* October – Luís Vaz de Torres is the first European to sail through the Torres Strait.

The Portuguese national epic, the Lusíadas of Luís Vaz de Camões, largely concerns Vasco da Gama's voyages.

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* Luís de Camões ' philosophic work The Parnasum of Luís Vaz is lost.

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Os Lusíadas (), usually translated as The Lusiads, is a Portuguese epic poem by Luís Vaz de Camões ( sometimes anglicized as Camoens ).

* Os Lusíadas ( Portugal's national epic by Luís Vaz de Camões )

Later that year, his deputy Luís Vaz de Torres sailed through Australia's Torres Strait.

The poet Luís Vaz de Camões or Luís Vaz Camoens ( 1524-June 10, 1580 ) was the author of the epic poem The Lusiad.

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He was buried at the Cemetery of Prazeres and, on 3 May 1903, his remains were transferred to the national pantheon in the Jerónimos Monastery, where they rest near to those of Alexandre Herculano and Luís Vaz de Camões.

It is this interpretation that is seen in the strophe 22 of Canto III of The Lusiads of Luís Vaz de Camões.

The Torres Islands were discovered by Portuguese explorer Luís Vaz de Torres sailing in the Queirós expedition of 1606.

The descent before Gerard de Bouzonville is taken from a work published by Portuguese genealogist Luís Paulo Manuel de Meneses de Melo Vaz de São Paio and is not certain.

These propaganda pieces did not mean an end to his other works ; in addition to participating in numerous comedies, festivals, clubes and republican associations, he was one of the personalities, in partnership with Ramalho Ortigão, to coordinate the fesitivities to mark the third centenary of the death of Luís Vaz de Camões, the epic Portuguese writer ,( 10 June 1880 ).

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* 1803 – Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias, Brazilian military commander ( d. 1880 )

** Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões ( c. 1555 )

He is the only canonised king of France ; consequently, there are many places named after him, most notably St. Louis, Missouri and Mission San Luis Rey de Francia in the United States, São Luís do Maranhão, Brazil and both the state and city of San Luis Potosí in Mexico.

pt: Luís IX de França

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Luís de Camões ' Os Lusíadas, which portrays Lusus as the founder of Lusitania, extends these ideas, which have no connection with modern etymology.

* 1930 – A bloodless coup d ' état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic.

This device is also used by later authors of literary epics, such as Virgil in the Aeneid, Luís de Camões in Os Lusíadas and Alexander Pope in The Rape of the Lock.

* 1869 – Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, President of Brazil ( d. 1957 )

Notable narrative poets have included Ovid, Dante, Juan Ruiz, Chaucer, William Langland, Luís de Camões, Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Robert Burns, Fernando de Rojas, Adam Mickiewicz, Alexander Pushkin, Edgar Allan Poe and Alfred Tennyson.

Examples of epic poems are Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil's Aeneid, the Nibelungenlied, Luís de Camões ' Os Lusíadas, the Cantar de Mio Cid, the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Mahabharata, Valmiki's Ramayana, Ferdowsi's Shahnama, Nizami ( or Nezami )' s Khamse ( Five Books ), and the Epic of King Gesar.

During the Renaissance and Baroque the myth regained publicity and Luís de Góngora published his own " Fábula de Polifemo y Galatea " in 1613.

Other poets on the continent cultivated the sestina during the 13 – 15th centuries, including Dante and Petrarch in Italy, and Luís de Camões in Portugal.

* March 28 – Brazilian high school student Edson Luís de Lima Souto is shot by the police in a protest for cheaper meals at a restaurant for low-income students.

* Portugal's national epic Os Lusíadas by Luís de Camões is first published.

* March 7 – Luís Mendes de Vasconcellos, 55th Grandmaster of the Knights Hospitaller ( b. c. 1542 )

* January 5 – Paraguayan War: Brazilian Army commander Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias enters Asunción, Paraguay's capital.

* December 6 – Paraguayan War – Battle of Itororó or Ytororó: Field-Marshal Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias leads 13, 000 Brazilian troops against a Paraguayan fortified position of 5, 000 troops.

* November 10 – Luís Vélez de Guevara, Spanish writer ( b. 1579 )

* July 11 – Luís de Góngora y Argote, Spanish poet ( d. 1627 )

* June 10 – Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet ( b. c. 1524 )

** Luís de Camões, Portuguese poet ( d. 1580 )

Adamastor is a Greek-type mythological character invented by the Portuguese poet Luís de Camões in his epic poem Os Lusíadas ( first printed in 1572 ), as a symbol of the forces of nature Portuguese navigators had to overcome during their discoveries, and more specifically of the dangers Portuguese sailors faced when trying to round the Cape of Storms.

Plautus ' play inspired several other theatrical works during the 16th century, including 3 Spanish language plays, 2 Italian plays, and a comedy in Portuguese by Luís de Camões.

His recollection of poetry The Parnasum of Luís de Camões was lost in his lifetime.

Although better known for his epic Lusiadas, Luís de Camões is also considered the greatest Portuguese lyric poet of the period.

In literature, his active support of Gil Vicente, Garcia de Resende, Sá de Miranda, Bernardim Ribeiro, Fernão Mendes Pinto, João de Barros and Luís de Camões was notable.

The earliest documents describe a built-up town in the 11th century by the Arab geographer Al-Bacr ( who was later supported by the poets Luís de Camões and Lord Byron ).

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** Garcia de Orta, naturalist, medical writer and friend of Luís de Camões

* Luís de Camões