1499

1499 (MCDXCIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1499th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 499th year of the 2nd millennium, the 99th year of the 15th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1490s decade. As of the start of 1499, the Gregorian calendar was 9 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was the dominant calendar of the time.

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 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1499 MCDXCIX
Ab urbe condita	2252
Armenian calendar	948 ԹՎ ՋԽԸ
Assyrian calendar	6249
Balinese saka calendar	1420–1421
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	1420–1421
- Kali Yuga	4599–4600
Holocene calendar	11499
Igbo calendar	499–500
Iranian calendar	877–878
Islamic calendar	904–905
Japanese calendar	Meiō 8 (明応８年)
Javanese calendar	1416–1417
Julian calendar	1499 MCDXCIX
Korean calendar	3832
Minguo calendar	413 before ROC 民前413年
Nanakshahi calendar	31
Thai solar calendar	2041–2042
Tibetan calendar	阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 1625 or 1244 or 472     — to — 阴土羊年 (female Earth-Goat) 1626 or 1245 or 473

Events

• January 8 – Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany
• August 24 – Lake Maracaibo is explored by Alonso de Ojeda and Amerigo Vespucci.
• September 18 – Vasco da Gama arrives at Lisbon, returning from India
• Montenegro is added to the Ottoman Empire

Births

for more information, see Category:1499 births.

• October 14 – Claude of France

Deaths

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