What is 1497?
{{Year nav|1497}} {{Year in various calendars|1497}} {{Year article header|1497}} == 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 [[Kingdom of Castile|Castile]]. * [[Girolamo Savonarola]], [[priest]] and leader of [[Florence]], [[Italy]] burns what he believes is [[Moral|immoral]] [[art]] in [[Piazza della Signoria]]. Savonarola is [[excommunication|excommunicated]] and burned alive in that same location later in the same year. == Deaths == * [[February 6]] – [[Johannes Ockeghem]], [[Belgium|Belgian]] [[composer]] (b. [[1410]]) [[Category:1497| ]]