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Pedro Álvares Cabral - Portuguese Explorer
Pedro Álvares Cabral was a Portuguese explorer, navigator and military commander who is best remembered today as the leader of the expedition that first reached that lands of South America that are today regarded as Brazil.
He was born in 1467 as the in the noble Portuguese family and was a member of a royal Portuguese court of King Manuel I and the King John II. On the turn of the century, King John II appointed Cabral with a mission to lead the 13-ship expedition to the India following the route that Vasco de Gama discovered in 1497. Although he had navigation charts that contained the information of Vasco de Gama, Christopher Columbus and Bartolomeu Dias' journey he did not go directly to the India via the Cape of Good Hope. Instead, he went west and on April 23, he landed on the coast of the Brazil. Believing that he discovered an island he named it Island of the True Cross and claimed it for the Portugal crown. After that, he resumed his trip to India losing four ships in a storm around west coast of Africa and
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Cabral, Pedro Álvares (1468–c. 1520)
Pedro Álvares Cabral (b. 1467 or 1468; d. ca. 1520), Portuguese explorer, leader of the follow-up fleet to Vasco da Gama's first voyage to India. His expedition made the first recorded sighting of Brazil by the Portuguese on 22 April 1500.
On 15 February 1500, King Manuel I of Portugal chose Cabral, a fidalgo of the royal household, to command a fleet of thirteen ships and 1,200-1,500 men to sail for India. The purpose of the voyage was to establish trade and diplomatic relations with the samorim of Calicut and other rulers in India.
Cabral left Lisbon on 9 March 1500. On 22 April, Monte Pascoal, a mountain in what is now Brazil, was sighted. Cabral thought he had discovered an island, which he called Ilha de Vera Cruz. Sailing northward, he reached a harbor that he called Porto Seguro (now known as Baía Cabrália). He remained there for eight days and was on friendly terms with the region's inhabitants. The first Catholic Mass in Portuguese America was officiated by Frei Henrique Soares de Coimbra, one of eight Franciscans accompany
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Pedro Alvares Cabral
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