In the 1460s he was aknight in the household of the Duke of Viseu, Dom Fernando. Vasco da Gama's father was Estêvão da Gama. Statue of Vasco da Gama at his birthplace,Sines, Portugal Sines, one of the few seaports on the Alentejo coast, consisted of little more than a cluster of whitewashed, red-tiled cottages, tenanted chiefly by fisherfolk. Vasco da Gama was born in either 1460 or 1469 in Sines, on the southwest coast of Portugal, probably in a house near the church of Nossa Senhora das Salas. Kochi, IndiaOccupationexplorer, Governor of Portuguese India SignatureEarly life Sines, Alentejo, PortugalDiedDecem(age 64)
For a short time in 1524 he was Governor of Portuguese India under the title of Viceroy.Born1460
Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira (Portuguese pronunciation: ) (Sines or Vidigueira,Alentejo, Portugal, around 1460 or 1469 - Decemin Kochi, India) was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the European Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe toIndia.