1497

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths

Events

May 10 - Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cadiz for his first voyage to the New World.
May 13 - Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.
May 20 - John Cabot sets sail from Bristol on his ship the Mathew looking for a route to the west (other documents give a May 2 date).
June 24 - John Cabot lands in North America, either an island or the mainland.
July 8 - Vasco da Gama begins his expedition to India.