It has also been suggested that the island may not have been discovered until 30 July 1503 by a squadron under the command of Estêvão da Gama and that da Nova actually discovered Tristan da Cunha on the feast day of St Helena.

A Portuguese fleet under the command of Estêvão da Gama was sent from India and arrived at Massawa in February 1541.

Here he received an ambassador from the Emperor beseeching him to send help against the Muslims, and in July following a force of 400 musketeers, under the command of Christovão da Gama, younger brother of Estêvão, marched into the interior, and being joined by Ethiopian troops they were at first successful against the Muslims but they were subsequently defeated at the Battle of Wofla ( 28 August 1542 ), and their commander captured and executed.

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* July 30 – Saint Helena is first definitely sighted, by ships of Portuguese navigator Estêvão da Gama returning from the East.

* July – Estêvão da Gama, explorer

* 1503 — On his return from the East, Estêvão da Gama discovered Saint Helena Island.

Vasco da Gama's father was Estêvão da Gama, who had served in the 1460s as a knight of the household of Infante Ferdinand, Duke of Viseu and went on to rise in the ranks of the military Order of Santiago.

Estêvão da Gama was appointed alcaide-mór ( civil governor ) of Sines in the 1460s, a post he held until 1478, and continued as a receiver of taxes and holder of the Order's commendas in the region.

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.

In December 1499, Vasco da Gama was rewarded by King Manuel I of Portugal with the town of Sines as a hereditary fief ( the very town which his father, Estêvão, had once held as a commenda ).

One of the squadrons was led by his cousin, Estêvão da Gama ( the son of Aires da Gama ), and two of his maternal uncles, Vicente Sodré and Brás Sodré, were pre-designated to command an Indian Ocean naval patrol.

His second son, Estêvão da Gama was simultaneously appointed Capitão-mor do Mar da Índia (' Captain-major of the Indian Sea ', commander of the Indian Ocean naval patrol fleet ), to replace Duarte's brother, Luís de Menezes.

Setting out in April 1524, with a fleet of fourteen ships, Vasco da Gama took as his flagship the famous large carrack Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai on her last journey to India, along with two of his sons, Estêvão and Paulo.

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.

Portuguese and Spanish conquerors made use of these weapons, including Vasco da Gama and his sons Cristóvão da Gama and the younger brother Estêvão da Gama.

Circa 1627, during the first war with Tibet, Portuguese Jesuits Estêvão Cacella and João Cabral were the first recorded Europeans to visit Bhutan on their way to Tibet.

It includes the freguesias ( parishes ) of São Miguel, Santo Estêvão, São Vicente de Fora and part of two streets of Freguesia da Sé: Rua do Barão and Rua São João da Praça.

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.

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pt: Estêvão de Inglaterra

** Estêvão de Brito, Portuguese composer ( b. c. 1570 )

Vasco's sons Estêvão and Paulo immediately lost their posts and joined the returning fleet of early 1525 ( along with the dismissed Duarte de Menezes and Luís de Menezes ).

pt: Estêvão II, Conde de Blois

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** Estêvão de Brito, Portuguese composer of polyphony ( born c. 1570 )

pt: Tratado de Santo Estêvão

* Estêvão Cacella of Portugal ( 1585 – 1630 ), Jesuit missionary

# Frei Estêvão ( III ), O. F. M.

Infante Manuel, Count of Ourém, (; Manuel José Francisco António Caetano Estêvão Bartolomeu ; ) ( Lisbon, August 3, 1697-Quinta de Belas, August 3, 1766 ) was a Portuguese infante ( prince ), seventh child of Peter II, King of Portugal, and his wife Marie-Sophie of Neuburg.

However, it is unlikely that they were sighted by Ferdinand Magellan or Estêvão Gomes of the San Antonio, one of the captains in the expedition of Magellan.

Estêvão Soares, archbishop of Braga, placed himself at the head of the nobles and churchmen who threatened to usurp the royal power during Sancho II's minority, and negotiated an alliance with Alfonso IX, by which it was arranged that the Portuguese should attack Elvas, the Castilians Badajoz.

Two main faults cross and influence the tectonic activities: the north-northeast by south-southeast Chaves-Verin Fault and a fault system crossing near Faiões and Santo Estêvão.

Born on the island of Porto Santo in the Madeira Islands of Portugal as Estêvão Pedro de Alencastre, and brought to Hawaii as an infant, Alencastre later returned to Europe to finish his seminary studies in Belgium.

The first information that reached western civilization about Shambhala came from the Portuguese Catholic missionary Estêvão Cacella, who had heard about Shambhala ( which they transcribed as " Xembala "), and thought it was another name for Cathay or China.

* 1542 – Turkish-Portuguese War ( 1538-1557 ) – Battle of Wofla: the Portuguese are scattered, their leader Christovão da Gama is captured and later executed.

* 1498 – Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal.

* Brazilian Naval Revolt ( 1893-1894 ): Were armed mutinies promoted mainly by Admirals Custodio de Mello and Saldanha da Gama and their fleet of Brazilian Navy ships against unconstitucional staying in power of the central government in Rio de Janeiro.

The city's status was further diminished after Vasco da Gama discovered a sea route around the Cape of Good Hope, thereby allowing spice traders to avoid Cairo.

* 1497 – Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.

** O Uraguai by Basílio da Gama ( 1769 )

Back in Malacca, he was confronted by the capitão Álvaro de Ataíde da Gama who now had total control over the harbor.

* 1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.

* 1542 – Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Muslim-occupied hill fort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baçente.

In exchange, the Portuguese received gold ( transported from mines of the Akan deposits ), pepper ( a trade which lasted until Vasco da Gama reached India in 1498 ) and ivory.

* 1497: Vasco da Gama departs to India starting direct trade with Asia.

In 1498, Vasco da Gama successfully discovered a new sea route from Europe to India, which paved the way for direct Indo-European commerce.

" In 1498, Vasco da Gama was the first sailor to travel from Portugal to India.

In 1497, Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and became the first European to sail to India and later the Far East.

From there, they sailed to Kozhikode ( Calicut ), where Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama would land two centuries later.

Later, starting in 1497, Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama made the first open voyage from Europe to India.

* 1499 – Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.

* 1497 – Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.

The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama reached Mombasa in 1498.

The Portuguese were the first Europeans to explore the region of current-day Kenya, Vasco da Gama having visited Mombasa in 1498.

When Vasco da Gama, exploring for Portugal, reached the coast of Mozambique in 1498, Arab trading settlements had existed along the coast and outlying islands for several centuries, and political control of the coast was in the hands of a string of local sultans.

* 1498 – Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut, India.

* 1498 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode ( previously known as Calicut ), India.

The control of trade routes and the spice-producing regions were the main reasons that Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama sailed to India in 1499.

In 1498, by reaching India, Vasco da Gama proved that the access to the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic was possible.