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Diogo Cão (; in old Portuguese: Cam ) was a Portuguese explorer and one of the most notable navigators of the Age of Discovery, who made two voyages sailing along the west coast of Africa to Namibia in the 1480s.
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Stone of Ielala, with the inscriptions of Diogo Cão
" (" Here arrived the ships of king John II of Portugal – Diogo Cão, Pero Anes, Pero da Costa ”.
Diogo Cão is the subject of Padrão, one of the most well-known poems in Fernando Pessoa's book Mensagem, the only one published during the author's lifetime.
* Luciano Cordeiro, Diogo Cão in Boletim da Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa, 1892 ;
* E ; G. Ravenstein, Voyages of Diogo Cão, & c., in Geog.
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* 1484 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
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.
* July 6 – Portuguese sea captain Diogo Cão finds the mouth of the Congo River.
* Diogo Cão, a Portuguese navigator, becomes the first European to sail up the Congo.
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Diogo and old
During his trip, a tempest forced him to stop on an island near Guangzhou, China where he saw the rich merchant Diogo Pereira, an old friend from Cochin, who showed him a letter from Portuguese being held prisoners in Guangzhou asking for a Portuguese ambassador to talk to the Chinese Emperor in their favor.
The decision, in 1997, to transform the old Franciscan Convent of São Diogo into a primary school.
Diogo and Portuguese
Several Portuguese explorers / cartographers have also documented various parts of the Maritimes, namely Diogo Homem.
* 1658 – Diogo de Mendonça Corte-Real, Portuguese diplomat and statesman ( d. 1736 )
On St. Laurence's Day in 1500, Portuguese explorer Diogo Dias landed on the island and christened it São Lourenço, but Polo's name was preferred and popularized on Renaissance maps.
European contact began in 1500, when the Portuguese sea captain Diogo Dias sighted the island.
* 1988 – Diogo Salomão, Portuguese footballer
* Diogo de Azambuja ( 1432 – 1518 ) Portuguese explorer of the African coast.
* The first contact of Japan with the West occurs when a Portuguese ship, blown off its course to China, lands Fernão Mendes Pinto, Diogo Zeimoto and Cristovão Borralho in Japan.
* 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.
In 1482, Portuguese caravels commanded by Diogo Cão arrived in the Congo.
* Diogo de Silves, Portuguese navigator, discovers seven islands of the Azores archipelago.
However the oldest signed Portuguese sea chart is a Portolan made by Pedro Reinel in 1485 representing the Western Europe and parts of Africa, reflecting the explorations made by Diogo Cão.
European contact began in 1500, when the Portuguese sea captain Diogo Dias sighted the island after his ship separated from a fleet going to India.
The first European to set foot on Namibian soil was the Portuguese Diogo Cão in 1485, who stopped briefly on the Skeleton Coast, and raised a limestone cross there, on his exploratory mission along the west coast of Africa.
Upstream is a series of caves known as the " rock of Diogo Cão ", after graffiti carved by the Portuguese explorer in 1485 marking the limit of his travels up the Congo River.
* Dom Duardos — original Portuguese text by Diogo Fernandes
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.
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