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Dom Francisco de Almeida (Portuguese pronunciation: [fɾɐ̃ˈsiʃku ðɨ alˈmɐjðɐ]), also known as the Great Dom Francisco (c. 1450 – 1 March 1510), was a Portuguese nobleman, soldier and explorer. He distinguished himself as a counsellor to King John II of Portugal and later in the wars against the Moors and in the conquest of Granada ...
Francisco António de Almeida (c. 1702–1755) was a Portuguese composer and organist.. From 1722 to 1726 he was a royal scholar in Rome. In 1724, Pier Leone Ghezzi drew his caricature, describing him as "a young but excellent composer of concertos and church music who sang with extreme taste".
Depiction of the 7th India Armada (Almeida, 1505), from the Memória das Armadas, c. 1568. The Seventh India Armada was assembled in 1505 on the order of King Manuel I of Portugal and placed under the command of D. Francisco de Almeida, the first Portuguese Viceroy of the Indies.
The Battle of Salt River was a small [1] military engagement between the crew of a Portuguese fleet led by Francisco de Almeida and the indigenous ǃUriǁʼaekua ("Goringhaiqua" in Dutch approximate spelling [2]), notable for being the first military encounter between Europeans and indigenous people in what would later become South Africa. The ...
Dom Francisco de Almeida. Once calm was restored, Dom Francisco summoned João da Nova to escort Mohamed Ancony, a local ally, to meet him. Ancony informed Dom Francisco of the king's escape to the mainland and provided other valuable intelligence. After the meeting, Dom Francisco dismissed Ancony with orders for João da Nova to ensure his ...
The House of Abrantes (Portuguese: Casa de Abrantes) descends from the ancient and noble Almeida family. King Afonso V granted the land around Abrantes to his cousin, Lopo de Almeida, 1st Count of Abrantes in 1476. The title and lands descended in the Almeida family until 1650 when its male line expired and the estate reverted to the Crown.
Francisco Paulo de Almeida, first and only Baron of Guaraciaba (10 January 1826 - 9 February 1901), was a Brazilian landowner and banker. He distinguished himself for being one of the most financially successful black men in the Empire of Brazil .
Francisco Antônio de Almeida Júnior (May 4, 1851 – September 12, 1928) [1] was a Brazilian astronomer, engineer and university professor during the latter half of the 19th century. Almeida was part of a commission tasked with calculating the stellar parallax of the Sun during the 1874 transit of Venus .