1497

1497 was a common year.

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)