It was the Portuguese who made the first naval expedition to India, in 1498. They arrived in Calicut (not today's Calcutta, but a coastal town in India now called Kozhikode) only to find a small but thriving European business community already established there. At least a number of them would have reached India partly over sea. But we usually count Vasco da Gama's 1498 voyage as the first 'official' sea travel to India.
A water route
it took until 1498
You can't sail across Africa. No water.
Gate way no space of india
Water act
Vasco du Gama was the Portuguese explorer who successfully completed the first all-water route to get to India. He traveled around Africa to get to India.
A water route
Gateway of India
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The first Asian country that the European explorers reached by water was India. The explorers was commanded by Portuguese explorer Dom Vasco da Gama.
Vasco da Gama was a Portugese explorer. Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach India with an all water route. He first reached the Cape of Good hope (the tip of Africa) The sailors on board did not want to continue so he headed back. After that he went all the way to India.
Gateway of India
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.
India was the first Asian country European explorers reached by water. It was first reached by Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama.
Vasco da Gama found an all water route to India. He was a Portuguese explorer born around 1460 in Sines, Germany.
It was Vasco Da Gama who reached India for the first time from the Indian Ocean in the fifteenth century. He established the sea route to one of Asia's richest country at that point of time.
a water trade route from Europe to India by sea.