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

1497 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1497 MCDXCVII
Ab urbe condita	2250
Armenian calendar	946 ԹՎ ՋԽԶ
Assyrian calendar	6247
Balinese saka calendar	1418–1419
Bengali calendar	904
Berber calendar	2447
English Regnal year	12 Hen. 7 – 13 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2041
Burmese calendar	859
Byzantine calendar	7005–7006
Chinese calendar	丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4193 or 4133     — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 4194 or 4134
Coptic calendar	1213–1214
Discordian calendar	2663
Ethiopian calendar	1489–1490
Hebrew calendar	5257–5258
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1553–1554
- Shaka Samvat	1418–1419
- Kali Yuga	4597–4598
Holocene calendar	11497
Igbo calendar	497–498
Iranian calendar	875–876
Islamic calendar	902–903
Japanese calendar	Meiō 6 (明応６年)
Javanese calendar	1414–1415
Julian calendar	1497 MCDXCVII
Korean calendar	3830
Minguo calendar	415 before ROC 民前415年
Nanakshahi calendar	29
Thai solar calendar	2039–2040
Tibetan calendar	阳火龙年 (male Fire-Dragon) 1623 or 1242 or 470     — to — 阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 1624 or 1243 or 471

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)