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

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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 15 – Samuel Maciejowski, Polish bishop (d. 1550)
  • 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 scholar and writer (d. 1582)
  • February 21 – Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset (d. 1500)
  • March 22 – Johann Carion, German astrologer and chronicler (d. 1537)
  • March 31 – Pope Pius IV (d. 1565)
  • May 14 – Agostino Gallo, Italian agronomist (d. 1570)
  • June 24 – Johannes Brenz, German theologian and the Protestant Reformer of the Duchy of Württemberg (d. 1570)
  • July 17 – Maria Salviati, Italian noblewoman and mother of Cosimo I de Medici (d. 1543)
  • August 14 – John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford, English noble (d. 1526)
  • 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)
  • October 14 – Catherine of the Palatinate, Abbess of Neuburg am Neckar (d. 1526)
  • October 31 – Günther XL, Count of Schwarzburg (1526–1552) (d. 1552)
  • November 1 – Rodrigo of Aragon, Italian noble (d. 1512)
  • December 8 – Sebald Heyden, German musicologist and theologian (d. 1561)
  • December 13 – Justus Menius, German Lutheran pastor (d. 1558)
  • 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, Icelandic clam (d. 2006)
  • probable – Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Portuguese explorer (d. 1543)

    • Deaths

  • January 9 – John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455)
  • April 7 – Galeotto I Pico, Duke of Mirandola (b. 1442)
  • 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
  • Laura Cereta, Italian humanist and feminist (b. 1469)

    • References

    1499 Wikipedia
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