7 events found for 1498
Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Cal
Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy
On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island…
Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela.
Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first person in history to resign the cardinalate; later that…
Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to the Kingdom of Portugal.
The Nankai tsunami washes away the building housing the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in; it has been located outside ever…