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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.
Columbus made three further voyages to the Americas, exploring the Lesser Antilles in 1493, Trinidad and the northern coast of South America in 1498, and the east coast of Central America in 1502. Many names he gave to geographical features, particularly islands, are still in use.
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- Early Life
- Exploration Before Da Gama
- First Voyage
- Rewards
- Second Voyage
- Interlude
- Third Voyage and Death
- Marriage and Descendants
- Legacy
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Vasco da Gama was born in 1460 in the town of Sines, one of the few seaports on the Alentejocoast, southwest Portugal, probably in a house near the church of Nossa Senhora das Salas. Vasco da Gama's father was Estêvão da Gama, who had served in the 1460s as a knight of the household of Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu. He rose in the ranks of the military ...
From the earlier part of the 15th century, Portuguese expeditions organized by Prince Henry the Navigator had been reaching down the African coastline, principally in search of west African riches (notably, gold and slaves). They had greatly extended Portuguese maritime knowledge, but had little profit to show for the effort. After Henry's death in...
On 8 July 1497 Vasco da Gama led a fleet of four ships with a crew of 170 men from Lisbon. The distance traveled in the journey around Africa to India and back was greater than the length of the equator. The navigators included Portugal's most experienced, Pero de Alenquer, Pedro Escobar, João de Coimbra, and Afonso Gonçalves. It is not known for c...
In December 1499, King Manuel I of Portugal rewarded Vasco da Gama with the town of Sines as a hereditary fief (the town his father, Estêvão, had once held as a commenda). This turned out to be a complicated affair, for Sines still belonged to the Order of Santiago. The master of the Order, Jorge de Lencastre, might have endorsed the reward – after...
The follow-up expedition, the Second India Armada, launched in 1500 under the command of Pedro Álvares Cabral with the mission of making a treaty with the Zamorin of Calicut and setting up a Portuguese factoryin the city. However, Pedro Cabral entered into a conflict with the local Arab merchant guilds, with the result that the Portuguese factory w...
For the next two decades, Vasco da Gama lived out a quiet life, unwelcome in the royal court and sidelined from Indian affairs. His attempts to return to the favor of Manuel I (including switching over to the Order of Christ in 1507), yielded little. Almeida, the larger-than-life Afonso de Albuquerque and, later on, Albergaria and Sequeira, were th...
After the death of King Manuel I in late 1521, his son and successor, King John III of Portugal set about reviewing the Portuguese government overseas. Turning away from the old Albuquerque clique (now represented by Diogo Lopes de Sequeira), John III looked for a fresh start. Vasco da Gama re-emerged from his political wilderness as an important a...
Vasco da Gama and his wife, Catarina de Ataíde, had six sons and one daughter: 1. Dom Francisco da Gama, who inherited his father's titles as 2nd Count of Vidigueiraand the 2nd "Admiral of the Seas of India, Arabia and Persia". He remained in Portugal. 2. Dom Estevão da Gama, after his abortive 1524 term as Indian patrol captain, he was appointed f...
Vasco da Gama is one of the most famous and celebrated explorers from the Age of Discovery. As much as anyone after Henry the Navigator, he was responsible for Portugal's success as an early colonising power. Beside the fact of the first voyage itself, it was his astute mix of politics and war on the other side of the world that placed Portugal in ...
Vasco da Gama (Ernst Georg Ravenstein, Gaspar Corrêa, Alvaro Velho) [2011] Viartis ISBN 978-1-906421-04-5Vasco da Gama: Renaissance Crusader (Glen J.Ames) [2004] Longman ISBN 0-321-09282-1The Career and Legend of Vasco da Gama (Sanjay Subrahmanyam) [1997] Cambridge University Press ISBN 978-0-521-47072-8Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gama, Vasco da" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 433–434.Nov 9, 2009 · The explorer Christopher Columbus made four trips across the Atlantic Ocean from Spain: in 1492, 1493, 1498 and 1502. He was determined to find a direct water route west from Europe to Asia, but...
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.
Dec 23, 2016 · 23 December 2016. Getty Images. 1498 was a pivotal year, with Vasco da Gama opening up trade routes with India and South East Asia. By Peter Frankopan. Historian. 2016 has been a momentous year....
