1498

This article is about the year 1498.

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

1498 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Leaders
Political entities - State leaders - Religious leaders
Birth and death categories
Births – Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments – Disestablishments
Art and literature
1498 in poetry

1498 in various calendars

Gregorian calendar	1498 MCDXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2251
Armenian calendar	947 ԹՎ ՋԽԷ
Assyrian calendar	6248
Balinese saka calendar	1419–1420
Bengali calendar	905
Berber calendar	2448
English Regnal year	13 Hen. 7 – 14 Hen. 7
Buddhist calendar	2042
Burmese calendar	860
Byzantine calendar	7006–7007
Chinese calendar	丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 4194 or 4134     — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4195 or 4135
Coptic calendar	1214–1215
Discordian calendar	2664
Ethiopian calendar	1490–1491
Hebrew calendar	5258–5259
Hindu calendars
- Vikram Samvat	1554–1555
- Shaka Samvat	1419–1420
- Kali Yuga	4598–4599
Holocene calendar	11498
Igbo calendar	498–499
Iranian calendar	876–877
Islamic calendar	903–904
Japanese calendar	Meiō 7 (明応７年)
Javanese calendar	1415–1416
Julian calendar	1498 MCDXCVIII
Korean calendar	3831
Minguo calendar	414 before ROC 民前414年
Nanakshahi calendar	30
Thai solar calendar	2040–2041
Tibetan calendar	阴火蛇年 (female Fire-Snake) 1624 or 1243 or 471     — to — 阳土马年 (male Earth-Horse) 1625 or 1244 or 472

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

Events

January–December

• February – Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama reaches Malindi, in modern-day Kenya.
• March 2 – Vasco da Gama visits Quelimane and Mozambique, in southeastern Africa.
• May
  • John Cabot leaves Bristol on an expedition, never to be seen again.
  • The English Merchant Adventurers are granted a trade monopoly with the Netherlands.
• 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 Meirionnydd, North Wales; Harlech Castle is captured by the rebels before the revolt is suppressed.
• July 31 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
• August 1 – Columbus discovers the mouth of the Orinoco.
• August 4 –12 – Columbus explores the Gulf of Paria.
• September 20 – 1498 Nankai earthquake off the coast of Japan.
• João Fernandes Lavrador and Pedro Barcelos journey to Greenland; during their voyage, they discover the land which they name Labrador.
• Probable date at which Leonardo da Vinci completes the painting The Last Supper, on the refectory wall of Santa Maria delle Grazie (Milan).

Births

• February 4 – George I of Württemberg-Mömpelgard (d. 1558)
• February 21 – Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland, English earl (d. 1549)
• February 25 – Francesco of Saluzzo, Marquess of Saluzzo (d. 1537)
• April 5 – Giovanni dalle Bande Nere, Italian condottiero (d. 1526)
• April 9 – Jean, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (d. 1550)
• June 1 – Maarten van Heemskerck, Dutch painter (d. 1574)
• June 30 – Wilhelm von Brandenburg, Archbishop of Riga (d. 1563)
• July 25 – Hernando de Aragón, Spanish Catholic archbishop (d. 1575)
• August 23 – Miguel da Paz, Prince of Portugal (d. 1500)
• August 24 – John, Hereditary Prince of Saxony, German prince (d. 1537)
• November 1 – Giovanni Ricci, Italian cardinal (d. 1574)
• November 15 – Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558)
• November 30 – Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Friar (d. 1568)
• December 1 – Giovanni Michele Saraceni, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1568)
• December 19 – 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 – Antonio del Pollaiolo, Italian painter (b. c. 1432)
• April 7 – King Charles VIII of France (b. 1470)
• May 23 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (b. 1452)
• June 7 – Anđeo Zvizdović, Bosnian Franciscan friar and evangelist (b. c. 1420)
• August 17 – John Scrope, 5th Baron Scrope of Bolton, English baron (b. 1437)
• August 23 – Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, eldest daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1470)
• September 14 – Giovanni il Popolano, Italian diplomat (b. 1467)
• September 16 – Tomás de Torquemada, Spanish Dominican friar and first Grand Inquisitor (b. 1420)
• December 7 – Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist (b. c. 1443)
• December 19 – Jeanne de Laval, French noble (b. 1433)
• date unknown
  • Tun Perak, Malay general and statesman
  • Domenico Rosselli, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1439)
• probable – Johannes Martini, Flemish composer (b. c. 1440)