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,
