History
1497 
World
General
Population: 457 Million*- Entertainment: Writers include John Alcock The Hill of Perfection
Art includes Filippino Lippi "Meeting of Joachim and Anne at the Golden Gate", Michelangel sculpts "Bacchus", - Exploration: Portuguese Vasco de Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope and sails on to India
First voyage of Amerigo Vespucci
Voyage of John Cabot - Philosophy: Conradus Celtis introduces humanism in Vienna
- Religion: Girolamo Savonarola excommunicated for attempting to depose Pope Alexander VI - Savonarola noted for banning anything "immoral" including new art and books - opposed to Borgias and Medicis
Savonarola conducts Bonfire of the vanities - collection of mirrors, cosmetics, sculptures etc. including Botticelli works - Deaths: Architect Benedetto da Maiano, Composer Henry Abyngdon
Americas
- Mexico: End of reign of Aztec ruler Moctezuma I
- North America: Cabot reaches east coast of North America - discovers Newfoundland
Europe
- General: John the Infante of Spain marries Margaret of Austria
- Denmark: King John II of Denmark defeats Swedish army at Brukeberg – enters Stockholm and revives Scandinavian union
- England: Rising in Cornwall – Lord Audley's rebellious army defeated by Henry VII at Blackheath
Perkin Warbeck arrives in Cork from Scotland but finds no support – goes to Cornwall and attempts to take Exeter – captured by royalist troops at Taunton - Ireland: Famine
- Italian States: Lucrezia Borgia (divorced from Giovanni Sforza in 1493) marries Alfonso of Naples
Severe famine in Florence - Portugal: King Manuel of Portugal marries Infanta Isabella of Spain
Jews expelled from Portugal
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