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a prominent 16th-century Portuguese merchant of Lisbon He was the first charter-holder (1502–1512), the first donatary captain in Brazil and sponsor of numerous early Portuguese overseas expeditions. The islands of Fernando de Noronha off the coast of Brazil, discovered by one of his expeditions and granted to Loronha and his heirs as a fief in 1504, are named after him. Explored the Atlantic Ocean.
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Fernao de Loronha1470 ca1500
 
15191540 ca

Pero de Barcelosunknown1498
 
1501unknown
 a Portuguese navigator who explored the coasts of North America with João Fernandes Labrador, h...
Joao Fernandes Lavrador14531498
 
15011501 ca
 a Portuguese explorer of the late 15th century. He was the first modern explorer in the coasts of...
Nicolau Coelho1460 ca1490
 
15021502
 an expert Portuguese navigator and explorer during the age of discovery. He participated in the d...
Miguel Corte-Real14481502
 
 
1502unknown
 a Portuguese explorer who charted about 600 miles of the coast of Labrador. In 1501, he disappear...
Goncalo Coelhounknown1501
 
 
1504unknown
 a Portuguese explorer who belonged to a prominent family in northern Portugal. He commanded two e...
Christopher Columbus1451, Oct1473
 
15051506, May 20
 an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer and citizen of the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspice...
Ludovico di Varthema1470 ca1502
 
 
15071517
 an Italian traveller, diarist and aristocrat known for being the first non-Muslim European to ent...
Diogo de Azambuja14321450
 
15091518
 a Portuguese noble. He was a knight of the Order of Aviz in the service of the Infante Dom Pedro,...
Jean Cousinunknown1480
 
1509unknown
 a 15th-century French Normand navigator who was said to have discovered the New World in 1488, fo...
Pedro Alvares Cabral14671484
 
15091520
 a Portuguese nobleman, military commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the discoverer of B...
Diogo Diasunknown1490
 
1509unknown
 a 15th-century Portuguese explorer. He was the brother of Bartolomeu Dias and discovered some of ...
Andre Goncalves [1]unknown1490
 
1509unknown
 A Portuguese explorer that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil. Gonçalv...
Alonso de Ojeda1465/66/681490
 
15091515
 a ruthless and cunning explorer who first sailed to the New World on Columbus’ second voyage in...
Luis Piresunknown1490
 
1509unknown
 a Portuguese explorer who accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil, being one...
Amerigo Vespucci1454, Mar 91497
 
15091512, Feb 22
 an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who first demonstrated that Brazil and...
Lourenco de Almeida1480 ca1500
 
15091508, Mar
 a Portuguese explorer and military commander. He was born in Martim, Kingdom of Portugal, the son...
Pero de Ataide1450 ca1500
 
15091504, Feb/Mar
 a Portuguese sea captain in the Indian Ocean active in the early 1500s. He was briefly captain of...
Vasco de Ataideunknown1500
 
1509unknown
 a Portuguese sailor whose ship was a part of Pedro Álvares Cabral 1500 expedition to India. His ...
Joao da Nova1460 ca1500
 
15091509, Jul
 a Galician explorer of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans at the service of Portugal. He is credited ...
Sebastian de Ocampounknown1500
 
1509unknown
 a Spanish navigator and explorer. He is believed to have been the first navigator to have circumn...
Diogo Fernandes Pereiraunknown1500
 
1509unknown
  a Portuguese 16th-century navigator, originally from Setúbal, Portugal. Diogo Fernandes was the...
Francisco de Almeida1450 ca1490
 
15101510, Mar 1
 a Portuguese nobleman, soldier and explorer. He distinguished himself as a counsellor to King Joh...
Pero de Alenquer1480 ca1500
 
151091514 ca
 a 15th-century Portuguese explorer of the African coast. Pêro was born in Alenquer, and accompan...
Afonso de Albuquerque1453 ca1471
 
15151515, Dec 16
 a Portuguese general, a "great conqueror," a statesman, and an empire builder. He is generally co...
Juan Diaz de Solis14701500
 
15161516
 In 1500 and 1508, Diaz de Solis joined Vincente Pinzón on two voyages exploring along the coast ...
Antony Welserunknown1500
 
15181518
 One of the first Europeans to use the sea route to India discovered by Vasco de Gama.
Diego Velasquez de Cuellar14651490
 
15191524, Jun 12
 a Spanish conquistador. He first visited the New World with the crew of Christopher Columbus' sec...
Antonio de Abreu1480 ca1500
 
15191514 ca
 a 16th-century Portuguese navigator and naval officer. He participated under the command of Afons...
Vasco Nunez de Balboa1475 ca1500
 
15191519, Jan 12/21
 a Spanish explorer, governor, and conquistador. He is best known for having crossed the Isthmus o...
Binot Paulmier de Gonnevilleunknown1500
 
1519unknown
 French navigator of the early 16th century, was widely believed in 17th and 18th century France t...
Duarte Fernandesunknown1500
 
1519unknown
 a Portuguese diplomat and the first European to establish diplomatic relations with Thailand, whe...
Francisco del Puertounknown1510
 
1519unknown
 a cabin boy of the expedition of Juan Díaz de Solís to the Río de la Plata. His last name seem...
Ferdinand Magellan14801495
 
15211521
 a Portuguese explorer who organised the Spanish expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, ...
Duarte Barbosa1480 ca1500
 
15211521, May 1
 a Portuguese writer and Portuguese India officer between 1500 and 1516–1517, with the post of s...
Jorge Alvaresunknown1510
 
15211521, Jul 8
 credited as the first European explorer to have reached China and Hong Kong by sea. Álvares made...
Francisco Serraounknown1511
 
15211521
 a Portuguese explorer and a cousin of Ferdinand Magellan. His 1512 voyage was the first known Eur...
Vasco da Gama1460s1480
 
15241524, Dec 24
 a Portuguese explorer. He was the first European to reach India by sea, linking Europe and Asia f...
Goncalo Alvaresunknown1490
 
15241524
 a Portuguese explorer who actively participated in the age of discovery starting from the second ...
Juan Sebastian Elcano14761509
 
15261526, Aug 4
 a Basque explorer who completed the first circumnavigation of the Earth. After Ferdinand Magellan...
Giovanni da Verrazzano14851508
 
15281528
 an Italian explorer of North America, in the service of King Francis I of France. He is renowned ...
Cristovao Jacques1480 ca1500
 
15291530+
 a Portuguese noble of Aragonese descent. In 1516, in command of two caravels, he was in charge of...
Panfilo de Narvaez14701510
 
15291528
 Explorer
Gonzalo Guerrerounknown1510
 
15301530 ca
  a sailor from Palos, in Spain who shipwrecked along the Yucatán Peninsula and was taken as a sl...
Diego de Almagro1475 ca1510
 
15381538, Jul 8
 a Spanish conquistador and a companion and later rival of Francisco Pizarro. He participated in t...
Hernan Ponce de Leonunknown1510
 
1539unknown
 a Spanish conquistador who participated in the discovery of Panama, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua in ...
Francisco Alvares14651515
 
15391536~1541
 a Portuguese missionary and explorer. In 1515 he traveled to Ethiopia as part of the Portuguese e...
Pedro de Alvarado1485 ca1510
 
15411541, Jul 4
 a Spanish conquistador and governor of Guatemala. He participated in the conquest of Cuba, in Jua...
Hernan Cortes14851504
 
15471547, Dec 2
 a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought...
Francisco Xerez14951514
 
15491565 ca
 a Spanish explorer-turned-historian, the personal secretary of conquistador Francisco Pizarro. He...
Sebastian de Belalcazar1479/80/951507
 
15511551
 a Spanish conquistador. He entered Nicaragua with Francisco Hernández de Córdoba in 1524 during...
Fernao Pires de Andradeunknown1510
 
15521552
 a Portuguese merchant, pharmacist, and official diplomat under the explorer and Portuguese Malacc...
Piri Reis1467 ca1481
 
15531553
 an Ottoman admiral, geographer, and cartographer. Piri began engaging in government-supported pri...
Pedro Mascarenhas14701512
 
15551555, Jun 16
 a Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator. He was the first European to discover the islan...
Sebastian Cabot1474 ca1494
 
15571557, Dec
 an Italian explorer, likely born in the Venetian Republic. He was the son of Italian explorer Joh...
Diogo Rodrigues1495 ca1507
 
15771577, Apr 21
 a Portuguese explorer of the Indian Ocean who sailed as an ordinary helmsman under the command of...
Pero Escobarunknown1470
 
159unknown
 a 15th-century Portuguese navigator who discovered São Tomé, Annobon, and Príncipe islands, to...
Gaspar de Lemosunknown1500
 
162unknown
 a Portuguese explorer and captain of the supply ship of Pedro Álvares Cabral's fleet that discov...
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