![]() ![]() He also brought down a decisive defeat on a joint fleet of the Mamluk Burji (Sultanate of Egypt), the Ottoman Empire, the Zamorin of Calicut and the Sultan of Gujarat, with the naval support from the Republic of Venice and the Republic of Ragusa (Dubrovnik).ġ510 AD : Afonso de Albuquerque was appointed as the Viceroy of India.ġ511 AD :Portuguese conquered the City of Malacca Island. Timeline of the History of Portugal as a Traderġ498 AD :Vasco da Gama landed in Calicut.ġ503 AD :The Portuguese had established their first fort in Cochin in India.ġ505 AD : Francisco de Almeida was appointed Viceroy of India, on the condition that he would set up four forts on the south western Indian coast: at Anjediva Island, Cannanore, Cochin and Quilon.ġ509 AD :Almeida becomes the first Portuguese to set sail in Bombay. The state of the Portuguese Overseas Empire, founded six years after the discovery of a sea route between Portugal and the Indian Subcontinent to serve as the governing body of a string of Portuguese fortresses and colonies overseas.
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