the ledger of connections
The Connections of Vasco da Gama
Portuguese explorer (c. 1460s – 1524) Every person recorded alongside Vasco da Gama in the archive: family, teachers, students, influences, and the contemporaries who shared the same years.
Family & Connections
People recorded alongside Vasco da Gama in the ledgers of the archive.
- Parents
- Estêvão da Gama, Izabel Sodre
- Spouses
- Catarina de Ataíde
- Children
- Estêvão da Gama, Cristóvão da Gama, Estêvão da Gama, Francisco da Gama, Álvaro de Ataíde da Gama, Francisco da Gama, 2nd Conde de Vidigueira, Admiral of India
- Siblings
- Paulo da Gama
Alive in the same years
Records in the archive whose lifetimes overlapped the years 1469 to 1524.
Medieval era
Lucien, Lord of Monaco
1481 – August 22, 1523
Lord of Monaco
Medieval era
Guru Nanak
April 15, 1469 – September 22, 1539
First Sikh Guru and founder of Sikhism
Medieval era
Ignatius of Loyola
October 23, 1491 – July 31, 1556
Spanish Catholic priest and theologian (1491–1556)
Medieval era
Selim I
October 10, 1470 – September 22, 1520
9th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1512 to 1520
Medieval era
Mehmed the Conqueror
March 30, 1432 – May 3, 1481
Seventh Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1444–1446, 1451–1481)
Medieval era
Suleiman the Magnificent
November 6, 1494 – September 6, 1566
The tenth and greatest Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1520–1566)
Medieval era
Henry VIII
June 28, 1491 – January 28, 1547
King of England from 1509 to 1547 (1491–1547)
Medieval era
Ferdinand II of Aragon
March 10, 1452 – January 23, 1516
King of Aragon, Sicily, Naples, and Valencia (1452-1516)
Medieval era
Isabella I of Castile
April 22, 1451 – November 26, 1504
Queen of the Crown of Castile, from 1474 to 1504; first queen of a dynastically-united Spain, from 1479 to 1504 (1451–1504)
Medieval era
Vlad the Impaler
1431 – December 14, 1476
15th-century ruler of Wallachia
Medieval era
Babur
February 14, 1483 – December 26, 1530
Founder of the Mughal Empire (1526–1530)
Medieval era
Montezuma II
1466 – June 29, 1520
9th tlatoani of Tenochtitlan and ruler of the Aztec Triple Alliance (1466-1520)