José Xavier Mouzinho da Silveira (12 July 1780 in Castelo de Vide – 4 April 1849 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese statesman, jurist and politician, as well...

1849 - Memórias Históricas de José Xavier Mouzinho da Silveira (Historical Memories of José Xavier Mouzinho da Silveira) 1850 - O Arco de Sant'Ana II...

D. Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (/ˌvæsku də ˈɡɑːmə, - ˈɡæmə/ VAS-koo də GA(H)M-ə; European Portuguese: [ˈvaʃku ðɐ ˈɣɐmɐ]; c. 1460s – 24 December...

his paternal grandfather Estêvão da Gama, Estêvão was the second son of Vasco da Gama, and the brother of Cristóvão da Gama. He commanded the fleet that...

seven years after the Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India by Vasco da Gama, with the nomination of the first Portuguese viceroy Francisco de Almeida...

His first marriage was to Maria da Cunha, and his second marriage was to Isabel da Silveira. The main source for Nuno da Cunha's career is the Portuguese...

15 March 1540, when he travelled back to Portugal together with Francis Xavier. After this, he served in the Portuguese court and took a special role in...

rescued Captain João da Nova, who had encountered difficulties on his return from India; da Nova and his ship, the Flor de la mar, joined da Cunha's fleet....

The Ministry of Justice (Portuguese: Ministério da Justiça) is the Portuguese government ministry responsible for the administration of the judiciary system...

State for Ecclesiastical Affairs, and Minister of Justice, José Xavier Mouzinho da Silveira, the shelter of Caloura was closed and Church secularized,...

route from India to Europe. However, this seems doubtful because when Estêvão da Gama arrived at St Helena expedition in 1503 his clerk Thomé Lopes) identified...

as the first governor and viceroy of the Portuguese State of India (Estado da Índia). Almeida is credited with establishing Portuguese hegemony in the Indian...

young man. He died on July 21, 1561 and lies in the Convent of São Francisco da Cidade, in Lisbon. "Martim Afonso de Sousa | Portuguese admiral". Encyclopedia...

Portuguese India. He was the only son of Manuel Caetano da Silva (1870–1926) and his wife Maria da Encarnação Vassalo (1869–1922), and was the brother of...

Macedo, José Agostinho de; Faria e Sousa, Manuel de (1823). D. Luiz d'Ataide, ou, A tomada de Dabul: drama heroico: o assumpto he tirado da Asia Portugueza...

Ignacio da Costa Quintella (1839) Annaes da Marinha Portugueza, Vol. 1, Lisbon: Academia Real das Sciencias. The career and legend of Vasco da Gama, Sanjay...

Governor of Portuguese India from 1526 to 1529. He was also the captain of Vasco da Gama, a famous Portuguese explorer. During 1528–29, Lopo Vaz de Sampaio seized...

to fulfill this goal, and died in the arms of his friend, Saint Francis Xavier, on 6 June 1548. He was buried at Goa before his remains were exhumed and...

Soares had served a successful term (1495–99) as captain-general of São Jorge da Mina in the Portuguese Gold Coast (West Africa). In 1504 Lopo Soares commanded...

Manuel José Mendes 1839–40 José Joaquim Lopes Lima 1840–42 Francisco Xavier da Silva Pereira 1842–43 Joaquim Mourão Garcez Palha 1843–44 José Ferreira...

Movement. His project for the street corner of Rua Braancamp 7 with Rua Mouzinho da Silveira would also have been so, had it not been rejected for "aesthetic...

1611 and buried at the church of Covenant of Grace (Portuguese: Convento da Graça) in Lisbon. Madre de Deus Battle of Cape Rachado Danvers, Frederick...

Publishing Group, 2000, ISBN 978-0-313-31106-2 Sanjay Subrahmanyam, "The Career and Legend of Vasco Da Gama", p. 300, Cambridge University Press, 1997...

age to the most important of Portugal's overseas possessions, the Estado da Índia, where he made his career. He entered royal service on 25 March 1577...

Sena route, as this would lead them to where another Jesuit, Gonçalo da Silveira, had been thrown into a river and killed in 1561. So the expedition set...

Finance has its origins on the Comptrollerships of the Exchequer (vedorias da Fazenda) created in the 14th century to run the State's financial affairs...