* João Afonso de Aveiro, Portuguese explorer.

The famous explorer João Afonso was born in Aveiro.

The navigators included Portugal's most experienced, Pero de Alenquer, Pedro Escobar, João de Coimbra, and Afonso Gonçalves.

In letters written by the Manikongo, Nzinga Mbemba Afonso, to the King João III of Portugal, he writes that Portuguese merchandise flowing in is what is fueling the trade in Africans.

Of the four Portuguese Navy sloops — the NRP Afonso de Albuquerque, the NRP Bartolomeu Dias, the NRP João de Lisboa and the NRP Gonçalves Zarco — which were deployed to patrol the waters off Portuguese colonies in the Far East, only one, the NRP Afonso de Albuquerque, had been deployed to Portuguese India.

Among John III's many governors of this region, were Vasco da Gama, Pedro Mascarenhas, Lopo Vaz de Sampaio, Nuno da Cunha, Estêvão da Gama, Martim Afonso de Sousa, João de Castro and Henrique de Meneses.

Fernando married Leonor Telles ( or Teles ) de Menezes, formerly the wife of the late nobleman João Lourenço da Cunha, Lord of Pombeiro, and daughter of Martim Afonso Teles de Menezes.

While writing of Afonso de Albuquerque's ventures in Sumatra, João de Barros noted that the Chinese were the first to control trade between Sumatra and India, and noted the presence of Chinese people living in Sumatra.

* Teresa Sánchez, who married Dom João Afonso de Menezes ( died 5 May 1304 ), 1st Conde de Barcelos in Portugal, the first Portuguese hereditary Count, 4th Lord of Alburquerque in Castille and 29th Mordomo-Mór of Portugal, and had female issue, and Rui Gil de Vilalobos, and had female issue

Perhaps these waypoints were only reached by the astronomers José Vizinho and João Afonso de Aveiro in 1484-86.

The practice had obvious pitfalls, since authority could as easily be given to highly incompetent and unfit people as it could fall to talented leaders such as Afonso de Albuquerque or Dom João de Castro.

The toponym " Rua do Barão " is due to the fact that João Fernandes da Silveira, the first Baron of Alvito, minister of Portuguese kings Dom Afonso V and Dom João II lived here.

Afonso I wrote a series of letters to the kings of Portugal Manuel I and João III of Portugal concerning to the behavior of the Portuguese in his country and their role in the developing slave trade, complaining of Portuguese complicity in purchasing illegally enslaved people and the connections between Afonso's men, Portuguese mercenaries in Kongo's service and the capture and sale of slaves by Portuguese.

* João Afonso de Aveiro

She tells of Duarte Pacheco Pereira's defense of Cochin ( Battle of Cochin ( 1504 )); the Battle of Diu ( 1509 ) fought by Francisco de Almeida and his son Lourenco de Almeida against combined Gujarati-Egyptian fleets ; the deeds of Tristão da Cunha, Pedro de Mascarenhas, Lopo Vaz de Sampaio, and Nuno da Cunha ; and battles fought by Martim Afonso de Sousa and João de Castro.

The house was cared for by carpenters João Domingos, and later his son-in-law Afonso Anes, who were appointed to head the renovations of the property by John II.

Mani is a spelling deformation of this original term, which is attested in very early texts, notably the letters of King Afonso I of Kongo, where he writes, in his letters to the Kings Manuel I and João III of Portugal in 1514 concerning the " moinepango " ( mwene Mpangu, a provincial authority ), in which the orthography reflects its actual pronunciation.

Some of the most famous bandeirantes were Bartolomeu Bueno da Silva ( the Anhanguera ), Antônio Dias de Oliveira, Fernão Dias Pais ( the Hunter of Emeralds ), Domingos Rodrigues do Prado, Antônio Rodrigues de Arzão, Domingos Jorge Velho, Salvador Furtado Fernandes de Mendonça, Antônio Raposo Tavares, Estêvão Ribeiro Baião Parente, Brás Rodrigues de Arzão, Manuel de Campos Bicudo, Francisco Dias de Siqueira ( the Apuçá ), Pascoal Moreira Cabral, Antônio Pires de Campos, Manuel de Borba Gato, Francisco Pedroso Xavier, Lourenço Castanho Taques, Tomé Portes del-Rei, Antonio Garcia da Cunha, Matias Cardoso de Almeida, Salvador Faria de Albernaz, José de Camargo Pimentel, João Leite da Silva Ortiz, João de Siqueira Afonso, Jerônimo Pedroso de Barros and Bartolomeu Bueno de Siqueira.

In 1318, Afonso Sanches ( the illegitimate son of King Dinis of Portugal and Aldonça Rodrigues Telha ) and Teresa Martins ( daughter of João Afonso de Menez, Count of Barcelos and grand-daughter of Sancho IV of Castile ) founded the Monastery of Santa Clara.

Among its most renowned singers were Edmundo Bettencourt and António Menano, in the 1930s and 40s, and José Afonso, Adriano Correia de Oliveira, Luís Goes and João Maria Tudela, in the 1950s and 60s, the two so called " golden ages " of the genre.

In 1995 José Mário Branco, Amélia Muge, and João Afonso, Zeca's nephew, released another album in homage to Zeca, called Maio, Maduro Maio, that included many of his songs and two previously unreleased ones, " Entre Sodoma e Gomorra " and " Nem Sempre os Dias São Dias Passados ".

In point of fact, Philippa was considered to be rather plain, and in any case King João I ( John I ) already had a mistress, Inês Peres Esteves, by whom he had three children.

* Jão Carlos ( João Carlos Molina Esteves ) — Guitar ( 1981 – present )

# João ( II ) Afonso Esteves da Azambuja ( 1402-1415 )

In 2012, his first live prime-time player in Avenida Brasil, where she will live a vengeful Rita, a protagonist with an air of villain, who wants at all costs to avenge the Carminha villain, played by Adriana Esteves, the plot of João Emanuel Carneiro.

His parents were Gonçalo Esteves Zarco and wife Brites de Santarém ( daughter of João Afonso de Santarém ( himself the son of Afonso Guilherme de Santarém, the son of Guilherme de Santarém, son of another Afonso Guilherme de Santarém ) and wife Filipa Lopes de Couros, male line ancestors of Frei Luís de Sousa ).

There, in October or November, 1485, near the falls of Ielala, he left an inscription engraved on the stone which testifies of its passage and that of his men: " Aqui chegaram os navios do esclarecido rei D. João II de Portugal-Diogo Cão, Pero Anes, Pero da Costa.

The other islands south to the Straights of Okinawa correspond to southern Brazil, with Gaja Island being opposite the outskirts of Santo Antônio da Patrulha, Takarajima with Jua, Amami Ōshima covering the villages of Carasinho and Fazenda Pae João, Ginoza, Okinawa with Palmas, Paraná, the Kerama Islands with Pato Branco, Tonaki Island with São Lourenço do Oeste, and Kume Island corresponding to Palma Sola.

* 1502 – The island of Saint Helena is discovered by the Portuguese explorer João da Nova.

* 1822 – In Parnaíba ; Simplício Dias da Silva, João Cândido de Deus e Silva and Domingos Dias declare the independent state of Piauí.

Most historical accounts state the island was discovered on 21 May 1502 by the Galician navigator João da Nova sailing at the service of the Portuguese Crown, on his voyage home from India, and that he named it " Santa Helena " after Helena of Constantinople.

There were many composers, including Heitor dos Prazeres, João da Bahiana, Pixinguinha, and Sinhô, but the sambas of these composers were " amaxixados " ( a mix of maxixe ), known as sambas-maxixes.

According to João da Baiana, the samba-raiado was the same as chula raiada or samba de partido-alto.

However, with this status of national identity came the recognition of intellectual Heitor Villa-Lobos, who arranged a recording with the maestro Leopold Stokowski in 1940, which involved Cartola, Donga, João da Baiana, Pixinguinha, and Zé da Zilda.

* João da Nova ( – 1509 ), Portuguese explorer of the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.

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* July – João da Nova, Portuguese explorer ( b. c. 1460 )

* May 21 – Portuguese navigator João da Nova discovers the uninhabited island of Saint Helena.

* March 25 – Portuguese navigator João da Nova probably discovers Ascension Island.

João da Nova discovered Ascension in 1501 and Saint Helena in 1502 ; Tristão da Cunha was the first to sight the archipelago still known by his name 1506.

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João da Nova discovered Ascension Island.

Estêvão da Gama married Isabel Sodré, a daughter of João Sodré ( also known as João de Resende ), scion of a well-connected family of English origin.

Vasco da Gama was the third of five sons of Estêvão da Gama and Isabel Sodré-in ( probable ) order of age: Paulo da Gama, João Sodré, Vasco da Gama, Pedro da Gama and Aires da Gama.