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August 1 – Columbus discovers the mouth of the Orinoco. August 4 – 12 – Columbus explores the Gulf of Paria. On August 5 he lands on the Paria Peninsula, [2] the first definitely recorded landing of Europeans on the mainland Americas. September 20 – 1498 Nankai earthquake off the coast of Japan.
- Christopher Columbus and The Age of Discovery
- Early Life and Nationality
- Christopher Columbus' First Voyage
- Where Did Columbus' Ships, Niña, Pinta and Santa Maria, Land?
- Christopher Columbus's Later Voyages
- Legacy of Christopher Columbus
During the 15th and 16th centuries, leaders of several European nations sponsored expeditions abroad in the hope that explorers would find great wealth and vast undiscovered lands. The Portuguese were the earliest participants in this “Age of Discovery,” also known as “Age of Exploration.” Starting in about 1420, small Portuguese ships known as car...
Christopher Columbus, the son of a wool merchant, is believed to have been born in Genoa, Italy, in 1451. When he was still a teenager, he got a job on a merchant ship. He remained at sea until 1476, when pirates attacked his ship as it sailed north along the Portuguese coast. The boat sank, but the young Columbus floated to shore on a scrap of woo...
At the end of the 15th century, it was nearly impossible to reach Asia from Europe by land. The route was long and arduous, and encounters with hostile armies were difficult to avoid. Portuguese explorers solved this problem by taking to the sea: They sailed south along the West African coast and around the Cape of Good Hope. But Columbus had a dif...
On August 3, 1492, Columbus and his crew set sail from Spain in three ships: the Niña, the Pinta and the Santa Maria. On October 12, the ships made landfall—not in the East Indies, as Columbus assumed, but on one of the Bahamian islands, likely San Salvador. For months, Columbus sailed from island to island in what we now know as the Caribbean, loo...
About six months later, in September 1493, Columbus returned to the Americas. He found the Hispaniola settlementdestroyed and left his brothers Bartolomeo and Diego Columbus behind to rebuild, along with part of his ships’ crew and hundreds of enslaved indigenous people. Then he headed west to continue his mostly fruitless search for goldand other ...
Christopher Columbus did not “discover” the Americas, nor was he even the first European to visit the “New World.” (Viking explorer Leif Eriksonhad sailed to Greenland and Newfoundland in the 11th century.) However, his journey kicked off centuries of exploration and exploitation on the American continents. The Columbian Exchange transferred people...
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The 1498 Meiō earthquake (明応地震 Meiō Jishin) occurred off the coast of Nankaidō, Japan, at about 08:00 local time on 20 September 1498. It had a magnitude estimated at 8.6 M s and triggered a large tsunami. The death toll associated with this event is uncertain, but between 5,000 and 41,000 casualties were reported.
- September 20, 1498
- Nankai megathrust
Year 1498 was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar, the 1498th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 498th year of the 2nd millennium, the 98th year of the 15th century, and the 9th and pre-final year of the 1490s decade.
Historical events from year 1498. Learn about 13 famous, scandalous and important events that happened in 1498 or search by date or keyword.
George I of Württemberg-Montbéliard, nicknamed "the Cautious" (4 February 1498 at Urach Castle in Bad Urach – 17 July 1558 at Kirkel Castle in Kirkel) was a son of Henry of Württemberg and his second wife, the Countess Eva of Salm.
