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| Gregorian calendar | 1498 MCDXCVIII |
| Ab urbe condita | 2251 |
| Armenian calendar | 947 ԹՎ ՋԽԷ |
| Assyrian calendar | 6248 |
| Balinese saka calendar | 1419–1420 |
| Bengali calendar | 905 |
| Berber calendar | 2448 |
| English Regnal year | 13 Hen. 7 – 14 Hen. 7 |
| Buddhist calendar | 2042 |
| Burmese calendar | 860 |
| Byzantine calendar | 7006–7007 |
| Chinese calendar | 丁巳年 (Fire Snake) 4194 or 4134 — to — 戊午年 (Earth Horse) 4195 or 4135 |
| Coptic calendar | 1214–1215 |
| Discordian calendar | 2664 |
| Ethiopian calendar | 1490–1491 |
| Hebrew calendar | 5258–5259 |
| Hindu calendars | |
| - Vikram Samvat | 1554–1555 |
| - Shaka Samvat | 1419–1420 |
| - Kali Yuga | 4598–4599 |
| Holocene calendar | 11498 |
| Igbo calendar | 498–499 |
| Iranian calendar | 876–877 |
| Islamic calendar | 903–904 |
| Japanese calendar | Meiō 7 (明応７年) |
| Javanese calendar | 1415–1416 |
| Julian calendar | 1498 MCDXCVIII |
| Korean calendar | 3831 |
| Minguo calendar | 414 before ROC 民前414年 |
| Nanakshahi calendar | 30 |
| Thai solar calendar | 2040–2041 |
| Tibetan calendar | མེ་མོ་སྦྲུལ་ལོ་ (female Fire-Snake) 1624 or 1243 or 471 — to — ས་ཕོ་རྟ་ལོ་ (male Earth-Horse) 1625 or 1244 or 472 |
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1498 (MCDXCVIII) was a common year starting on Monday in the Julian calendar.
Events
- Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama visits Quelimane and Moçambique in southeastern Africa.
- May 20 – Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut (now Kozhikode), India, becoming the first European to get there by sailing around Africa.
- May 23 – Girolamo Savonarola, ruler of Florence, is executed for criticizing the Pope.
- July 31 – On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.
- Christopher Columbus lands on the South American continent.
- The Portuguese sail up to the coasts of modern Tanzania and Kenya.
- John Cabot leaves port on an expedition, never to be seen again.