D. Pedro Mascarenhas (1480 – 16 June 1555) was a Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator. He was the first European to discover the island of Diego...

department of La Réunion. Their name derives from the Portuguese navigator Pedro Mascarenhas, who first visited them in April 1512. The islands share a common...

D. Pedro Mascarenhas, 1st Count of Sandomil (9 November 1670 – 3 August 1745), was a Portuguese nobleman and colonial administrator, Viceroy of India...

Mascarenhas, Portuguese footballer Neville Anthony Mascarenhas, Pakistani journalist and author Kate Mascarenhas, English novelist Pedro Mascarenhas,...

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

largest. Local time is UTC+6 year-round. Portuguese sailors under Pedro Mascarenhas were the first Europeans to discover the island, finding it uninhabited...

Mauritius, and Rodrigues, naming it the Mascarene or Mascarenhas Islands, after his countryman Pedro Mascarenhas, who had been there before. The Portuguese presence...

Portuguese Malacca and its shipping. The captain of Malacca, Dom Pedro Mascarenhas had dispatched a flotilla of oarships to Bintan to blockade it. Promoted...

Patani and Portugal was achieved by the new captain of Malacca, Pedro de Mascarenhas (1525–1526), who had dispatched a mission to Pahang led by Martim...

(Ilhas Mascarenhas) after Pedro Mascarenhas. An official world map by Diogo Ribeiro described "from west to east, the first island, 'Mascarenhas', the...

issues of concern to them. Monteiro's wife, Antonina Mascarenhas Monteiro, known widely as Tuna Mascarenhas, the former First Lady of Cape Verde, died in Praia...

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...

Ambon Island and Seram. Francisco Serrão reached the Moluccas. 1512 — Pedro Mascarenhas discovered the island of Diego Garcia, he also encountered the Mauritius...

interested in these islands. The Mascarene Islands were named after Pedro Mascarenhas, Viceroy of Portuguese India, after his visit to the islands in 1512...

– in (probable) order of age: Paulo da Gama, João Sodré, Vasco da Gama, Pedro da Gama and Aires da Gama. Vasco also had one known sister, Teresa da Gama...

Ambon Island and Seram. Francisco Serrão reached the Moluccas. 1512—Pedro Mascarenhas discover the island of Diego Garcia, he also encountered the Mauritius...

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

in January 1656 Governor Manuel Mascarenhas Homem 14 January 1656 22 May 1656 Governing Council 1. Manuel Mascarenhas Homem 2. Francisco de Melo e Castro...

Gonçalves Lourenço de Almeida Miguel Corte-Real Nicolau Coelho Paulo da Gama Pedro Álvares Cabral Pedro Mascarenhas Pero Dias Pero Escobar Vasco da Gama...

explorer of North America Paulo Dias de Novais, colonizer of Africa Pedro Mascarenhas, explorer of the Indian Ocean Tristão da Cunha, naval general and...

activities in Goa were divided in 1555 by the Portuguese viceroy of Goa, Pedro Mascarenhas. He allotted Bardez to the Franciscans, Tiswadi to the Dominicans...

da Silva Telo e Meneses 1640–44 Filipe Mascarenhas 1644–51 João da Silva Telo e Meneses 1651 Vasco Mascarenhas 1652–55 Brás de Castro 1655 Rodrigo Lobo...

tried to steal some of the locals' cattle. Almeida allowed his captains Pedro and Jorge Barreto to return to the village on the morning of 1 March 1510...

Gonçalves (15th century/16th century), Portuguese explorer who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil. Gonçalves was one of Cabral's...

Gonçalves Lourenço de Almeida Miguel Corte-Real Nicolau Coelho Paulo da Gama Pedro Álvares Cabral Pedro Mascarenhas Pero Dias Pero Escobar Vasco da Gama...

of the captaincies of São Vicente and Rio de Janeiro, Commendator of Mascarenhas in the Order of Christ and Nobleman of the Council of King John III....

kabbalist, and a sixteenth-century poet named Yehuda Zarco. Augusto Mascarenhas Barreto suggested that Christopher Columbus could have been of Jewish...

da Silva Telo e Meneses 1640–44 Filipe Mascarenhas 1644–51 João da Silva Telo e Meneses 1651 Vasco Mascarenhas 1652–55 Brás de Castro 1655 Rodrigo Lobo...

Gonçalves Lourenço de Almeida Miguel Corte-Real Nicolau Coelho Paulo da Gama Pedro Álvares Cabral Pedro Mascarenhas Pero Dias Pero Escobar Vasco da Gama...

in history. Magellan was born in northern Portugal c. 1480. His father, Pedro de Magalhães, was a minor member of Portuguese nobility and mayor of the...