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Maritime history of Portugal
- Ferdinand MagellanFerdinand Magellan died face down in the surf off a small island called Mactan, killed by a chief named Lapulapu and his men on the 27th of April 1521.
- Gaspar CorreiaGaspar Correia arrived in Portuguese India around 1512-14 as a soldier, carrying little more than ambition and a sharp eye for the world around him.
- ManuelineManueline architecture first took shape in Portugal around 1490, and it spent the next three decades carving ropes, anchors, and seaweed into stone church…
- CarrackThe word carrack emerged in the late 14th century as English borrowed it from Old French caraque. This term itself came from Spanish and Italian carraca…
- Manuel I of PortugalManuel I of Portugal died on the 13th of December 1521, with Lisbon gripped by an outbreak of the Black Plague. His court had stayed inside Ribeira Palace as…
- Martin BehaimMartin Behaim, a German cloth merchant from Nuremberg, built the oldest globe known to exist in 1492, the very year Christopher Columbus set sail for what he…
- Portuguese maritime explorationPortuguese maritime exploration is the story of how a small nation on the western edge of Europe mapped the world's coastlines, opened sea routes to Asia…
- Factory (trading post)In 1356, a group of merchants from Lübeck established the first formal trading factory in London. This organization operated under the Hanseatic League, a…
- Fernão Mendes PintoFernão Mendes Pinto left Lisbon on the 11th of March 1537 on a journey that would take him to the bottom of a slave market in Mocha, onto the Great Wall of…
- Damião de GóisDamião de Góis was born on the 2nd of February 1502, in the Portuguese town of Alenquer, and he would go on to dine with Martin Luther, befriend Erasmus…