He died soon after he got there on Christmas Eve. Vasco da Gama went on one last trip in 1524 to be the viceroy (governor) of Calicut, which was by that time a Portuguese colony. Then, he went on to Calicut and took over that city, capturing a lot of wealth, pleasing the King of Portugal. During this trip, he attacked and stole from all the Arab and Indian ships he found in the Indian Ocean. He found out that the people of Calicut killed the Portuguese he had left behind. Vasco da Gama went on his next trip in 1502. A few of his Portuguese sailors stayed in Calicut. However, he escaped and returned to Portugal in September 1499. Vasco da Gama was in danger because of a conflict with the ruler of Calicut. The pilot brought the Portuguese men to the city of Calicut on the southwest coast of India on May 20, 1498. There, at Malindi, da Gama hired a pilot from India.
An angry crowd discovered that da Gama's men were not Muslims, so the crew continued north to Kenya. Mozambique was controlled by Arabs because it was part of the Indian Ocean's network of trade. The coast is still called Natal.īy January, da Gama's crew reached modern-day Mozambique, on the East African coast. They did this because they sailed by it at Christmas. Da Gama's crew gave the South African coast they were passing the name Natal, which means " Christmas" in Portuguese. Vasco da Gama sailed around the bottom of the African continent. No European explorer before him had sailed further than the place that is now called South Africa. On the 4th of July 1497 da Gama left Lisbon with four ships: the São Gabriel, the São Rafael, the Berrio, and a storage ship of unknown name. According to some people's accounts, he was a knight in the 1490s in Sines. He went to India three times by ship.ĭa Gama was born in Sines, Portugal. He was the first European who went to India through the Cape of Good Hope at the southern end of Africa.
You can subscribe to these posts via RSS or receive them by email.Vasco da Gama ( 1460 or 1469 - December 24th, 1524) was a Portuguese sailor. “This Day in World History” is brought to you by USA Higher Education. With his voyage, the Portuguese overseas empire was born. He was greeted as a hero and richly rewarded by the king. Thanks to da Gamas successful trip, Portugal was the first European nation to reach the orient for trade, and as a result they were able to maintain control in. After a long and harrowing return trip - which included the death of his brother - da Gama reached Portugal in September of 1499, more than two years after having set out. Still, da Gama was able to leave India with some spices. The goods Manuel had sent as gifts were of poor value, infuriating Calicut’s ruler. Once he reached Calicut, da Gama’s reception was not very warm. The long voyage also took a serious toll of the crew around two-thirds died during the voyage, most of disease. The trip across the southern Atlantic left the ships a worrying three months without sight of land, and the expedition met hostile natives in southern Africa - who gave da Gama an arrow wound - and Muslims in eastern Africa. He carried with him priests to see to the crews’ souls, interpreters to help communicate with Bantu and Arabic speakers, and a store of gifts the king intended for him to use to attract Indian rulers to trade. Source: Library of Congress.At the head of four ships (one a floating warehouse) and 170 men, da Gama began his journey on July 8, 1497. Vasco da Gama's ship with gods above by Ernesto Casanova (ca. Nevertheless, he was named to head the historic voyage. Why he was chosen by Portugal’s King Manuel to lead the expedition to India is unknown his only achievement to date had been carrying out a mission for Manuel’s predecessor a few years earlier. In his late thirties at the time of his voyage, da Gama was the son of a minor Portuguese nobleman. Having successfully sailed around the southern tip of Africa, da Gama had pioneered a sea route from Europe to Asia that bypassed the Muslim nations that controlled the overland spice trade. On May 20, 1498, sailing for the Portuguese crown, Vasco da Gama reached Calicut, India. This Day in World History Da Gama reaches Calicut, India
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