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Calendar year
Year 1499 (
MCDXCIX ) was a
common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the
Julian calendar .
Events
January–December
January 8 –
Louis XII of France marries
Anne of Brittany , in accordance with a law set by his predecessor,
Charles VIII .
[1]
May 19 – 18-year-old
Catherine of Aragon , the
future first wife of
Henry VIII of England , is
married by proxy to his brother, 12-year-old
Arthur, Prince of Wales .
July 22 –
Battle of Dornach : The
Swiss decisively defeat the army of
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor .
[2]
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, by
Alonso de Ojeda and
Amerigo Vespucci .
September 18 –
Vasco da Gama arrives at
Lisbon , returning from India, and is received by King
Manuel of Portugal .
[3]
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 .
[4]
November 5 – The
Catholicon is published in
Tréguier (
Brittany ). This
Breton –greek–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 Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick , last male member of the
House of York , is executed for reportedly attempting to escape from the
Tower of London .
December 18 – The
Rebellion of the Alpujarras (1499–1501) begins in the
Kingdom of Granada (Crown of Castile) against the
forced conversions of Muslims in Spain .
Date unknown
Births
January 15 –
Samuel Maciejowski , Polish bishop (d.
1550 )
January 20 –
Sebastian Franck , German humanist (d.
1543 )
January 29 –
Katharina von Bora , German nun, wife of
Martin Luther (d.
1552 )
February 10 –
Thomas Platter , Swiss humanist scholar and writer (d.
1582 )
March 22 –
Johann Carion , German astrologer and chronicler (d.
1537 )
March 31 –
Pope Pius IV (d.
1565 )
[5]
May 14 –
Agostino Gallo , Italian agronomist (d.
1570 )
June 24 –
Johannes Brenz , German theologian and Protestant Reformer of the
Duchy of Württemberg (d.
1570 )
July 17 –
Maria Salviati , Italian noble and mother of Cosimo I de Medici (d.
1543 )
August 14 –
John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford , English noble (d.
1526 )
September 3 –
Diane de Poitiers , French duchess, mistress of
Henry II of France (d.
1566 )
October 13 –
Claude of France , queen consort of France, daughter of
Louis XII of France (d.
1524 )
October 14 –
Catherine of the Palatinate , Abbess of Neuburg am Neckar (d.
1526 )
October 31 –
Günther XL, Count of Schwarzburg (1526–1552) (d.
1552 )
November 1 –
Rodrigo of Aragon , Italian noble (d.
1512 )
December 8 –
Sebald Heyden , German musicologist and theologian (d.
1561 )
December 13 –
Justus Menius , German Lutheran pastor (d.
1558 )
date unknown
probable –
Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo , Portuguese explorer (d.
1543 )
Deaths
References
^
The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages ; [catalog of an Exhibition Held at the Cloisters, Mar. 26, 1975 - June 3, 1975] .
Metropolitan Museum of Art . 1975. p. 256.
ISBN
9780870990960 .
^ Herold, J. Christopher (October 21, 2016).
The Swiss Without Halos . Pickle Partners Publishing. p. 36.
ISBN
9781787201385 .
^ Friedman, John Block; Figg, Kristen Mossler (July 4, 2013).
Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia .
Routledge . p. 145.
ISBN
9781135590949 .
^ Wouters, Ine; van de Voorde, Stephanie; Bertels, Inge; Espion, Bernard; de Jonge, Krista; Zastavni, Denis (July 11, 2018).
Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories: Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH 2018), July 9-13, 2018, Brussels, Belgium . Vol. 1.
CRC Press . p. 23.
ISBN
9780429822643 .
^
"Pius IV | pope" . Encyclopedia Britannica . Retrieved November 23, 2020 .
^ Traynor, Luke (November 13, 2013).
"Ming the clam confirmed by Bangor University scientists as the world's oldest creature at 507 - 102 years older than previously believed" . Mirror Online .