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Maritime history of Portugal
- Ferdinand MagellanFerdinand Magellan never finished the first voyage around the world. He died in a battle on Mactan island in 1521.
- Gaspar CorreiaGaspar Correia served as scrivener to Afonso de Albuquerque, governor of Portuguese India.
- ManuelineManueline churches in Portugal have stone columns carved to look like coiled rope.
- CarrackIn 2008, a wreck turned up on the coast of Namibia that had been missing for nearly five centuries. It was the Bom Jesus, a Portuguese ship that sailed from Lisbon and disappeared in 1533. The wreck was well preserved. Inside lay copper…
- Manuel I of PortugalManuel I of Portugal was the ninth child of a minor royal branch. Deaths and executions still made him king in 1495.
- Martin BehaimA cloth merchant built the oldest globe known to exist. Martin Behaim finished it in 1492, the year Columbus sailed.
- Portuguese maritime explorationIn 1497, four Portuguese ships carrying 170 men set out for India. They reached Calicut in May 1498.
- Factory (trading post)The factory, in the medieval and early modern world, was not a building where goods were manufactured. It was a trading post, a place where local people could deal with foreign merchants, who were often called factors. One post could serve…
- Fernão Mendes PintoCaptured near the Red Sea, Fernão Mendes Pinto was taken to Mocha to be sold as a slave.
- Damião de GóisDamião de Góis dined with Martin Luther, then died confined in a monastery. The Portuguese scholar was tried for heresy.