* probable – Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer ( b. 1450 )

** Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese explorer ( d. 1501 )

* 1500 — Gaspar Corte-Real made his first voyage to Newfoundland, formerly known as Terras Corte-Real.

* 1502 — Miguel Corte-Real set out for New England in search of his brother, Gaspar.

Gaspar Corte-Real ( c. 1450 – c.

Nothing more was ever heard of Gaspar Corte-Real.

ca: Gaspar Corte-Real

cs: Gaspar Corte-Real

da: Gaspar Corte-Real

de: Gaspar Corte-Real

fr: Gaspar Corte-Real

pl: Gaspar Corte-Real

fi: Gaspar Corte-Real

tr: Gaspar Corte-Real

* Gaspar Corte-Real

# REDIRECT Gaspar Corte-Real

During the early 20th century, Edmund B. Delabarre associated the Dighton Rock with the lost Portuguese navigators Miguel Corte-Real and his brother Gaspar.

Cantino planisphere 1502, earliest surviving chart showing the explorations of Christopher Columbus | Columbus to Central America, Gaspar Corte-Real | Corte-Real to Newfoundland, Vasco da Gama | Gama to India and Pedro Álvares Cabral | Cabral to Brazil.

* Gaspar Corte-Real ( c. 1450 – 1501 ), Portuguese explorer and brother of Miguel

" While further containing complete impossibilities, the text also contain statements that have a sure historical foundation, like the voyage of Gaspar Corte-Real.

Cantino ’ s diligence is shown in two of his letters to the Duke, dated from 17th and 18 October 1501, where he describes, amongst other things, hearing Gaspar Corte-Real detailing his latest voyage to Newfoundland ( Terra Nova ) to King Manuel I of Portugal.

The map makes clear that Greenland had been rediscovered and charted for Portugal, presumably by João Vaz Corte-Real during his service with Pining and Pothorst's 1473 expedition for King Christian I of Denmark or by his son Gaspar during the latter's own 1500 and 1501 expeditions for King Manuel I of Portugal.

Gaspar da Cruz ( c. 1520 – 1570 ), who worked all over the Portuguese colonial empire in Asia, was probably the first Christian missionary to preach ( unsuccessfully ) in Cambodia.

* Gaspar da Cruz, a Portuguese Dominican friar, writes about his travels to the Ming Dynasty of China, including the Chinese civil service handbook The Bureaucratic System of the Ming Dynasty, and how the Chinese draw lots to determine which days of the year are most auspicious or most ill-fated to travel upon.

They were also schooled in art through their parents art collection, but also their connection to the magnificent collection of paintings in the Antwerp house of diamond and jewellery dealer, Gaspar Duarte ( 1584 – 1653 ), who was a Portuguese Jewish exile.

It was during this period ( in 1555-1556 ) that the Portuguese friar Gaspar da Cruz made the first attempt to introduce Christianity into the country.

Its use may have expanded across continents, e. g. Portuguese chronicler Gaspar Correia ( writing in the 1550s ), claims that in 1502, the Indian prince, the Zamorin of Calicut, dispatched negotiators bearing a " white cloth tied to a stick ", " as a sign of peace ", to his enemy Vasco da Gama.

There are numerous modern variations such as Gaspar ( Spanish and Portuguese ), Gaspare ( Italian ), Gaspard ( French ), Kaspar ( German and Dutch ), Casper ( English ), Kacper ( Polish ), Kasperi ( Finnish ), Kasper ( Danish ), Gáspár ( Hungarian ), and Kaspars ( Latvian ).

As a surname, Gaspar survives today in Spanish, Portuguese and French, although the latter adds a silent d. It also survives in the Armenian name, Gasparian.

Gaspar Frutuoso, the Portuguese chronicler, later reported of the rich marine life in the 16th century.

An interesting European view of the events can be found in the account of Galeote Pereira ( one of the Portuguese sailors captured in March 1549 ), and in the book of the Dominican Gaspar da Cruz ( 1569 ), who apparently had access not only to Pereira's story but to other reports as well.

Father Gaspar Frutuoso, the celebrated Portuguese historian, priest and humanist, best known for his six-part tome Saudades da Terra that documented the genealogy and history of the Azores archipelago, recounted the conflicts, histories and personalities of the region.

According to Gaspar Frutuoso in his work Saudades da Terra written in the 1570s, the Portuguese navigator João Vaz Corte-Real was in 1472 granted lands in the Azores by the king of Portugal, because of his discovery of the Terras do Bacalhau.

Guanabara Bay was first encountered by Europeans on January 1, 1502, when one of the Portuguese explorers Gaspar de Lemos and Gonçalo Coelho arrived on its shores.

* 1571-Establishment of the port of Nagasaki for trade with the Portuguese, under the supervision of Gaspar Vilela and Tristão Vaz da Veiga.

Although not explicitly expressing an abolitionist point of view, the Portuguese Dominican Gaspar da Cruz in 1569 strongly criticized the Portuguese traffic in Chinese slaves, explaining that any arguments by the slave traders that they " legally " purchased already-enslaved children were bogus.

The celebrated Portuguese historian, Father Gaspar Frutuoso referred to Lagoa, in the way that the first settlers named it, a name that was dependent on where they made their homes:

Gaspar de Lemos, a navigator and commander of the Portuguese naval fleet landed at ( Ilha Grande ) on 6 January 1502, the “ Kings ’ day ”, that is, “ Dia de Reis .” Accordingly, the place was named “ Angra dos Reis ”, which means “ Kings ’ Cove ” or loosely-anchorage of the kings.

* 1601: At the invitation of Portuguese merchants, Dominican Fathers Gaspar da Assumpsao and Melchior da Luz went to Diang ( Dianga ), south-east of Chittagong on the Karnaphuli River, and built the third church ( chapel ) there.

Its name was derived from the Portuguese phrase terra achanada which means flatland and was first mentioned by the historian Father Gaspar Frutuoso in Saudades da Terra.

Gaspar is a given and / or surname of Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, and also Philippines origin that could refer to: