Timeline December 1524

Events in December 1524 3

• 1460 – 1524 Vasco da Gama Discovery of Sea Route to India The explorer who led the first fleet to reach India by sea, establishing Portugal as a global trade power.
• 1520 – 1524 Servant in the Cobb Household Worked as a domestic servant in the household of Thomas Cobb, a farmer and land agent to the Archbishop of Canterbury, in Aldington.
• 1524 – 1580 Luís de Camões National Poet Author of Os Lusíadas, the national epic poem celebrating the Portuguese voyages of discovery.