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

    1498
        Events
        Births
        Deaths

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.

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.

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)

November 15 - Eleonore of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (died 1558)

Giorgio Giulio Clovio, Italian painter (died 1578)

Juraj Julije Klovic, Dalmatian miniaturist (died 1578)

Anna of Masovia, Polish princess (died 1557)

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

May 23 - Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (born 1452)

Johannes Martini, Flemish composer (born c1440)

Antonio Pollaiuolo, Italian painter (born c1432)

Domenico Rosselli, Italian sculptor (born c1439)

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