1498 - What happened in 1498 ?

May 1498

Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.

Girolamo Savonarola is executed on the orders of Pope Alexander VI

On his third voyage to the Western Hemisphere, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover the island of Trinidad.

Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to visit Venezuela.

Michelangelo commissioned to carve the Pietà.

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