1498

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1498 in poetry

1498 in various 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	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

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

Events

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.^[1]
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).

February 4 – Antonio del Pollaiolo, Italian painter (b. c. 1432)
March 24 – Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (b. 1470)
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 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, Spanish Dominican friar and 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)

↑ Palmer, Alan; Veronica (1992). The Chronology of British History. London: Century Ltd. pp. 135–138. ISBN 0-7126-5616-2.

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