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Encyclopedia: 1497 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Sudebnik of 1497 (Судебник in Russian, or Code of Law), a collection of laws, which was introduced by Ivan III and played a big part in the centralization of the Russian state, creation of the nationwide Russian Law and elimination of feudal division. |
 | | Philip II (1438-1497), surnamed the Landless was the Duke of Savoy for the brief reign from 1496 to 1497. |
 | | In the year 1497, in the month of September, the Grand Prince of all Rus' Ivan Vasilievic, with his children and boyars, compiled a code of law on how boyars and major-domos (okolnichii) are to administer justice. |
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