Portuguese Sailors

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  • Sep 3, 1492

    Afonso de Albuqerque

    Afonso de Albuquerque was a Portuguese soldier and explorer who sailed to the Spice Islands.
  • Feb 8, 1500

    Pedro Álvares Cabral

    Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese nobleman, explorer, and navigator who was the first European to see Brazil
  • Sep 14, 1500

    Diogo Dias

    Diogo Dias was a Portuguese navigator and brother of Bartolomeu Dias who was the first European to sail to Madagascar, an island off the southeastern coast of Africa. Diogo Dias landed in Madagascar in 1500, and named it the Isle of St. Lawrence.
  • Dec 5, 1513

    Vasco Nunez de balboa

    Vasco Nunez de Balboa was a Spanish conquistador and explorer. He was the first European to see the eastern part of the Pacific Ocean.After crossing the Isthmus of Panama overland.
  • Aug 8, 1519

    Ferdinand Magellan

    Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who led the first expedition that sailed around the Earth (1519-1522). Magellan also named the Pacific Ocean
  • Oct 4, 1526

    Lucas Vazquez de Ayllon

    Lucas Vázquez de Ayllón (1475-1526) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who tried to start a colony in North America in 1526.
  • Jan 6, 1527

    Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca

    Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca [Cabeza de Vaca means "head of a cow"] (1490?-1557?) was a Spanish explorer who sailed to North America from Spain, leaving in 1527.
  • Dec 16, 1527

    Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca

    Alvar Nuñez Cabeza de Vaca [Cabeza de Vaca means "head of a cow"] was a Spanish explorer who sailed to North America from Spain, leaving in 1527.
  • Nov 15, 1534

    Jacques Cartier

    Jacques Cartier was a French explorer who led three expeditions to Canada, in 1534, 1535, and 1541.

  • Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo

    Cwas a Spanish or Portuguese explorer (his nationality is uncertain).

  • Francisco Vásquez de Coronado

    Francisco Vásquez de Coronado was a Spanish ruler, explorer and conquistador. He was the first European to explore North America's Southwest.

  • Panfilo de Narvaez

    Panfilo de Narvaez was a Spanish explorer and soldier.

  • Panfilo de Narvaez

    Panfilo de Narvaez was a Spanish explorer and soldier.

  • Christopher Columbus

    Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer who sailed across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492, hoping to find a route to India (in order to trade for spices).

  • Sebastian Cabot

    Sebastian Cabot was an explorer, mapmaker and navigator of Italian descent.

  • Jacques Cartie

    Jacques Cartie was a French explorer who led three expeditions to Canada, in 1534, 1535, and 1541.

  • Francisco Fernández de Córdoba

    Francisco Fernández de Córdoba was a Spanish explorer and slave trader who explored Mexico (1517) and Nicaragua (1524).

  • Bernal Diaz del Castillo,

    Bernal Diaz del Castillo, also known as Bernal Diaz, was a Spanish historian and soldier who chronicled the Spanish conquest of Mexico.

  • Lucas Vázquez de Ayllónwas

    Lucas Vázquez de Ayllónwas a Spanish conquistador and explorer who tried to start a colony in North America in 1526.

  • Juan Ponce de Leon

    Juan Ponce de Leon was a Spanish explorer and soldier who was the first European to set foot in Florida.

  • Bartolomeu Dias

    Bartolomeu Dias was a great Portuguese navigator and explorer who explored Africa's coast

  • Estevanico

    was a Muslim slave from northern Africa who was one of the early explorers of the Southwestern United States.

  • Bernal Diaz del Castillo,

    Bernal Diaz del Castillo, also known as was a Spanish historian and soldier who chronicled the Spanish conquest of Mexico.

  • Fray Marcos de Nizawas

    Fray Marcos de Nizawas a Franciscan priest who is said to have traveled to the fabled "Seven Golden Cities of Cibola" in what is now the western part of New Mexico.