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Pedro Álvares Cabral
Portuguese navigator who reached Brazil on the way to India in 1500 and claimed it for Portugal
Where they went
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Bound for India, Cabral’s Portuguese fleet swung far west, sighted the Brazilian coast and claimed it for Portugal — the beginning of Portuguese Brazil.
People who appear alongside
- Manuel I of Portugal1469 – 1521
King of Portugal who sent the voyages of Vasco da Gama and Cabral and built Portugal’s Asian trading empire
Themes this person appears in
- The Age of Discovery1415 – 1600
From Ceuta to the Manila galleons — two centuries in which European ships crossed the oceans and bound the world together by sea