Pedro Alvares Cabral, Portuguese navigator who is generally credited as the first European to reach Brazil (). His expedition was also the second from Europe (after Vasco da Gama’s) to reach India via the sea route around the Cape of Good Hope.
Pedro Alvares Cabral was the first European to discover Brazil and also established a successful sea route to India and was a leader in commercial expedition there.
Pedro Álvares Cabral (b. 1467 or 1468; d. ca. 1520), Portuguese explorer, leader of the follow-up fleet to Vasco da Gama 's first voyage to India. His expedition made the first recorded sighting of Brazil by the Portuguese on 22 April 1500.
Pedro Alvares Cabral was a famous Portuguese explorer that rose to fame posthumously due to his influence in Brazil's founding.
Cabral sailed southwest on a route that took him close to lands that had previously been sighted and claimed by the Portuguese. On , he landed on the coast of what is now Brazil and formally took possession of the country for Portugal.
Among them was Pedro Cabral, the original accidental tourist. Remarkably, the voyages of Cabral were largely forgotten for over three hundred years while the achievements of contemporary explorers such as Christopher Columbus and Vasco da Gama were widely lauded.
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