WHAT HAPPENED IN 1499.
Look what happened the 1499.

Louis XII of France marries Anne of Brittany. (8. January 1499)

Alonso de Ojeda sets sail from Cadiz on his voyage to what is now Venezuela. (18. May 1499)

Catherine of Aragon is married by proxy to Arthur Tudor, Prince of Wales. Catherine is 13 and Arthur is 12. (19. May 1499)

The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama. (10. July 1499)

Battle of Dornach – The Swiss decisively defeat the Imperial army of Emperor Maximilian I. (22. July 1499)

First engagement of the Battle of Zonchio between Venetian and Ottoman fleets. (12. August 1499)

Treaty of Basel (22. September 1499)

Publication of the Catholicon in Tréguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary was written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It is the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary. (5. November 1499)

Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England. (23. November 1499)