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A fleet led by Pedro Álvares Cabral reached the Brazilian coast on April 22nd, 1500. Richard Cavendish | Published in History Today Volume 50 Issue 4 April 2000. Cabral (center-left, pointing) sights the Brazilian mainland for the first time on 22 April 1500. A painting by Aurélio de Figueiredo The discovery of Brazil was an episode in the ...
Jun 1, 2018 · Pedro Alvares Cabral was a Portuguese explorer and navigator who lived between the 15th and 16th centuries. He is generally given credit for being the first person from Europe to have ‘discovered’ the area which is today the country of Brazil. Cabral’s discovery of this new land had a huge impact on the colonial history of Portugal, as ...
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Pedro Álvares Cabral, (born 1467/68, Belmonte, Port.—died 1520, Santarém?), Portuguese navigator credited with the discovery of Brazil.A nobleman, Cabral long enjoyed the favour of Manuel I of Portugal, who in 1500 sent him and 13 ships on the second Portuguese voyage to India, following the route taken by Vasco da Gama, to strengthen commercial ties and further Portugal’s conquests.
Jan 18, 2024 · Pedro Álvares Cabral, a name etched in the annals of maritime exploration, is an enigmatic figure of enduring fascination and controversy. Most famous for his discovery of Brazil in 1500, he is - astonishingly - believed to be one of the first humans in history to have set foot on four continents - Europe, America, Africa and Asia.
Apr 25, 2021 · Apr 25, 2021 11:25 6 min read. On the morning of April 22, 1500, after a long and tiring voyage, Portuguese captain Pedro Álvares Cabral spotted “a large hill, very high and round,” to the south of what is now the Brazilian state of Bahia. Partly by chance, Cabral had just discovered Brazil — originally called Vera Cruz — which he ...
A Brief History of Brazil. Brazil was officially "discovered" in 1500, when a fleet commanded by Portuguese diplomat Pedro Álvares Cabral, on its way to India, landed in Porto Seguro, between Salvador and Rio de Janeiro. (There is, however, strong evidence that other Portuguese adventurers preceded him. Duarte Pacheco Pereira, in his book De ...
The second voyage to India was dispatched in 1500 under Pedro Álvares Cabral. While following the same south-westerly route as Gama across the Atlantic Ocean, Cabral made landfall on the Brazilian coast—the territory that he recommended Portugal settle. Portugal’s purpose in the Indian Ocean was to ensure the monopoly of the spice trade.
