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1497 CE - 1499 CE: The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama sails around the Cape of Good Hope and on to India and back.
1503 CE: The Portuguese colonize Cochin in western India.
1524 CE: Vasco da Gama dies of illness at Portuguese Cochin in India.