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Manuel organizes a large fleet of thirteen …
Years: 1492 - 1503
Manuel organizes a large fleet of thirteen ships in 1500 for a second voyage to India.
This fleet is commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral and includes Bartolomeu Dias, various nobles, priests, and some twelve hundred men of Portugal.
The fleet sails southwest for a month, and on April 22 sights land, the coast of present-day Brazil.
Cabral sends a ship back to Lisbon to report to Manuel his discovery, which he calls Vera Cruz.
The fleet recrosses the Atlantic and sails to India around Africa, where it arrives on September 13, 1500.
After four months in India, Cabral sails for Lisbon in January 1501, having left a contingent of Portuguese to maintain a factory at Cochin on the Malabar coast.
This fleet is commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral and includes Bartolomeu Dias, various nobles, priests, and some twelve hundred men of Portugal.
The fleet sails southwest for a month, and on April 22 sights land, the coast of present-day Brazil.
Cabral sends a ship back to Lisbon to report to Manuel his discovery, which he calls Vera Cruz.
The fleet recrosses the Atlantic and sails to India around Africa, where it arrives on September 13, 1500.
After four months in India, Cabral sails for Lisbon in January 1501, having left a contingent of Portuguese to maintain a factory at Cochin on the Malabar coast.
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- Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of
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- Portugal, Avizan (Joannine) Kingdom of
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- Reconquista, the
- Interaction with Subsaharan Africa, Early European
- Age of Discovery
- Colonization of the Americas, Portuguese
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Years: 1492 - 1503
Locations
People
Groups
- Khoikhoi
- Islam
- Portuguese people
- Genoa, (Most Serene) Republic of
- Christians, Roman Catholic
- Italians (Latins)
- Venice, (Most Serene) Republic of
- Marinid Dynasty (Sultanate of Morocco)
- Ethiopia, Solomonid Dynasty of
- Order of Christ (Portugal)
- Ottoman Empire
- Egypt and Syria, Mamluk Burji Sultanate of
- Portugal, Avizan (Joannine) Kingdom of
- Turkish people
Topics
- Reconquista, the
- Interaction with Subsaharan Africa, Early European
- Age of Discovery
- Colonization of the Americas, Portuguese
- Colonization of Asia, Portuguese
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions