1498

Millennium:	2nd millennium
Centuries:	14th century – 15th century – 16th century
Decades:	1460s  1470s  1480s  – 1490s –  1500s  1510s  1520s
Years:	1495 1496 1497 – 1498 – 1499 1500 1501

1498 in topic:

Subjects:     Archaeology – Architecture –

Art – Literature – Music – Science

Leaders:   State leaders – Colonial governors

Category: Establishments – Disestablishments

Births – Deaths – Works

Year 1498 (MCDXCVIII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar.

Events of 1498

• January 25 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama visits Quelimane and Moçambique in southeastern Africa.
• May 20 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut (now Kozhikode), India, becoming the first European to get there by sailing around Africa, thus discovering the maritime route to India. He finds a local Arab merchant who is able to interpret for him.
• May 23 – Girolamo Savonarola, ruler of Florence, is executed for criticizing the Pope.
• June – Niccolò Machiavelli is elected by the Great Council as the second chancellor of the Republic of Florence.
• Summer – the final Welsh revolt of the medieval era breaks out in Meirionydd, North Wales; Harlech Castle is captured by the rebels before the revolt in suppressed.
• July 31 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
• August 5 – Bartholomew Columbus, brother of Christopher Columbus, founds the city of Santo Domingo, now part of the Dominican Republic, making it the oldest European City and permanent settlement in the New World.
• Christopher Columbus lands on the South American continent.
• The Portuguese sail up to the coasts of modern Tanzania and Kenya.
• John Cabot leaves port on an expedition, never to be seen again.
• The Portuguese arrive in Malacca, Indonesia.

1498 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1498 MCDXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2251
Armenian calendar	947 ԹՎ ՋԽԷ
Bahá'í calendar	-346 – -345
Bengali calendar	905
Berber calendar	2448
Buddhist calendar	2042
Burmese calendar	860
Byzantine calendar	7006 – 7007
Chinese calendar	丁巳年十二月初九日 (4134/4194-12-9) — to — 戊午年閏十一月十九日 (4135/4195-intercalary 11-19)
Coptic calendar	1214 – 1215
Ethiopian calendar	1490 – 1491
Hebrew calendar	5258 – 5259
Hindu calendars
- Bikram Samwat	1554 – 1555
- Shaka Samvat	1420 – 1421
- Kali Yuga	4599 – 4600
Holocene calendar	11498
Iranian calendar	876 – 877
Islamic calendar	903 – 904
Japanese calendar	Meiō 7 (明応7年)
Korean calendar	3831
Thai solar calendar	2041

Births

• April 9 – John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (d. 1550)
• November 15 – Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558)
• December 19 – Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (d. 1552)
• date unknown
  • Giulio Clovio, (Juraj Julije Klovic) Dalmatian miniaturist and illustrator (d. 1578)
  • Marten Jacobszoon Heemskerk van Veen, Dutch painter (d. 1574)
  • Anna of Masovia, Polish princess (d. 1557)
  • Meera, Rajput princess (d. 1547)
  • Sagara Taketo, Japanese retainer (d. 1551)
  • Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Friar (d. 1568)
  • Pier Paolo Vergerio, Italian religious reformer (d. 1565)
  • Felix Manz, leader of the Swiss Anabaptists (d. 1527)

Deaths

• February 4 – Antonio Pollaiuolo, Italian painter (b. c. 1432)
• March 24 – Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire (b. 1470)
• April 7 – King Charles VIII of France (b. 1470)
• May 23 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (b. 1452)
• December 7 – Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist (b. c. 1443)
• date unknown
  • Tun Perak, Malay general and statesman (birth date unknown)
  • Domenico Rosselli, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1439)
• probable
  • Johannes Martini, Flemish composer (b. c. 1440)
• September 16 – Tomás de Torquemada, first grand inquisitor (b. 1420)