vasco de gama
vasco de gama
Vasco da Gama
vasco de gama
Vasco da Gama was actually a Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497. He was born somewhere between 1460 to 1469 and died in 1524.
.Da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope on November 7, 1497 and rounded it on November 22, 1497. Vasco da Gama led an expedition of four ships sent by the Portuguese to sail, for the first time, all the way from Portugal around Africa and then across the Indian Ocean, in order to reach India, source of many valuable spices. The expedition left Lisbon on July 8, 1497. They reached the southern tip of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope, on November 22, 1497. The expedition then sailed northwards partway up the coast of Africa before turning east across Indian Ocean. They crossed the Indian Ocean in 23 days, and reached Calcutta, India on May 20, 1498.
Ferdinand Magellan
Ferdinand Magellan was the Portuguese explorer who led a Spanish expedition to circumnavigate the world. The expedition began in 1519 and lasted for four years to 1522 when his crew returned home without Magellan. Magellan died in 1521.
The Portuguese Fernao de Magalhaes.
The Portuguese arrived in India in 1498, led by explorer Vasco da Gama who landed in the city of Calicut. This event marked the beginning of European colonialism in India.
In 1497, John Cabot sailed the northeastern coast of north America on an expedition sponsored by King Henry VII.
It was actually Balboa Caboto Magellan or Vespucci who led the first European expedition.
Bartolomeu Dias. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. Vasco da Gama was the first to reach India ten years later.