Editing 1498 (section)

== Events ==
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=== January&ndash;December ===
* [[March 2]] &ndash;  [[Vasco da Gama]] visits [[Quelimane]] and [[Mozambique]], in southeastern Africa.
* [[April 14]] &ndash; [[Portuguese Empire|Portuguese]] explorer [[Vasco Da Gama]] reaches [[Malindi]], in modern-day [[Kenya]].
* [[May]]
** [[John Cabot]] leaves [[Bristol]] on an expedition, never to be seen again.
** The English [[Company of Merchant Adventurers of London|Merchant Adventurers]] are granted a trade monopoly with the [[Habsburg Netherlands|Netherlands]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Palmer|first=Alan|last2=Palmer |first2=Veronica|year=1992|title=The Chronology of British History|publisher=Century Ltd|location=London|pages=135–138|isbn=0-7126-5616-2}}</ref>
* [[May 20]] &ndash; Portuguese navigator [[Vasco da Gama]] arrives at [[History of Kozhikode|Calicut]] (modern-day [[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]] &ndash; [[Girolamo Savonarola]], ruler of [[Florence]], is executed for criticizing the [[Pope]].
* [[May 30]] &ndash; [[Christopher Columbus]] sets out on his [[Voyages of Christopher Columbus#Third voyage (1498–1500)|third voyage]] to the [[Western Hemisphere]] from [[Sanlúcar de Barrameda|Sanlúcar, Spain]].
* [[June]] &ndash; [[Niccolò Machiavelli]] is elected by the Great Council as the second chancellor of the [[History of Florence|Republic of Florence]]. 
* Summer &ndash; 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]] &ndash; Columbus becomes the first European to visit the island of [[Trinidad]].
* [[August 1]] &ndash; Columbus discovers the mouth of the [[Orinoco]].
* [[August 4]]–[[August 12|12]] &ndash; Columbus explores the [[Gulf of Paria]]. On August 5 he lands on the [[Paria Peninsula]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Bergreen|first=Lawrence|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3Dyhtkk4VQcC|title=Columbus: The Four Voyages, 1493–1504|publisher=Penguin|location=New York|year=2011|isbn=978-1101544327|author-link=Laurence Bergreen|page=249|access-date=May 31, 2023|archive-date=December 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231207012511/https://books.google.com/books?id=3Dyhtkk4VQcC|url-status=live}}</ref> the first definitely recorded landing of Europeans on the mainland Americas.
* [[September 20]] &ndash; [[1498 Nankai earthquake]] off the coast of Japan.

=== Date unknown ===
* [[João Fernandes Lavrador]] and [[Pero de Barcelos|Pedro de Barcelos]] journey to [[Greenland]]; during their voyage, they discover the land which they name [[Labrador]].
* The [[Wiener Hofmusikkapelle]], a forerunner of the [[Vienna Boys' Choir]], is founded by [[Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor]].
* [[Gun barrel]] [[rifling]] is invented in [[Augsburg]], Bavaria.
* Probable date at which [[Leonardo da Vinci]] completes the painting ''[[The Last Supper (Leonardo da Vinci)|The Last Supper]]'', on the refectory wall of [[Santa Maria delle Grazie (Milan)]].</onlyinclude>