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Vasco da Gama

Portuguese explorer (c. 1460s – 1524)

12 dated entries naming Vasco da Gama, drawn from 8 separate years between 1460 CE and 1524 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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15th century

  • 1460Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (d. 1524)source
  • 1469probable – Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (d. 1524)source
  • 1497July 8 – Vasco da Gama's fleet departs from Lisbon, beginning his expedition to India.source
  • 1497November 7 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama and his crew become the first Europeans to set foot on South African soil as the ship São Gabriel arrives at St Helena Bay and makes landfall.source
  • 1498April 14 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama reaches Malindi, in modern-day Kenya.source
  • 1498March 2 – Vasco da Gama visits Quelimane and Mozambique, in southeastern Africa.source
  • 1498May 17 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut (modern-day Kozhikode), India, becoming the first European to get there by sailing around Africa, thus discovering the maritime route to India. He finds a local Arab merchant who is able to interpret for him.source
  • 1499September 18 – Vasco da Gama arrives at Lisbon, returning from India, and is received by King Manuel of Portugal.source
  • 1500September 13 – Pedro Cabral's fleet of nine ships arrives in India, more than six months after departing from Portugal, and lands at the port of Calicut, which had been visited two years earlier by Vasco da Gama.source

16th century

  • 1503March 15 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama and sailors of his Portuguese India Armada become the first Europeans to sight the Seychelles islands as Thomé Lopes notes the discovery of what will later be called Silhouette Island.source
  • 1524December 24 – Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer (b. c. 1469)source
  • 1524September 5 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives on the island of Goa to become the new Viceroy of Portuguese India but dies three months later.source

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