Estevao rose to a higher military rank later in his life and finally became a tax collector. His initial voyage to India (14971499) was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route, connecting the Atlantic and the Indian oceans and, in this way, the West and the East. Vasco da Gama’s mother was Isabel Sodre, who was from a family of English origin. Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira was the first European to reach India by sea.
He served as a knight at the house of the Dule of Viseu. Da Gama was born in Sines which was one of the seaports on the South-western side of Portugal. The exact year of Vasco da Gama’s birth is still unknown, but he was born either in 1460 or 1469. In 1971, the Goan port city of Vasco da Gama was officially renamed Sambhaji, but nobody told the residents, so most people still call it 'Vasco.' A 1997 plan to celebrate the 500th anniversary of da Gamas 'discovery' of India in Goa was foiled by protestors. Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama becomes the first European to reach India via the Atlantic Ocean when he arrives at Calicut on the Malabar Coast. Bartholomew Diaz himself acted as pilot to the Canary Islands, which they reached on 15 July, and on to.
His family was not originally from Portugal, but da Gama did not think of any place but Portugal as his home. Vasco da Gama and his fleet sailed from Lisbon on 8 July 1497. In 1497, when he was a 38-year old bachelor, da Gama was selected by King Manuel I of Portugal to follow up the discovery of Bartholomew Diaz of a great ocean east off the Cape of Good Hope. Vasco da Gama families were normal families that had intelligent men in it.
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