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    Pêro or Pero Vaz de Caminha (c. 1450 – 15 December 1500; Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈpeɾu ˈvaʒ ðɨ kɐˈmiɲɐ]; also spelled Pedro Vaz de Caminha) was a Portuguese...
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    In his letter to Manuel I of Portugal, Pero Vaz de Caminha gives what is considered by many today as being one of the most accurate accounts of what Brazil...
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    únicos testemunhos do descobrimento do Brasil. In: CAMINHA, Pero Vaz de. Carta de Pero Vaz de Caminha. Rio de Janeiro: Nova Aguilar, 1999. pp. 31–59. Cavalcante...
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    1500 (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Cruz. Cabral claims the land for the Kingdom of Portugal. May 1 – Pêro Vaz de Caminha finishes writing his chronicle of the Portuguese discovery of Brazil...
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    of Western Africa. Pêro Vaz de Caminha, chronicler of Cabral's expedition wrote "On the night of Monday next, at sunrise, Vasco de Ataíde was lost from...
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    Brazilian literature is the Carta de Pero Vaz de Caminha (Pero Vaz de Caminha's letter). It is written by Pero Vaz de Caminha to Manuel I of Portugal, which...
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    since the beginning of the colonisation. In the famous letter by Pero Vaz de Caminha, for example, in which Brazil was first described by the Portuguese...
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    Neither of the two eyewitnesses—an anonymous Portuguese pilot and Pêro Vaz de Caminha—give a list of captains in their sources. The Second Armada was to...
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    Ravenstein, Ernst Georg (2010). Bartolomeu Dias. William Brooks Greenlee, Pero Vaz de Caminha. England: Viartis. ISBN 978-1-906421-03-8. OCLC 501399584. Ravenstein...
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    The First Mass in Brazil was inspired by the letter written by Pero Vaz de Caminha to the king of Portugal describing the first mass held in the country...
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