1498

This article is about the year 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 by topic
Arts and science
Architecture - Art
Politics
State leaders - Sovereign states
Birth and death categories
Births - Deaths
Establishments and disestablishments categories
Establishments - Disestablishments
Art and literature
1498 in poetry

1498 in other calendars

Gregorian calendar	1498 MCDXCVIII
Ab urbe condita	2251
Armenian calendar	947 ԹՎ ՋԽԷ
Assyrian calendar	6248
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	1420–1421
- Kali Yuga	4599–4600
Holocene calendar	11498
Igbo calendar	498–499
Iranian calendar	876–877
Islamic calendar	903–904
Japanese calendar	Meiō 7 (明応７年)
Julian calendar	1498 MCDXCVIII
Korean calendar	3831
Minguo calendar	414 before ROC 民前414年
Thai solar calendar	2040–2041

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

Events

January–December

• January 25 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama visits Quelimane and Mozambique in southeastern Africa.
• February – Da Gama reaches Malindi in modern-day Kenya.
• 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.
• Voyage of João Fernandes Lavrador and Pedro Barcelos to Greenland during which they discover the land which they name Labrador.
• Probable date at which Leonardo da Vinci completes painting The Last Supper on the refectory wall of Santa Maria delle Grazie (Milan).

Births

• February 4 – George I of Württemberg-Mömpelgard, Count (d. 1558)
• 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, Roman 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, Catholic cardinal (d. 1583)
• December 19 – Andreas Osiander, German Protestant theologian (d. 1552)
  • 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)
• 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)
• August 24 – Isabella of Aragon, Queen of Portugal, eldest daughter of Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon (b. 1470)
• September 16 – Tomás de Torquemada, first grand inquisitor (b. 1420)
• December 7 – Alexander Hegius von Heek, German humanist (b. c. 1443)
  • Tun Perak, Malay general and statesman
  • Domenico Rosselli, Italian sculptor (b. c. 1439)
• probable – Johannes Martini, Flemish composer (b. c. 1440)