1497

July 8– Vasco da Gama and crew begin their journey to sail around southern Africa, rounding the Cape of Good Hope by November 22 on voyage to India.
May 20: John Cabot and crew begin their voyage to claim North America for England, arrive on June 24.
1497 in various calendars
Gregorian calendar1497
MCDXCVII
Ab urbe condita2250
Armenian calendar946
ԹՎ ՋԽԶ
Assyrian calendar6247
Balinese saka calendar1418–1419
Bengali calendar903–904
Berber calendar2447
English Regnal year12 Hen. 7 – 13 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar2041
Burmese calendar859
Byzantine calendar7005–7006
Chinese calendar丙辰年 (Fire Dragon)
4194 or 3987
    — to —
丁巳年 (Fire Snake)
4195 or 3988
Coptic calendar1213–1214
Discordian calendar2663
Ethiopian calendar1489–1490
Hebrew calendar5257–5258
Hindu calendars
 - Vikram Samvat1553–1554
 - Shaka Samvat1418–1419
 - Kali Yuga4597–4598
Holocene calendar11497
Igbo calendar497–498
Iranian calendar875–876
Islamic calendar902–903
Japanese calendarMeiō 6
(明応６年)
Javanese calendar1414–1415
Julian calendar1497
MCDXCVII
Korean calendar3830
Minguo calendar415 before ROC
民前415年
Nanakshahi calendar29
Thai solar calendar2039–2040
Tibetan calendarམེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་
(male Fire-Dragon)
1623 or 1242 or 470
    — to —
མེ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་
(female Fire-Snake)
1624 or 1243 or 471

The year 1497 (MCDXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–March

  • January 16 – At Westminster, King Henry VII opens his sixth English Parliament for a two-month session. The House of Commons elects Sir Thomas Englefield as its speaker.
  • February 7 – At the public square in Florence, on Shrove Tuesday, followers of the charismatic Dominican friar and evangelist Girolamo Savonarola carry out the first "bonfire of the vanities" and burn thousands of artworks, books, clothing, mirrors, music instruments, playing cards and other objects deemed by them to be a temptation to sin.[1][2]
  • March 13 –
    • King Henry VII of England gives royal assent to numerous acts passed as parliament adjourns, including the Weights and Measures Act 1496, standardizing units of weight and of volume throughout England. Specifically, the smallest unit, the "sterling" is set at the weight of 32 corns of wheat, 20 sterlings are an ounce, 12 ounces are a pound. A gallon of wheat must weight 8 pounds Troy Weight, and a 12-gallon bushel must weight 64 pounds.[3]
    • King Henry also assents to the Benefit of Clergy Act 1496, requiring that charges against a church official for treason must be tried in a government court of law. For other charges, clergymen may still have the benefit of being tried by an ecclesiastical court under canon law.[4]
  • March 3 – The Russo-Swedish War (1495–1497) ends with a six year truce signed in Russia at Novgorod.[5] Stockholm Due to gathering unrest at home, the Swedish leader Sten Sture the Elder is forced to offer a peace to Ivan III of Moscow.

April–June

  • April 18 – Captain Andrea Loredan of the Republic of Venice departs southward on the Adriatic Sea on a large, heavily-armed warship with a crew of 450, with a mission of locating the Spanish Navarrese pirate Pedro Navarro.[6]
  • May 10 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz, for his first voyage to the New World.[7] The account of a voyage (from May 10, 1497 to October 15, 1498) is doubted because the only mention of the voyage is in a letter written six years later, and the course described would have traveled across the land of Mexico and into the Pacific Ocean.[8]
  • May 12 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.[9]
  • 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).[10]
  • May – The Cornish Rebellion breaks out in England, incited by war taxes.[10]
  • June 13 – Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, 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.[11]
  • June 24 – John Cabot lands in North America (near present day Bonavista, Newfoundland).
  • June 26 – The coronation of Federico di Trastamara, son of King Alfonso II, as King of Naples takes place at the Cathedral of Barletta.
  • June 27 – At what is supposed to be a meeting at Nysa in about a united front by the nobility of Poland against the Ottoman Empire, Mikołaj II Niemodlińsk, the Duke of Opole in Poland as well as ruler of the duchies of Niemodlin, Brzeg, and Strzelce, attempts stab two of the other nobles attending, Casimir II, Duke of Cieszyn and the Bishop Jan IV Roth. Mikolaj II is beheaded the next day.

July–September

October–December

Date unknown


Births

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Deimling, Barbara (2000). Sandro Botticelli. Taschen. p. 79. ISBN 978-3-8228-5992-6.
  2. ^ "Covenantseminary.edu". Archived from the original on 17 May 2008.
  3. ^ Evans, William David; et al., eds. (1836). A Collection of Statutes connected with the General Administration of the Law; Arranged According to the Order of Subjects: With Notes, 3rd ed.. Vol. VIII. London: W.H. Bond & al. pp. 312–313..
  4. ^ Tomlins, Thomas Edlyne; Raithby, John (1811). Benefit of Clergy Act 1496 [12 Hen. VII. - A.D. 1496 Chapter VII]. The Statutes at Large, of England and of Great Britain: from Magna Carta to the Union of the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. II. London, Great Britain: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan. pp. 790–791. OCLC 1110419501 – via Internet Archive.
  5. ^ Sven Ulric Palme, Sten Sture den äldre (Sten Sture the Elder) (Stockholm: AB Wahlström & Widstrand 1950) pp.209-210
  6. ^ dal Borgo, Michela (2005). "LOREDAN, Andrea". Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (in Italian). Vol. 65: Levis–Lorenzetti. Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana. ISBN 978-88-12-00032-6.
  7. ^ The World Almanac and Encyclopedia. Press Publishing Company (The New York World). 1901. p. 106.
  8. ^ Morison, Samuel Eliot (1974). The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages, 1492—1616. New York: Oxford University Press. p. 308.
  9. ^ Elie-Charles Flamand (1968). The Renaissance. Heron. p. 196.
  10. ^ a b c Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. pp. 189–192. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
  11. ^ a b c Palmer, Alan; Palmer, Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 135–138. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.
  12. ^ Bengt Liljegren (2004). Rulers of Sweden. Historiska Media. p. 63. ISBN 9789185057634.
  13. ^ 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.
  14. ^ Timothy Wengert; M. Patrick Graham (1 October 1997). Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) and the Commentary. Bloomsbury Academic. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-85075-684-2.
  15. ^ 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 2022-10-09.
  16. ^ Studies in the History of Art. National Gallery of Art. 1972. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-89468-106-6.
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