Pedro Álvares Cabral
Portuguese military commander and explorer (c.1467/8 – c.1521)
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Lived 1467–1520, aged 53Portugal
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He sailed west across the Atlantic in 1500, stumbled onto Brazil, claimed it for Portugal, then kept going east to India—making him the first person to set foot on four continents in a single voyage. The spices he brought back funded an empire, but a falling-out with the king sent him into obscurity for three centuries.
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Pedro Álvares Cabral came from minor Portuguese nobility and received a solid education, though his early years are hazy. In 1500 he was handed command of a 13-ship expedition bound for India via Vasco da Gama's new African route, tasked with breaking the Arab-Turkish-Italian stranglehold on the spice trade. His fleet veered far into the western Atlantic—perhaps on purpose, perhaps not—and in April made landfall on what Cabral thought was an island but soon realized was a continent: South America, inside Portugal's zone under the Treaty of Tordesillas. He sent word home, reprovisioned, and pus…
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