Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (Spanish: Pedro Fernández de Quirós) (1563–1614) was a Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain. He is best known for leading...

young Portuguese navigator in Spanish service, Pedro Fernandes de Queirós. An argumentative old soldier, Pedro Merino Manrique was chosen as camp master....

note remarks made by crew members of the Portuguese origins of Pedro Fernandes de Queirós. Torres entered the navy of the Spanish Crown at some point and...

Pedro Fernandes may refer to: Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (1563–1614), Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain Pedro Fernandes Ribeiro (born 1949)...

João Fernandes Lavrador (1453–1501) (Portuguese pronunciation: [ʒuˈɐ̃w fɨɾˈnɐ̃dɨʒ lɐvɾɐˈðoɾ]) was a Portuguese explorer of the late 15th century. He was...

Queiros (or Queirós) is a Portuguese surname. It may refer to: Alberto Queiros (born 1978), French footballer Antônio de Queirós Teles, Baron of Jundiaí...

in 1606 from a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós. The islands were named by Captain James Cook in 1774 and subsequently...

arrived on 22 April 1606 as part of the Spanish expedition of Pedro Fernandes de Queirós. Covering an area of 5 square kilometres (1.9 square miles), the...

commander Pedro Fernandes de Queirós thus decided to abandon the settlement and they sailed north to the Spanish territory of the Philippines. Queirós later...

Pedro Álvares Cabral (European Portuguese: [ˈpeðɾu ˈalvɐɾɨʃ kɐˈβɾal]; born Pedro Álvares de Gouveia; c. 1467 or 1468 – c. 1520) was a Portuguese nobleman...

was discovered by a Spanish expedition led by Portuguese sailor Pedro Fernandes de Queirós on 26 January 1606, during an expedition that began in Callao...

illustrious monarch, Dom João the Second of Portugal – Diogo Cão, Pedro Anes, Pedro da Costa, Alvaro Pires, Pero Escolar". Information regarding Cão's...

makes the first confirmed sighting of Australia by a European. Pedro Fernandes de Queirós discovers the Pitcairn Islands. March – The Dutch ship Duyfken...

navigators García Jofre de Loaísa in 1526, Álvaro de Saavedra Cerón in 1527, Alvaro de Mendaña in 1567 and 1595, and Pedro Fernandes de Queirós in 1606. Another...

(or clear) water." The island was called "Sagitario" in 1606 by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós who led a Spanish expedition to Terra Australis from Peru.[citation...

c. 1480. His father, Pedro de Magalhães, was a minor member of Portuguese nobility and mayor of the town. His mother was Alda de Mezquita. Magellan's...

('Southern-Austrian Land of the Holy Spirit') coined by navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós in 1606 for the largest island of Vanuatu, believing his expedition...

visits from several other Europeans, including: Portuguese sailor Pedro Fernandes de Queirós in 1606; Dutch mariners Willem Schouten and Jacob Le Maire in...

then the land from 9 to 14 degrees would be a separate land". Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, another Portuguese navigator sailing for the Spanish Crown, saw...

Sodré, Vasco da Gama, Pedro da Gama and Aires da Gama. Vasco also had one known sister, Teresa da Gama, who married Lopo Mendes de Vasconcelos. Little is...

later he was one of the captains of the second Indian expedition, headed by Pedro Álvares Cabral. This flotilla was the first to reach Brazil, landing there...

Diogo Fernandes Pereira, sometimes called simply Diogo Fernandes, was a Portuguese 16th-century navigator, originally from Setúbal, Portugal. Diogo Fernandes...

was later visited by Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, commanding the Spanish ship San Jeronimo on 23 December 1595. Fernandez de Quirós had assumed the command...

through his envoy Duarte Fernandes, with Pegu in Myanmar, and Timor and the Moluccas through a voyage headed by António de Abreu and Francisco Serrão...

(died 1672) July 28 – Felix Plater, Swiss physician (born 1536) Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Portuguese-born navigator (born 1565) William Lee, English-born...

century, such as the expedition led by the Portuguese navigator Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, sailed to Pitcairn and Vanuatu archipelagos, and sailed the Torres...

30–31. January 29 – Explorer Pedro Fernandes de Queirós of Portugal, accompanied by a party of 160 men on the ships San Pedro, San Pablo and Los Tres Reyes...

European influence. The first European to sight the island was Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, in 1606. The first European settlers arrived during the 18th...

Spanish Explorer Luís Vaez de Torres sailed the Torres Strait in 1606. Torres had joined the expedition of Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, which sailed west from...

explorer Pedro Fernandes de Queirós, Portuguese explorer Emanuel Jardim Fernandes (born 1944), Portuguese politician Joaquim Teófilo Fernandes Braga, Portuguese...