* May 18 – John, Cardinal of Lorraine, French churchman ( b. 1498 )

During a subsequent war between France and Spain ( 1496 – 1498 ), the people suffered equally from the Spanish garrisons and the French invaders.

He married Filiberta ( 1498 – 1524 ), daughter of Philip II, Duke of Savoy, on 22 February 1515, at the court of France, thanks to the intercession of his brother Giovanni, now Pope as Leo X, in the same year Francis I of France ( Filiberta's nephew ) invested him with the title of Duke of Nemours ( which had recently reverted once again to the French crown ) on the occasion.

The regard in which Charles VIII held the saint was shared by Louis XII, who succeeded to the French throne in 1498.

In 1494 he followed the king in war for the Kingdom of Naples, taking part in the latter city's capture in 1495, as well as in the battle of Fornovo ( 1498 ) against the Italian League, which allowed the French army to retreat in their homeland.

Jean de Lorraine ( April 9, 1498 – May 18, 1550 ) was a French cardinal, who was archbishop of Reims, Lyon and Narbonne, bishop of Metz, Toul, Verdun, Thérouanne, Luçon, Albi, Valence, Nantes and Agen.

The book was translated into Latin by Jacob Locher in 1497, into French by Paul Riviere in 1497 and by Jehan Droyn in 1498, into English by Alexander Barclay in 1509 and by Henry Watson also in 1509.

Originally known as Vin de Mauves, mentioned in Victor Hugo's Les Misérables, the wine from St .- Joseph was a favourite in the French court of Louis XII ( 1498 – 1515 ) who owned a vineyard in St .- Joseph known as Clos de Tournon.

However, when Louis acceded to the throne after the death of Joan's brother Charles VIII in April 1498, he annulled the marriage in order to marry the former king's widow, Anne of Brittany, in the hope of annexing the Duchy of Brittany to the French Crown.

Although the county became the property of the French crown in 1498, it retained its identity.

Following the death of Charles VIII in 1498, Anne was forced to marry his cousin, Louis XII of France, to ensure the French crown's continued control of Brittany.

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.

He was soon producing some spectacular and original images, notably Nemesis ( 1502 ), The Sea Monster ( 1498 ), and Saint Eustace ( c. 1501 ), with a highly detailed landscape background and animals.

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 ).

He was convicted as a heretic and burned at the stake on the Piazza della Signoria on 23 May 1498.

He enrolled in the University of Vienna in the winter semester of 1498 but was expelled, according to the university's records.

" In 1498, Vasco da Gama was the first sailor to travel from Portugal to India.

The marriage was a short one, lasting from 1498 until Alfonso's murder in 1500.

When Vasco da Gama, exploring for Portugal, reached the coast of Mozambique in 1498, Arab trading settlements had existed along the coast and outlying islands for several centuries, and political control of the coast was in the hands of a string of local sultans.

He was Secretary to the Second Chancery of the Republic of Florence from 1498 to 1512, when the Medici were out of power.

In June 1498, shortly after the execution of Savonarola, Machiavelli, at the age of 29, was elected as head of the second chancery.

In July 1498, he was also made the secretary of the Dieci di Libertà e Pace.

* The abbey church of Saint John the Evangelist ( San Giovanni Evangelista ), was originally constructed in the 10th century behind the Cathedral's apse, but had to be rebuilt in 1498 and 1510 after a fire.

In 1498, by reaching India, Vasco da Gama proved that the access to the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic was possible.

Wilhelm von Brandenburg ( 30 June 1498 – 4 February 1563 ) was the Archbishop of Riga from 1539 to 1561.

Year 1498 ( MCDXCVIII ) was a common year starting on Monday ( link will display the full calendar ) of the Julian calendar.

In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter ( d. 1475 ), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello.

Vasco da Gama having visited Mombasa in 1498, was then successful in reaching India and this permitted the Portuguese to trade with the Far East directly by sea, thus challenging older trading networks of mixed land and sea routes, such as the Spice trade routes that utilized the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and caravans to reach the eastern Mediterranean.

Girolamo Savonarola (; 1452 – 1498 ) was an Italian Dominican friar and preacher active in Renaissance Florence, and known for his prophecies of civic glory and calls for Christian renewal.

This act for the governance of the region was unworkable, and after the Act of Revocation of 1498 undermined the Chief's titles to their lands, resistance to Edinburgh rule was strengthened.

The birth of Renaissance criticism was in 1498, with the recovery of classic texts, most notably, Giorgio Valla's Latin translation of Aristotle's Poetics.

Josquin was long mistaken for a man with a similar name, Josquin de Kessalia, born around the year 1440, who sang in Milan from 1459 to 1474, dying in 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.

* 1498 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.

On 17 August 1498, Cesare became the first person in history to resign the cardinalate.

The Portuguese were the first Europeans to explore the region of current-day Kenya, Vasco da Gama having visited Mombasa in 1498.

In 1498, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama became the first known European to reach the East African coast ; he stayed for 32 days.

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.

By marrying his son Philip the Handsome to the future Queen Joanna of Castile in 1498, Maximilian established the Habsburg dynasty in Spain and allowed his grandson Charles to hold the throne of both León-Castile and Aragon, thus making him the first de jure King of Spain.

* 1498 — Vasco da Gama led the first fleet around Africa to India, arriving in Calicut.

Vasco da Gama and his first expedition, probably the first Europeans to sight the river, anchored off the mouth in 1498.

In February 1498, Vasco da Gama continued north, landing at the friendlier port of Malindi-whose leaders were then in conflict with those of Mombasa-and there the expedition first noted evidence of Indian traders.

After demanding the expulsion of Muslims from Calicut to the Hindu Zamorin, the latter sent the high priest Talappana Namboothiri ( the very same person who conducted da Gama to the Zamorin's chamber during his much celebrated first visit to Calicut in May 1498 ) for talks.

Portuguese trading settlements and, later, colonies were formed along the coast from 1498, when Vasco da Gama first reached the Mozambican coast.

Badius worked first as an editor and proof-reader for the printer Jean Trechsel in Lyon ( 1492 – 1498 ).

The first record of an armoury for the manufacture of guns occurs in 1474, and by 1498 the master gunner Robert Borthwick was casting bronze guns at Edinburgh.

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 1498 ( fifteen years after the death of Louis XI of France ), Commines's work was completed ( first published in 1524 in Paris ), and is considered a historical record of immense importance, largely because of its author's cynical and forthright attitude to the events and machinations he had witnessed.

Together with Pêro de Barcelos, he first sighted the province Labrador in 1498.

In 1498, Vasco da Gama became the first person to reach India by sailing around Africa ( see Age of Discovery ); asked by Arabs in Calicut ( who spoke Spanish and Italian ) why they had come, his representative replied, " we seek Christians and spices ".

* Eleanor ( 1498 – 1558 ), Queen consort first to Manuel I of Portugal and secondly to Francis I of France.

European traders first reached Indian shores with the arrival of the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in 1498 at the port of Calicut, in search of the lucrative spice trade.

Vasco da Gama was the first known European to visit Mombasa, receiving a chilly reception in 1498.

( 1420 – September 16, 1498 ) was a 15th-century Spanish Dominican friar and the first Grand Inquisitor in Spain's movement to restore Christianity among its populace in the late 15th century.

Portugal had to wait for Vasco da Gama to bring it from India on the first voyage he made there in 1498.