1498 Calendar
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Historical Event(s)
May 18, 1498
– Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut, India.
May 20, 1498
– Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
May 23, 1498
– Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy, on the orders of Pope Alexander VI.
July 31, 1498
– On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
August 1, 1498
– Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
August 26, 1498
– Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà.
August 29, 1498
– Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal.
September 20, 1498
– The 1498 Meiō Nankaidō earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air.
Who Were Born On ?
April 9, 1498
– John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman (d. 1550)
November 15, 1498
– Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France (d. 1558)
November 30, 1498
– Andrés de Urdaneta, Spanish Augustinian friar, sail-captain and explorer (d. 1568)