History
1498 
World
General
Population: 458 Million*- Entertainment: Writers include Commines Memories, Comedies of Aristophanies published in Venice, Teuchlin Henno (Latin comedy) published,
Alkmar (Dutch animal epic),
Art includes Dürer "Self Portrait", Michelangelo "Pieta", Leonardo da Vinci "The Last Supper" - Exploration: Second trip for John Cabot - he disappears
Columbus leaves on third voyage - Science: Da Vinci produces numerous scientific drawings
- Technology: First bristled toothbrush in China
- Deaths: Religious reformer Girolamo Savanarola burned at stake, Inquisitor Torquemada,Painter Michael Pacher, Charles VIII of France, Explorer John Cabot, Infanta Isabella of Spain,
Africa
- Great heat and rain in Cape Verde Islands off Africa
Americas
- General: Columbus discovers Orinoco river on third voyage, discovers Trinidad and South America
- South America: Huayna Capac extends Inca empire north of Quito into Colombia
Andes highway completed
Asia
- India: Vasco da Gama discovers sea route to India – arrives on Malabar coast and Calicut
- Japan: Tsunami
Europe
- England: Perkin Warbeck makes public confession of his treason and is imprisoned in Tower of London
Plague outbreak
Erasmus of Rotterdam teaches at Oxford
Sir William Boleyn serves as High Sheriff of Kent - France: Death of Charles VIII of France – son Louis XII Duke of Orleans and Valois
- German States: First German pawn shop at Nuremburg
- Italian States: Italian religious reformer, Savanarola, burned at stake after Bonfire of the Vanities 1497
- Spain: Infanta Isabella of Spain dies in childbirth
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