On this day in 1498: Vasco da Gama lands in Calicut, charting a new
In 1502, da Gama returned to Calicut at the helm of a heavily armed squadron to avenge a massacre of Portuguese explorers, subduing the inhabitants and using military force to enforce trade monopolies On 20 May 1498, Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrived at the port of Calicut on the Malabar Coast of the Indian subcontinent, becoming the first European…
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