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[[File:Vasco da Gama perante o Samorim de Calecute.png|thumb|[[Vasco da Gama]] reaches India by sea.]]
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{{C15 year in topic}}Year '''1498''' ('''[[Roman numerals|MCDXCVIII]]''') was a [[common year starting on Monday]] of the [[Julian calendar]], the 1498th year of the [[Common Era]] (CE) and ''[[Anno Domini]]'' (AD) designations, the 498th year of the [[2nd millennium]], the 98th year of the [[15th century]], and the 9th and pre-final year of the [[1490s]] decade.

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[March 2]] &ndash;  [[Vasco da Gama]] visits [[Quelimane]] and [[Mozambique]], in southeastern Africa.
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] explorer [[Vasco Da Gama]] reaches [[Malindi]], in modern-day [[Kenya]].
* [[May]]
** [[John Cabot]] leaves [[Bristol]] on an expedition, never to be seen again.
** The English [[Company of Merchant Adventurers of London|Merchant Adventurers]] are granted a trade monopoly with the [[Habsburg Netherlands|Netherlands]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=135–138|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[May 20]] &ndash; Portuguese navigator [[Vasco da Gama]] arrives at [[History of Kozhikode|Calicut]] (modern-day [[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]] &ndash; [[Girolamo Savonarola]], ruler of [[Florence]], is executed for criticizing the [[Pope]].
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] sets out on his [[Voyages of Christopher Columbus#Third voyage (1498–1500)|third voyage]] to the [[Western Hemisphere]] from [[Sanlúcar de Barrameda|Sanlúcar, Spain]].
* [[June]] &ndash; [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] is elected by the Great Council as the second chancellor of the [[History of Florence|Republic of Florence]]. 
* Summer &ndash; The final Welsh revolt of the medieval era breaks out in [[Meirionnydd]], [[North Wales]]; [[Harlech Castle]] is captured by the rebels before the revolt is suppressed.
* [[July 31]] &ndash; Columbus becomes the first European to visit the island of [[Trinidad]].
* [[August 1]] &ndash; Columbus discovers the mouth of the [[Orinoco]].
* [[August 4]]–[[August 12|12]] &ndash; Columbus explores the [[Gulf of Paria]]. On August 5 he lands on the [[Paria Peninsula]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Bergreen|first=Lawrence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Dyhtkk4VQcC|title=Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1493–1504|publisher=Penguin|location=New York|year=2011|isbn=978-1101544327|author-link=Laurence Bergreen|page=249|access-date=May 31, 2023|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207012511/https://books.google.com/books?id=3Dyhtkk4VQcC|url-status=live}}</ref> the first definitely recorded landing of Europeans on the mainland Americas.
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[1498 Nankai earthquake]] off the coast of Japan.

=== Date unknown ===
* [[João Fernandes Lavrador]] and [[Pero de Barcelos|Pedro de Barcelos]] journey to [[Greenland]]; during their voyage, they discover the land which they name [[Labrador]].
* The [[Wiener Hofmusikkapelle]], a forerunner of the [[Vienna Boys' Choir]], is founded by [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]].
* [[Gun barrel]] [[rifling]] is invented in [[Augsburg]], Bavaria.
* Probable date at which [[Leonardo da Vinci]] completes the painting ''[[The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci)|The Last Supper]]'', on the refectory wall of [[Santa Maria delle Grazie (Milan)]].</onlyinclude>

== Births ==
[[File:Heemskerck-zelfp-detail.jpg|thumb|right|110px|[[Maarten van Heemskerck]] born [[1 June]]]]
* [[January 31]] &ndash; [[Tiberio Crispo]], Italian clergyman (d. [[1566]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[George I of Württemberg-Mömpelgard]] (d. [[1558]])
* [[February 21]] &ndash; [[Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland]], English earl (d. [[1549]])
* [[February 25]] &ndash; [[Francesco of Saluzzo]], Marquess of Saluzzo (d. [[1537]])
* [[April 5]] &ndash; [[Giovanni dalle Bande Nere]], Italian condottiero (d. [[1526]])
* [[April 9]] &ndash; [[Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine]], French churchman (d. [[1550]])
* [[June 1]] &ndash; [[Maarten van Heemskerck]], Dutch painter (d. [[1574]])
* [[June 30]] &ndash; [[Wilhelm von Brandenburg]], Archbishop of Riga (d. [[1563]])
* [[July 25]] &ndash; [[Hernando de Aragón]], Spanish Catholic archbishop (d. [[1575]])
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Miguel da Paz, Prince of Portugal]] (d. [[1500]])
* [[August 24]] &ndash; [[John, Hereditary Prince of Saxony]], German prince (d. [[1537]])
* [[November 1]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Ricci (bishop)|Giovanni Ricci]], Italian cardinal (d. [[1574]])
* [[November 15]] &ndash; [[Eleanor of Austria]], Queen of Portugal and France (d. [[1558]])<ref>{{cite book | title=Scottish Queens, 1034-1714 | last=Marshall | first=Rosalind K. | page=101 | year=2003 | publisher=Tuckwell Press }}</ref>
* [[December 1]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Michele Saraceni]], Italian Catholic cardinal (d. [[1568]])
* [[December 19]]  &ndash; [[Andreas Osiander]], German Protestant theologian (d. [[1552]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Giulio Clovio]], (Juraj Julije Klovic) Dalmatian miniaturist and illustrator (d. [[1578]])
** [[Anna of Masovia]], Polish princess (d. [[1557]])
** [[Meera]], Rajput princess (d. [[1547]])
** [[Sagara Taketō]], Japanese retainer (d. [[1551]])
** [[Pier Paolo Vergerio]], Italian religious reformer (d. [[1565]])
** [[Felix Manz]], leader of the Swiss Anabaptists (d. [[1527]])

== Deaths ==
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Antonio del Pollaiuolo]], Italian painter (b. c. [[1432]]) 
* [[April 7]] &ndash; King [[Charles VIII of France]] (b. [[1470]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Charles VIII {{!}} king of France |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-VIII |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=20 October 2020 |language=en |archive-date=October 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021041728/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-VIII |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[May 23]] &ndash; [[Girolamo Savonarola]], Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (b. [[1452]]; executed)<ref>{{cite book|author=Oxford University Press|title=Girolamo Savonarola: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GvJb5hsJCeMC&pg=PA13|date=1 June 2010|publisher=Oxford University Press, USA|isbn=978-0-19-980953-0|pages=13|access-date=January 6, 2021|archive-date=April 29, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240429212820/https://books.google.com/books?id=GvJb5hsJCeMC&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[June 7]] &ndash; [[Anđeo Zvizdović]], Bosnian Franciscan friar and evangelist (b. c. [[1420]])
* [[July 14]] &ndash; [[Gentile Budrioli]], Italian astrologer and herbalist
* [[August 17]] &ndash; [[John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton]], English baron (b. [[1437]])
* [[August 23]] &ndash; [[Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal]], eldest daughter of [[Isabella I of Castile]] and [[Ferdinand II of Aragon]] (b. [[1470]])<ref>{{cite book|author=[[John Fraser Ramsey]]|title=Spain: the Rise of the First World Power|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VBBpAAAAMAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Office for International Studies and Programs|isbn=978-0-8173-5704-7|page=299|access-date=January 6, 2021|archive-date=April 29, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240429213049/https://books.google.com/books?id=VBBpAAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[September 14]] &ndash; [[Giovanni il Popolano]], Italian diplomat (b. [[1467]])
* [[September 16]] &ndash; [[Tomás de Torquemada]], Spanish Dominican friar and first [[Grand Inquisitor]] (b. [[1420]])<ref>{{cite book|author=Clayton J. Drees|title=The Late Medieval Age of Crisis and Renewal, 1300-1500: A Biographical Dictionary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8jDfydG6ReAC&pg=PA465|year=2001|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-30588-7|pages=465|access-date=January 6, 2021|archive-date=April 29, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240429213033/https://books.google.com/books?id=8jDfydG6ReAC&pg=PA465|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[December 7]] &ndash; [[Alexander Hegius von Heek]], German humanist (b. c. [[1443]])<ref>{{cite book|author1=Peter G. Bietenholz|author2=Thomas Brian Deutscher|title=Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hruQ386SfFcC&pg=RA1-PA173|date=1 January 2003|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-8577-1|pages=173|access-date=January 6, 2021|archive-date=April 29, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240429213004/https://books.google.com/books?id=hruQ386SfFcC&pg=RA1-PA173#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[December 19]] &ndash; [[Jeanne de Laval]], French noble (b. [[1433]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Tun Perak]], Malay general and statesman
** [[Domenico Rosselli]], Italian sculptor (b. c. [[1439]])
* ''probable'' &ndash; [[Johannes Martini]], Flemish composer (b. c. [[1440]])

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