The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.1699
The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.1699
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c5.1699
20th November. The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama doubles the Cape of Good Hope, arriving on the 22nd May, 1499, at Calicut on the Malabar Coast and returning by the Cape to Lisbon in September of the same year.—Gleig’s *History of the British Empire in India*. JBRAS. xii, 68. JBA. 1873, 193.