September 21 – Girolamo Savonarola, Italian religious reformer and ruler of Florence (d. 1498)
Al-Mansur Muhammad attacked Tahiride positions between Dhamar and San'a in 1496 and 1498.
His principal works include the nine-metre wooden Christophorus figure originally installed at the Christoffelturm in Berne (1496–1498) and the baptismal font in the Münster of Berne (1524-1525).
He sang at Notre-Dame de Chartres from 9 August 1483 until 1486, and subsequently held posts at St Peter's in Geneva (until 1492) and Laon (around 1497) before becoming choirmaster to the boys at Notre-Dame de Paris from 1498 to 1500, and choirmaster to Alfonso I d'Este at Ferrara from 1506, replacing the famous composer Jacob Obrecht who had died of the plague there the previous year.
It has a majolica pavement by the Della Robbia workshop (1498), with traces of the Bentivoglio coat of arms.
In 1498, Alauddin Hussain Shah of Gaur attacked Nilambar, the king of Kamata, and occupied it.
According to Herbert Kellman, it was created sometime between 1498 and 1503, probably at the behest of Philip I of Castile.
Conrad Grebel was born, probably in Grüningen in the Canton of Zurich, about 1498 to Junker Jakob and Dorothea (Fries) Grebel, the second of six children.
However, in 1495 the city fell to the French under Charles VIII, and he fled east to the Ottoman Empire to escape the violent pogroms that ensued, spending time in Istanbul before moving sometime between 1498 and 1504 to teach Torah in Salonica, at that time in a state of intellectual vibrancy due to the settlement there of many Sephardi exiles forced to leave after the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492, Sicily in 1493, and Portugal in 1496.
In 1498 he received the degree of doctor legum at Ferrara, and in 1499 he matriculated at Heidelberg.
In Milan, Bramante also built the tribune of Santa Maria delle Grazie (1492–99); other early works include the Cloisters of Sant'Ambrogio, Milan (1497–1498), and some other constructions in Pavia and possibly Legnano.
1490 by Cathal Óg Mac Maghnusa (d. 1498), whom he regarded as the author of additions to the Félire Óengusso (see below).
On 5 December 1496, under the pressure of the newly born Spanish State through the clause Marriage of Isabella, Princess of Asturias, King Manuel I of Portugal decreed that all Jews had to convert to Christianity or leave the country.
It was first mentioned on 19 July 1498 during the rule of Radu cel Mare, the son of Vlad Călugărul, who donated the land around Găești to the Monastery of Râncăciov.
Gian Giacomo Medici (25 January 1498 – 8 November 1555) was an Italian condottiero, Duke of Marignano and Marquess of Musso and Lecco in Lombardy.
All their four children died as infants, so when Charles died in 1498, logic dictated a marriage with his cousin and successor, Louis XII, once he had annulled his marriage with Anne's sister-in-law Jeanne de France.
In 1495, he fought in Italy on behalf of king Charles VIII of France, (- king 1483 - 1498), disputing Naples to the Spaniards getting then under the service of Cesare Borgia, (1475 - killed March 1507, at Viana, Navarre, now in Spain) .
In 1497, after the death of Nicholas II, Niemodlin was inherited by Jan II, in 1498 was bought Bytom, and the Świerklaniec castle with his privileges, and finally in 1509 was annexed Koźle.
Albrecht Dürer’s 1498 drawing, Hercules’s Jealousy depicts jealousy as a powerfully built woman armed with a sword.
Sá was also a member of the group who accompanied Gama on his first trip into Calicut on 20 May 1498.
Kermesite or red antimony has been used as early as the Old Kingdom’s 6th Dynasty in ancient Egypt (c. 2345–2181 BCE) in lip cosmetics and in the 18th Dynasty Queen Hatshepsut (Maatkare) (1498–1483 BCE) negotiated with the Land of Punt for its colored antimony deposits.
He died in Didymoteicho on October 20, 1498, leaving behind a large estate, with which several public works were constructed.
Vasco da Gama, the first European to reach India by sea (in 1498), hired an Indian pilot at Malindi (a coastal settlement in what is now Kenya) to steer the Portuguese ship across the Indian Ocean to the Malabar Coast in southwestern India.
He died in 1498 at the property in Broel (now known as Herrenbroel near Ruppichteroth).
King Louis XII of France (1462–1515), Duke of Orléans between 1465 and 1498
Madeleine de La Tour d'Auvergne (1498 – 28 April 1519) was a younger daughter of Jean III de La Tour (1467– 28 March 1501), Count of Auvergne and Lauraguais, and Jeanne de Bourbon-Vendôme (1465–1511).
After the death of Tun Perak in 1498, he was succeeded by a new Prime Minister Tun Mutahir.
He won distinction during Maximilian's campaigns against Friesland in 1498 and was awarded the Order of the Golden Fleece.
In 1498 Leonhard, thanks to his friendship with the Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian I and Archduke of Austria, became governor of the County of Tyrol.
In 1498, the last governor of Telangana, Qutubul Mulk Dakhani, controlled the territory of Golconda, Warangal, Devarakonda, Rachakonda and Koilkonda and went on to build the edifice of the Qutub Shahi dynasty.
Sampieru Corsu or Sampiero Corso (born Sampiero de Bastelica; 1498 Bastelica — 17 January 1567) was a Corsican soldier, father of the Marshal of France Alphonse d'Ornano.
According to various sources, he may have left for the New World with Christopher Columbus as early as 1498, but Juan de Castellanos wrote that he killed a mule in 1507, and fled to Spain for the West Indies due to fear of punishment, and as a chance to escape the poverty in which he lived.
The name Definitorio refers to the Capitular Hall (1498), on whose end wall is a fresco of Madonna with Child and Saints by Matteo Ripanda (16th century); the hall houses a small museum of Sacred Arts, with works by Segna di Bonaventura (Madonna with Child), the Master of Monte Oliveto (Maestà), Neroccio di Bartolomeo (St. Bernardino), Vincenzo Tamagni (Madonna with Child) and a fresco portraying St. Sebastian by an artist of the Sienese School.
1498: Romani settlement in the Americas begins, when four Romanies accompany Christopher Columbus on his third voyage.
His loss of the Izu Province to Hōjō Sōun in 1492–1498 marked a significant development of Japan's Sengoku period.