portuguese sailors

By rshetron20
  • Sep 3, 1492

    Afonso de Albuquerque

    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
  • Mar 20, 1500

    CORTE REAL, GASPAR

    he was a protuguges sailor so he sailed to greenland in 1500 and came across he also reached the coast of north america. He died at sea and his brother died trying to find him.
  • 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.
  • Sep 18, 1500

    Francisco Fernández de Córdoba

    Francisco Fernández de Córdoba was a Spanish explorer and slave trader who explored Mexico (1517) and Nicaragua (1524).
  • Apr 18, 1507

    DE ALBUQUERQUE, AFONSO

    He started his trip in 1507 and he sailed around india ocean and africa he claimed goa for Portugal.
  • 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.
  • Jun 6, 1516

    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.
  • 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
  • Nov 15, 1534

    jacques cartier

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