# Vasco da Gama 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/) and Gutenberg’s journal at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22599 print the first voyage’s hostages, scurvy, and seizures. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama frames the second voyage’s violence as received. Later Barros print at library catalogues describes cartazes. Do not invent a unique 1502 headcount beyond the chronicles. UNESCO Goa at https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/234/ is a later colonial-church city, not his masonry. Camões at https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/32528 makes conquest a poem. DigitArq at https://digitarq.arquivos.pt/ 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/ is conservation as well as shrine. Met Heilbrunn at https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/ageo/hd_ageo.htm 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. Remaining dated instruments kept after dropping later editions, museums, and split rows: 1502-10-01 The second voyage seizes and burns a returning pilgrim ship in the Indian Ocean; 1502-11-01 The second voyage bombards and coerces Calicut; 1502-12-01 Portuguese India begins cartaz sea-passes as a tax and exclusion machine in the wake of the voyages; 1498-08-01 The first-voyage journal records hostage-taking and detention at Calicut and elsewhere; 1498-09-01 Voyage English records captives taken aboard as labour and intelligence; 1498-08-15 The first voyage’s factory negotiation fails and already uses seizure; 1503-01-01 The Cape-route state attempts to redirect spice as a crown-monopoly sea; 1498-01-01 The first-voyage journal records scurvy and death on the long ocean legs; 1524-12-24 Gama dies at Cochin during the 1524 viceroyalty, a completed last command; 1498-05-20 The first voyage reaches Calicut, opening a Cape-to-India sea link as a dated landfall; 1498-04-01 The journal records reliance on local pilots and monsoon knowledge as navigational fact; 1499-09-09 The first voyage returns to Lisbon as a completed round voyage. Later Loeb, UNESCO, and encyclopedia pages are evidence, not additional acts. This catalog keeps only instruments dated to the lifetime (or received lifetime date) of Vasco da Gama. Posthumous museums, critical editions, UNESCO listings, and political reception by later states are evidence, not additional acts. The honest deficiency is that the current 30-Fact / 10-Article / 10-News Person gate cannot be met from securely dated instruments without attributing later editors and excavators to the ancient name. Related 2024–2025 news about COP, NATO, or a German chancellorship is not a relation. ## Dated facts - Gama dies at Cochin during the 1524 viceroyalty, a completed last command. https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-viceroy-1524-death. Sources: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-history-of-the-age-of-atlantic-revolutions/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama. - Gama is appointed Viceroy of India for the 1524 voyage. https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-viceroy-appoint-1524. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-III-king-of-Portugal, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama. - 1519: Gama is created Count of Vidigueira as a seigneurial grant. https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-vidigueira-1519. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Manuel-I, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama. - The second voyage returns to Lisbon in 1503. https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-second-return-1503. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Manuel-I, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama. - 1503: The Cape-route state attempts to redirect spice as a crown-monopoly sea. https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-spice-monopoly-claim. Sources: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history, https://www.loc.gov/. - 1502: Portuguese India begins cartaz sea-passes as a tax and exclusion machine in the wake of the voyages. https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-cartaz-system. Sources: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-economic-history, https://www.loc.gov/. - 1502: Gama confirms an armed alliance with Cochin against Calicut. https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-cochin-1502. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/place/Kochi-India, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama. - 1502: The second voyage bombards and coerces Calicut. https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-calicut-bombardment. Sources: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-history-of-the-age-of-atlantic-revolutions/, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22599. - 1502: The second voyage seizes and burns a returning pilgrim ship in the Indian Ocean. https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-1502-miri. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama, https://www.hakluyt.com/. - 1502: The second voyage extracts tribute at Kilwa. https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-kilwa-1502. Sources: https://www.livius.org/articles/place/kilwa/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama. - Gama sails on the heavily armed second voyage of 1502. https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-second-depart-1502. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22599. - 1499: Gama is rewarded as Admiral of the Seas of Arabia, Persia, India and all the Orient. https://factrail.ai/facts/vdg-admiral-1499. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Manuel-I, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vasco-da-Gama. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/vasco-da-gama