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* Diogo de Azambuja ( 1432 – 1518 ) Portuguese explorer of the African coast.
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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.
* September 11 – Portuguese fidalgo Diogo Lopes de Sequeira becomes the first European to reach Malacca, having crossed the Gulf of Bengal.
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.
* 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.
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Under the command of Diogo de Azambuja, the fleet set sail on 11 December 1481 and arrived at Elmina a little over a month later, on 19 January 1482.
The town grew around São Jorge da Mina Castle, built by the Portuguese Diogo de Azambuja in 1482 on the site of a town or village called Amankwakurom or Amankwa, after that war.
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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.
* 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
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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.
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.
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 ).
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