Vasco Da Gama was a really good explorer and discovered new areas all the time. His first voyage was amazing for him and he had plenty of more voyages to come. Then at the age of 15 he became a sailor. When he was 15 he studied navigation and astronomy. Vasco Da Gama was brought up in a maritime environment and trained in fishing, sailing, and swimming during his childhood. During his childhood, Vasco da Gama was educated as a nobleman and he served in the court of King Joao the second. Vasco Da Gama was the son of Estevao Da Gama and Isabel. He was born on the southwest of Portugal, possibly in a house near a church. No one really knows his exact birth date. Vasco da Gama's first voyage to India is considered to be the beginning of global …show more content… He was a sailor at the age of 15.Vasco Da Gama was born in 1460 or 1469. While in Calicut he demanded that all Muslims be banned from India. On the return voyage, half of Vasco da Gama`s crew died from scurvy. Vasco took three interpreters on the first voyage.Vasco da Gama reached India (Calicut) on May 20th, 1498. Vasco da Gama' father was a knight and also an explorer. The Portuguese nobleman Vasco Da Gama sailed from Lisbon in 1497 on a mission to reach India and open a sea route from Europe to the East and that was his first voyage. Vasco da Gama was the first person to sail directly from Europe to India. He was 55 when he died and he died in Cochin- the result, it has been speculated, from possibly overworking him. Married at this time, and the father of six sons, da Gama settled into retirement and family life. In 1502, Vasco da Gama helmed another journey to India that included 20 ships. Following several months of sailing, he rounded the Cape of Good Hope and began making his way up the eastern coast of Africa, toward the uncharted waters of the Indian Oceanīy January, as the fleet neared what is now Mozambique, many of da Gama's crewmembers were sick with scurvy, …show more content… More important for his home country, Cabral established the first Portuguese trading post in India. To embark on the journey, Da Gama pointed his ships south, taking advantage of prevailing winds along the coast of Africa. He made two other voyages to India, and was appointed as Portuguese in India in 1524. His success in doing so proved to be one of the more instrumental moments in the history of navigation. In 1497, he was commissioned by the Portuguese king to find a maritime route to the East. His expeditions helped Portugal develop into a major colonial power over the following decades.Show More The explorer Vasco da Gama w born is Sines, Portugal, around 1460. Unfortunately da Gama contracted malaria shortly after arriving in India and died on Christmas Eve, 1524. He stayed away from the sea for over 20 years, until 1524, when the king appointed him viceroy of India and sent him to govern the crown’s colonial possessions in the Indian Ocean. As a reward, da Gama was nominated Count of Vidigueira. He shelled the port of Calicut and imposed a treaty guaranteeing Portuguese commercial hegemony over the Indian Ocean. In 1502 da Gama was sent back to India, this time with a fleet of 20 warships.
But the Portuguese trading post in Calicut wound up in Arab hands. He returned to Lisbon in September 1499, triumphant. An unknown world unfolded before Vasco da Gama’s eyes: no European had ever sailed into the Indian Ocean.Īfter six more months at sea, the Portuguese ships berthed at the port of Calicut, on the western coast of the Indian peninsula.Īrab merchants had a monopoly on the area, but after long negotiations da Gama managed to create a Portuguese settlement as a base for future trade. Vasco da Gama had studied the best route for a long time and managed to lead his four ships beyond the Cape.
But this meant giving up the coast as a reference point in waters for which there were no available maps. To avoid them it was necessary to navigate on the open sea.
The currents connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Indian Ocean are extremely strong. Four months later he reached the Cape of Good Hope, Africa’s extreme south western tip. On JVasco da Gama sailed from Lisbon with four ships and a crew of around 160 men. Vasco da Gama’s idea was to circumnavigate Africa. In 1497 the Royal Authority entrusted da Gama, by then an expert navigator, with an extremely important task: to open a new route from Portugal to the spice markets in India.Īt the time, Arabs, Venetians and Persians already controlled land routes like the Silk Road. Da Gama probably joined his father on various expeditions along the western coasts of Africa. His father Estêvão was a naval explorer for the Portuguese Crown. Born in Sines, Portugal, around 1460, Vasco da Gama was the first navigator to sail to India from the Old Continent.ĭa Gama started sailing at a young age.
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