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Vasco da Gama was born in the town of Sines, one of the few seaports on the Alentejo coast in southwest Portugal. [6] According to the Portuguese historian Teixeira de Aragão, he was born in a house near the church of Nossa Senhora das Salas. [7] Some authors write that he was born in or around 1460, while others give 1469 as the year of his ...
Vasco da Gama presents to Dom Manuel the first fruits of India. National Library of Portugal, c. 1900. On July 12, 1499, after more than two years since the beginning of this expedition, the caravel Berrio entered into the river Tagus, commanded by Nicolau Coelho, with the
Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira was the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India (1497–1499) was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route, connecting the Atlantic and the Indian oceans and, in this way, the West and the East. He reached Goa on 11 September 1524 but died at Kochi three months later.
The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama died in Kochi in 1524 on his third visit to India. His body was originally buried in this church, but after fourteen years his remains were moved to Lisbon. [4] [5] Towards the entrance in front of St Francis Church Front view of the church
The bridge has a life expectancy of 120 years, having been designed to withstand wind speeds of 250 km/h (155 mph) and hold up to an earthquake 4.5 times greater than the standards of building resistance in Lisbon. [10] The deepest foundation piles, up to 2.2 m (7.2 ft) in diameter, were driven down to 95 m (312 ft) under mean sea level ...
It was particularly valuable to the Portuguese as a recognition of their new-found, [clarification needed] particularly when, in 1497–1499, Vasco da Gama completed the voyage to India. Later, when Spain established a route to the Indies from the west, Portugal arranged a second treaty, the Treaty of Zaragoza.
Second urbanization took place, which came with the rise of new ascetic movements and religious concepts, [5] including the rise of Jainism and Buddhism. The latter was synthesized with the preexisting religious cultures of the subcontinent, giving rise to Hinduism. Indian cultural influence (Greater India) Timeline of Indian history
Vandino and Ugolino Vivaldi were connected with the first known expedition in search of an ocean way from Europe to India ().Ugolino, with his brother Guido or Vandino Vivaldo, was in command of this expedition of two galleys, which he had organized in conjunction with Tedisio Doria, and which left Genoa in May 1291 with the purpose of going to India "by the Ocean Sea" and bringing back useful ...