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The second voyage returns to Lisbon in 1503

In 1503 Gama’s second fleet returned to Lisbon. The dated second return is not the 9 September 1499 first-voyage return and not the 1524 death. In the causal graph this event strengthens the driver Industrial-Policy Activism.

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In 1503 Gama’s second fleet returned to Lisbon. The dated second return is not the 9 September 1499 first-voyage return and not the 1524 death. Vasco da Gama’s documented role is: He brought the armed second fleet home with spice and a completed coercion-voyage. The crown received cargo; unnamed crews died; he commanded the return. Later editors, printers, and excavators remain named where they appear.

Context

Pepper cargo, unnamed dead on the voyage, and royal publicity already sit in the file. A return is not unique undoing of the Miri killing. Sharing with the crown’s warehouses is required. Named others on the file: Manuel I, unnamed crews, and Casa da Índia officers share the landing. The public setting is the file around 1503-09-01. The instrument stays The second voyage returns to Lisbon in 1503. The setting of The second voyage returns to Lisbon in 1503 is the public file around 1503-09-01. Driver industrial-policy-activism is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

Why it matters

Complex shared crown cargo. Welfare reading improving. The attached mechanism is A dated 1503 return closed the second carreira cycle as a completed oceanic instrument, distinct from 1499. Lag to any modern indicator is not treated as zero. This path is attached because the mechanism is named from this act, not because a driver list needed coverage. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Who was responsible

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

  • Vasco da Gama

    Person

    Direct responsibility

    responsibility level 0.32 · verified

    He brought the armed second fleet home with spice and a completed coercion-voyage. The crown received cargo; unnamed crews died; he commanded the return.

What changed

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

    1. FactThe second voyage returns to Lisbon in 1503
    2. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

    impact weight 0.3 · Effect from 1 September 1503 · verified

    A dated 1503 return closed the second carreira cycle as a completed oceanic instrument, distinct from 1499.

Evidence

The sources behind this fact and its verification state.

Verified2 sources on file
  1. 1.Britannica — Manuel I, Gama’s rewardsEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
  2. 2.Britannica — Vasco da GamaEncyclopaedia Britannica · High credibility · verified
What the sources establish

Britannica independently dates a 1503 second-voyage return as distinct from 1499. Official: Britannica — Vasco da Gama, return 1503 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent: Britannica — Manuel I, second India fleet (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Manuel-I (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). The two URLs are different pages. Where the carrier is a later edition or a received narrative, that limit is stated rather than upgraded to an autograph. Official carrier: Britannica — Vasco da Gama, return 1503 (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica). Independent carrier: Britannica — Manuel I, second India fleet (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Manuel-I (opens in a new tab); Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Established: 1503 second-voyage return. Not established: that 1499 is this same landing. Established: a sourced public record of The second voyage returns to Lisbon in 1503 under 1503-09-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Mixed effects of The second voyage returns to Lisbon in 1503 are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of The second voyage returns to Lisbon in 1503. Naming Vasco da Gama does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1503-09-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

Causal path

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

  1. ActorVasco da Gama
  2. contributed toFactThe second voyage returns to Lisbon in 1503
  3. strengthensDriverIndustrial-Policy Activism

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Factrail. (2026). The second voyage returns to Lisbon in 1503. Factrail. https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-second-return-1503

https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-second-return-1503

Accessed 15 October 2026.

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