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Diogo Dias
(deceased)
Diogo Dias, also known as Diogo Gomes, was a 15th-century Portuguese explorer. He was the brother of Bartolomeu Dias and discovered some of the Cape Verde islands together with António Noli. Serv...
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Bartolomeu Dias MP
(c.1450 - 1500)
Fidalgo da Casa Real. Navegador. Wikipédia, a enciclopédia livre PT : Bartolomeu Dias (ca. 1450 — 29 de Maio de 1500) foi um navegador português que ficou célebre por ter sido o primeiro europeu a ...
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Vasco da Gama, 2º vice-rei da Índia MP
(c.1460 - 1524)
Vasco da Gama (Sines, ca. 1460 ou 1469 — Cochim, Índia, 24 de Dezembro de 1524) foi um navegador e explorador português. Na Era dos Descobrimentos, destacou-se por ter sido o comandante dos primeiros n...
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Pedro Álvares Cabral MP
(c.1468 - c.1520)
Pedro Álvares Cabral (Belmonte, 1467 ou 1468 — Santarém, c. 1520) foi um fidalgo e navegador português, comandante da segunda viagem marítima da Europa à Índia, viagem em que se descobriu o Brasil, a 2...
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Fernão de Magalhães MP
(1480 - 1521)
Fernão de Magalhães (Sabrosa, primavera de 1480 — Cebu, Filipinas, 27 de abril de 1521) foi um navegador português. Nascido em família nobre, Magalhães era inquieto por natureza: queria ver o mundo e e...
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Capt. John Smith (Colonial Governor of Virginia) MP
(1579 - 1631)
Regarding John Smith and Pocahontas' marriage: This is only a rumor, but someone has done "genealogy" for this "couple." There is truth to John Smith's existence and that he did encounter Pocahontas....
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Almte. D. Cristóbal Colón, gobernador general de las Indias MP
(c.1451 - 1506)
Added by Marvin Caulk Oct 12 2010 Christopher Columbus (c. 31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer from the Republic of Genoa, in northwestern Italy whose voyages acro...
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Capt Ralph Lane MP
(c.1530 - 1603)
"Soldier Ralph Lane was released from his service in Ireland and appointed governor of the colony, while Sir Richard Grenville served as admiral for the fleet. On April 9, 1585, seven ships and some si...
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Sir Humphrey Gilbert
(c.1539 - 1583)
Compton Castle has been the home of the Gilbert family for 600 years, with a single break in the 19th century. ------------------------------ ------- Sir Humphrey Gilbert (c. 1539 – 9 Septembe...
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Vice Admiral Sir Francis Drake MP
(c.1540 - 1596)
Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral (1540 – 27 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, a renowned pirate, and politician of the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I of England awa...
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Sir Martin Frobisher MP
(1535 - 1594)
A famous yet curiously little known English mariner of the Elizabethan Age, Martin Frobisher was born around 1535 in Altofts, Yorkshire and was third and youngest son of Bernard and Margaret Frobisher....
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Sir Hugh Willoughby, the Navigator MP
(1495 - 1554)
Sir Hugh Willoughby the Navigator of Risley, Derbyshire was born about 1495 and died in 1554, frozen in his ship. Father: Henry Willoughby died: ABT 1528 and Ellen Egerton, daughter of John Egerton, ...
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