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1497 250px|thumb|May 20 – John Cabot and crew begin their voyage to claim North America for England, arriving on June 24. 250px|thumb|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. 1497 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.Barbara Deimling Sandro Botticelli https://books.google.com/books?id=VjHEhT5wRiwC&pg=PA79 2000 Taschen 978-3-8228-5992-6 79http://www.covenantseminary.edu/worldwide/en/CH310/CH310_T_33.html https://web.archive.org/web/20080517201252/http://www.covenantseminary.edu/worldwide/en/CH310/CH310_T_33.html dead Covenantseminary.edu 17 May 2008 March 13 – King Henry VII of England gives royal assent to numerous acts passed as parliament adjourns, including the following: 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.Evans William David William David Evans Hammond Anthony Granger Thomas Colpitts 1 Evans 1836 1836 A Collection of Statutes connected with the General Administration of the Law; Arranged According to the Order of Subjects: With Notes, 3rd ed. https://books.google.com/books?id=sbcuAAAAIAAJ VIII London W.H. Bond & al. 312–313. 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.https://archive.org/details/statutesatlarge01raitgoog/page/n830/ Benefit of Clergy Act 1496 Tomlins Thomas Edlyne Raithby John 1811 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 II London, Great Britain Internet Archive George Eyre and Andrew Strahan 1110419501 790–791 March 3 – The Russo-Swedish War (1495–1497) ends with a six year truce signed in Russia at Novgorod.Sven Ulric Palme, Sten Sture den äldre (Sten Sture the Elder) (Stockholm: AB Wahlström & Widstrand 1950) pp.209-210. Due to gathering unrest at home, the Swedish leader Sten Sture the Elder is forced to offer a peace to Ivan III of Moscow. March 19 – Persecution of Jews and Muslims by Manuel I of Portugal: Forced conversion of Jews in Portugal begins.Soyer François The Persecution of the Jews and Muslims of Portugal: King Manuel I and the End of Religious Tolerance (1496–7) 2007 Brill Leiden 9789004162624 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.LOREDAN, Andrea https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/andrea-loredan_(Dizionario-Biografico) dal Borgo Michela 65 May 10 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz, for his first voyage to the New World.The World Almanac and Encyclopedia Press Publishing Company (The New York World) 1901 106 The account of a voyage (lasting until October 15, 1498) is doubted because the only mention of it 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.Morison Samuel Eliot The European Discovery of America: The Southern Voyages, 1492—1616 1974 Oxford University Press New York 308 May 12 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.Elie-Charles Flamand The Renaissance Heron 1968 196 May 20 – Italian-born explorer John Cabot sets sail from Bristol in England, on the ship Matthew (principally owned by Richard Amerike), looking for new lands to the west (some sources give a May 2 date). May – The Cornish Rebellion breaks out in England, incited by war taxes.Williams Hywel Cassell's Chronology of World History https://archive.org/details/cassellschronolo0000will/page/189 registration London Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2005 0-304-35730-8 189–192 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.Palmer Alan Palmer Veronica 1992 The Chronology of British History Century Ltd London 135–138 0-7126-5616-2 June 24 – John Cabot lands in North America (near modern-day Bonavista, Newfoundland). June 26 – The coronation of Federico di Trastamara, son of King Alfonso II, as King of Naples takes place at Barletta Cathedral. June 27 – At what is supposed to be a meeting at Nysa about a united front by the nobility of Poland against the Ottoman Empire, Nicholas II of Niemodlin (Mikołaj II Niemodlińsk), the Duke of Opole in Poland as well as ruler of the duchies of Niemodlin, Brzeg, and Strzelce, attempts to stab two of the other nobles attending, Casimir II, Duke of Cieszyn and the Bishop Jan IV Roth. Nicholas is beheaded the next day. July–September 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. September 28 – At the Battle of Rotebro, Hans, King of Denmark, defeats Sten Sture the Elder.Bengt Liljegren Rulers of Sweden Historiska Media 2004 9789185057634 63 September 30 – The Treaty of Ayton establishes a seven-year peace between England and Scotland. October–December October – Persecution of Jews and Muslims by Manuel I of Portugal: Date under the decree of December 5, 1496, by which Portuguese Jews who have not converted are to be expelled from the country. 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. October 6 – Sten Sture the Elder agrees to recognize Hans, King of Denmark and of Norway as the rightful King of Sweden and ends his 27-year term as the Swedish Regent. October 18 – The nobles of Sweden's estates formally elect King Hans of Denmark and Norway as King of Sweden, restoring the power of the Kalmar Union. November 7 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama and his crew become the first Europeans to set foot on South African soil as the ship São Gabriel arrives at St Helena Bay and makes landfall. Philibert II of Savoy (Filiberto II) becomes the new Duke of Savoy upon the death of his father, Philip II (Filippo II), who had reigned for only 19 months. November 22 – The Vasco da Gama expedition discovers the first sea route from Europe to India as he and his crew, on four ships, round the Cape of Good Hope. November 26 – The coronation of Hans of Denmark as King of Sweden takes place at Stockholm, as he adopts the regnal name of King Johann II of Sweden. December 16 – The Vasco da Gama expedition travels past the Great Fish River on South Africa's Eastern Cape and sails into previously unexplored waters in the Indian Ocean. December 23 – Sheen Palace is destroyed by fire. Henry VII of England rebuilds it as Richmond Palace. Date unknown Ivan the Great of Russia issues his law code, the Sudebnik. The Ottomans give Russian merchants freedom of trade within the empire. Iamblichus' De mysteriis Aegyptorum edited by Marsilio Ficino is published. A famine "prevailed through all Ireland", according to the Annals of the Four Masters.Annals of the Four Masters Annals of the Four Masters - Part 13 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. April 17, 2018 http://www.ucc.ie/celt/online/T100005D/text013.html Births February 16 – Philip Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer (d. 1560)Timothy Wengert M. Patrick Graham Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560) and the Commentary https://books.google.com/books?id=Io_YAAAAMAAJ 1 October 1997 Bloomsbury Academic 978-1-85075-684-2 7 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 Jean Fernel, French physician (d. 1558)Bono James J. Schmitt Charles B. An Unknown Letter of Jacques Daléchamps to Jean Fernel: Local Autonomy Versus Centralized Government Bulletin of the History of Medicine 1979 53 1 100–127 44451300 387127 https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/44451300.pdf https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/44451300.pdf 2022-10-09 live 0007-5140 Gonzalo de Sandoval, Spanish conquistador (d. 1528) Margareta Eriksdotter Vasa, Swedish noblewoman (d. 1536) Johann Wild, German preacher (d. 1554) probable Francesco Berni, Italian poet (d. 1536) John Heywood, English playwright (d. 1580) Deaths January 3 – Beatrice d'Este, Duchess of Milan (b. 1475)Studies in the History of Art https://books.google.com/books?id=Vu8wAQAAIAAJ 1972 National Gallery of Art 978-0-89468-106-6 140 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 Michael An Gof, Cornish rebel leader (executed) Thomas Flamank, Cornish rebel leader (executed) 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 Al-Mutawakkil II, Caliph of Cairo Al-Sakhawi, Egyptian scholar (b. 1428) Albert Brudzewski, Polish astronomer (b. 1445) Gentile de' Becchi, Bishop of Arezzo (b. 1420/1430) probable – Elia del Medigo, Italian philosopher (b. 1460) References