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

In exchange, the Portuguese received gold ( transported from mines of the Akan deposits ), pepper ( a trade which lasted until Vasco da Gama reached India in 1498 ) and ivory.

In 1498, Vasco da Gama successfully discovered a new sea route from Europe to India, which paved the way for direct Indo-European commerce.

The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama reached Mombasa in 1498.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Vasco da Gama pioneered the European Spice trade in 1498 when he reached Calicut after sailing around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of the African continent.

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

Vasco da Gama sailed for India, and arrived at Calicut on 20 May 1498, returning in glory to Portugal the next year.

* 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.

Vasco da Gama lands at Kozhikode | Calicut, May 20, 1498.

Vasco da Gama left Calicut on 29 August 1498.

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

The voyage of Vasco da Gama around the Cape of Good Hope into the Indian Ocean in 1498 marked the Portuguese entry into trade, politics, and society in the Indian Ocean world.

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.

Following the arrival of Vasco de Gama in 1498, the Portuguese came to South India and established their political power there.

This shift was caused by the successful circumnavigation of Africa opening up sea-trade with the east: after Portugal's Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and landed in Calicut, India in May 1498, a new path of eastern trade was possible ending the monopoly of the Ottoman Turks and their European allies, the Italian city-states.

1498 — Discovery of a maritime route to India by Vasco da Gama

* 1498: Leonardo da Vinci paints The Last Supper in Milan, as the Renaissance flourishes.

The Last Supper ( Leonardo da Vinci ) | The Last Supper ( 1498 )— Santa Maria delle Grazie ( Milan ) | Convent of Sta.

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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.

After decades of sailors trying to reach India with thousands of lives and dozens of vessels lost in shipwrecks and attacks, Gama landed in Calicut on the 20 May 1498.

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 ).

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 ".

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.

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

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.

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.

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.