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Da Gama's sons Estêvão and Paulo immediately lost their posts and joined the returning fleet of early 1525 (along with the dismissed Duarte de Menezes and Luís de Menezes). [49] Vasco da Gama's body was first buried at St. Francis Church, at Fort Kochi in the city of Kochi, but his remains were returned to Portugal in 1539. The body of Vasco ...
Vasco da Gama on his arrival in India in May 1498, bearing the arms of Portugal and the Cross of the Order of Christ, sponsors of the expansion movement initiated by Henry the Navigator, are seen. The Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India was the first recorded trip directly from Europe to the Indian subcontinent , via the Cape of Good ...
100 musicians took a part in the poll. [2] Although the names of the musicians were not stated, it was stated that former and current members of Riblja Čorba, Bijelo Dugme, Smak, YU Grupa, Leb i Sol, Vatreni Poljubac, Indijanci, Zbogom Brus Li, Čovek Bez Sluha, Atheist Rap, Kerber, Prljavi Inspektor Blaža i Kljunovi, Sunshine, Oktobar 1864, Goblini, Lutajuća Srca, Novembar, Galija, Siluete ...
João da Gama (c. 1540 – after 1591) was a Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator in the Far East in the last quarter of the 16th century. He was the grandson of Vasco da Gama. João da Gama sailed from Macau to northeast and rounded Japan by north. He crossed the Pacific Ocean at the northernmost latitudes taken until then by Europeans.
The 4th Portuguese India Armada was a Portuguese fleet that sailed from Lisbon in February, 1502. Assembled on the order of King Manuel I of Portugal and placed under the command of Vasco da Gama, it was the fourth of some thirteen Portuguese India Armadas, was Gama's second trip to India, and was designed as a punitive expedition targeting Calicut to avenge the numerous defeats of the 2nd ...
Gaspar da Gama, also known as Gaspar da India and Gaspar de Almeida (c. 1444 – c. 1510), was an interpreter (língua in old Portuguese) and guide to several Portuguese exploratory fleets. He was of Jewish origin and was probably born in Poznań in the Kingdom of Poland.
During the second half of the century, possibly around 1555, she published the work Ditos da Freira - Ditos Diversos Feitos por uma Freira da Terceira Regra, Nos Quais se Contêm Sentenças Mui Notáveis e Avisos Necessários, (Sayings of the Nun - Various Sayings Made by a Nun of the Third Rule, which contain Very Notable Sentences and Necessary Notices), copies of which have survived to the ...
Pedro Álvares Cabral led the largest fleet in the Portuguese fleet on a mission to Calicut, India, where Vasco da Gama had opened a sea route two years prior. Many historians have debated on the authenticity of this discovery; some have reason to believe that Portugal had prior knowledge of Brazil's existence. [ 1 ]