1497

1497 (MCDXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar, the 1497th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 497th year of the 2nd millennium, the 97th year of the 15th century, and the 8th year of the 1490s decade. As of the start of 1497, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1460s  1470s  1480s  – 1490s –  1500s  1510s  1520s
Years:	1494 1495 1496 – 1497 – 1498 1499 1500

Events

• July 8 – Vasco da Gama leaves Lisbon, Portugal for is first trip through the Cape of Good Hope to India.
• Spanish Empire: Melilla is captured by Castile.
• Girolamo Savonarola, priest and leader of Florence, Italy burns what he believes is immoral art in Piazza della Signoria. Savonarola is excommunicated and burned alive in that same location later in the same year.

Deaths

• February 6 – Johannes Ockeghem, Belgian composer (b. 1410)