1499

This article is about the year 1499. For the number, see 1499 (number).

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1460s  1470s  1480s  – 1490s –  1500s  1510s  1520s
Years:	1496 1497 1498 – 1499 – 1500 1501 1502

1499 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1499 in poetry

1499 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1499 MCDXCIX
Ab urbe condita	2252
Armenian calendar	948 ԹՎ ՋԽԸ
Assyrian calendar	6249
Bengali calendar	906
Berber calendar	2449
English Regnal year	14 Hen. 7 – 15 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2043
Burmese calendar	861
Byzantine calendar	7007–7008
Chinese calendar	戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4195 or 4135     — to — 己未年 (Earth Goat) 4196 or 4136
Coptic calendar	1215–1216
Discordian calendar	2665
Ethiopian calendar	1491–1492
Hebrew calendar	5259–5260
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1555–1556
- Shaka Samvat	1421–1422
- Kali Yuga	4600–4601
Holocene calendar	11499
Igbo calendar	499–500
Iranian calendar	877–878
Islamic calendar	904–905
Japanese calendar	Meiō 8 (明応８年)
Julian calendar	1499 MCDXCIX
Korean calendar	3832
Minguo calendar	413 before ROC 民前413年
Thai solar calendar	2041–2042

Year 1499 (MCDXCIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events

January–December

• January 8 – Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany, in accordance with a law set by his predecessor, Charles VIII.
• May 19 – 13-year-old Catherine of Aragon, the future first wife of Henry VIII of England, is married by proxy to his brother, 12-year-old Arthur, Prince of Wales.
• July 22 – Battle of Dornach: The Swiss decisively defeat the army of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor.
• July 28 – First Battle of Lepanto: The Turkish navy wins a decisive victory over the Venetians.
• August – Polydore Vergil completes De inventoribus rerum, the first modern history of inventions.
• August 24 – Lake Maracaibo is discovered.
• September 18 – Vasco da Gama arrives at Lisbon, returning from India, and is received by King Manuel of Portugal.
• September 22 – Treaty of Basel: Maximilian is forced to grant the Swiss de facto independence.
• October 25 – The Pont Notre-Dame in Paris, constructed under Charles VI of France, collapses into the Seine.
• November 5 – The Catholicon is published in Tréguier (Brittany). This Breton–French–Latin dictionary had been written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first dictionary of either French or Breton.
• November 23 – Perkin Warbeck, pretender to the throne of England, is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London.
• November 28 – Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, last male member of the House of York, is executed for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London.
• December – Rebellion of the Alpujarras (1499–1501) begins in the Kingdom of Granada (Crown of Castile).

Date unknown

• The French under Louis XII seize Milan, driving out Duke Ludovico Sforza. Leonardo da Vinci flees to Venice.
• Montenegro, the last free monarchy in the Balkans, is annexed by the Ottoman Empire as part of the sanjak of Shkodër.
• Johannes Trithemius inadvertently reveals interests in magic by writing a letter to a Carmelite monk about a treatise he is writing on steganography.
• Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa matriculates at Cologne University.

Births

• January 20 – Sebastian Franck, German humanist. (d. 1543)
• January 29 – Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther (d. 1552)
• February 10 – Thomas Platter, Swiss humanist (d. 1582)
• March 31 – Pope Pius IV (d. 1565)
• September 3 – Diane de Poitiers, mistress of Henry II of France (d. 1566)
• October 13 – Claude of France, daughter of Louis XII of France (d. 1524)
• date unknown
  • Hans Asper, Swiss painter (d. 1571)
  • Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (d. 1592)
  • Cesare Hercolani, Italian military leader (d. 1534)
  • Jan Łaski, Polish Protestant reformer (d. 1560)
  • Laurentius Petri, Archbishop of Uppsala (d. 1573)
  • Giulio Romano, Italian painter (d. 1546)
  • Bernardino de Sahagún, Franciscan missionary (d. 1590)
  • Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia, Italian mathematician (d. 1557)
  • Ming (clam), oldest known living creature (d. 2006)
• probable – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (d. 1543)

Deaths

• January 9 – John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455)
• August 29 – Alesso Baldovinetti, Florentine painter (b. 1427)
• October 1 – Marsilio Ficino, Italian philosopher (b. 1433)
• November 23 – Perkin Warbeck, Flemish imposter (b. c. 1474) (executed)
• November 28 – Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, last male member of the English House of York (b. 1475)
• date unknown
  • Rennyo, leader of the Ikko sect of Buddhism (b. 1415)
  • Muhammad Rumfa, ruler of Kano