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| Gregorian calendar | 1497 MCDXCVII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2250 |
| Armenian calendar | 946 ԹՎ ՋԽԶ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6247 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1418–1419 |
| Bengali calendar | 904 |
| Berber calendar | 2447 |
| English Regnal year | 12 Hen. 7 – 13 Hen. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2041 |
| Burmese calendar | 859 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7005–7006 |
| Chinese calendar | 丙辰年 (Fire Dragon) 4193 or 4133 — to — 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 4194 or 4134 |
| Coptic calendar | 1213–1214 |
| Discordian calendar | 2663 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1489–1490 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5257–5258 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1553–1554 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1418–1419 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4597–4598 |
| Holocene calendar | 11497 |
| Igbo calendar | 497–498 |
| Iranian calendar | 875–876 |
| Islamic calendar | 902–903 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiō 6 (明応６年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1414–1415 |
| Julian calendar | 1497 MCDXCVII |
| Korean calendar | 3830 |
| Minguo calendar | 415 before ROC 民前415年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 29 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2039–2040 |
| Tibetan calendar | མེ་ཕོ་འབྲུག་ལོ་ (male Fire-Dragon) 1623 or 1242 or 470 — to — མེ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Snake) 1624 or 1243 or 471 |
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1497 (MCDXCVII) was a common year starting on Sunday in the Julian calendar.
Events
- July 8 – Vasco da Gama leaves Lisbon, Portugal for is first trip through the Cape of Good Hope to India.
- Spanish Empire: Melilla is captured by Castile.
- Girolamo Savonarola, priest and leader of Florence, Italy burns what he believes is immoral art in Piazza della Signoria. Savonarola is excommunicated and burned alive in that same location later in the same year.
Deaths
- February 6 – Johannes Ockeghem, Belgian composer (b. 1410)