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Portuguese maritime exploration

Portuguese maritime exploration resulted in the numerous territories
and maritime routes recorded by the Portuguese as a result of their intensive
maritime journeys during the 15th and 16th centuries. Portuguese sailors were
at the vanguard of European exploration, chronicling and mapping the coasts
of Africa and Asia, then known as the East Indies, and Canada and Brazil (the
West Indies), in what came to be known as the Age of Discovery.
The Cantino planisphere, made by
Methodical expeditions started in 1419 along West Africa's coast under the an anonymous cartographer in
sponsorship of prince Henry the Navigator, with Bartolomeu Dias reaching 1502, shows the world as it was
the Cape of Good Hope and entering the Indian Ocean in 1488. Ten years understood by Europeans after their
later, in 1498, Vasco da Gama led the first fleet around Africa to India, great explorations at the end of the
arriving in Calicut and starting a maritime route from Portugal to India. fifteenth century.
Portuguese explorations then proceeded to southeast Asia, where they
reached Japan in 1542, forty-four years after their first arrival in India.[1] In
1500, the Portuguese nobleman Pedro Álvares Cabral became the first European to discover Brazil.[2]

Contents
History
Origins
Atlantic exploration (1418–1488)
Exploration after Prince Henry
Tordesillas division of the world (1492)
Reaching India and Brazil (1497–1500)
Indian Ocean explorations (1497–1542)
Southeast Asia expeditions
Cartographic history
Map of Portuguese exploration and discoveries (1415–1543)
Portuguese nautical science
Ships
Celestial navigation
Sailing techniques
Cartography
Chronology
References
Further reading

History

Origins

In 1139 the Kingdom of Portugal achieved independence from León, having doubled its area with the
Reconquista under Afonso Henriques.

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In 1297, King Dinis of Portugal took personal interest in the development of

exports, having organized the export of surplus production to European countries.
On May 10, 1293, he instituted a maritime insurance fund for Portuguese traders
living in the County of Flanders, which were to pay certain sums according to
tonnage, accrued to them when necessary. Wine and dried fruits from Algarve were
sold in Flanders and England, salt from Setúbal and Aveiro was a profitable export
to northern Europe, and leather and kermes, a scarlet dye, were also exported.
Portugal imported armor and munitions, fine clothes, and several manufactured
products from Flanders and Italy.[3]

In 1317, King Dinis made an agreement with Genoese merchant sailor Manuel
Pessanha (Pessagno), appointing him first Admiral with trade privileges with his
homeland in return for twenty warships and crews, with the goal of defending the
country against Muslim pirate raids, thus laying the basis for the Portuguese Navy
and establishment of a Genoese merchant community in Portugal.[4] Forced to
reduce their activities in the Black Sea, the Republic of Genoa had turned to the
North African trade in wheat and olive oil (valued also as an energy source) and a
search for gold – navigating also into the ports of Bruges (Flanders) and England.
Genoese and Florentine communities were established in Portugal, which profited
from the enterprise and financial experience of these rivals of the Republic of Vasco da Gama lands in
Venice. Calicut on May 20th 1498.

In the second half of the fourteenth century outbreaks of bubonic plague led to
severe depopulation: the economy was extremely localized in a few towns, and migration from the country led to
agricultural land being abandoned, resulting in an increase in rural unemployment. Only the sea offered
alternatives, with most people settling in fishing and trading areas along the coast.[5] Between 1325 and 1357
Afonso IV of Portugal granted public funding to raise a proper commercial fleet and ordered the first maritime
explorations, with the help of Genoese, under command of admiral Manuel Pessanha. In 1341 the Canary
Islands, already known to Genoese seafarers, were officially discovered under the patronage of the Portuguese
king, but in 1344 Castile disputed ownership of them, further propelling the Portuguese navy efforts.[6]

Atlantic exploration (1418–1488)

In 1415, the Portuguese occupied the North African city of Ceuta, aiming to gain a
foothold on Morocco, to control navigation through the Strait of Gibraltar, expand
Christianity with the backing of the Pope, and by pressure of the nobility for epic and
profitable acts of war, now that Portugal had finished the Reconquista on the Iberian
Peninsula. Among the participants of the action was the young Prince Henry the
Navigator. Appointed governor of the Order of Christ in 1420, while personally holding
profitable monopolies on resources in Algarve, he took the lead role in encouraging
Portuguese maritime exploration until his death in 1460.[7] He invested in sponsoring
voyages down the coast of Mauritania, gathering a group of merchants, shipowners,
stakeholders and participants interested in the sea lanes. Later his brother Prince Pedro
Prince Henry the granted him a royal monopoly of all profits from trading within the areas discovered.
Navigator, generally
credited as the driving In 1418, two of Henry's captains, João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira were
force behind Portuguese driven by a storm to Porto Santo an uninhabited island off the coast of Africa which may
maritime exploration. have been known to Europeans since the 14th century. In 1419 Zarco and Teixeira made
a landfall on Madeira. They returned with Bartolomeu Perestrelo and Portuguese
settlement of the islands began. There, wheat and later sugarcane were cultivated, as in Algarve, by the Genoese,
becoming profitable activities. This helped both them and Prince Henry become wealthier.

A Portuguese attempt to capture Grand Canary, one of the nearby Canary Islands, which had been partially
settled by Spaniards in 1402 was unsuccessful and met with protestations from Castile.[8] Although the exact
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ships sailing under Henry's direction, and settled in 1432, suggesting that the Portuguese were able to navigate at
least 745 miles (1,200 km) from the Portuguese coast.[9]

At around the same time as the unsuccessful attack on the Canary Islands, the Portuguese began to explore the
North African coast. Sailors feared what lay beyond Cape Bojador at the time, as Europeans did not know what
lay beyond on the African coast, and did not know whether it was possible to return once it was passed. Henry
wished to know how far the Muslim territories in Africa extended, and whether it was possible to reach the
source of the lucrative transaharan caravan gold trade and perhaps to join forces with the long-lost Christian
kingdom of Prester John that was rumoured to exist somewhere to the east.[10][11]

In 1434, one of Prince Henry's captains, Gil Eanes, passed this obstacle. Once this psychological barrier had been
crossed, it became easier to probe further along the coast.[12] Within two decades of exploration, Portuguese
ships had bypassed the Sahara. Westward exploration continued over the same period: Diogo de Silves
discovered the Azores island of Santa Maria in 1427 and in the following years Portuguese mariners discovered
and settled the rest of the Azores.

Henry suffered a serious setback in 1437 after the failure of an expedition to

capture Tangier, having encouraged his brother, King Edward, to mount an
overland attack from Ceuta. The Portuguese army was defeated and only
escaped destruction by surrendering Prince Ferdinand, the king's youngest
brother.[13] After the defeat at Tangier, Henry retired to Sagres on the
southern tip of Portugal where he continued to direct Portuguese exploration
until his death in 1460.

In 1443, Prince Pedro, Henry's brother, granted him the monopoly of

navigation, war, and trade in the lands south of Cape Bojador. Later this The caravel ship introduced in the
monopoly would be backed by the Papal bulls Dum Diversas (1452) and mid-15th century which aided
Romanus Pontifex (1455), granting Portugal a trade monopoly for the newly Portuguese exploration
discovered countries.[14]

A major advance which accelerated this project was the introduction of the caravel in the mid-15th century, a
ship that could be sailed closer to the wind than any other in operation in Europe at the time.[15] Using this new
maritime technology, Portuguese navigators reached ever more southerly latitudes, advancing at an average rate
of one degree a year.[16] Senegal and Cape Verde Peninsula were reached in 1445. In the same year, the first
overseas feitoria (trading post) was established under Henry's direction, on the island of Arguin off the coast of
Mauritania. It was created to attract Muslim traders and monopolize the business in the routes traveled in North
Africa, starting the chain of Portuguese feitorias along the coast. In 1446, Álvaro Fernandes pushed on almost as
far as present-day Sierra Leone, and the Gulf of Guinea was reached in the 1460s.

Exploration after Prince Henry

As a result of the first meager returns of the African explorations, in 1469 king Afonso V granted the monopoly of
trade in part of the Gulf of Guinea to merchant Fernão Gomes, for an annual payment of 200,000 reals. Gomes
was also required to explore 100 leagues (480 km) of the coast each year for five years.[17] He employed explorers
João de Santarém, Pedro Escobar, Lopo Gonçalves, Fernão do Pó, and Pedro de Sintra, and exceeded the
requirement. Under his sponsorship, Portuguese explorers crossed the Equator into the Southern Hemisphere
and found the islands in the Gulf of Guinea, including São Tomé and Príncipe.[18]

In 1471, Gomes' explorers reached Elmina on the Gold Coast (present day Ghana), and discovered a thriving
overland gold trade between the natives and visiting Arab and Berber traders. Gomes established his own trading
post there, which became known as “A Mina” ("The Mine"). Trade between Elmina and Portugal grew in the next
decade.[19] In 1481, the recently crowned João II decided to build São Jorge da Mina fort (Elmina Castle) and
factory to protect this trade, which was then held again as a royal monopoly.

In 1482, Diogo Cão discovered the mouth of the Congo River. In 1486, Cão continued to Cape Cross, in present-
day Namibia, near the Tropic of Capricorn.

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In 1488, Bartolomeu Dias rounded the Cape of Good Hope

near the southern tip of Africa, disproving the view that had
existed since Ptolemy that the Indian Ocean was separate
from the Atlantic. Also at this time, Pêro da Covilhã reached
India via Egypt and Yemen, and visited Madagascar. He
recommended further exploration of the southern route.[20]

As the Portuguese explored the coastlines of Africa, they left

Iberian mare clausum claims during
behind a series of padrões, stone crosses inscribed with the
the Age of Discovery.
Portuguese coat of arms marking their claims,[21] and built
forts and trading posts. From these bases, the Portuguese
engaged profitably in the slave and gold trades. Portugal enjoyed a virtual monopoly of the
An illustration Atlantic slave trade for over a century, exporting around 800 slaves annually. Most were
of the padrão brought to the Portuguese capital Lisbon, where it is estimated black Africans came to
Diogo Cão constitute 10 percent of the population.[22]
erected at
Cape St. Mary,
Angola. Tordesillas division of the world (1492)

In 1492 Christopher Columbus's discovery for Spain of the

New World, which he believed to be Asia, led to disputes between the Spanish
and Portuguese. These were eventually settled by the Treaty of Tordesillas in
1494 which divided the world outside of Europe in an exclusive duopoly
between the Portuguese and the Spanish, along a north–south meridian 370
leagues, or 970 miles (1,560 km), west of the Cape Verde islands. However, as
The 1494 Tordesilhas Treaty
it was not possible at the time to correctly measure longitude, the exact
meridian dividing the world between
boundary was disputed by the two countries until 1777.[23]
Portugal and Castille/Spain (purple)
and the Moluccas antimeridian
The completion of these negotiations with Spain is one of several reasons
(green), set at the Treaty of
proposed by historians for why it took nine years for the Portuguese to follow
Zaragoza, 1529
up on Dias's voyage to the Cape of Good Hope, though it has also been
speculated that other voyages were, in fact, taking place in secret during this
time.[24][25] Whether or not this was the case, the long-standing Portuguese goal of finding a sea route to Asia
was finally achieved in a ground-breaking voyage commanded by Vasco da Gama.

Reaching India and Brazil (1497–1500)

Vasco da Gama's squadron left Portugal on 8 July 1497, consisting of four

ships and a crew of 170 men. It rounded the Cape and continued along the
coast of Southeast Africa, where a local pilot was brought on board who
guided them across the Indian Ocean, reaching Calicut in western India in
May 1498.[26] After some conflict, da Gama got an ambiguous letter for trade
with the Zamorin of Calicut, leaving there some men to establish a trading
post.

Vasco da Gama's voyage to Calicut was the starting point for deployment of
The route followed in Vasco da Portuguese feitoria posts along the east coast of Africa and in the Indian
Gama's first voyage (1497–1499) Ocean.[27] Shortly after, the Casa da Índia was established in Lisbon to
administer the royal monopoly of navigation and trade. Exploration soon lost
private support, and took place under the exclusive patronage of the
Portuguese Crown.

The second voyage to India was dispatched in 1500 under Pedro Álvares Cabral. While following the same south-
westerly route across the Atlantic Ocean as da Gama (to take advantage of the most favorable winds), Cabral
made landfall on the Brazilian coast. This was probably an accidental discovery, but it has been speculated that
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recommended to the Portuguese King that the land be settled, and two follow-up voyages were sent in 1501 and
1503. The land was found to be abundant in pau-brasil, or brazilwood, from which it later inherited its name, but
the failure to find gold or silver meant that for the time being Portuguese efforts were concentrated on India.[29]

Indian Ocean explorations (1497–1542)

The aim of Portugal in the Indian Ocean was to ensure the

monopoly of the spice trade. Taking advantage of the
rivalries that pitted Hindus against Muslims, the
Portuguese established several forts and trading posts
between 1500 and 1510. In East Africa, small Islamic states
along the coast of Mozambique, Kilwa, Brava, Sofala and
Mombasa were destroyed, or became either subjects or
allies of Portugal. Pêro da Covilhã had reached Ethiopia (via
the Indian Ocean coast in Somalia, traveling secretly
overland, as early as 1490;[30] a diplomatic mission reached The carrack Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai and other
the ruler of that nation on October 19, 1520. Portuguese Navy ships in the 16th century.

In 1500, the second fleet to India (which also made landfall

in Brazil) explored the East African coast in Southeast Africa, where Diogo Dias discovered the island that he
named St. Lawrence, later known as Madagascar. This fleet, commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral, arrived at
Calicut in September, where the first trade agreement in India was signed. For a short time a Portuguese factory
was installed there, but it was attacked by Muslims on December 16 and several Portuguese, including the scribe
Pêro Vaz de Caminha, died. After bombarding Calicut as a retaliation, Cabral went to rival Kochi.

Profiting from the rivalry between the Maharaja of Kochi and the Zamorin of Calicut, the Portuguese were well
received and seen as allies, getting a permit to build a fort (Fort Manuel) and a trading post that was the first
European settlement in India. There in 1503 they built the St. Francis Church.[31][32] In 1502 Vasco da Gama
took the island of Kilwa on the coast of Tanzania, where in 1505 the first fort of Portuguese East Africa was built
to protect ships sailing in the East Indian trade.

In 1505, king Manuel I of Portugal appointed Francisco de Almeida first Viceroy of Portuguese India for a three-
year period, starting the Portuguese government in the east, headquartered at Kochi. That year the Portuguese
conquered Kannur where they founded St. Angelo Fort. The Viceroy's son Lourenço de Almeida arrived in Ceylon
(modern Sri Lanka), where he discovered the source of cinnamon. Finding it divided into seven rival kingdoms,
he established a defense pact with the kingdom of Kotte and extended the control in coastal areas, where in 1517
was founded the fortress of Colombo.[33]

In 1506, a Portuguese fleet under the command of Tristão da Cunha and Afonso de Albuquerque, conquered
Socotra at the entrance of the Red Sea and Muscat in 1507, having failed to conquer Ormuz, following a strategy
intended to close those entrances into the Indian Ocean. That same year, fortresses were built in the Island of
Mozambique and Mombasa on the Kenyan coast. Madagascar was partly explored by Tristão da Cunha and in
the same year Mauritius was discovered.

In 1509, the Portuguese won the sea Battle of Diu against the combined forces of the Ottoman Sultan Beyazid II,
the Sultan of Gujarat, the Mamlûk Sultan of Cairo, the Samoothiri Raja of Kozhikode, the Venetian Republic, and
the Ragusan Republic (Dubrovnik). The Portuguese victory was critical for its strategy of control of the Indian
Ocean: the Turks and Egyptians withdrew their navies from India, leaving the seas to the Portuguese, setting its
trade dominance for almost a century, and greatly assisting the growth of the Portuguese Empire. It also marked
the beginning of European colonial dominance in Asia. A second Battle of Diu in 1538 finally ended Ottoman
ambitions in India, and confirmed Portuguese hegemony in the Indian Ocean.

Under the government of Albuquerque, Goa was taken from the Bijapur sultanate in 1510 with the help of Hindu
privateer Timoji. Coveted for being the best port in the region, mainly for the commerce in Arabian horses for the
Deccan sultanates, it allowed the Portuguese to move on from their initial guest stay in Cochin. Despite constant
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with the conquest triggering compliance of neighbor kingdoms: Gujarat and Calicut sent embassies, offering
alliances and grants to fortify. Albuquerque began that year in Goa the first Portuguese mint in India, taking the
opportunity to announce the achievement.[34][35]

Southeast Asia expeditions

In April 1511 Albuquerque sailed to Malacca in modern-day Malaysia,[36] the

most important eastern point in the trade network, where Malay met Gujarati,
Chinese, Japanese, Javanese, Bengali, Persian and Arabic traders, described
by Tomé Pires as invaluable. The port of Malacca became then the strategic
base for Portuguese trade expansion with China and Southeast Asia, under the
Portuguese rule in India with its capital at Goa. To defend the city a strong fort
Anonymous map c.1550 of Eastern
was erected, called the "A Famosa", where one of its gates still remains today.
Africa, Asia and Western Oceania
Learning of Siamese ambitions over Malacca, Albuquerque immediately sent
Duarte Fernandes on a diplomatic mission to the kingdom of Siam (modern
Thailand), where he was the first European to arrive, establishing amicable relations between the two
kingdoms.[37] In November that year, getting to know the location of the so-called "Spice Islands" in the
Moluccas, Albuquerque sent an expedition to find them. Led by António de Abreu, the expedition arrived in early
1512. Abreu went by Ambon, while his deputy commander Francisco Serrão advanced to Ternate, where a
Portuguese fort was allowed. That same year, in Indonesia, the Portuguese took Makassar, reaching Timor in
1514. Departing from Malacca, Jorge Álvares came to southern China in 1513. This visit followed the arrival in
Guangzhou, where trade was established. Later a trading post at Macau would be established.

The Portuguese empire expanded into the Persian Gulf as Portugal

contested control of the spice trade with the Ottoman Empire. In 1515,
Afonso de Albuquerque conquered the Huwala state of Hormuz at the
head of the Persian Gulf, establishing it as a vassal state. Aden, however,
resisted Albuquerque's expedition in that same year, and another
attempt by Albuquerque's successor Lopo Soares de Albergaria in 1516.
Bahrain was captured in 1521, when a force led by António Correia
defeated the Jabrid King, Muqrin ibn Zamil.[38] In a shifting series of
alliances, the Portuguese dominated much of the southern Persian Gulf
for the next hundred years. The island of Mozambique became a
strategic port on the regular maritime route linking Lisbon to Goa, and
Fort São Sebastião and a hospital were built there. In the Azores, the
Armada of the Islands protected ships from the Indies en route to
Lisbon.

In 1525, after Fernão de Magalhães's expedition (1519–1522), Spain

under Charles V sent an expedition to colonize the Moluccas islands,
claiming that they were in his zone of the Treaty of Tordesillas, since
there was not a set limit to the east. Led by García Jofre de Loaísa, the
expedition reached the Moluccas, docking at Tidore. Conflict with the Monument to the Portuguese Discoveries
Portuguese already established in nearby Ternate was inevitable, in Belém, Lisbon, Portugal.
starting nearly a decade of skirmishes. An agreement was reached only
with the Treaty of Zaragoza (1529), which gave the Moluccas to Portugal
and the Philippines to Spain.

In 1530, John III organized the colonization of Brazil around 15 capitanias hereditárias ("hereditary
captainships"), that were given to anyone who wanted to administer and explore them, to overcome the need to
defend the territory, since an expedition under the command of Gonçalo Coelho in 1503 had found the French
making incursions on the land. That same year, there was a new expedition from Martim Afonso de Sousa with
orders to patrol the whole Brazilian coast, banish the French, and create the first colonial towns: São Vicente on
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original captainships, only two, Pernambuco and São Vicente, prospered. With permanent settlement came the
establishment of the sugar cane industry and its intensive labor demands which were met with Native American
and later African slaves.

In 1534, Gujarat was occupied by the Mughals and the Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat was forced to sign the
Treaty of Bassein (1534) with the Portuguese, establishing an alliance to regain the country, giving in exchange
Daman, Diu, Mumbai, and Bassein.[39] In 1538 the fortress of Diu was again surrounded by Ottoman ships.
Another siege failed in 1547, putting an end to Ottoman ambitions and confirming Portuguese hegemony.

In 1542 Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier arrived in Goa at the service of

King John III of Portugal, in charge of an Apostolic Nunciature. At the
same time Francisco Zeimoto, António Mota, and other traders arrived
in Japan for the first time. According to Fernão Mendes Pinto, who
claimed to be in this journey, they arrived at Tanegashima, where the
locals were impressed by European firearms, which would be
immediately made by the Japanese on a large scale.[40] In 1557 the
Chinese authorities allowed the Portuguese to settle in Macau through
an annual payment, creating a warehouse in the triangular trade
between China, Japan and Europe. In 1570 the Portuguese bought a
Japanese port where they founded the city of Nagasaki,[41] thus creating
a trading center that for many years was the port from Japan to the
world.
Portuguese ruler of Pegu riding an
Elephant.
Portugal established trading ports at far-flung locations like Goa,
Ormuz, Malacca, Kochi, the Maluku Islands, Macau, and Nagasaki.
Guarding its trade from both European and Asian competitors, Portugal dominated not only the trade between
Asia and Europe, but also much of the trade between different regions of Asia, such as India, Indonesia, China,
and Japan. Jesuit missionaries, such as the Basque Francis Xavier, followed the Portuguese to spread Catholic
Christianity to Asia with mixed success.

Cartographic history

Map of Portuguese exploration and discoveries (1415–1543)

Portuguese exploration and discoveries: first arrival places and dates; main Portuguese spice trade routes in the Indian Ocean (blue);
territories claimed during the reign of King John III (c. 1536) (green); Main Factories (orange)

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Portuguese nautical science

The successive expeditions and experience of the pilots led to a fairly rapid evolution in Portuguese nautical
science, creating an elite of astronomers, navigators, mathematicians and cartographers. Among them stood
Pedro Nunes with studies on how to determine latitude by the stars, and João de Castro, who made important
observations of magnetic declination over the entire route around Africa.

Ships

Until the 15th century, the Portuguese were limited to cabotage navigation using
barques and barinels (ancient cargo vessels used in the Mediterranean). These boats
were small and fragile, with only one mast with a fixed quadrangular sail and did not
have the capabilities to overcome the navigational difficulties associated with southward
oceanic exploration, as the strong winds, shoals and strong ocean currents easily
overwhelmed their abilities. They are associated with the earliest discoveries, such as
the Madeira Islands, the Azores, the Canaries, and to the early exploration of the
northwest African coast as far south as Arguim in the current Mauritania.

The ship that truly launched the first phase of the Portuguese discoveries along the
African coast was the caravel, a development based on existing fishing boats. They were
agile and easier to navigate, with a tonnage of 50 to 160 tons and 1 to 3 masts, with Portuguese "Armada"
lateen triangular sails allowing luffing. The caravel benefited from a greater capacity to fleet in 1507, Lisuarte de
tack. The caravel's limited capacity for cargo and crew were its main drawbacks, but Abreu
these did not hinder its success. Among the famous caravels are Berrio, which was the
first ship of Vasco da Gama's first armada to reach Portugal after the voyage, and
Anunciação (Nossa Senhora da Anunciação), which sailed with Cabral in 1500.

With the start of long oceanic sailing, larger ships were also developed. "Nau" was the Portuguese archaic
synonym for any large ship, primarily merchant ships. Due to the piracy that plagued the coasts, they began to be
used in the navy and were provided with cannon ports, which led to the classification of "naus" according to the
power of the ship's artillery. They were also adapted to the increasing maritime trade: from 200 tons capacity in
the 15th century to 500 tons later, they become impressive in the 16th century, having usually two decks, fighting
castles fore and aft, and two to four masts with overlapping sails. In voyages to India in the sixteenth century,
carracks were also used. These were large merchant ships with a high edge (freeboard) and three masts with
square sails, which often reached 2000 tons.

Celestial navigation

In the thirteenth century celestial navigation was already known, guided by the sun position.
For celestial navigation the Portuguese, like other Europeans, used Arab navigation tools, like
the astrolabe and quadrant, which they made easier and simpler. They also created the cross-
staff, or cane of Jacob, for measuring at sea the height of the sun and other stars. The Southern
Cross become a reference upon arrival in the Southern hemisphere by João de Santarém and
Pedro Escobar in 1471, starting the use of this constellation in celestial navigation. But the
results varied throughout the year, which required corrections.
Ephemeris by
Abraham To this the Portuguese used the astronomical tables (Ephemeris), precious tools for oceanic
Zacuto in navigation, which experienced a remarkable diffusion in the fifteenth century. These tables
Almanach revolutionized navigation, allowing mariners to calculate their latitude. Vasco da Gama and
Perpetuum, Pedro Álvares Cabral used the tables of the Almanach Perpetuum by astronomer Abraham
1496
Zacuto, which were published in Leiria in 1496, along with his improved astrolabe.

Sailing techniques

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Besides coastal exploration, Portuguese also made trips off in the

ocean to gather meteorological and oceanographic information (in
these trips were discovered the archipelagos of Madeira and the North
North Atlantic
Atlantic
Azores, and the Sargasso Sea). The knowledge of wind patterns gyre
gyre
North
and currents – the trade winds and the oceanic gyres in the Pacific
Atlantic, and the determination of latitude led to the discovery of gyre
the best ocean route back from Africa: crossing the Central Atlantic South
to the latitude of the Azores, using the permanent favorable winds Pacific
Indian gyre
and currents that spin clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere Ocean
because of atmospheric circulation and the Coriolis effect, South
gyre Atlantic
facilitating the way to Lisbon and thus enabling the Portuguese to gyre
venture increasingly farther from shore, the maneuver that became World map of the five major ocean gyres
known as "Volta do mar". In 1565, application of this principle in
the Pacific Ocean led to the Spanish discovery of the Manila Galleon trade route between Mexico and the
Philippines.

Cartography

It is thought that Jehuda Cresques, son of the Catalan cartographer Abraham Cresques
has been one of the notable cartographers at the service of Prince Henry. However, the
oldest signed Portuguese sea chart is a Portolan made by Pedro Reinel in 1485
representing Western Europe and parts of Africa, reflecting the explorations made by
Diogo Cão. Reinel was also author of the first nautical chart known with an indication of
latitudes in 1504 and the first representation of a Wind rose.
Pre-mercator navigation
chart of the Coast of With his son, cartographer Jorge Reinel and Lopo Homem, they participated in the
Africa (1571), by Fernão making of the atlas known as "Lopo Homem-Reinés Atlas" or "Miller Atlas", in 1519.
Vaz Dourado (Torre do They were considered the best cartographers of their time, with Emperor Charles V
Tombo, Lisbon) wanting them to work for him. In 1517 King Manuel I of Portugal handed Lopo Homem
a charter giving him the privilege to certify and amend all compass needles in vessels.

In the third phase of the former Portuguese nautical cartography, characterized by the abandonment of the
influence of Ptolemy's representation of the East and more accuracy in the representation of lands and
continents, stands out Fernão Vaz Dourado (Goa ~ 1520 – ~ 1580), giving him a reputation as one of the best
cartographers of the time. Many of his charts are large scale.

Chronology
1147—Voyage of the Adventurers. Just before the siege of Lisbon by Afonso I of Portugal, a Muslim
expedition left in search of legendary islands offshore. They were never heard from again.[42]
1336—Possibly the first expedition to the Canary Islands with additional expeditions in 1340 and 1341, though
this is disputed.[43]
1412—Prince Henry, the Navigator, orders the first expeditions to the African Coast and Canary Islands.
1415—Conquest of Ceuta (North Africa)
1419—João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira discovered Porto Santo island, in the Madeira group.
1420—The same sailors and Bartolomeu Perestrelo discovered the island of Madeira, which began to be
colonized at once.
1422—Cape Nao, the limit of Moorish navigation, is passed as the African Coast is mapped.
1427—Diogo de Silves discovered the Azores, which was colonized in 1431 by Gonçalo Velho Cabral.
1434—Gil Eanes sailed round Cape Bojador, thus destroying the legends of the ‘Dark Sea’.
1434—the 32 point compass-card replaces the 12 points used until then.
1435—Gil Eanes and Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia discovered Garnet Bay (Angra dos Ruivos) and the latter
reached the Gold River (Rio de Ouro).
1441—Nuno Tristão reached Cape White.
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1443—Nuno Tristão penetrated the Arguim Gulf. Prince Pedro granted Henry the Navigator the monopoly of
navigation, war and trade in the lands south of Cape Bojador.
1444—Dinis Dias reached Cape Green (Cabo Verde).
1445—Álvaro Fernandes sailed beyond Cabo Verde and reached Cabo dos Mastros (Cape Naze).
1446—Álvaro Fernandes reached the northern Part of Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau).
1452—Diogo de Teive discovers the Islands of Flores and Corvo.
1455—Papal bull Romanus Pontifex confirmed the Portuguese explorations and declares that all lands and
waters south of Bojador and cape Non (Cape Chaunar) belong to the kings of Portugal.
1456—Luis Cadamosto discovers the first Cape Verde Islands.
1458—Three capes discovered and named along the Grain Coast: (Grand Cape Mount, Cape Mesurado and
Cape Palmas).
1460—Death of Prince Henry, the Navigator. His systematic mapping of the Atlantic, reached 8° N on the
African Coast and 40° W in the Atlantic (Sargasso Sea) in his lifetime.
1461—Diogo Gomes and António de Noli discovered more of the Cape Verde Islands.
1461—Diogo Afonso discovered the western islands of the Cabo Verde group.
1471—João de Santarém and Pedro Escobar crossed the Equator. The southern hemisphere was
discovered, requiring the sailor to use a new constellation to guide them, the Southern Cross. The discovery
of the islands of São Tome and Principe is also attributed to these same sailors.
1472—João Vaz Corte-Real and Álvaro Martins Homem reached the Land of Cod, now called Newfoundland.
1479—Treaty of Alcáçovas establishes Portuguese control of the Azores, Guinea, ElMina, Madeira and Cape
Verde Islands and Castilian control of the Canary Islands.
1482—Diogo Cão reached the estuary of the Zaire (Congo) and placed a landmark there. Explored 150 km
upriver to the Yellala Falls.
1484—Diogo Cão reached Walvis Bay, south of Namibia.
1487—Afonso de Paiva and Pero da Covilhã traveled overland from Lisbon in search of the Kingdom of
Prester John. (Ethiopia)
1488—Bartolomeu Dias, crowning 50 years of effort and methodical expeditions, rounded the Cape of Good
Hope and entered the Indian Ocean. They had found the "Flat Mountain" of Ptolemy's Geography.
1489/92—South Atlantic Voyages to map the winds
1490—Columbus leaves for Spain after his father-in-law's death.
1492—First exploration of the Indian Ocean.
1494—The Treaty of Tordesillas between Portugal and Spain divided the world into two parts, Spain claiming
all non-Christian lands west of a north–south line 370 leagues west of the Azores, Portugal claiming all non-
Christian lands east of that line.
1495—Voyage of João Fernandes, the Farmer, and Pedro Barcelos to Greenland. During their voyage they
discovered the land to which they gave the name of Labrador (lavrador, farmer)
1494—First boats fitted with cannon doors and topsails.
1498—Vasco da Gama led the first fleet around Africa to India, arriving in Calicut.
1498—Duarte Pacheco Pereira explores the South Atlantic and the South American Coast North of the
Amazon River.
1500—Pedro Álvares Cabral discovered Brazil on his way to India.
1500—Gaspar Corte-Real made his first voyage to Newfoundland, formerly known as Terras Corte-Real.
1500—Diogo Dias discovered an island they named after St Lawrence after the saint on whose feast day they
had first sighted the island later known as Madagascar.
1502— Returning from India, Vasco da Gama discovers the Amirante Islands (Seychelles).
1502—Miguel Corte-Real set out for New England in search of his brother, Gaspar. João da Nova discovered
Ascension Island. Fernão de Noronha discovered the island which still bears his name.
1503—On his return from the East, Estêvão da Gama discovered Saint Helena Island.
1505—Gonçalo Álvares in the fleet of the first viceroy sailed south in the Atlantic to were "water and even
wine froze" discovering an island named after him, modern Gough Island.
1505—Lourenço de Almeida made the first Portuguese voyage to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and established a
settlement there.[44]
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1506—Tristão da Cunha discovered the island that bears his name. Portuguese sailors landed on
Madagascar.
1509—The Bay of Bengal crossed by Diogo Lopes de Sequeira. On the crossing he also reached Malacca.
1511— Duarte Fernandes is the first European to visit the Kingdom of Siam (Thailand), sent by Afonso de
Albuquerque after the conquest of Malaca.[37]
1511-12 - João de Lisboa and Estevão de Fróis discovered the "Cape of Santa Maria" (Punta Del Este) in the
River Plate, exploring its estuary (in present-day Uruguay and Argentina), and traveled as far south as the
Gulf of San Matias at 42ºS (penetrating 300 km (186 mi) "around the Gulf"). Christopher de Haro, the financier
of the expedition along with D. Nuno Manuel, bears witness of the news of the "White King" and "people of the
mountains", the Inca empire - and the "axe of silver" (rio do "machado de prata") obtained from the Charrúa
Indians and offered to king Manuel I.[45][46]
1512— António de Abreu discovered Timor island and reached Banda Islands, Ambon Island and Seram.
Francisco Serrão reached the Moluccas.
1512—Pedro Mascarenhas discover the island of Diego Garcia, he also encountered the Mauritius, although
he may not have been the first to do so; expeditions by Diogo Dias and Afonso de Albuquerque in 1507 may
have encountered the islands. In 1528 Diogo Rodrigues named the islands of Réunion, Mauritius, and
Rodrigues the Mascarene Islands, after Mascarenhas.
1513—The first European trading ship to touch the coasts of China, under Jorge Álvares and Rafael
Perestrello later in the same year.
1514-1531— António Fernandes's voyage and discoveries in 1514–1515,[47] Sancho de Tovar from 1515
onwards, and Vicente Pegado (1531), among others, in several expeditions and contacts, are the first
Europeans ever to contemplate and to describe the ruins of Great Zimbabwe and those regions (then referred
to by the Portuguese as Monomotapa).
1517—Fernão Pires de Andrade and Tomé Pires were chosen by Manuel I of Portugal to sail to China to
formally open relations between the Portuguese Empire and the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the
Zhengde Emperor.
1519-1521—Fernão de Magalhães's expedition at the service of the King Charles I of Spain and German
"Holy Roman" Emperor, in search of a westward route to the "Spice Islands" (Maluku Islands) became the first
known expedition to sail from the Atlantic Ocean into the Pacific Ocean (then named "peaceful sea" by
Magellan; the passage being made via the Strait of Magellan), and the first to cross the Pacific. Besides
Magellan, also participated in the trip Diogo and Duarte Barbosa, João Serrão, Álvaro de Mesquita
(Magellan's nephew), the pilots João Rodrigues de Carvalho and Estêvão Gomes, Henrique of Malacca,
among others. Many of them cross almost all longitudes or all longitudes reaching the Philippines, Borneo and
the Moluccas, because they had previously visited India, Mallacca, the Indonesian Archipelago or the
Moluccas (1511-1512), like Ferdinand Magellan in the 7th Portuguese India Armada under the command of
Francisco de Almeida and on the expeditions of Diogo Lopes de Sequeira, Afonso de Albuquerque and his
other voyages, sailing eastward from Lisbon (as Magellan in 1505), and then later, in 1521, sailing westward
from Seville, reaching that longitude and region once again and then proceeding still further west.
1525—Aleixo Garcia explored the Rio de la Plata in service to Spain as a member of the expedition of Juan
Díaz de Solís in 1516. Solís had left Portugal towards Castile (Spain) in 1506 and would be financed by
Christopher de Haro, who had served Manuel I of Portugal until 1516. Serving Charles I of Spain after 1516,
Haro believed that Lisboa and Frois had discovered a major route in the Southern New World to west or a
strait to Asia two years earlier. Later (when returning and after a shipwreck on the coast of Brazil), from Santa
Catarina, Brazil, and leading an expedition of some European and 2,000 Guaraní Indians, Aleixo Garcia
explored Paraguay and Bolivia using the trail network Peabiru. Aleixo Garcia was the first European to cross
the Chaco and even managed to penetrate the outer defenses of the Inca Empire on the hills of the Andes
(near Sucre), in present-day Bolivia. He was the first European to do so, accomplishing this eight years before
Francisco Pizarro.
1525—Diogo da Rocha and his pilot Gomes de Sequeira reached Celebes and were blown off course and
driven three hundred leagues in a direction constantly towards the east and to Ilhas de Gomes de Sequeira -
most probably the Palau Island or Yap, (Caroline Islands) according to the geographical notes, distance
traveled and physical description of the natives in Décadas da Ásia of João de Barros, or, according to the
alleged existence of gold mentioned by the natives, other descriptions of the people and if they were to south
and east in one or two voyages made by Gomes de Sequeira (According to the different interpretations of the
Chronicles of Barros, Castanheda and Galvão), raises also the hypothesis of Cape York Peninsula in
Australia, maybe one of the Prince of Wales Islands. In Gastald's map a group of islands named Insul de

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gomes des queria lie in about 8 degrees of south latitude and in the longitude of the Northern Territory of
Australia. In the same map the Apem insul seems to correspond with either Adi Island or the Aru Islands. The
Ins des hobres blancos (Islands of the White Men) correspond, as far as locality is concerned, to the Arru
(Aru) Islands. It would appear then that Gomes de Sequeira's Islands, which are the south-easternmost of
those represented, must correspond with the Timor Laut group. In the same year, according to the voyages to
the Banda Islands mentioned on Decadas and according to contemporaneous cartographers, Martim Afonso
de Melo (Jusarte) and Garcia Henriques explored the Tanimbar Islands (the archipelago labelled "aqui
invernou Martim Afonso de Melo" and "Aqui in bernon Martin Afonso de melo" [Here wintered Martin Afonso
de Melo]) and probably the Aru Islands (the two archipelagos and the navigator mentioned in the maps of
Lázaro Luís, 1563, Bartolomeu Velho, c. 1560, Sebastião Lopes, c. 1565 and also in the 1594 map of the
East Indies entitled Insulce Molucoe by the Dutch cartographer Petrus Plancius and in the map of Nova
Guinea of 1600).
1526—Discovery of New Guinea by Jorge de Meneses
1528—Diogo Rodrigues explores the Mascarene islands, that he names after his countryman Pedro
Mascarenhas, he explored and named the islands of Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues[48]
1529—Treaty of Saragossa divides the eastern hemisphere between Spain and Portugal, stipulating that the
dividing line should lie 297.5 leagues or 17° east of the Moluccas.
1542-43—Fernão Mendes Pinto, António Mota and Francisco Zeimoto reached Japan.
1542—The coast of California explored by João Rodrigues Cabrilho on behalf of Spain.
1557—Macau given to Portugal by the Emperor of China as a reward for services rendered against the
pirates who infested the South China Sea.
1559—The Nau São Paulo commanded by Rui Melo da Câmara (was part of the Portuguese India Armada
commanded by Jorge de Sousa) discovered Île Saint-Paul in the South Indian Ocean. The island was
mapped, described and painted by members of the crew, among them the Father Manuel Álvares and the
chemist Henrique Dias (Álvares and Dias calculated the correct latitude 38° South at the time of discovery).
The Nau São Paulo, who also carried women and had sailed from Europe and had scale in Brazil, would be
the protagonist of a dramatic and moving story of survival after sinking south of Sumatra.
1560—Gonçalo da Silveira, Jesuit missionary, travelled up the Zambezi River, on his expedition to the capital
of the Monomotapa which appears to have been the N'Pande kraal, close by the M'Zingesi River, a southern
tributary of the Zambezi. He arrived there on 26 December 1560.
1586—António da Madalena, a Capuchin friar, was one of the first Western visitors to Angkor (now
Cambodia).
1602–1606—Bento de Góis, a Jesuit missionary, was the first known European to travel overland from India
to China, via Afghanistan and the Pamirs.
1606—Pedro Fernandes de Queirós discovered Henderson Island, the Ducie Island and the islands later
called the New Hebrides and now the nation of Vanuatu. Queirós landed on a large island which he took to be
part of the southern continent, and named it La Austrialia del Espiritu Santo (The Australian Land of the Holy
Spirit), for King Philip III(II), or Australia of the Holy Spirit (Australia do Espírito Santo) of the southern
continent.
1626—Estêvão Cacella, Jesuit missionary, traveled through the Himalayas and was the first European to
enter Bhutan.[49]
1636-1638—Pedro Teixeira went from Belém do Pará up the Amazon River and reached Quito, Ecuador, in
an expedition of over a thousand men. So Teixeira's expedition became the first simultaneously to travel up
and down the Amazon River.
1648-1651—António Raposo Tavares with 200 whites from São Paulo and over a thousand Indians travelled
for over 10,000 kilometres (6,200 mi), in the biggest expedition ever made in the Americas, following the
courses of the rivers, most notably the Paraguay River, to the Andes, the Grande River, the Mamoré River,
the Madeira River and the Amazon River. Only Tavares, 59 whites and some Indians reached Belém at the
mouth of the Amazon River.

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Abernethy, David (2000). The Dynamics of Global Dominance, European Overseas Empires 1415–1980 (http
s://books.google.com/books?id=ennqNS1EOuMC). Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09314-4.
Anderson, James Maxwell (2000). The History of Portugal (https://books.google.com/books?id=UoryGn9o4x0
C). Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-313-31106-4.
Boxer, Charles Ralph (1969). The Portuguese Seaborne Empire 1415–1825 (https://archive.org/details/portug
ueseseabor0000boxe). Hutchinson. ISBN 0-09-131071-7.
Boyajian, James (2008). Portuguese Trade in Asia Under the Habsburgs, 1580–1640 (https://books.google.co
m/books?id=C0lrDYYzMyAC). JHU Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8754-3.
Davies, Kenneth Gordon (1974). The North Atlantic World in the Seventeenth Century (https://archive.org/det
ails/northatlanticwor04kgda). University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-0713-3.
Diffie, Bailey (1977). Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415–1580 (https://books.google.com/books?id=
IjBfEorbZWAC&pg=PP1). University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-0782-6.
Diffie, Bailey (1960). Prelude to empire: Portugal overseas before Henry the Navigator (https://books.google.c
om/books?id=IjBfEorbZWAC). U of Nebraska Press. ISBN 0-8032-5049-5.
Lockhart, James (1983). Early Latin America: A History of Colonial Spanish America and Brazil (https://archiv
e.org/details/earlylatinameric00lock). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-29929-2.
McAlister, Lyle (1984). Spain and Portugal in the New World, 1492–1700 (https://archive.org/details/spainport
ugalinn0000mcal). University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 0-8166-1216-1.
Newitt, Malyn D.D. (2005). A History of Portuguese Overseas Expansion, 1400–1668 (https://books.google.co
m/books?id=vpteLQcx6J4C). Routledge. ISBN 0-415-23979-6.
Russell-Wood, A.J.R. (1998). The Portuguese Empire 1415–1808 (https://books.google.com/books?id=JTVH
7PZU1hUC). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-5955-7.
Scammell, Geoffrey Vaughn (1997). The First Imperial Age, European Overseas Expansion c.1400–1715 (htt
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