1498 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar.

Events

• Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama visits Quelimane and Moçambique in southeastern Africa.
• May 20 - Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut (now Kozhikode), India, becoming the first European to get there by sailing around Africa.
• May 23 - Girolamo Savonarola, ruler of Florence, is executed for criticizing the Pope.
• July 31 - On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
• 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.

Births

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

Deaths

• March 24 - Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire (born 1470)
• April 28 - Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, English politician (killed in battle)
• April 7 - King Charles VIII of France (born 1470)
• May 23 - Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (born 1452)
• December 7 - Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist
• Johannes Martini, Flemish composer
• Antonio Pollaiuolo, Italian painter
• Domenico Rosselli, Italian sculptor

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