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1497{| align=right cellpadding=3 id=toc style="margin-left: 15px;" |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Years: 1494 1495 1496 - 1497 - 1498 1499 1500 |- | align="center" colspan=2 | Decades: 1460s 1470s 1480s - 1490s - 1500s 1510s 1520s |- | align="center" | Centuries: 14th century - 15th century - 16th century |} ==Events== * 7 February - followers of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of "immoral" objects at the Bonfire of the Vanities in Florence on Shrove Tuesday. * May 10 - Amerigo Vespucci (explorer) allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World. * May 13 - Pope Alexander VI excommunication Girolamo Savonarola. * May 20 - John Cabot sets sail from Bristol on his ship the ''Mathew'' looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date). * June 17 - Battle of Deptford Bridge, 1497 - Forces under King Henry VII of England soundly defeat troops led by Michael An Gof. * June 24 - John Cabot lands in North America, either an island or the mainland. * July 8 - Vasco da Gama begins his expedition to India. ==Births== *January 26 - Emperor Go-Nara of Japan (d. 1557) * February 16 - Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (d. 1560) *Francesco da Milano, Italian composer (d. 1543) ==Deaths== * 1497 bs:1497 kw:1497 os:1497 14971490s See other meanings of words starting from letter:A | B | C | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | R | S | T | U | V | X | Y | Z | |
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