Pero Vaz de Caminha

Pero Vaz de Caminha was a Portuguese knight that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral to India in 1500 as a secretary to the royal factory. Caminha wrote the detailed official report of the April 1500 discovery of Brazil by Cabral's fleet. He died in a riot in Calicut, India, at the end of that year.

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Who was born first?

• Pero Vaz de Caminha was born 3 years before Pedro Arias Dávila
• Pero Vaz de Caminha was born 4 years before Túpac Inca Yupanqui
• Pero Vaz de Caminha was born 4 years before Martín Alonso Pinzón
• Pero Vaz de Caminha was born 5 years after Alvise Cadamosto
• Pero Vaz de Caminha was born 8 years after Ambrogio Contarini

Timeline

1. Ambrogio Contarini1429–1499
2. Alvise Cadamosto1432 – July 16, 1488
3. Pero Vaz de Caminha (this page)circa 1437 – December 15, 1500
4. Pedro Arias Dávilacirca 1440 – March 6, 1531
5. Martín Alonso Pinzón1441 – March 31, 1493
6. Túpac Inca Yupanqui1441–1493

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