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Pedro Álvares Cabral[A] (European Portuguese: [ˈpeðɾu ˈalvɐɾɨʃ kɐˈβɾal]; born Pedro Álvares de Gouveia; c. 1467 or 1468 – c. 1520) was a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the European discoverer of Brazil. He was the first human in history to ever be on four continents, uniting all of ...
The Landing of Cabral in Porto Seguro; oil on canvas by Oscar Pereira da Silva, 1904.Collection of the National Historical Museum of Brazil. The first arrival of European explorers to the territory of present-day Brazil is often understood as the sighting of the land later named Island of Vera Cruz, near Monte Pascoal, by the fleet commanded by Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral, on 22 ...
Route taken by Pedro Álvares Cabral: Red - from Portugal to India in 1500; Dark blue - return route. The Second Portuguese India Armada was assembled in 1500 on the order of King Manuel I of Portugal and placed under the command of Pedro Álvares Cabral. Cabral's armada famously discovered Brazil for the Portuguese crown along the way.
Portuguese maritime exploration. The Cantino planisphere, made by an anonymous cartographer in 1502, shows the world as it was understood by Europeans after their great explorations at the end of the fifteenth century. Portuguese maritime exploration resulted in the numerous territories and maritime routes recorded by the Portuguese as a result ...
First Pacific crossing. First to navigate from the Atlantic to the Pacific (Discovery of the Strait of Magellan) Route. Route taken by the expedition, with milestones marked. The Magellan expedition, sometimes termed the Magellan–Elcano expedition, was a 16th-century Spanish expedition planned and led by Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan.
Description. The Landing of Pedro Álvares Cabral in Porto Seguro in 1500 depicts a large group of indigenous people on a beach of Porto Seguro, Bahia, with others arriving through the dense woods that surrounds the sand, to greet Pedro Álvares Cabral. The indigenous people are shown in running positions, shouting, and wielding the spears ...
In April 1500, the second Portuguese India Armada, headed by Pedro Álvares Cabral, with a crew of expert captains, including Bartolomeu Dias and Nicolau Coelho, encountered the Brazilian coast as it swung westward in the Atlantic while performing a large "volta do mar" to avoid becalming in the Gulf of Guinea.
English: Red: Route taken by Pedro Álvares Cabral from Portugal to India in 1500. Dark blue: return route. Main sources used for information on Cabral's routes: Barata, Mário. O descobrimento de Cabral e a formação inicial do Brasil. Coimbra: Biblioteca Geral da Universidade de Coimbra, 1991. Bueno, Eduardo.