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D. Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (/ ˌ v æ s k u d ə ˈ ɡ ɑː m ə,-ˈ ɡ æ m ə / VAS-koo də GA(H)M-ə; [1] [2] European Portuguese: [ˈvaʃku ðɐ ˈɣɐmɐ]; c. 1460s – 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and nobleman who was the first European to reach India by sea.
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 news that thrilled Lisbon: the Portuguese had finally reached India by ...
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 .
The State of India (Portuguese: Estado da Índia [ɨʃˈtaðu ðɐ ˈĩdiɐ]), also known as the Portuguese State of India (Portuguese: Estado Português da Índia, EPI) or Portuguese India (Portuguese: Índia Portuguesa), was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of the sea route to the Indian subcontinent by Vasco da Gama, a subject of the Kingdom of Portugal.
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 D. 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 ...
Map of Portuguese India, 1923. The government of Portuguese India (Portuguese: Índia Portuguesa) started on 12 September 1505, seven years after the Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India by Vasco da Gama, with the nomination of the first Portuguese viceroy Francisco de Almeida, then settled at Cochin.
Saint Francis Church, in Fort Kochi, Kochi, originally built in 1503, is one of the oldest European churches in India [1] and has historical significance as a witness to the European colonial ambitions in the subcontinent. [2] [3] The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama died in Kochi in 1524 when he was on his third visit to India.
Vasco da Gama was then the 1st Admiral of the Seas of India and in 1524 would become the 6th Governor of Portuguese India under the title of 2nd Viceroy. Following the expulsion of the Philippine Dynasty from the throne of Portugal in 1640, the new King John IV of Portugal granted this family the new title of Marquis of Nisa (Portuguese ...