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    Tristão d'Acunha; Portuguese pronunciation: [tɾiʃˈtɐ̃w dɐ ˈkuɲɐ]; c. 1460c. 1540) was a Portuguese explorer and naval commander. In 1499, he served as...
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    2010. Diogo do Couto, Décadas da Ásia, década X, livro I Sanceau, Elaine (1936). Indies Adventure: The Amazing Career of Afonso de Albuquerque, Captain-general...
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    Vasco da Gama (redirect from Vasco de gama)
    Luís de Camões. Vasco da Gama was born in 1460 in the town of Sines, one of the few seaports on the Alentejo coast, southwest Portugal, probably in a house...
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    Portuguese maritime exploration (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the Nuttall Encyclopedia)
    maritime exploration until his death in 1460. He invested in sponsoring voyages down the coast of Mauritania, gathering a group of merchants, shipowners, and...
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  • December 1460 was a royal grant to Infante Ferdinand the Saint Prince after the demise of his brother Henry the Navigator in 1460. Governor Antonio de Noli...
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  • Crusade. 1936–1937, then merged into FET y de las JONS The only party under Francisco Franco from 1937 onward, a merger of the other factions on the Nationalist...
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  • Fernando de Castro (c. 1380 – April 1440 or 1441, off Cape St. Vincent) was a 15th-century Portuguese nobleman, diplomat and military figure. Fernando de Castro...
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    1460.: 23  Before the arrival of the Portuguese in Southeast Asia, the Malays already possessed early firearms, the Java arquebus. This firearm has a...
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    introduction is unknown, but it may be safely concluded to be no earlier than 1460.: 23  The Majapahit Empire pioneered the use of the gunpowder-based weapon...
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    History 77.4 (2005): 988–1023. Cortada, James W. A Bibliographic Guide to Spanish Diplomatic History, 1460–1977 (Greenwood Press, 1977) 390 pages Feros,...
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