Events in the year 1508 in Portugal. King of Portugal and the Algarves: Manuel I March - Battle of Chaul Afonso de Albuquerque began his term as Governor...

Year 1508 (MDVIII) was a leap year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. January 24 – Maximilian, King of...

naval battle between the Portuguese and an Egyptian Mamluk fleet in 1508 in the harbour of Chaul in India. The battle ended in a Mamluk victory. It followed...

In Portugal, a public holiday (Portuguese: feriado) is a calendar date, legally recognised and defined in the Labour Code as well as the Concordat of...

1508) was a Portuguese explorer and military commander. He was born in Martim, Portugal, the son of Francisco de Almeida, first viceroy of Portuguese...

of Portuguese India as a viceroyalty or governorship. (*) – In 1508, King Manuel I of Portugal devised a plan to partition the Portuguese empire in Asia...

events and publications of 1508. April 4 – John Lydgate's poem The Complaint of the Black Knight becomes the first book printed in Scotland, from the Chepman...

and was independently conquering territories in the Persian Gulf to the west. In March 1508, a Portuguese squadron under the command of Lourenço de Almeida...

Events from the year 1508 in India. The Christian-Islamic power struggle in Europe and the Middle East spills over into the Indian Ocean as Battle of Chaul...

Gujarati–Portuguese conflicts refers to the armed engagements between the Portuguese Empire and the Sultanate of Gujarat, in India, that took place from 1508 until...

Sultanate of Fez in 1497, with Portugal's blessing. Spain took the then-island of Peñón de Vélez de la Gomera by force in 1508, with Portugal recognising this...

Kingdom of Portugal had been allied with England since 1373, and thus the Republic of Portugal was an ally of the United Kingdom. However, Portugal remained...

Saturnino Monteiro (2011), Portuguese Sea Battles Volume I – The First World Sea Power p. 200-206 Pissarra, José (2002). Chaul e Diu −1508 e 1509 – O Domínio...

University Press, 1991), 238. Miranda, Salvador. "COSTA, Jorge da (1406-1508)". The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church. Florida International University...

– Matsumoto Castle in Japan built. 1505 – Archangel Cathedral in Moscow begun. 1505–1508 – Fondaco dei Tedeschi on the Grand Canal (Venice) rebuilt by...

The Portuguese Empire (Portuguese: Império Português, European Portuguese: [ĩˈpɛ.ɾju puɾ.tuˈɣeʃ]), also known as the Portuguese Overseas (Ultramar Português)...

I (European Portuguese: [mɐnuˈɛl]; 31 May 1469 – 13 December 1521), known as the Fortunate (Portuguese: O Venturoso), was King of Portugal from 1495 to...

Denis of Portugal and the third Count of Barcelos. Isabel of Barcelos (1402–1466) a lady of the Portuguese nobility Lourenço de Almeida (ca.1480-1508) an explorer...

The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis. The...

and free the Portuguese prisoners made at Chaul in 1508. The Portuguese eventually succeeded in eliminating the Mamluk southern fleet in 1509 at the Battle...

Events in the year 2024 in Portugal. President: Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa Prime Minister – António Costa (Socialist) (until 2 April); Luís Montenegro (Social...

Sir Edward Brampton, (Portuguese: Duarte Brandão) KG (c.1440–1508) was the Governor of Guernsey, a knight, adventurer, ship commander and the godson and...

to the Portuguese in Arcila, King Manuel I of Portugal agreed to the Spanish conquest in late 1508; this was formally ratified and enshrined in the 1509...

אברבנאל;‎ 1437–1508), commonly referred to as Abarbanel (Hebrew: אַבַּרבְּנְאֵל; also spelled Abravanel, Avravanel or Abrabanel), was a Portuguese Jewish statesman...

Macau was a Portuguese colony from the establishment of the first official Portuguese settlement of Macau in 1557 to its handover to China in 1999. It comprised...

secured for Portugal by the activities of Afonso de Albuquerque, who was appointed the Portuguese viceroy of India in 1508. Early Portuguese explorers established...

The following is a list of the casualties count in battles or offensives in world history. The list includes both sieges (not technically battles but...

trip. The first continuous relations with a European country began in 1508 with Portugal under Emperor Lebna Dengel, who had just inherited the throne from...

landed in the region for the first time, headed by Vasco da Gama. In 1508 the Portuguese, led by Afonso de Albuquerque invaded the area with seven warships...

instead. The Wattasids assaulted Tangier in 1508, 1511, and 1515 but without success. In 1508, future Portuguese of India Duarte de Menezes succeeded his...