The first was the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 when a Cornish army, led by Michael An Gof, a blacksmith from St. Keverne.

* 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.

The ford developed into first a wooden then a stone bridge, and in 1497 saw the Battle of Deptford Bridge, in which rebels from Cornwall, led by Michael An Gof, marched on London protesting against punitive taxes, but were soundly beaten by the King's forces.

Michael Joseph ( better known as Michael An Gof, where An Gof is Cornish for " blacksmith "; died 27 June 1497 ) and Thomas Flamank ( a Bodmin landowner's son and London lawyer ) were the leaders of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497.

As one of the leaders, Michael An Gof was executed with Flamank on 27 June 1497.

Thomas Flamank ( executed 27 June 1497 ) was a lawyer from Cornwall who together with Michael An Gof led the Cornish Rebellion against taxes imposed in England in 1497.

* Michael An Gof ( the " smith " in Cornish ), blacksmith, leader of the first Cornish rebellion in 1497

The English suffered high casualties, but on 17 June 1497 the forces of An Gof and Callum were defeated.

* James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley ( c. 1463 – 1497 ) ( forfeit 1497 )

When she died childless in 1497 the peerage once again fell into abeyance, this time between the daughters of the first Baron.

* William Dacre, 3rd Baron Dacre ( 1497 – 1563 )

John St John ( d. 1648 ) was the great-great-great-grandson of Oliver St John ( d. 1497 ) ( whose elder brother Sir John St John ( d. c. 1488 ) was the ancestor of the Barons St John of Bletsoe and Earls of Bolingbroke ), second son of Sir Oliver St John ( d. 1437 ), the husband of Margaret, great-great-granddaughter of Roger de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Beauchamp of Bletshoe ( d. 1380 ).

* Thomas Grey, 11th Baron Grey de Wilton ( 1497 – 1518 ) succeeded his brother George but died before reaching majority.

* George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham ( 1497 – 1558 )

The Audleys forfeited the title when James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley ( c. 1463 – 1497 ) led a rebellion against King Henry VII of England in 1497 and was executed.

* James Tuchet, 7th Baron Audley, one of the commanders of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497

The completion of the Christian reconquest of Spain led to expulsion of the Jews of Spain in 1492 and Portugal in 1497.

On 8 July 1497 Vasco da Gama led a fleet of four ships with a crew of 170 men from Lisbon.

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.

In the Russo-Swedish War ( 1495 – 1497 ) Ivan III unsuccessfully attempted to conquer Viborg from Sweden but this attempt was checked by the Swedish garrison in Viborg Castle led by Lord Knut Posse.

The castle was destroyed in the 15th century, which may have been as a penalty for the local Lord Audley's involvement in the Second Cornish Uprising of 1497 led by Perkin Warbeck.

This led to a synod in 1973 in which further reforms were introduced, most significantly including the permanent abolition of hereditary succession a practice introduced in the middle of the fifteenth century by the patriarch Shemʿon IV Basidi who had died in 1497 ); however, it was decided that Shimun should be reinstated.

Cornish grievances against the policies of the English government led to the unsuccessful uprisings of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 and the Prayer Book Rebellion of 1549.

This led in 1497 to the Boppard War.

* Thomas Flamank, lawyer, co-leader of the Cornish Rebellion, 1497

It also gave support to the Cornish language, and commemorated Thomas Flamank, a leader of the Cornish Rebellion in 1497, at an annual ceremony at Bodmin on 27 June each year.

The Lizard's political history includes the 1497 Cornish rebellion which began in St Keverne.

On 7 September 1497, Warbeck landed at Whitesand Bay, near Land's End, in Cornwall hoping to capitalise on the Cornish people's resentment in the aftermath of their uprising only three months earlier.

Henry VII reached Taunton on 4 October 1497, where he received the surrender of the remaining Cornish army.

During the Second Cornish Uprising of 1497 Perkin Warbeck surrendered when he heard that Giles, Lord Daubeney's troops, loyal to Henry VII were camped at Glastonbury.

After pitching camp on Blackheath, Cornish rebels were defeated in the Battle of Deptford Bridge ( sometimes called the Battle of Blackheath ), just to the west, on 17 June 1497.

In the Second Cornish Uprising of 1497 most of the Cornish gentry supported Perkin Warbeck's cause and on 17 September a Cornish army some 6, 000 strong entered Exeter before advancing on Taunton.

Henry VII reached Taunton on 4 October 1497 were he received the surrender of the remaining Cornish army.

He was permitted to assist in suppression of the Cornish rising in 1497.

In 1487 he commanded the vanguard at Stoke, the last battle of the Wars of the Roses, was in Picardy in 1492, and in 1497 was one of the commanders against the Cornish rebels at Blackheath.

The bridge over Deptford Creek was the site of the Battle of Deptford Bridge, 17 June 1497, the last battle of the Cornish Rebellion of 1497.

Then followed a long period of contention which included the Cornish Rebellion of 1497, the 1549 Prayer Book Rebellion, the Persecution of Recusants, the Poor Laws, and the English Civil War and Commonwealth ( 1642 – 1660 ).

It is possible that the roots of the rebellion can – in part – be traced back to the Cornish Rebellion of 1497 and the subsequent destruction of monasteries from 1536 through to 1545 under king Henry VIII which brought an end to the formal scholarship, supported by the monastic orders, that had sustained the Cornish and Devonian cultural identities.

* Cornish Rebellion of 1497

As a result, the Cornish rebels were beaten by the King's forces at the Battle of Deptford Bridge on 17 June 1497 on a site adjacent to the River Ravensbourne.

His father, who had held a command against the Cornish rebels in 1497, was the head of a younger branch of an ancient Somerset family seated in the fourteenth century at Pawlett or Paulet and Road, close to Bridgwater, being the son of John Paulet and Elizabeth Roos.