Timeline June 1497

Events in June 1497 3

• 1474 – 1497 Juan Borgia, Duke of Gandia (1474-1497) Died 14 June 1497, aged 23 Juan Borgia was a son of Pope Alexander VI and held the Spanish dukedom of Gandia. He was murdered in Rome on the night of 14 June 1497, his body dumped in the Tiber River, in a crime that was never conclusively solved. Contemporaries widely suspected his brother Cesare Borgia of orchestrating the killing to clear his own path to power.
• 1497 Cornish Rebellion of 1497 Cornish commoners march on London to protest war taxation Led by Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank, thousands of Cornishmen marched toward London to protest taxes raised to fund a campaign against Scotland. The rebels were defeated at the Battle of Deptford Bridge near Blackheath on 17 June 1497. An Gof and Flamank were captured and executed for treason.
• 1497 John Cabot Lands in North America English-sponsored expedition reaches the coast of Newfoundland Sailing from Bristol under a patent from Henry VII, the Genoese navigator John Cabot sighted land believed to be Newfoundland or Cape Breton Island on 24 June 1497. It was the first documented European landfall on the North American mainland since the Norse voyages. Cabot claimed the territory for England, laying the basis for later English claims in North America.