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•  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.

•  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)