Portugal takes Goa
Albuquerque founds the capital of Portuguese Asia
Afonso de Albuquerque took Goa from the Bijapur Sultanate at the second attempt: the city fell for good in November 1510. Goa became the capital of Portuguese India and stayed Portuguese for 451 years, until 1961.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1526–1867 Atlantic slave trade — 16 years later
Europe
- 1494 Treaty of Tordesillas — 16 years earlier
- 1508–1512 Sistine Chapel ceiling — 2 years earlier
- 1517 Luther's Ninety-five Theses — 7 years later
- 1524–1525 German Peasants' War — 14 years later
- 1526 Battle of Mohács — 16 years later
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1514 Capture of Smolensk — 4 years later
Middle East
- 1501 Founding of Safavid Iran — 9 years earlier
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Africa
- 1488 Dias rounds the Cape of Good Hope — 22 years earlier
- 1529–1543 Ahmad Gragn invades Ethiopia — 19 years later
Americas
- 1492 Columbus reaches the Americas — 18 years earlier
- 1497 John Cabot reaches North America — 13 years earlier
- 1519–1522 Magellan's circumnavigation — 9 years later
- 1521 Fall of Tenochtitlan — 11 years later
- 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca — 22 years later
Alive at the time
- Leonardo da Vinci (aged 58)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (aged 37)
- Michelangelo (aged 35)
- Martin Luther (aged 27)
- Amerigo Vespucci (aged 56)
- Maximilian I (aged 51)
- Moctezuma II (aged 44)
- Erasmus (aged 44)
- Guru Nanak (aged 41)
- Vasco da Gama (aged 41)