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Headword Date Article Type
West African coast explored by Portuguese navigators 1436 Topics
Cape Verde reached by Portuguese navigators 1446 Topics Short note
Gulf of Guinea reached by Portuguese navigators 1471 Topics
Diogo Cao, the Portuguese explorer, sails around the Congo river 1483 Topics
King John II of Portugal commissions the first European manual of navigation and nautical almanac 1484 Topics
Pero de Covilha reaches India via the Red Sea 1487 - 1489 Topics Short note
Vasco de Gama discovers a sea-route from Europe to India via the Cape of Good Hope 1498 Topics Short note
Pedro Alvares Cabral travels to Brazil and then to India 1500 Topics Short note
Portuguese sail to Moluccas, Malacca and Macao 1509 - 1516 Topics
First circumnavigation of the world by the fleet of Ferdinand Magellan 1519 - 1522 Topics Short note
Ferdinand Magellan discovers the Magellan Strait and enters the Pacific 1520 - 1520 Topics
Bengal reached by the Portuguese 1528 Topics

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