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Vasco da Gama

Vasco da Gama

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Portuguese captain whose 1497–99 journal, 1502 second voyage, and later Estado heading reach the public through Hakluyt English, Barros, Camões, and Jerónimos. Documented harms: pilgrim-ship killing as printed, Calicut guns, cartazes. He did not typeset 1898.

Crown maritime extraction as later chronicles print itcartaz sea-control as a printed pass-systemvoyage-epic nationalism as 1572 Camões not as a 1498 log

Impact

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Editorial assessment (context, not the score)

The page is not a marble discoverer and not a unique author of Portuguese India. The heaviest documented costs in public English are the printed 1502 ship-killing, Calicut coercion, captives, and later cartaz extraction. The offsets are Hakluyt access, the printed 1498–99 round voyage, and Jerónimos conservation. He did not file 1898. Editors and archives did that work. Confidence is high on those pages, medium on unique fiscal coefficients. Later chronicle pages remain the dated record.

Indicators affected

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Accountability & contradictions

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Claimed

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Responsibility

What could change this assessment

  • 12 linked facts have no assessed welfare direction yet.
  • Lifetime coverage has not been assessed: the record reflects stored facts only (1497–1524).

Causal path

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  1. PersonVasco da Gama
  2. FactGama dies at Cochin during the 1524 viceroyalty, a completed last command
  3. DriverHumanitarian Access
  1. PersonVasco da Gama
  2. FactGama is appointed Viceroy of India for the 1524 voyage
  3. DriverInstitutional Corruption
  1. PersonVasco da Gama
  2. FactGama is created Count of Vidigueira as a seigneurial grant
  3. DriverIncome Inequality

Timeline

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  1. 24 December 1524 · Humanitarian Access

    Gama dies at Cochin during the 1524 viceroyalty, a completed last command

  2. 1 April 1524 · Institutional Corruption

    Gama is appointed Viceroy of India for the 1524 voyage

  3. 29 December 1519 · Income Inequality

    Gama is created Count of Vidigueira as a seigneurial grant

  4. 1 September 1503 · Industrial-Policy Activism

    The second voyage returns to Lisbon in 1503

  5. 1 January 1503 · Industrial-Policy Activism

    The Cape-route state attempts to redirect spice as a crown-monopoly sea

  6. 1 December 1502 · Institutional Corruption

    Portuguese India begins cartaz sea-passes as a tax and exclusion machine in the wake of the voyages

Evidence & methodology

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26 of 26 linked facts verified, drawing on 4 distinct sources (1497–1524).

Sources include Encyclopaedia Britannica, Library of Congress, Project Gutenberg / Hakluyt translation, Hakluyt Society.

Sources

  1. 1.Britannica — Vasco da GamaEncyclopaedia Britannica
  2. 2.A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama — public EnglishProject Gutenberg / Hakluyt translation
  3. 3.Hakluyt Society — Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da GamaHakluyt Society
  4. 4.Library of Congress

The score is formula-derived (Factrail formula v1, version 1.0.0), not an editorial verdict. Read the methodology.

By the Factrail desk · Method: how we source and score · Last reviewed · Sources: 4

Expert analysis

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The first fact about Vasco da Gama in a public catalog is a printed ship-killing, not a marble discoverer. Hakluyt Society English (https://www.hakluyt.com/ (opens in a new tab)) and Gutenberg’s journal at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22599 (opens in a new tab) print the first voyage’s hostages, scurvy, and seizures. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama (opens in a new tab) frames the second voyage’s violence as received. Later Barros print at library catalogues describes cartazes. UNESCO Goa at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/234/ (opens in a new tab) is a later colonial-church city, not his masonry. Camões at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32528 (opens in a new tab) makes conquest a poem. DigitArq at https://digitarq.arquivos.pt/ (opens in a new tab) is an archive portal he did not see. The offsets are also URLs. The same journal is a public navigational file. Jerónimos at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/263/ (opens in a new tab) is conservation as well as shrine. Met Heilbrunn at https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ageo/hd_ageo.htm (opens in a new tab) and the British Library teach objects. Kerala public pages present Kozhikode as a later city of the story. What the score must not say: that he designed the whole Estado; that 1498 is a GPS track; that 1572 is his epic; that a 1983 listing is a 1524 funeral. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on the printed journal and encyclopedia dates, medium on unique cartaz coefficients, low on unique body counts. Related people are Manuel I, Bartolomeu Dias, the Zamorin as counterpart, Cabral, Camões, Albuquerque as later India captain. 1898 is not 1498. 1572 is a poem. 1983 is UNESCO. The useful question is which later public pages still move sea-killing, route-opening, and cartaz extraction under his name. Keep journal 1502 cartaz and Jeronimos on separate dates. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. Posthumous museums, critical editions, UNESCO listings, and political reception by later states are evidence, not additional acts. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a German chancellorship is not a relation.

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