# Katharina ( b. Meissen, 24 July 1468 – d. Göttingen, 10 February 1524 ), married firstly on 24 February 1484 in Innsbruck to Duke Sigismund of Austria, and secondly on 1497 to Duke Eric I of Brunswick-Calenberg.

* 1497 – Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.

* 1497 – The bonfire of the vanities occurs in which supporters of Girolamo Savonarola burn thousands of objects like cosmetics, art, and books in Florence, Italy.

* 1497 – Philipp Melanchthon, German humanist and reformer ( d. 1560 )

# Frederick ( 17 January 1497, Ansbach – 20 August 1536, Genoa ), a canon in Würzburg and Salzburg.

* Philipp Melanchthon ( 1497 – 1560 )

# Christof ( b. Dresden, 8 September 1497 – d. Leipzig, 5 December 1497 ).

* 1497 – Emperor Go-Nara of Japan ( d. 1557 )

* 1497 – Battle of Deptford Bridge – forces under King Henry VII defeat troops led by Michael An Gof.

* 1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London, England.

* 1497 – John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland leading the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings.

* 1497 – Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.

The leader of the next generation of Italian lutenists, Francesco Canova da Milano ( 1497 – 1543 ), is now acknowledged as one of the most famous lute composers in history.

* 1497 – Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cádiz for his first voyage to the New World.

* 1497 – Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola.

* 1555 – Stephen Gardiner, English statesman ( b. 1497 )

**** illegitimate son Giovanni Paolo I ( 1497 – 1535 ), marquess of Caravaggio

1497 – 30 July 1540 ) was an English priest who was martyred during the reign of Henry VIII.

He only went to war twice, once in 1489 during the Breton crisis and the invasion of Brittany, and in 1496 – 1497 in revenge for Scottish support of Perkin Warbeck and for their invasion of Northern England.

* 1497 – 1499: Vasco da Gama's first voyage from Europe to India and back.

* Hayne van Ghizeghem ( – 1472 or possibly later ; New Grove says he died between 1472 and 1497 ), Flemish composer of the early Renaissance Burgundian School.

* Johannes Ockeghem, ( – 1497 ), Flemish composer.

Moreover, there is the 1908 theory that America derives from Richard Amerike of Bristol, England, financier of John Cabot's 1497 expedition.

Giovanni Caboto ( John Cabot ) reportedly visited the island in 1497 to become the first Renaissance European explorer to visit present-day Canada.

File: Cabotslanding. jpg | Cabot's Landing, Victoria County, commemorating the " first land seen " by explorer John Cabot in 1497

* Matthew ( ship ), the ship sailed by John Cabot in 1497 from Bristol to North America

** John Hooper, English churchman ( burned at the stake ) ( b. c. 1497 )

* June 30 – John, Prince of Asturias, Son of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile ( d. 1497 )

** John Heywood, English dramatist ( b. 1497 )

** Margaret Stewart ( born around 1497 ), married firstly John Gordon, Lord Gordon and secondly Sir John Drummond.

In 1497, sailing from the north on behalf of England, John Cabot landed on the North American coast, and a year later, Columbus's third voyage reached the South American coast.

Based on the Treaty of Tordesillas, the Portuguese Crown claimed it had territorial rights in the area visited by John Cabot in 1497 and 1498 CE.

In regard to the Americas, the archaeological finds in L ' Anse aux Meadows in present-day northern Newfoundland, Canada — to which the investigators had been led partly by the 16th-century Skálholt Map — show there was a Viking settlement there ( around 1000 ) which, while unsuccessful and short-lived, predates by five centuries Christopher Columbus's voyage to the Caribbean islands in 1492 and John Cabot's voyage to North America in 1497.

Built in 1497 by the Bishop of Ely, Henry VII's minister John Cardinal Morton, it comprised four wings in a square surrounding a central courtyard.

John Gardner identifies the first pictorial representation of a dory to a 1497 painting by Albrecht Dürer.

The first flag known to have flown in Canada was the St George's Cross carried by John Cabot when he reached Newfoundland in 1497.

Within a period of 112 years, 1497 – 1609, four European explorers claimed this land for their sponsors: John Cabot, 1497, for England ; Giovanni de Verrazano, 1524, for France ; Estevan Gomez, 1525, for Spain, Henry Hudson, 1609, for Holland.

Christian took part in his father John of Denmark's conquest of Sweden in 1497 and in the fighting of 1501 when Sweden revolted.

The heir apparent, John, had died in 1497 very shortly after his marriage to Margaret of Austria.

* John Heywood, English poet ( 1497 – c 1575 )

He was the principal owner of the Matthew, the ship sailed by John Cabot during his voyage of exploration to North America in 1497.

John, also known as Hans ; né Johannes ( 2 February 1455 – 20 February 1513 ) was King of Denmark ( 1481 – 1513 ), Norway ( 1483 – 1513 ) and as John II () of Sweden ( 1497 – 1501 ) in the Kalmar Union, and also Duke of Schleswig and Holstein.