( Note: although Cadamosto's claims credit for the discovery of the Cape Verde islands, this is disputed by Diogo Gomes, who claims he discovered the islands, together with Antonio da Noli, in 1462 ( sometimes dated 1460 ))

Previously, a Portuguese trader Diogo do Couto visited Angkor and wrote his accounts about it in 1550, and the Portuguese monk Antonio da Magdalena had also written about his visit to Angkor Wat in 1586.

* Luciano Cordeiro, Diogo Cão in Boletim da Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, 1892 ;

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After successive appeals to the Pope asking for missionaries for the East Indies under the Padroado agreement, John III was enthusiastically advised by Diogo de Gouveia, rector of the Collège Sainte-Barbe, to draw the newly graduated youngsters that would establish the Society of Jesus.

Álvares and Mattheus were forced to wait until the arrival of Soares ' replacement, Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, who successfully sent the embassy on, with Dom Rodrigo de Lima replacing Duarte Galvão.

* 1658 – Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real, Portuguese diplomat and statesman ( d. 1736 )

* Diogo de Azambuja ( 1432 – 1518 ) Portuguese explorer of the African coast.

* September 11 – Portuguese fidalgo Diogo Lopes de Sequeira becomes the first European to reach Malacca, having crossed the Gulf of Bengal.

* Portuguese navigator Diogo de Teive discovers the islands of Corvo and Flores in the Azores.

* Diogo de Silves, Portuguese navigator, discovers seven islands of the Azores archipelago.

Peaceful contact was finally opened in 1456 by Diogo Gomes, and the bay was subsequently referred to as the " Angra de Bezeguiche " ( after the name of the local ruler ).

But a peace was negotiated by the archbishops Diogo Gelmires of Santiago de Compostela and Burdino of Braga, rival churchmen whose wealth and military resources enabled them to dictate terms.

* 1427 — Diogo de Silves discovered the Azores, which was colonized in 1431 by Gonçalo Velho Cabral.

* 1452 — Diogo de Teive discovers the Islands of Flores and Corvo.

* 1509 — The Bay of Bengal crossed by Diogo Lopes de Sequeira.

* 1512 — Pedro Mascarenhas discovered the island of Diego Garcia, he also encountered the Mauritius, although he may not have been the first to do so ; expeditions by Diogo Dias and Afonso de Albuquerque in 1507 may have encountered the islands.

Turning away from the Albuquerque clique, represented by Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, John III looked for a fresh start.

John was educated by notable scholars of the time, including the astrologer Tomás de Torres and Diogo de Ortiz, Bishop of Viseu, and Luís Teixeira Lobo, one of the first Portuguese Renaissance humanists, rector of the University of Siena ( 1476 ) and Professor of Law at Ferrara ( 1502 ).

The monarch awarded many scholarships to universities abroad, mainly in the University of Paris, having sent fifty Portuguese students to the Collège Sainte-Barbe headed by Diogo de Gouveia.

Those included George Buchanan, Diogo de Teive, Jerónimo Osório, Nicolas de Grouchy, Guillaume Guérante and Élie Vinet, who came to be decisive for the disclosure of the contemporary research of Pedro Nunes.

However, the importance of the College was shadowed by rivalry between the orthodox views of the " Parisians " group headed by Diogo de Gouveia and the more secular views of the " Bordeaux " school headed by his nephew André de Gouveia, within the advent of the Counter-Reformation and the Society of Jesus.

João de Barros in his " Decadas ", continued by Diogo do Couto, described with mastery the deeds achieved by the Portuguese in the discovery and conquest of the lands and seas of the Orient.

* Diogo Schmidt de Barros e Vasconcelos, born on 13 June 1975

Mendonça is named by Barros as the captain of a ship that left Lisbon in 1519, and as having been given instructions to search for Marco Polo's legendary Isles of Gold, said to lie to the south of Sumatra: At the end of June of the year 1520, a ship arrived that had departed the Kingdom that year, the Captain and Pilot being Pedro Eanes, nicknamed the Frenchman, who being a diligent man and one well versed in matters of the sea, King Manuel had entrusted with letters for Diogo Lopez concerning service matters.

Barros relates that prior to Mendonça being ordered to discover the Isles of Gold, they had already been sought by Diogo Pacheco, whose attempt came to grief on the coast of Sumatra: Diogo Pacheco came there a little before Manuel Pacheco from Malacca, and brought much information on the Isles of Gold that were generally known in India to be to the south of Sumatra.

* E ; G. Ravenstein, Voyages of Diogo Cão, & c., in Geog.

Diogo Cão, discovered the Congo in 1482 and reached Cape Cross in 1486 ; Bartolomeu Dias doubled the Cape of Good Hope in 1488, thus proving that the Indian Ocean was accessible by sea.

The nobles resisted this infringement of their rights ; but their leader, Fernando II, Duke of Braganza, was beheaded for high treason in 1483 ; in 1484 the king stabbed to death his own brother-in-law, Diogo, Duke of Viseu ; and eighty other members of the aristocracy were afterwards executed.

( interim ) Diogo Freitas do Amaral-vice-prime-minister ;

A short list of past and present Portuguese musicians with important contributions must necessarily include the names of composers Pedro de Escobar, Manuel Cardoso, Duarte Lobo, Filipe de Magalhães, Carlos Seixas, Diogo Dias Melgás, João Domingos Bomtempo, Marcos Portugal, José Vianna da Motta, Luís de Freitas Branco, Joly Braga Santos, Fernando Lopes-Graça, António Fragoso and Emmanuel Nunes ; organists such as António Carreira or Manuel Rodrigues Coelho ; singers such as Luísa Todi, Elisabete Matos or José Carlos Xavier ; pianists such as Maria João Pires or Sequeira Costa ; cellists such as Guilhermina Suggia ;

* Freitas do Amaral, Diogo: Viriato ; Lisboa: Bertrand, 2004 ( ISBN 972-25-1329-X )

Diogo das Chagas also referred to an initial settlement of 30 people, under contract of Terceirenses Antão Vaz and Lopo Vaz de Azevedo ( 1508 – 1510 ), who had little success on Corvo ; they eventually returned to Terceira in 1515, leaving António Silveira de Machado in charge.

Such is the story accepted by Teófilo Braga, but Delfim Guimarães shows that the first part is doubtful, and, putting aside the testimony of a contemporary and grave writer, Diogo do Couto, he even denies the title of poet to Cristóvão Falcão, arguing from internal and other evidence that Chrisfal is the work of Bernardim Ribeiro ; his destructive criticism is, however, stronger than his constructive work.

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( However, the account of Diogo Gomes differs here ; he asserts the caravel never made it back-that the native canoes overpowered and seized it, and then dragged the caravel and dismantled it upriver.

Diogo Lopez then gave this to do to Christovão de Mendoça, the son of Pero Mendoça the lord mayor of Mourão ; of whose voyage we will make mention below.

Premiere: Lisbon 1984, Goethe Institut, Diogo Pais ( clarinet ), Leonor Braga Santos ( viola ) and António Chagas Rosa ( piano ).

* 1985 – Diogo Fernandes, Brazilian footballer

" (" Here arrived the ships of king John II of Portugal – Diogo Cão, Pero Anes, Pero da Costa ”.

* 1484 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.

* 1983 – Carlos Diogo, Uruguayan footballer

In 1482 – 1483, Captain Diogo Cão, sailing southwards on uncharted Congo River, discovered the mouth of the river, and became the first European to encounter the Kingdom of Kongo.

* 1988 – Diogo Salomão, Portuguese footballer

* Diogo Dória – Receptionist

* Diogo Gomes of Portugal ( 1420 – 1485 ), navigator, explorer and writer

* August 10 – Diogo Dias discovers an island which he names St Lawrence ( after the saint's day on which it was first sighted ), later to be known as Madagascar

* July 6 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.

* date unknown – Infante Diogo of Portugal

* 1484 – Discovery of the Congo River by Diogo Cão

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Behaim accompanied Diogo Cão during his second expedition ( 1485 – 86 ) along the coast of western Africa, reaching Cabo Negro and Cabo Ledo and returning by way of the Azores.

He is a descendant of the illegitimate daughter of António José Girão Teixeira Lobo Barbosa ( Porto, Sé, 9 January 1715 – Alijó, Vilar de Maçada ), Fidalgo of the Royal Household and Knight of the Order of Christ, thrice distant relative of Diogo Cão.

* Diogo Gomes De prima inventione Guineae ( Portuguese translation by Gabriel Pereira ( 1898 – 99 ) as " As Relações do Descobrimento da Guiné e das ilhas dos Açores, Madeira e Cabo Verde " in Boletim da Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, no.

In the census of Diogo de Sousa ( 1514 – 1532 ), which was used to specify the annual payments to the archdiocese by the 140 residents, Afife is mentioned as a place within the municipality of Viana.

Oil paintings by Diogo Magina ( 1763 – 67 ), representing the Milagre de Ourique, with an apparition of Jesus Christ to King Afonso Henriques, in the vicinity of São Pedro das Cabeças ( 5 kilometres from Castro Verde ).

* Diogo Lopes de Sequeira ( c. 1465-c. 1530 ), Governor of India ( 1518 – 1522 )

* Miguel Diogo ( 1982 – 1983 )