* In 1500, Pedro Álvares Cabral reached Brazil.

* 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.

Historians generally credit João Faras-astronomer and physician of King Manuel I of Portugal who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil in 1500-for being the first European to depict it correctly.

* Pedro Álvares Cabral ( – ), Portuguese navigator and explorer.

* Pêro Vaz de Caminha ( – 1500 ), Portuguese explorer that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil.

* 1500: Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral claims Brazil for Portugal.

* April 22 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral officially discovers Brazil and claims the land for Portugal.

* January 1 – Portuguese explorers, led by Pedro Álvares Cabral, sail into Guanabara Bay, Brazil, mistaking it for the mouth of a river, which they name Rio de Janeiro.

July 25, 1415 marked the beginning of the Portuguese Empire, when the Portuguese Armada departed to the rich trade Islamic centre of Ceuta in North Africa with King John I and his wife Phillipa of Lancaster and their sons Prince Duarte ( future king ), Prince Pedro, Prince Henry the Navigator ( born in Porto in 1394 ) and Prince Afonso, and legendary Portuguese hero Nuno Álvares Pereira.

In the spring of 1500, Pedro Álvares Cabral set sail from Cape Verde with 13 ships and crews and a list of nobles that included Nicolau Coelho, Bartolomeu Dias and his brother Diogo, Duarte Pacheco Pereira ( author of the Esmeraldo ) along with various other nobles, nine chaplains and some 1, 200 men.

On the Asiatic mainland the first trading stations were established by Pedro Álvares Cabral at Cochin and Calicut ( 1501 ); more important were the conquests of Goa ( 1510 ) and Malacca ( 1511 ) by Afonso de Albuquerque, and the acquisition of Diu ( 1535 ) by Martim Afonso de Sousa.

The tables of the Almanach Perpetuum, by astronomer Abraham Zacuto, published in Leiria in 1496, were used along with its improved astrolabe, by Vasco da Gama and Pedro Álvares Cabral.

* 1500 — Pedro Álvares Cabral discovered Brazil on his way to India.

The follow-up expedition, the Second India Armada launched in 1500, was placed under the command Pedro Álvares Cabral, with the mission of making a treaty with the Zamorin of Calicut and setting up a Portuguese factory in the city.

He was then one of the captains of the second Indian expedition, headed by Pedro Álvares Cabral.

Pedro Álvares Cabral reached Brazil and claimed it for Portugal.

Explorer Pedro Álvares Cabral landed on April 22, 1500 in what is today Porto Seguro, Brazil.

The easternmost part of current Brazil was granted to Portugal when Pedro Álvares Cabral landed there while he was en-route to India.

1500 — Discovery of Brazil by Pedro Álvares Cabral

The Portuguese Pedro Álvares Cabral landed at what is now Porto Seguro City, on the southern coast of Bahia in 1500, and claimed the territory for Portugal.

* Pedro Álvares Cabral ( c. 1467 – c. 1520 ) – Portuguese explorer, generally regarded as the European discoverer of Brazil.

Little is certain regarding Pedro Álvares Cabral's life before, or following, his voyage which led to the discovery of Brazil.

Cabral was christened Pedro Álvares de Gouveia and only later, supposedly upon his elder brother's death in 1503, did he begin using his father's surname.

The Church of Santa Engrácia, in Lisbon, Portugal, turned into a National Pantheon since 1966, holds six cenotaphs, namely to Luís de Camões, Pedro Álvares Cabral, Afonso de Albuquerque, Nuno Álvares Pereira, Vasco da Gama and Henry the Navigator.

* 1500 – The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies.

* July 21 – Portuguese explorer Pedro Cabral returns to Lisbon from his expedition to Calicut ( Nicolau Coelho having arrived on June 23 ).

some buildings, farm tools, two horses, plows, and hay owned by Bonito Lavato, a friendly interpreter for the company, and Pedro Chavez' hay were stolen or destroyed ; ;

Cuitláhuac was made tlatoani of Tenochtitlan during the Spanish conquest of Mexico ; After Pedro de Alvarado had ordered the massacre in the Main Temple, the Aztecs were very upset and started to fight and put a siege to the Spaniards.

The Portuguese navigator Pedro de Mascarenhas may have discovered the island during his voyage of 1512 – 1513, but there is little corroborative evidence for this ; cartographic analysis points to 1532 or later.

The evidence is found in two early maps, one made by the Portuguese cartographer Pedro Reinel in about 1522, the very first map to show the Falklands, the other a French copy of a Portuguese map bought in Lisbon by André Thévet ( 1516-1590 ), a Franciscan friar and prolific writer on many subjects ; this copy is now in the manuscript of a large unpublished work by Thevet in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

* 1913 – Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes ; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.

The Guatemalan region of Mesoamerica was dominated by the Maya civilization ( 2, 000 BC – AD 250 ), before the Spanish arrived in the 16th century ; although most of the great, Classic-era ( AD 250 – 900 ) Maya cities of the Petén Basin region, in the northern lowlands of Guatemala, had been abandoned by the year AD 1, 000 ; however, the states in the Guatemalan central highlands, flourished until the arrival of Pedro de Alvarado, the Spanish Conquistador who began subjugating the Indian states of Guatemala in 1525.

11 ( most of these stations are based in Tegucigalpa and San Pedro Sula ; there are also 17 repeaters ) ( 1997 )

Other large and busy artificial harbors are located at: Rotterdam, The Netherlands ; Port of Houston, Texas ; Port of Long Beach, California ; and Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro, California.

Among them were Michael Townley, a DINA U. S. expatriate who had once worked for the CIA ; General Manuel Contreras, former head of the DINA ; and Brigadier Pedro Espinoza, also formerly of DINA.

Pope John XXI, born Pedro Julião ( Latin, Petrus Iulianus ( c. 1215 – 20 May 1277 ), a Portuguese often identified with Pedro Hispano ( Latin, Petrus Hispanus ; English, Peter of Spain ), was Pope from 1276 until his death about eight months later.

Although Pedro's brother Ramón Martínez, then a star pitcher for the Dodgers, declared that his brother was an even better pitcher than he, the younger Martínez was thought by manager Tommy Lasorda too small to be an effective starting pitcher at the Major League level ; Lasorda used Pedro Martínez almost exclusively as a relief pitcher.

* May – Pedro Fernandes de Queirós discovers the islands of Vanuatu ; believing them to be Australia, he names them.

Monterrey is adjoined to San Nicolás de los Garza, García and General Escobedo to the north ; Guadalupe, Juárez and Cadereyta Jiménez to the east ; Villa de Santiago to the south ; and San Pedro Garza García and Santa Catarina to the west.

Pedro Lamy scored his one and only point in Formula 1 with a 6th place in the 1995 Australian Grand Prix ; this result was followed by a long barren spell until Marc Gené finished 6th in the 1999 European Grand Prix.

Control over the former Inca lands had been entrusted to Pedro de la Gasca by the Spanish king ( and Holy Roman Emperor ) Emperor Charles V. Gasca commanded Alonso de Mendoza to found a new city commemorating the end of the civil wars in Peru ; the city of La Paz was founded on October 20, 1548.

His eldest son, Pedro I of Brazil, briefly became Pedro IV of Portugal, but neither the Portuguese nor the Brazilians wanted a unified monarchy ; consequently, Pedro abdicated the Portuguese crown in favor of his 7-year-old daughter, Maria da Glória, on the condition that when of age she would marry his brother, Miguel.