{"id":92018,"date":"2022-09-29T16:10:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T21:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/vasco-da-gama\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T16:10:41","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T21:10:41","slug":"vasco-da-gama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/vasco-da-gama\/","title":{"rendered":"Vasco da Gama"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Vasco da Gama<\/h2>\n<p>Discoverer of the sea-route to the East Indies; born Sines, Portugal , 1469 ; died  Cochin, India, 1524 . After distinguishing himself against the French, 1490 , on the coast of Guinea, Da Gama was commissioned by King Manuel I to complete the discoveries of Dias and De Covilhao. He sailed from Lisbon, 8 July  1497 , reached the coast of Natal on Christmas Day, hence its name, and after touching at Mozambique, Mombasa, and Melinda, reached Calicut, India, 20 May  1498 . Sailing for home, 5 October  1498 , he arrived at Lisbon in September 1499 . His second voyage in 1502 , during which he destroyed 29 Arab ships-of-war at Calicut, was a brilliant commercial success. In 1524  he was sent out as viceroy to India, and died  shortly after his arrival. The story of his discoveries forms a large part of Camoes&#8217;s &#8220;Lusiad.&#8221; <\/p>\n<h4 align='right'><i><b>Fuente: New Catholic Dictionary<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vasco da Gama Discoverer of the sea-route to the East Indies; born Sines, Portugal , 1469 ; died Cochin, India, 1524 . After distinguishing himself against the French, 1490 , on the coast of Guinea, Da Gama was commissioned by King Manuel I to complete the discoveries of Dias and De Covilhao. He sailed from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/vasco-da-gama\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Vasco da Gama&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}