In the year 1499, Polydore Vergil completes De inventoribus rerum, the first modern history of inventions (Aug), Vasco da Gama returns to Lisboa after his first voyage (to India) (Sep 18), the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I is forced to grant the Swiss de facto independence in the Treaty of Basel (Sep 22), the Rebellion of the Alpujarras begins in the Kingdom of Granada, incited by the forced conversions to Catholicism of the Muslims living there (Dec 18) - and all these fine people were born:

1499-xxxx John IV of Egmont* the second Count of Egmont/m to Françoise of Luxembourg - Egmond aan den Hoef, North Holland (1528/29)

1499-0106 John of Avila* apostolic preacher/ mystic/saint – Almodovar del Campo, Spain (1569/70)
1499-0115 Samuel Maciejowski* Roman Catholic Bishop - Poland (1550/51)
1499-0120 Sebastian Franck* German freethinker/humanist/radical reformer - Donauwörth , Swabia (c.1543/c.44)
1499-0129 Katharina von Bora* the wife of Martin Luther - Lippendorf, Electrorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (1552/53)

1499-0210 Thomas Platter* humanist scholar/writer - Grächen, Valais, Switzerland (1582/82)

1499-0322 Johann Carion* astrologer/mathematician/historian - Bietigheim, Germany (1537/37)

1499-0514 Agostino Gallo* agronomist/introduced alfalfa and rice to Italian agriculture - Cadignano (1570/71)

1499-0624 Johannes Brenz* German theologian/Protestant reformer - Imperial City of Weil der Stadt  (1570/71)

1499-0717 Maria Salviati* noblewoman/mother of Cosimo I de Medici - Florence, Republic of Florence (1543/44)

1499-1013 Claude of France* queen consort of France/wife of Francis I - Romorantin-Lanthenay, France (1524/24)

1499-1208 Sebald Heyden* musicologist/ cantor/theologian - Bruck, Germany, Holy Roman Empire (1561/61)

Updated 15.3.2023-2
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