* 1498 – Vasco da Gama decides to depart Calicut and return to Portugal.

The city's status was further diminished after Vasco da Gama discovered a sea route around the Cape of Good Hope, thereby allowing spice traders to avoid Cairo.

* António da Costa de Albuquerque de Sousa Lara, 2nd Count de Guedes, Vasco de Bettencourt de Faria Machado e Sampaio and Marcelo Olavo Correia de Azevedo, Ascendências Reais de Sua Alteza Real a Senhora Dona Isabel de Herédia Duquesa de Bragança, I, pelos Costados Herédia, Bettencourt e Meneses da Ilha da Madeira " ( Universitária Editora, 1999 )

* 1497 – Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope, the point where Bartolomeu Dias had previously turned back to Portugal.

* 1502 – Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.

In exchange, the Portuguese received gold ( transported from mines of the Akan deposits ), pepper ( a trade which lasted until Vasco da Gama reached India in 1498 ) and ivory.

* 1497: Vasco da Gama departs to India starting direct trade with Asia.

In 1498, Vasco da Gama successfully discovered a new sea route from Europe to India, which paved the way for direct Indo-European commerce.

" In 1498, Vasco da Gama was the first sailor to travel from Portugal to India.

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.

From there, they sailed to Kozhikode ( Calicut ), where Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama would land two centuries later.

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

* 1499 – Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.

* 1497 – Vasco da Gama sets sail on the first direct European voyage to India.

The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama reached Mombasa in 1498.

The Portuguese were the first Europeans to explore the region of current-day Kenya, Vasco da Gama having visited Mombasa in 1498.

When Vasco da Gama, exploring for Portugal, reached the coast of Mozambique in 1498, Arab trading settlements had existed along the coast and outlying islands for several centuries, and political control of the coast was in the hands of a string of local sultans.

* 1498 – Vasco da Gama reaches the port of Calicut, India.

* 1498 – Vasco da Gama's fleet visits the island of Mozambique Island.

* 1498 – Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama discovers the sea route to India when he arrives at Kozhikode ( previously known as Calicut ), India.

Portuguese expansion into the Indian Ocean in the early 16th century following Vasco da Gama's voyages of exploration saw them battle the Ottomans up the coast of the Persian Gulf.

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.

In 1498, by reaching India, Vasco da Gama proved that the access to the Indian Ocean from the Atlantic was possible.

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.

Vasco da Gama, who passed by Mogadishu in the 15th century, noted that it was a large city with houses of four or five storeys high and big palaces in its centre and many mosques with cylindrical minarets.

In the 1497 expedition of Vasco de Gama, the curative effects of citrus fruit were known.

Jonathan Lamb wrote: " In 1499, Vasco da Gama lost 116 of his crew of 170 ; In 1520, Magellan lost 208 out of 230 ;... all mainly to scurvy.

The Fundação Jorge Álvares ( Jorge Álvares Foundation ), founded by Vasco Joaquim Rocha Vieira prior to the handover of Macau, got its name from him also having reached there.

Vasco da Gama and his first expedition, probably the first Europeans to sight the river, anchored off the mouth in 1498.

Not having enough crewmen left standing to manage three ships, Vasco da Gama ordered the São Rafael scuttled off the East African coast, and the crew re-distributed to the remaining two ships, the São Gabriel and the Berrio.

Portuguese Navy Westland Lynx | Lynx Mk-95 helicopter takes off from the flight deck of NRP Vasco da Gama ( F330 ) | NRP Vasco da Gama frigate.

In 1999, during a match between Vasco and Paraná Clube, he invaded the field, after three Vasco players were sent off by the referee, and prevented the match from being resumed.

Vasco da Gama pioneered the European Spice trade in 1498 when he reached Calicut after sailing around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of the African continent.

* Vasco da Gama establishes India's first Portuguese fortress at Cochin.

* 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.

* September 18 – Vasco da Gama arrives at Lisbon, returning from India, and is received by King Manuel of Portugal.

Reproduction of the Cross of Vasco da Gama at the Cape of Good Hope.

Vasco da Gama sailed for India, and arrived at Calicut on 20 May 1498, returning in glory to Portugal the next year.

Statue of Vasco da Gama at his birthplace, Sines, Portugal

The Portuguese historian Teixeira de Aragão suggests that Vasco da Gama studied at the inland town of Évora, which is where he may have learned mathematics and navigation and it has even been claimed ( although dubiously ) that he studied under the astronomer Abraham Zacuto.

Monument to the Cross of Vasco da Gama at the Cape of Good Hope, South Africa

In February 1498, Vasco da Gama continued north, landing at the friendlier port of Malindi-whose leaders were then in conflict with those of Mombasa-and there the expedition first noted evidence of Indian traders.

Vasco da Gama lands at Kozhikode | Calicut, May 20, 1498.

Vasco da Gama's body was first buried at St. Francis Church, which was located at Fort Kochi in the city of Kochi, but his remains were returned to Portugal in 1539.

Parts of his moribund Vasco da Gama and Ivan IV were incorporated into the score, but a projected production at the Théâtre Lyrique failed to materialise when Carvalho's company finally went bankrupt, and Noé remained unperformed until 1885.

Vasco da Gama's companion Tomé Lopes reasoned that Ophir would have been the ancient name for Great Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe, the main center of sub-African trade in gold in the Renaissance period — though the ruins at Great Zimbabwe are now dated to the medieval era, long after Solomon is said to have lived.

He married Marguerite Jeanne Disqué, born c. 1880, and had a daughter Nelly Marguerite Jeanne Schulthess, born in Switzerland on 13 August 1903, who married as his first wife at the Church of the Holy Trinity in Bern on 30 November 1933 Portuguese Vasco Francisco Caetano de Castro Coutinho de Quevedo Pessanha, born in Lisbon, Coração de Jesus, on 3 July 1909 ), and had issue.

European traders first reached Indian shores with the arrival of the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama in 1498 at the port of Calicut, in search of the lucrative spice trade.

They won the 2000 FIFA Club World Championship Final, defeating Vasco da Gama 4 – 3 in the final, which was held at the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro.

In the second leg, at Estádio do Morumbi, the club from São Paulo beat Vasco 4 – 0.

After so many years without be champion of a important competition, Vasco da Gama won the Copa do Brasil against Coritiba after a epic finals, ranked 2nd on 2011 Brazilian Série A with a excellent campaign and was a semifinalist of the Copa Sudamericana, a competition that eliminated Palmeiras, Aurora and Universitario ( the two latter in historic victories ) before being eliminated from the Universidad de Chile in a confrontation that brought together, for many, the two best teams in South America at the time.

Vasco da Gama landed at the site of Quelimane in 1498.

In 1969, Pelé scored the 1, 000th goal of his career at the Maracanã against Vasco in front of 125, 000 spectators.