinated) (b.
1474 )
June 27
June 28 –
James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley (b. c.
1463 )
July –
Estêvão da Gama , Portuguese explorer ( b. c.
1430 )
July 23 –
Barbara Fugger , German banker (b.
1419 )
August 24 –
Sophie of Pomerania, Duchess of Pomerania (b.
1435 )
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 )
November 30 –
Anna Sforza , Italian noble (b.
1476 )
date unknown
probable –
Elia del Medigo , Italian philosopher (b.
1460 )
References
^ Larsson, Lars-Olof (1997). Kalmarunionens tid: Från drottning Margareta till Kristian II. Stockholm. p. 362.(Swedish).
^ Palme 1950 s. 209-210, 212-218, Suvanto 1952 s. 265-269, 271, 275-277, Julku 1987 s. 237, Finlands historia I s. 395, 397, Harrison 2005 s. 496-497, Sveriges historia 1350–1600 s. 197.(Swedish).
^
a
b
c Williams, Hywel (2005).
Cassell's Chronology of World History . London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp.
189–192 .
ISBN
0-304-35730-8 .
^
a
b
c Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History . London: Century Ltd. pp. 135–138.
ISBN
0-7126-5616-2 .
^
Annals of the Four Masters - Part 13 .
Annals of the Four Masters . Retrieved April 17, 2018 . Great famine prevailed through all Ireland in this and the following year, so that people ate of food unbecoming to mention, and never before heard of as having been introduced on human dishes.
^ Timothy Wengert; M. Patrick Graham (October 1, 1997).
Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) and the Commentary . Bloomsbury Academic. p. 7.
ISBN
978-1-85075-684-2 .
^ BONO, JAMES J.; SCHMITT, CHARLES B. (1979).
"AN UNKNOWN LETTER OF JACQUES DALÉCHAMPS TO JEAN FERNEL: LOCAL AUTONOMY VERSUS CENTRALIZED GOVERNMENT" (PDF) . Bulletin of the History of Medicine . 53 (1): 100–127.
ISSN
0007-5140 .
JSTOR
44451300 .
PMID
387127 .
Archived (PDF) from the original on October 9, 2022.
^
Studies in the History of Art . National Gallery of Art. 1972. p. 140.
ISBN
978-0-89468-106-6 .