1498

1498 (MCDXCVIII) was a common year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar.

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 in other 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	མེ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Snake) 1624 or 1243 or 471     — to — ས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Horse) 1625 or 1244 or 472

Events

• Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama visits Quelimane and Moçambique in southeastern Africa.
• May 20 – Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut (now Kozhikode), India, becoming the first European to get there by sailing around Africa.
• May 23 – Girolamo Savonarola, ruler of Florence, is executed for criticizing the Pope.
• July 31 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
• Christopher Columbus lands on the South American continent.
• The Portuguese sail up to the coasts of modern Tanzania and Kenya.
• John Cabot leaves port on an expedition, never to be seen again.