' " The three islands ( Réunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues ) were encountered some years earlier by chance during an exploratory expedition of the coast of the Bay of Bengal led by Tristão da Cunha.

The islands were first sighted in 1506 by Portuguese explorer Tristão da Cunha, although rough seas prevented a landing.

He named the main island after himself, Ilha de Tristão da Cunha, which was later anglicised to Tristan da Cunha Island.

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** Tristão da Cunha, Portuguese explorer ( b. 1460 )

* The Portuguese mariner Tristão da Cunha sights the islands of Tristan da Cunha, naming them after himself.

** Tristão da Cunha, Portuguese explorer ( d. 1540 )

João da Nova discovered Ascension in 1501 and Saint Helena in 1502 ; Tristão da Cunha was the first to sight the archipelago still known by his name 1506.

In the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea, one of Cabral's ships discovered Madagascar ( 1501 ), which was partly explored by Tristão da Cunha ( 1507 ); Mauritius was discovered in 1507, Socotra occupied in 1506, and in the same year Lourenço de Almeida visited Ceylon.

* 1506 — Tristão da Cunha discovered the island that bears his name.

The uninhabited islands of Tristan da Cunha were first sighted in May 1506 during a voyage to India by the Portuguese admiral Tristão da Cunha, who named the main island after himself.

In this travel Tristão da Cunha discovered a group of remote islands in the south Atlantic Ocean, from South Africa.

Although rough seas prevented a landing then, he named the main island after himself, Ilha de Tristão da Cunha, which was later anglicised to Tristan da Cunha.

He also distinguished himself in India in various actions, like the Siege of Cannanore ( 1507 ): the Portuguese garrison was on the verge of being overwhelmed, when on 27 August the fleet of 11 ships under Tristão da Cunha coming from Socotra appeared and relieved them with 300 men.

After returning to Europe, Tristão da Cunha was sent as ambassador from king Manuel I to Pope Leo X in 1514 to present the new conquests of the Portuguese Empire, having Garcia de Resende as his secretary.

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.

The tomb of Tristão da Cunha is located at the Church of Sra.

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Their descendants are the Teixeira Doria, lords of Pena d ' Aguia, and França Doria families, which also have as direct ancestor the Portuguese navigator Tristão Vaz.

She tells of Duarte Pacheco Pereira's defense of Cochin ( Battle of Cochin ( 1504 )); the Battle of Diu ( 1509 ) fought by Francisco de Almeida and his son Lourenco de Almeida against combined Gujarati-Egyptian fleets ; the deeds of Tristão da Cunha, Pedro de Mascarenhas, Lopo Vaz de Sampaio, and Nuno da Cunha ; and battles fought by Martim Afonso de Sousa and João de Castro.

:" From Calheta the captain passed below an area that ended at a point over the sea ... and being here, they collected from the boat of Tristão and the boat of Álvaro Afonso a fish that looked like porgy, of a marvellous greatness and the largest that, until that time, was ever seen ; for this reason, because of the fish, the point was named porgy.

** Tristão Vaz Teixeira, explorer ( b. c. 1395 )

Tristão Vaz Teixeira ( c. 1395 – 1480 ) was a Portuguese navigator and explorer who, together with João Gonçalves Zarco and Bartolomeu Perestrelo, was the official discoverer and one of the first settlers of the archipelago of Madeira ( 1419 – 1420 ).

Bartolomeu Perestrello (, in Italian Bartolommeo Pallastrelli ), 1st Capitão Donatário, Lord and Governor of the Island of Porto Santo ( c. 1395-1457 ) was a Portuguese navigator and explorer that is claimed to have discovered and populated Porto Santo Island ( 1419 ) together with João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira.

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.

As a second fruit of this work João Gonçalves Zarco, Bartolomeu Perestrelo and Tristão Vaz Teixeira rediscovered the Madeira Islands in 1420, and at Henry's instigation Portuguese settlers colonized the islands.

Nuno Tristão and Antão Gonçalves reached Cape Blanco in 1441.

* Portuguese sea captains João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira, at the service of Prince Henry the Navigator, discover the Madeira islands.

* Nuno Tristão reaches the Cabo Branco in the western coast of Africa.

* Nuno Tristão penetrates the Arguim Gulf.

* Nuno Tristão is killed by natives in the coast of Senegal.

In 1418 two of the captains of Prince Henry the Navigator, João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira, were driven by a storm to an island which they called Porto Santo (" Holy Port ") in gratitude for their rescue from the shipwreck.

* 1419 — João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira discovered Porto Santo island, in the Madeira group.

* 1441 — Nuno Tristão reached Cape White.

* 1443 — Nuno Tristão penetrated the Arguim Gulf.

* Tristão da Cunha ( 1460 – 1540 ); Portuguese explorer and naval commander

* date unknown – Nuno Tristão, Portuguese explorer

* Tristão de Bragança Cunha ( 1878 – 1938 ); Indian nationalist and anti-colonial activist from Goa

* 1419 – Madeira Islands discovered by João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira.

In 1507 Almeida's mission was strengthened by the arrival of Tristão da Cunha's squadron.

In 1507 Almeida's mission was strengthened by the arrival of Tristão da Cunha's squadron.

Tristão Vaz Teixeira Bettencourt da Câmara, was granted the title of Baron of Jardim do Mar: his was a proprietor and later the director of the Diário de Notícias in Funchal.

The parish of Corvo was created in 1674: its first pastor was the Faialense Bartolomeu Tristão.

He was the son of Antónia Pais and Tristão da Cunha, the famous Portuguese navigator, admiral and ambassador to Pope Leo X. Nuno da Cunha proved his mettle in battles at Oja and Brava, and at the capture of Panane, under the viceroy Francisco de Almeida.

The first European to visit the island was the Portuguese explorer Nuno Tristão in 1443.

Nightingale was possibly sighted along with Tristan da Cunha in 1506 by Tristão da Cunha, however he made no record of it.

Henrique Teixeira, second son of Tristão Vaz Teixeira, one of the Madeira's discoverers and first Captain-donatário of Machico, had many lands " linked with agriculture and for this reason was very wealthy, ennobling the village of Machico with many suger cane machinery, as well as sugar cane fields, cattle and bread, and assemblies that he ordered cut and take advantage ...".

Francisco Moniz was a nobleman from the Algarve, who married Filipa da Câmara ( daughter of Garcia Rodrigues da Câmara ) who was one of the sons of João Gonçalves Zarco, the leader who discovered Porto Santo ( 1418 ) with Tristão Vaz Teixeira and later the island of Madeira with Bartolomeu Perestrelo ( 1419 ).

Nuno Tristão was a 15th century Portuguese explorer and slave trader, active in the early 1440s, traditionally thought to be the first European to reach the region of Guinea ( legendarily, as far as Guinea-Bissau, but more recent historians believe he did not go beyond the Gambia River ).

Nuno Tristão was a knight of the household of Henry the Navigator.

In 1441, Tristão was dispatched by Henry in one of the first prototypes of the lateen-rigged caravel to explore the West African coast beyond Cape Barbas, the furthest point reached by Henry's last captain five years earlier ( Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia, in 1436 ).