The Portuguese revere him as a hero, both on account of his personal character and as the mythical founder of their nation.

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 ancient Portuguese history, Viseu is noted as one of the major urban centers in the area where Viriathus, a legendary warrior and national hero, lived.

A special volunteer force of 18, 000, called Os Viriatos ( in honour of Lusitanian leader and Portuguese legendary national hero Viriathus ), led by regular army officers was recruited to fight as part of Franco's army, even if unofficially.

The story of Mohamed Thakurufaanu ( Boduthankurufaanu ), the Maldivian hero who defeated the Portuguese rule in Maldives, reveals that mother of Mohamed Thakurufaanu was an Ihavandhoo lady.

According to history, Portuguese conquered Maldives and ruled brutally for more than 17 years until the national hero defeated them by fighting in a miraculous sea boat called Kalhuohfunmi. Today, Maldivians commemorate National Day in remembrance of Mohamed Thakufaanu whose mother hail from the historical land of Ihavandhoo.

* 1385 – Portuguese Crisis of 1383 – 1385: Battle of Aljubarrota – Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.

The rivers of Guinea and the islands of Cape Verde were among the first areas in Africa explored by the Portuguese, notably Nuno Tristão, in the 15th century.

* 1976 – Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer

* 1978 – Nuno Santos, Portuguese footballer

* 1971 – Nuno Markl, Portuguese comedian and writer

* 1974 – Nuno Valente, Portuguese footballer

** Nuno Morais, Portuguese footballer

* July 5 – Nuno Gomes, Portuguese footballer

** Nuno Markl, Portuguese comedian and radio host

* April 1 – Nuno Álvares Pereira, Portuguese general and religious figure

* July 24 – Nuno Álvares Pereira, Portuguese general

* March 5 – Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India ( b. 1487 )

* date unknown – Nuno Tristão, Portuguese explorer

His continent is based, however tenuously, on the report of an actual voyage: that of the Portuguese merchants Nuno Manuel and Cristobal Haro to the Rio de la Plata, and related in the Newe Zeytung auss Presillg Landt (“ New Tidings from the Land of Brazil ”) published in Augsburg in 1514.

* In February 2009, Serbian Defence Minister Dragan Šutanovac met with his Portuguese counterpart Nuno Severiano Teixeira.

Although Tristão da Cunha had never assumed the post of Viceroy of India, his son Nuno da Cunha was the 9th Governor of Portuguese India in 1529.

Still, the monarchist Integralismo Lusitano movement acclaimed Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza as King of Portugal, since Miguel I of Portugal, on the death of his grandchild, was head of the Portuguese Royal Family.

Duarte Pio João Miguel Gabriel Rafael de Bragança was born in Bern, Switzerland, in a hotel room where extraterritoriality was declared for the purpose of being born on Portuguese soil, the eldest son of Dom Duarte Nuno, Duke of Braganza and his wife Princess Francisca of Orléans-Braganza.

In response to this statement, on 5 July 2006 Nuno da Câmara Pereira, member of the Portuguese parliament, then leader of the People's Monarchist Party addressed the President of the Assembly of the Republic, asking for a clarification as to the official recognition of Dom Duarte as pretender to the throne and as Duke of Braganza.

* In Portuguese: Sua Alteza Real o mui Augusto e Sereníssimo Príncipe Dom Duarte Pio João Miguel Gabriel Rafael de Bragança, por sucessão do seu Augusto Pai, Sua Alteza Real o Príncipe Dom Duarte Nuno e do seu primo, de Gloriosa Memória, El-Rei o Senhor Dom Manuel II, O Desventurado, e por virtude do presente interregno, Príncipe Real de Portugal, 25º duque de Bragança, 22º duque de Guimarães, 24º marquês de Vila Viçosa, 29º conde de Ourém, 26º conde de Arraiolos, 26º conde de Neiva, 26º conde de Faria e 22º conde de Guimarães.

In April 1384, in Alentejo, a punitive expedition was promptly defeated by Nuno Álvares Pereira, leading a much smaller Portuguese army at the Battle of Atoleiros.

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

A fishing colony was established on the island about 1521 – 22 by the Portuguese under João Álvares Fagundes.

Francisco Álvares ( c. 1465, Coimbra-1536 ~ 1541, Rome ) was a Portuguese missionary and explorer.

The Portuguese under Jorge Álvares landed at Lintin Island in the Pearl River Delta of China in 1513 with a hired junk sailing from Portuguese Malacca.

* 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.

** Francisco Álvares, Portuguese missionary and explorer ( d. 1541 )

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

* May – Portuguese explorer Jorge Álvares lands on Lintin Island in the Pearl River estuary.

* 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.

Manuel Álvares ( 1526 – 1583 ), a Portuguese Jesuit educator, in his work " Ethiopia Minor and a geographical account of the Province of Sierra Leone ", writes about the " Biafar heathen " in chapter 13 of the same book.

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.

João Álvares Fagundes and Pêro de Barcelos established fishing outposts in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia around 1521 CE ; however, these were later abandoned, with the Portuguese colonizers focusing their efforts on South America.

This was the main driving factor for the Portuguese explorations of the Indian Ocean, including the sea of China, resulting in the arrival in 1513 of the first European trading ship to the coasts of China, under Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, followed by the Fernão Pires de Andrade and Tomé Pires diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of Manuel I of Portugal, which opened formally relations between the Portuguese Empire and the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.

Mateus reached Portugal via Goa, having returned with a Portuguese embassy, along with priest Francisco Álvares in 1520.