Portuguese Cochin Timeline

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  • 8 Jul 1497 - Aug 1499
    The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama sails around the Cape of Good Hope and on to India and back.
  • 1503
    The Portuguese colonize Cochin in western India.
  • 24 Dec 1524
    Vasco da Gama dies of illness at Portuguese Cochin in India.