Several of Alexander's works were published in the Aldine edition of Aristotle, Venice, 1495 – 1498 ; his De Fato and De Anima were printed along with the works of Themistius at Venice ( 1534 ); the former work, which has been translated into Latin by Grotius and also by Schulthess, was edited by J. C. Orelli, Zürich, 1824 ; and his commentaries on the Metaphysica by H. Bonitz, Berlin, 1847.

* 1498 – Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal.

* 1498 – Charles VIII of France ( b. 1470 )

# John ( b. Torgau, 2 December 1498 – d.

German physician Leonhart Fuchs ( 1501 – 1566 ) was one of " the three German fathers of botany ", along with Otto Brunfels ( 1489 – 1534 ) and Hieronymus Bock ( 1498 – 1554 ) ( also called Hieronymus Tragus ).

* House of Valois ( 1293 – 1498 )

** Charles VIII ( 1483 – 1498 )

** Louis XII ( 1498 – 1515 )

* Charles VIII ( 1483 – 1498 )

* Louis XII ( 1498 – 1515 )

# Wilhelm, ( 30 June 1498, Ansbach – 4 February 1563, Riga ), Archbishop of Riga in 1539-63.

# Johann ( b. Dresden, 24 August 1498 – d. Dresden, 11 January 1537 ), Hereditary Duke of Saxony ; married on 20 May 1516 to Elizabeth of Hesse.

** Charles VIII the Affable, 1483 – 1498

** Louis XII, 1498 – 1515

* 1498 – Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut, India.

* 1498 – Vasco da Gama's fleet visits the island of Mozambique Island.

* 1536 – Francesco Berni, Italian poet ( b. 1498 )

* 1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy, on the orders of Pope Alexander VI.

* 1498 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode ( previously known as Calicut ), India.

* Johannes Martini ( 1440 – 1498 ), Franco-Flemish composer

* 1452 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian-Dominican priest and philosopher ( d. 1498 )

* 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.

In 1498 French Guiana was first visited by Europeans when Christopher Columbus sailed to the region on his third voyage and named it the " Land of pariahs ".

Both islands were explored by Christopher Columbus on his third voyage in 1498.

The first contact with Europeans, occurred when Christopher Columbus, on his third voyage of exploration, arrived with his fleet of three small ships – the 100-ton Santa María and two caravels, El Correo and La Vaquenos – on 31 July 1498.

Though St. George's was discovered by Christopher Columbus on this third voyage in 1498, the island was relatively neglected until 1650, when it was purchased by the governor of Martinique.

Long before Christopher Columbus spotted this island during his third voyage in 1498, it had been called Hairouna by the Caribs.

According to various sources, he may have left for the New World with Christopher Columbus as early as 1498, but Juan de Castellanos wrote that he killed a mule in 1507, and fled Spain for the West Indies due to fear of punishment, and as a chance to escape the poverty in which he lived.

1498: Romani settlement in the Americas begins, when four Romanies accompany Christopher Columbus on his third voyage.

On 30 May 1498 Christopher Columbus left for his third voyage from Sanlúcar ( See Voyages of Christopher Columbus ).

Within a few decades of Christopher Columbus's landing on the coast of what is now Venezuela in 1498, South America had been effectively conquered by Spain and Portugal.

In 1498, Christopher Columbus became the first European to arrive at Margarita Island.

The first use of the title adelantado in the Americas was by Bartolomeo Columbus, brother of Christopher Columbus, who governed Hispaniola under this title during his brother's absence from 1494 to 1498.

San José de Oruña, the town of St. Joseph, was established almost one hundred years after Christopher Columbus came to the shores of Trinidad in 1498.

Guayaguayare was the first area in Trinidad sighted by Christopher Columbus on July 31, 1498.

Christopher Columbus first spotted the coast of the Guianas in 1498, but real interest in the exploration and colonization of the Guianas, which came to be known as the " Wild Coast ," did not begin until the end of the sixteenth century.

Maize was introduced to Europe by Christopher Columbus in the 15th century, being grown in Spain as early as 1498.

Columbus sighted Grenada in 1498 during his third voyage to the new world.

Although the mouth of the Orinoco in the Atlantic Ocean was documented by Columbus on 1 August 1498, during his third voyage, its source at the Cerro Delgado-Chalbaud, in the Parima range, was first explored in 1951, 453 years later.

In the Biblioteca Columbina, they are forced to decipher Columbus's private notes hand-written in a secret, unknown code by means of the Woodchuck Guidebook, to find out Columbus had the library moved to Santo Domingo in 1498, far from the reach of the Medici and the Spanish King, but Ferdinand II of Aragon soon found out and had Columbus put into chains.

The founder of Cali, Sebastián de Belalcázar, came to the American continent in the third voyage made by Columbus in 1498.

Columbus finished his last expedition in 1498 and discovered Trinidad and the coast of present day Venezuela.

Caribs and Arawaks lived in Trinidad long before Columbus encountered the islands on his third voyage in 1498.

After a probable arrival of Columbus to the coast of Monagas State during his third voyage in August 1498 many explorations were done to this land.

On Columbus ' third voyage, in 1498, de la Cosa was on the ship La Niña.