"ships, Vasco da Gama took as his flagship the famous large carrack ""Santa Catarina do Monte Sinai"" on her last journey to India, along with two of his sons, Estêvão and Paulo. After a troubled journey (four or five of the ships were lost en route), he arrived in India in September. Vasco da Gama immediately invoked his high viceregent powers to impose a new order in Portuguese India, replacing all the old officials with his own appointments. But Gama contracted malaria not long after arriving, and died in the city of Cochin on Christmas Eve in 1524, three months"
"missionary. Their ship ""San Carlos"" or ""Bom Jesus"" arrived in Goa, India, in October 1618. Only 8 brothers out of 22 survived the journey, among them Johann Adam Schall von Bell aus Köln and Johann Schreck. After some time in Goa he moved on to China and finally to Macau where he died on May 22, 1626 (other sources consider Kyoto /then called ""Meaco""/ as the place of his death). He didn't stop being interested in astronomy, he kept in touch with Johann Adam Schall von Bell, a German Jesuit that was preparing the reform of the Chinese calendar and"
"the time and was influential in evangelization work, most notably in India. The Goa Inquisition was proposed by St. Francis Xavier. He also was the first Christian missionary to venture into Japan, Borneo, the Maluku Islands, and other areas. In those areas, struggling to learn the local languages and in the face of opposition, he had less success than he had enjoyed in India. Xavier was about to extend his missionary preaching to China when he died on Shangchuan Island. He was beatified by Pope Paul V on 25 October 1619 and canonized by Pope Gregory XV on 12 March"
"on 5 September 1624, he left Rome for Lisbon. After the missionary preparations in Lisbon, at the beginning of March 1625, along with eleven Portuguese Jesuits, he sailed to Goa, which he reached on 22 August 1625. At the very beginning of his stay in India, however, Rudamina suffered from malaria and his superiors sent him to Macao where the climate was better for his fragile health. Rudamina spent less than a year in Goa, but he was the first Lithuanian ever to visit India. Upon his arrival to China, Rudamina studied Chinese language, literature and customs. From Macao he"
"Diogo Rodrigues Dom Diogo Rodrigues, Dom Diogo Roiz ( 1490-1496; Lagos, Portugal – 21 April 1577; Colvá, Goa) was a Portuguese explorer of the Indian Ocean who sailed as an ordinary helmsman under the command of Dom Pedro Mascarenhas around Goa. They sailed from the Cape of Good Hope eastward into little-known waters of the newly discovered route to Goa. It was after him that the island of Rodrigues was\is named between 4 and 9 February 1528 after discovering it during his only return journey from Goa via Cochin (left on 15 January 1528) to Portugal, following which he rose"
"promoted the settlement of missionaries on Celebes Islands and Macassar. He issued a ban on the construction and the construction of mainly Hindu and Buddhist temples within the Portuguese India. With the King of Khambhat, he joined in Diu officially peace. Already appointed viceroy, left again for India in 1538, as chief captain of the fleet. Died 3 April 1540, in Cochin and is buried in the chancel of the Cathedral of Goa. He died as viceroy on 3 April 1540 in Goa. In Lisbon, a street is named after him. Garcia de Noronha Dom Garcia de Noronha (1479 in"
"Goa, Cochin, Ormus and Malacca, a lucrative trade in spices, condiments, carpets and clothes, realising great profits in the markets of Lisbon, Genoa and Venice. Manuel made numerous trips to India from 1547 onwards. Returning from Cochin on one of these voyages aboard the carrack ""São Bento"", he was shipwrecked at the Mbhashe River mouth, north of the Great Fish River, on Easter 24 April 1554. He was one of only 64 survivors who reached Inhambane on foot - the ship had carried a total of 473 crew members and passengers - only 23 were finally picked up. Perestrelo wrote"
"the Madre de Deus, which was loaded with 900 tons of merchandise from India and China estimated at half a million pounds (nearly half the size of English Treasury at the time). This foretaste of the riches of the East galvanized English interest in the region. That same year, Cornelis de Houtman was sent by Dutch merchants to Lisbon, to gather as much information as he could about the Spice Islands. The Dutch eventually realized the importance of Goa in breaking up the Portuguese empire in Asia. In 1583, merchant and explorer Jan Huyghen van Linschoten (1563 – 8 February"
"Anglicans changed the name of the patron saint to St. Francis. The Church was declared a protected monument in April 1923 under the Protected Monuments Act of 1904. As a protected monument it is under the Archaeological Survey of India but is owned by the Kochi diocese of Church of South India. It has services on Sundays and commemorative days. On weekdays it is kept open for visitors. The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama died in Kochi in 1524 when he was on his third visit to India. His body was originally buried in this church, but after fourteen years"
"The episode of his death is described in the book Peregrinação by Fernão Mendes Pinto. Diogo Soares Diogo Soares de Albergaria, also known as Diego Soares de Melo and the ""Gallego"" was a 16th-century Portuguese navigator and explorer. Soares arrived to India circa 1538, there he was a known murderer and pirate. Estêvão da Gama, by then Governor of Goa, issued a warrant for his arrest, but he was later granted a pardon by da Gama's successor, Martim Afonso de Sousa, who was Soares friend. Under his command Soares commanded expeditions and at the same time that he continued his"
"church was hardly built when he died of cholera (1661). David E. Mungello wrote that he died of rhubarb overdosing which aggravated his constipation. Below is a list of cities visited by Martini, traveling in at least fifteen countries in Europe and seven provinces of the Chinese empire, making stops in India, Java, Sumatra, the Philippines and South Africa. After studying at Trent and Rome, Martini reached Genoa, Alicante, Cádiz, Sanlucar de Barrameda (port near to Seville in Spain), Seville, Evora and Lisbon (Portugal), Goa (in the western region of India), Surat (port in the northwestern region of India), Macao"
"East. He reached Goa on 11 September 1524 but died at Kochi three months later. His remains were eventually returned to Portugal and interred at St Jeronimos monastery. The city is sometimes referred to as Sambhaji Nagar. Sambhaji Bhosale was the eldest son of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, the founder of the Maratha Empire. An attempt was made to change the city's name to Sambhaji Nagar, and this is reflected in a few government records. However, no official records have been found as to when the city was renamed. It is thus regarded as just as a move by some politicians."
"Bento de Góis Bento de Góis (1562 in Vila Franca do Campo, Azores, Portugal – 11 April 1607 in Suzhou, Gansu, China), was a Portuguese Jesuit Brother, Missionary and explorer. His name is commonly given in English as Bento de Goes or Bento de Goës; in the past, it has also been Anglicized as Benedict Goës. He is mainly remembered as the first known European to travel overland from India to China, via Afghanistan and the Pamirs. Inspired by controversies among the Jesuits as to whether the Cathay of Marco Polo's stories is the same country as China, his expedition"
"first, they treacherously threw him into the midst of the war with Samarin; secondly, soon after the departure of Jorge Cabral, the Portuguese plundered a highly revered temple near Cochin. Jorge Cabral Jorge Cabral () (1500 – ???) was a Portuguese nobleman, soldier (military officer) and explorer who was the 15th ruler of Portuguese India as governor from 13 of June 1549 to November 1550. Jorge Cabral was a son of João Fernandes Cabral (), Senor de Azurara, and his mother was Joanna de Castro (). He was also the nephew of Portuguese explorer and navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral which"
"he treated seriously rather than as a stage act. He was an expert hypnotist, and on several occasions demonstrated its use in dentistry. He was particularly interested in the phenomenon of clairvoyance apparently exhibited by hypnotised subjects. He undertook at least two world tours, in 1876 and 1888 or 1889, the subjects of two books, each titled ""Rough Notes of a Traveller . . ."". He also toured India in 1893–1894 and New Guinea and South Pacific islands in 1899. During this latter trip he contracted malaria, from which he never fully recovered. Alexander Williamson Dobbie died at his residence,"
"Vasco da Gama Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (; c. 1460s – 24 December 1524), was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India (1497–1499) was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route, connecting the Atlantic and the Indian oceans and therefore, the West and the Orient. Da Gama's discovery of the sea route to India was significant and opened the way for an age of global imperialism and for the Portuguese to establish a long-lasting colonial empire in Asia. Traveling the ocean route allowed"
"The state was ruled by Cochin Royal Family. On the earlier days, the kingdom of Kochi was always under the shadow of the attacks from Samoothirippadu (often anglicised as Zamorin), the ruler of Malabar the northern neighbour. From 1503 to 1663, Kochi was allied to Portugal. Kochi hosted the grave of Vasco da Gama, the first European explorer to set sail for India, who was buried at St. Francis Church until his remains were returned to Portugal in 1539. The Dutch, who had allied with the Zamorins in order to conquer Kochi, later became an ally of Kochi. In the"
"Gonçalo Álvares Gonçalo Álvares (, ?? – 1524) was a Portuguese explorer who actively participated in the Age of Discovery, starting from the second voyage of Diogo Cão. In 1497 he commanded the ship ""São Gabriel"" in the epic journey of Vasco da Gama to India, and in 1505, aboard the fleet of Francisco de Almeida – the first Viceroy of Portuguese India – he sailed south in the Atlantic to where ""water and even wine froze"", and discovered an island that was named after him. It was later renamed Gough Island by the British, who took possession in the"
"having criticized the Inquisition. He was excommunicated, saw all his property confiscated, and was sentenced to five years of galleys. This story had an enormous influence on later writers, such as Voltaire, who drew inspiration in his ""Candide"". Dellon also wrote ""Relation d'un voyage des Indes orientales"" and ""Traité des maladies particulières aux pays orientaux"". ""L'Inquisition de Goa. La relation de Charles Dellon (1687)"". Étude, édition & notes de Charles Amiel & Anne Lima, , 1997. Charles Dellon Charles Gabriel Dellon (17 December 1649, Agde – c. 1710), also known as Gabriel Dellon, was a 17th-century French physician and writer,"
"Goa on 26 December 1639. The Padroado clergy of Goa opposed to the Propaganda missionaries in India, Zeno de Beaugé proceeded to Surat and founded the first Capuchin Mission in India under the protection of the English in 1639. When Father Ephrem de Nevers was arrested by the Portuguese Inquisition in 1649, he went to Madras Capuchin mission to take steps for his release. Zeno, after stayed there with him as his faithful companion for the development of the first Christian Mission in Madras. He died at the age of 84, on 21 January 1687 and was buried at St."
"his innate holiness edified many. Two years after his death in 1552, the incorrupt body of the saint was enshrined in Goa. It continued to attract pilgrims from all over the world even to this day. The first printing press of moveable types in the whole of India printed Doutrina Christa written by Francis Xavier & Garcia de Orta called Colloquios Dos Simples Drogos Medicinais & an early work of the famous poet Luis De Camoes entitled Os Disparates Da India. To intensify the flickering torch of freedom, the Indian Socialist leader, Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, courted arrest on June"
"nature and his results were not widely known. Koch observed the phenomenon of acquired immunity. On December 26, 1900, he arrived as part of an expedition to German New Guinea, which was then a protectorate of the German Reich. Koch serially examined the Papuan people, the indigenous inhabitants, and their blood samples and noticed they contained Plasmodium parasites, the cause of malaria, but their bouts of malaria were mild or could not even be noticed, i.e. were subclinical. On the contrary, German settlers and Chinese workers, who had been brought to New Guinea, fell sick immediately. The longer they had"
"Saint Bartholomew, one of the Twelve Apostles landed in Maharashtra and began his mission in Kalyan and was followed by Saint Thomas who landed in Gujarat during the reign of King Gondophares and initiated the Gospel in parts of Bharuch and Taxila before traveling southward to Kerala in 52 A.D. where he won many converts and established many churches, eventually traveling to Tamil Nadu where he was martyred in 72 A.D. After centuries of inactivity, the missions were again revived with the arrival of Saint Francis Xavier in 1542 followed by Robert de Nobili in 1605 who arrived in Goa"
"Goa and Mumbai in his journal ""Viaggio e giornale per parte dell'Asia di quattro anni circa fatto da me Ambrosio Bembo, Nobile Veneto"". Venetian Nicolo’ Manucci left Venice at the age of fourteen and headed to India. Manucci served the Mughal Empire and would eventually die in India. His ""Storia do Mogor"" is among the most detailed histories of the Mughal Empire (in the period 1653-1708) written by a contemporary European observer. Visitors also came from other regions of Italy. Filippo Sassetti, a scholar and humanist from Florence, also visited India. He died in Goa in 1588. Sassetti wrote several"
"because of the Goa Inquisition introduced by the Portuguese in 1560. King Sebastian of Portugal decreed that every trace of Indian customs be eradicated through the Inquisition. But many Christians of Goa were attached to some of their ancient Indian customs and refused to abandon them. Those who refused to comply with the rules laid down by the Inquisition were forced to leave Goa and to settle outside the Portuguese dominion. About 7,000 of them (mostly Saraswat Brahmins) fled Goa. Most migrated to South Canara in what is called the ""First Wave of Migration"". According to Francis Buchanan, a Scottish"
"nineteenth century. Gonçalo Álvares held the office of ""chief-pilot of the navigation to India and the Ocean Sea"" until his death in 1524. Gonçalo Álvares Gonçalo Álvares (, ?? – 1524) was a Portuguese explorer who actively participated in the Age of Discovery, starting from the second voyage of Diogo Cão. In 1497 he commanded the ship ""São Gabriel"" in the epic journey of Vasco da Gama to India, and in 1505, aboard the fleet of Francisco de Almeida – the first Viceroy of Portuguese India – he sailed south in the Atlantic to where ""water and even wine froze"","
"were accused of crypto-Hinduism. Numerous natives were imprisoned for many years, publicly flogged, or executed, often by burning at the stake. The Catholic Christian missionaries also burnt any books written in Sanskrit, Marathi, or Konkani that they could find in Goa, as well as restricted Protestant Christian books from entering Goa on Dutch or English merchant ships. The setting up of the Goa Inquisition was requested by Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier from his headquarters Malacca in a letter dated 16 May 1546 to King John III of Portugal. Between the Inquisition's beginning in 1561 and its temporary abolition in 1774,"
"the Malabar coast of India to the city of Cochin (""Cochim"", Kochi) in Kerala. Cochin was the principal spice port accessible to the Portuguese, it had the earliest Portuguese factory and fort in India, and served as the headquarters of Portuguese government and operations in India for the first decades. However, this changed after the Portuguese conquest of Goa in 1510. The capture of Goa had been largely motivated by the desire to find a replacement for Anjediva as the first anchoring point for the armadas. Anjediva had proven itself to be far from ideal. The island was generally undersupplied"
"decided to forward the gift, known by its Gujarati name of ""genda"", and its Indian keeper, named Ocem, to King Manuel I of Portugal. It sailed on the ""Nossa Senhora da Ajuda"", which left Goa in January 1515. The ship, captained by Francisco Pereira Coutinho, and two companion vessels, all loaded with exotic spices, sailed across the Indian Ocean, around the Cape of Good Hope and north through the Atlantic, stopping briefly in Mozambique, Saint Helena and the Azores. After a relatively fast voyage of 120 days, the rhinoceros was finally unloaded in Portugal, near the site where the Manueline"
"Indies. L'Hermite died on June 2, 1624 during the blockade of Callao after suffering from dysentery and scurvy for months. He was buried on San Lorenzo Island off the coast of Callao, Peru. Jacques l'Hermite Jacques l'Hermite (c. 1582 – June 2, 1624), sometimes also known as Jacques le Clerq , was a Dutch merchant, explorer and admiral known for his journey around the globe with the Nassau Fleet (1623–1626) and for his blockade and raid on Callao in 1624 during that same voyage in which he also died. He served the Dutch East India Company as chief merchant in"
"Indies, to put in for repairs. Batavia was known for its outbreaks of malaria, and before they returned home in 1771 many in Cook's company succumbed to the disease and other ailments such as dysentery, including the Tahitian Tupaia, Banks' Finnish secretary and fellow scientist Herman Spöring, astronomer Charles Green, and the illustrator Sydney Parkinson. Cook named Spöring Island off the coast of New Zealand to honour Herman Spöring and his work on the voyage. Cook then rounded the Cape of Good Hope and stopped at Saint Helena. On 10 July 1771 Nicholas Young, the boy who had first seen"
"Apostolic of Canara. The attacks of the Maratha Empire on Goa, during the mid 16th century, was also a cause of migration. In 1664, Shivaji, the founder of the Maratha empire, attacked Kudal, a town north of Goa, and began his campaign for Goa. After Shivaji's death on 3 April 1680, his son Sambhaji ascended to the throne. The onslaught of Sambahji, along the northern territories of Goa drove nearly all the Christians from their homelands, and most of them migrated to South Canara. This migration is referred as the ""Third Wave of Migration"". From the Salcete district of Goa,"
"Pedro Mascarenhas Dom Pedro Mascarenhas (1470 – 16 June 1555) was a Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator. He was the first European to discover the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in 1512. He also encountered the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius in 1512, although he may not have been the first Portuguese explorer to do so; earlier expeditions by Diogo Dias and Afonso de Albuquerque along with Diogo Fernandes Pereira may have encountered the islands. In 1528 explorer Diogo Rodrigues (after whom the island of Rodrigues is named) named the islands of Réunion, Mauritius, and Rodrigues the"