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Saldanha was born on 17 November 1790, in Azinhaga. He was a grandson of Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, the Secretary of the State of the Kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves to King Joseph I of Portugal. [1] Saldanha studied at Coimbra, served against the French, and was made a prisoner in 1810. On his release he ...
Duke of Saldanha (in Portuguese Duque de Saldanha) is a Portuguese title granted by royal decree of Queen Maria II of Portugal, dated November 4, 1846, to João Carlos Saldanha de Oliveira Daun (1790-1876), also known as Marshal Saldanha, leader of the liberal armies, during the Liberal Wars in Portugal.
According to João de Barros, António de Saldanha returned to the Indian Ocean in 1506, with the 8th Armada under Tristão da Cunha, albeit not as a captain of his own ship. He came principally as a navigator, to help guide the Red Sea-bound squad of Afonso de Albuquerque around Cape Guardafui .
Aires de Saldanha (Santarém, Portugal, 10 May 1542 - Terceira, 19 August 1605) was a Portuguese soldier. He was the son of António de Saldanha , military and navigator who discovered the bay of Saldanha.
She was 5 years old when she topped the charts in 1981 with her single "Eu vi um sapo". In 1979 she was invited to participate in the First Gala Internacional dos Pequenos Cantores (International Gala of the Small Singers) da Figueira da Foz. She won a competition by singing the song “Eu vi um sapo" ("I saw a frog"), a song written by César ...
His father was João de Saldanha da Gama (1674–1752), forty-first viceroy of India. He studied canon law at Coimbra and was ordained to the Priesthood in 1739. [ 1 ] He was created Cardinal by Pope Benedict XIV in 1756 at the request of Joseph I of Portugal . [ 2 ]
Mariano Jose Luis de Gonzaga Saldanha (1878 – 1975) was an Indian writer and teacher. Born in Uskai village in Portuguese Goa, he studied medicine and pharmacy, but went on to become a teacher of Marathi and Sanskrit at the Lyceum in Goa (1915–1929) and of Sanskrit and Konkani at Lisbon, at the university and at the Advanced School of Colonial Administration (Instituto Superior de Estudos ...
Villa-Lobos was born in Rio de Janeiro.His father, Raúl, was a civil servant, an educated man of Spanish extraction, a librarian, and an amateur astronomer and musician. . In Villa-Lobos's early childhood, Brazil underwent a period of social revolution and modernisation, abolishing slavery in 1888 and overthrowing the Empire of Brazil in 1