WHAT HAPPENED IN 1498.
Look what happened the 1498.

Vasco da Gama's fleet visits the Island of Mozambique. (2. March 1498)

Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India. (20. May 1498)

Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy. (23. May 1498)

On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad. (31. July 1498)

Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit what is now Venezuela. (1. August 1498)

Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first person in history to resign the cardinalate. On the same day, the French King Louis XII names him Duke of Valentinois. (17. August 1498)

Michelangelo is commissioned to carve the Pietà. (26. August 1498)

Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Kingdom of Portugal. (29. August 1498)

The 1498 Meiō Nankaidō earthquake generates a tsunami that washes away the building housing the statue of the Great Buddha at Kōtoku-in in Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan; since then the Buddha has sat in the open air. (20. September 1498)

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