Pêro Vaz de Caminha
Sailor, Deceased Person
1450 – 1500
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Who was Pêro Vaz de Caminha?
Pêro 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. He died in a riot in Calicut, India, at the end of that year.
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