20th » Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama Discovery of the sea route to India known as discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode (previously known as Calicut), India.
23rd » Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy.
Famous Deaths for May 1498
23rd » Girolamo Savonarola, Italian friar and preacher (b. 1452)