Vasco da Gama, Portuguese explorer and politician, Governor of Portuguese India (born 1469)

Vasco da Gama

Portuguese explorer (c. 1460s–1524)

Vasco da Gama, was a Portuguese explorer and nobleman who was the first European to reach India by sea.

List of governors of Portuguese India

The government of Portuguese India started on 12 September 1505, seven years after the Portuguese discovery of the sea route to India by Vasco da Gama, with the nomination of the first Portuguese viceroy Francisco de Almeida, then settled at Cochin. Until 1752, the name India…