Vasco da Gama
c. 1460–1524
Portuguese navigator who found the sea route to India.
Vasco da Gama (c. 1460–1524) was an explorer, born in Sines and died in Kochi.
- Known as
- Explorer
- Category
- Explorers
- Born
- c. 1460, Sines
- Died
- 1524, Kochi
Age of Discovery
- Christopher Columbus c. 1451–1506, explorer
- Ferdinand Magellan c. 1480–1521, explorer
- Juan Ponce de León 1474–1521, explorer
- John Cabot c. 1450–c. 1500, explorer
Alive at the same time as Vasco da Gama
- Hieronymus Bosch c. 1450–1516, painter
- Christopher Columbus c. 1451–1506, explorer
- Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519, polymath
- Amerigo Vespucci 1454–1512, explorer
- Jakob Fugger 1459–1525, banker
- Piri Reis c. 1465–1553, admiral and cartographer
- Erasmus 1466–1536, humanist
- Pedro Álvares Cabral c. 1467–c. 1520, explorer
- Guru Nanak 1469–1539, religious leader
- Niccolò Machiavelli 1469–1527, political philosopher
- Juan Ponce de León 1474–1521, explorer
- Francisco Pizarro c. 1478–1541, conquistador
Portrait: Sailko, CC BY 3.0.
