Historical Events In 1497

May 13 Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola

May 10 Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for first voyage to New World

May 02 John Cabot departs to North-America

Jan 06 Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria)

Jan 06 Jews are expelled from Graz (Syria)

Feb 25 Italians troops reconquer Taranto on France

Nov 18 Bartolomeu Dias discovers Cape of Good Hope

Jun 22 Antitax insurrection in Cornwall suppressed at Blackheath

Jun 24 John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England

Jul 08 Vasco da Gama leaves Lisbon on his voyage of discovery to India

Mar 09 Nicolaus Copernicus first recorded astronomical observation,