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{{C15 year in topic}}Year '''1499''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDXCIX]]''') was a [[common year starting on Tuesday]] of the [[Julian calendar]].

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[January 8]] &ndash; [[Louis XII of France]] marries [[Anne of Brittany]], in accordance with a law set by his predecessor, [[Charles VIII of France|Charles VIII]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C3_LHs0Ck6gC&pg=PA256 |title=The Secular Spirit: Life and Art at the End of the Middle Ages ; [catalog of an Exhibition Held at the Cloisters, Mar. 26, 1975 - June 3, 1975] |publisher=[[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] |year=1975 |page=256 |isbn=9780870990960}}</ref>
* [[May 19]] &ndash; 18-year-old [[Catherine of Aragon]], the [[Wives of Henry VIII|future first wife]] of [[Henry VIII of England]], is [[Proxy marriage|married by proxy]] to his brother, 12-year-old [[Arthur, Prince of Wales]].
* [[July 22]] &ndash; [[Battle of Dornach]]: The [[Old Swiss Confederacy|Swiss]] decisively defeat the army of [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1VlODQAAQBAJ&pg=PT36 |title=The Swiss Without Halos |first=J. Christopher |last=Herold |publisher=Pickle Partners Publishing |date=21 October 2016 |page=36 |isbn=9781787201385}}</ref>
* [[July 28]] &ndash; [[Battle of Lepanto (1499)|First Battle of Lepanto]]: The Turkish navy wins a decisive victory over the Venetians.
* [[August]] &ndash; [[Polydore Vergil]] completes ''De inventoribus rerum'', the first modern history of inventions.
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[Lake Maracaibo]] is discovered, by [[Alonso de Ojeda]] and [[Amerigo Vespucci]].
* [[September 18]] &ndash; [[Vasco da Gama]] arrives at [[Lisbon]], returning from India, and is received by King [[Manuel I of Portugal|Manuel of Portugal]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-OmCfNI_SxAC&pg=PA145 |title=Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia |first=John Block |last=Friedman |first2=Kristen Mossler |last2=Figg |publisher=[[Routledge]] |date=4 July 2013 |page=145 |isbn=9781135590949}}</ref>
* [[September 22]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Basel (1499)|Treaty of Basel]]: Maximilian is forced to grant the Swiss ''de facto'' independence.
* [[October 25]] &ndash; The [[Pont Notre-Dame]] in Paris, constructed under [[Charles VI of France]], collapses into the [[Seine]].<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a7NjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA23 |title=Building Knowledge, Constructing Histories: Proceedings of the 6th International Congress on Construction History (6ICCH 2018), July 9-13, 2018, Brussels, Belgium |volume=1 |first=Ine |last=Wouters |first2=Stephanie |last2=van de Voorde |first3=Inge |last3=Bertels |first4=Bernard |last4=Espion |first5=Krista |last5=de Jonge |first6=Denis |last6=Zastavni |publisher=[[CRC Press]] |date=11 July 2018 |page=23 |isbn=9780429822643}}</ref>
* [[November 5]] &ndash; The ''[[Catholicon (trilingual dictionary)|Catholicon]]'' is published in [[Tréguier]] ([[Brittany]]). This [[Breton language|Breton]]–greek–Latin dictionary had been written in [[1464]] by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first dictionary of either French or Breton.
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Perkin Warbeck]], pretender to the throne of England, is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the [[Tower of London]].
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[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 18]] &ndash; The [[Rebellion of the Alpujarras (1499–1501)]] begins in the [[Kingdom of Granada (Crown of Castile)]] against the [[forced conversions of Muslims in Spain]].

=== Date unknown ===
* The French under [[Louis XII of France|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]], and [[Stefan II Crnojević]] is removed from office.
* [[Johannes Trithemius]] inadvertently reveals interests in magic by writing a letter to a [[Carmelites|Carmelite]] friar about a treatise he is writing on [[steganography]].
* [[Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa]] matriculates at [[Cologne University]].
* [[Giggleswick School]] is founded by Reverend James Carr in England.</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
* [[January 15]] &ndash; [[Samuel Maciejowski]], Polish bishop (d. [[1550]])
* [[January 20]] &ndash; [[Sebastian Franck]], German humanist (d. [[1543]])
* [[January 29]] &ndash; [[Katharina von Bora]], German nun, wife of [[Martin Luther]] (d. [[1552]])
* [[February 10]] &ndash; [[Thomas Platter]], Swiss humanist scholar and writer (d. [[1582]])
* [[March 22]] &ndash; [[Johann Carion]], German astrologer and chronicler (d. [[1537]])
* [[March 31]] &ndash; [[Pope Pius IV]] (d. [[1565]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Pius IV {{!}} pope |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pius-IV |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=23 November 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[May 14]] &ndash; [[Agostino Gallo]], Italian agronomist (d. [[1570]])
* [[June 24]] &ndash; [[Johannes Brenz]], German theologian and Protestant Reformer of the [[Duchy of Württemberg]] (d. [[1570]])
* [[July 17]] &ndash; [[Maria Salviati]], Italian noble and mother of Cosimo I de Medici (d. [[1543]])
* [[August 14]] &ndash; [[John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford]], English noble (d. [[1526]])
* [[September 3]] &ndash; [[Diane de Poitiers]], French duchess, mistress of [[Henry II of France]] (d. [[1566]])
* [[October 13]] &ndash; [[Claude of France]], queen consort of France, daughter of [[Louis XII of France]] (d. [[1524]])
* [[October 14]] &ndash; [[Catherine of the Palatinate (1499–1526)|Catherine of the Palatinate]], Abbess of Neuburg am Neckar (d. [[1526]])
* [[October 31]] &ndash; [[Günther XL, Count of Schwarzburg]] (1526–1552) (d. [[1552]])
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Rodrigo of Aragon]], Italian noble (d. [[1512]])
* [[December 8]] &ndash; [[Sebald Heyden]], German musicologist and theologian (d. [[1561]])
* [[December 13]] &ndash; [[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 (painter)|Giulio Romano]], Italian painter (d. [[1546]])
** [[Bernardino de Sahagún]], Franciscan missionary (d. [[1590]])
** [[Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia]], Italian mathematician (d. [[1557]])
** [[Ming (clam)|Ming]], Icelandic [[clam]] (d. [[2006]])<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/ming-clam-confirmed-bangor-university-2788505|title=Ming the clam confirmed by Bangor University scientists as the world's oldest creature at 507 - 102 years older than previously believed|work=Mirror Online|first=Luke|last=Traynor|date=2013-11-13}}</ref>
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo]], Portuguese explorer (d. [[1543]])

== Deaths ==
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[John Cicero, Elector of Brandenburg]] (b. [[1455]])
* [[March 24]] &ndash; [[Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire]], English nobleman (b. [[1470]])
* [[April 7]] &ndash; [[Galeotto I Pico]], Duke of Mirandola (b. [[1442]])
* [[August 29]] &ndash; [[Alesso Baldovinetti]], Florentine painter (b. [[1427]])
* [[October 1]] &ndash; [[Marsilio Ficino]], Italian philosopher (b. [[1433]])
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Perkin Warbeck]], Flemish imposter (b. c. [[1474]]) (executed)
* [[November 28]] &ndash; [[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 (city)|Kano]]
** [[Laura Cereta]], Italian humanist and feminist (b. [[1469]])

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