Pêro Vaz de Caminha
(1450-1500)
Portuguese knight
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Pero or Pêro Vaz de Caminha (c. 1450 – 15 December 1500; Portuguese pronunciation: also spelled Pedro Vaz de Caminha) was a Portuguese knight that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral to India in 1500 as a secretary to the royal factory. Caminha wrote the detailed official report of the April 1500 discovery of Brazil by Cabral's fleet (Carta de Pêro Vaz de Caminha, dated 1 May, 1500). He died in a riot in Calicut, India, at the end of that year.
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1450 Porto, Kingdom of Portugal
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1500 (aged 49) Calicut, India
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