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

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.

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

In 1520, Ferdinand Magellan, a Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain, found a sea route into the Pacific Ocean.

* 1575 – Luanda, the capital of Angola is founded by the Portuguese navigator Paulo Dias de Novais.

The origin of Labrador is credited to João Fernandes Labrador, the Portuguese navigator who explored the region.

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.

Most historical accounts state the island was discovered on 21 May 1502 by the Galician navigator João da Nova sailing at the service of the Portuguese Crown, on his voyage home from India, and that he named it " Santa Helena " after Helena of Constantinople.

The complete conquest of Ethiopia was averted by the timely arrival of a Portuguese expedition led by Cristóvão da Gama, son of the famed navigator Vasco da Gama.

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

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

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

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

* May 20 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut ( now Kozhikode ), India, becoming the first European to get there by sailing around Africa, thus discovering the maritime route to India.

* February 3 – Fernão de Magalhães, Portuguese navigator ( d. 1521 )

* May 21 – Portuguese navigator João da Nova discovers the uninhabited island of Saint Helena.

* March 25 – Portuguese navigator João da Nova probably discovers Ascension Island.

* Gaspar Corte-Real, Portuguese navigator, makes the first documented European landing in North America since c. 1000 A. D.

* Diogo Cão, a Portuguese navigator, becomes the first European to sail up the Congo.

* Portuguese navigator Pedro de Sintra reaches the coast of modern Sierra Leone.

* Portuguese navigator Diogo de Teive discovers the islands of Corvo and Flores in the Azores.

The Arab navigator, Ahmad Bin Majid, visited Bahrain in 1489 and gave a contemporary account of the country that the first Portuguese would have seen: " In Awal ( Bahrain ) there are 360 villages and fresh water can be found in a number of places.

* Diogo de Silves, Portuguese navigator, discovers seven islands of the Azores archipelago.

* Portuguese navigator Álvaro Fernandes reaches the mouth of the Casamance River in Senegal.

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.

The Portuguese missionary Pedro de Alcacova would later write in 1554:

* 1979 – Pedro Mendes, Portuguese footballer

* 1961 – Pedro Romeiras, Portuguese dancer

* 1641 – Pedro Teixeira, Portuguese explorer

* 1822 – The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese King João VI, starting the Brazilian independence process.

In 1618 the Portuguese built the fortress called Fortaleza São Pedro da Barra, and they subsequently built two more: Fortaleza de São Miguel ( 1634 ) and Forte de São Francisco do Penedo ( 1765-6 ).

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.

In it she took sides against Pedro IV, considered the favorite of the Portuguese.

She was captured by the forces of Pedro IV and under orders of Portuguese Capuchin Friars condemned for being a witch and a heretic and consequently burned to death.

The Kingdom of Kongo was reduced to a small enclave in the north of Angola with King Pedro V in 1888 finally accepting to become a vassal of the Portuguese.

In 1462 Portuguese explorer Pedro da Cintra mapped the hills surrounding what is now Freetown Harbour, naming the oddly shaped formation Serra Lyoa ( Lion Mountains ).

The first island in the Vanuatu group discovered by Spaniards was Espiritu Santo when, in 1606, the Portuguese explorer, Pedro Fernández de Quirós, spied what he thought was a southern continent.

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

* date unknown – Pedro Teixeira, Portuguese explorer

* Chinese Ming Dynasty records indicate that the War Ministry official He Ru is the first to acquire the Portuguese breech-loading culverin, while copies of them are made by two Westernized Chinese at Beijing, Yang San ( Pedro Yang ) and Dai Ming.

* July 4 – Pedro Teixeira, Portuguese explorer