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The first voyage reaches Calicut, opening a Cape-to-India sea link as a dated landfall

Hakluyt-English journal pages print the 1498 arrival on the Malabar coast after the Cape. In the causal graph this event sets in motion the driver Industrial-Policy Activism.

Sources: [1][2]

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Hakluyt-English journal pages print the 1498 arrival on the Malabar coast after the Cape.

Context

He is not the unique cartographer of monsoon.

Vasco da Gama Shared work with other named actors remains in the record.

Vasco da Gama’s documented role is bounded by other offices and collaborators named in the sources below.

Conventional years are c. 1460s–1524.

Why it matters

Printed 1498 arrival is not a GPS track.

Who was responsible

Contribution type and responsibility level for each recorded actor — not sole-author shorthand.

  • Vasco da Gama

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.44 · verified

What changed

Fact → Driver → Indicator. Relationship strength orders the paths; it is not the observed indicator movement.

    1. FactThe first voyage reaches Calicut, opening a Cape-to-India sea link as a dated landfall
    2. sets in motionDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

    impact weight 0.55 · Effect from 20 May 1498 · verified

    Printed 1498 arrival is not a GPS track.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Vasco da GamaEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama — public EnglishProject Gutenberg / Hakluyt translation · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Vasco da Gama did not file a later UNESCO form, a later Loeb colophon, or a later museum label as a personal act.

Causal path

How this event connects to drivers and indicators in the graph.

  1. ActorVasco da Gama
  2. contributed toFactThe first voyage reaches Calicut, opening a Cape-to-India sea link as a dated landfall
  3. sets in motionDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

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Factrail. (2026). The first voyage reaches Calicut, opening a Cape-to-India sea link as a dated landfall. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-1498-arrival-print

https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-1498-arrival-print

Accessed 16 October 2026.

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