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1497 (one thousand four hundred and ninety-seventh) year according to the Julian calendar is a non-leap year starting on Sunday . This is the year 1497 AD , 497 year of the 2nd millennium , 97 year of the 15th century , 7 year of the 10th decade of the 15th century, 8 year of the 1490s .

Content

Events

February 7 - Bonfire of Vanity in Florence
May 12 - Pope Alexander VI , calling Savonarola ’s teachings “suspicious,” excommunicated him. Savonarola refused to obey.
May 20 - John Cabot sailed from Bristol west, just north of latitude 52 ° north.
June 24 - John Cabot reached the northern tip of Newfoundland . In one of the harbors, he landed and declared the country the possession of the English king.
July 8 - Vasco da Gama expedition set off to the shores of India .
October 26 - defeat of the Polish army of King Jan I Albrecht in a battle near the Kozminsky forest ( Bukovina , in the territory of modern Ukraine) by the army of Lord Stefan III .

No exact dates

Compiled and adopted Judicial Code of Ivan III - a set of laws of the Russian state .
March - The first Novgorod truce , the end of the Russian-Swedish war .
1497-1498 - accession to the Swiss Union of Graubunden .
In Istanbul, Bayazid II received the first Moscow embassy arrived, headed by Mikhail Plescheev .
1497-1504 - Emperor of Vietnam Le Hien Tong , son of Le Thanh Tong .
The British Empire began to exist.
The official coat of arms of Russia , the two-headed Oryol, was approved as a legacy of the Byzantine Empire .
Babur captured Samarkand.

Born

Hans Holbein (Younger) (presumably), German painter.
Francesco da Milano , Italian composer, lute player.
Alberto Accarcio is an Italian philologist, author of one of the first dictionaries of the Italian language.
Philip Melanchthon , German religious reformer, associate of Martin Luther .

Died

See also: Category: Deaths in 1497