User:Walrasiad/ChronologyList

Year	Captain	Ships	Destination	Notes
Henrican Age
(1412)	unknown	1	Past Cape Não	Uncertain/unlikely.
(1415)	(João de Trasto)	1	Gran Canaria	Unlikely. Mentioned only by Diogo Gomes. Probably confused with 1424.
1418	Henry the Navigator	many	Ceuta	(Could be 1419) Transport relief force for Ceuta garrison.
c.1419	João Gonçalves Zarco &Tristão Vaz Teixeira	2	Porto Santo Island	Date uncertain (1418-20) Discover Madeira archipelago.
c.1420	João Gonçalves Zarco & Tristão Vaz Teixeira & Bartolomeu Perestrello	3	Madeira Island	Discover Madeira island proper.
1424	D. Fernando de Castro	several	Gran Canaria	Invasion force. Defeated by native Canarians.
(1424)	unknown	1	Short of Cape Bojador	Uncertain. Possible date of first attempt to sail past Cape Bojador.
(1426)	(Frei Gonçalo Velho)	1	'Terra Alta'	Uncertain. Short of Cape Bojador.
(1427)	(Diogo Silves)	1	Azores	Uncertain/disputed. Possible discovery of Azores archipelago. Mentioned only in one source source (Gabriel de Vallseca)
1431	(Frei Gonçalo Velho)	1	Formigas	Captain uncertain. Official discovery of Azores archipelago.
1432	Frei Gonçalo Velho	1	Santa Maria Island	Discover first large island in Azores.
1434	Gil Eanes	1	Past Cape Bojador	(Could be 1433).
1435	Gil Eanes & Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia	2	Angra dos Ruivos (Garnet Bay)	(Could be 1434).
1436	Afonso Gonçalves Baldaia	1	Pedra da Galé (Galha Point)	(Could be 1435). Discovers Angra dos Cavallos (Point Elbow) and Rio do Ouro (Dakhla)
1437	Henry the Navigator	many	Tangier	Invasion force. Defeated by Moroccans. (Battle of Tangier (1437))
1441	Antão Gonçalves	1	Porto do Cavaleiro (Point Corveiro)	First African captives. Maiden trip of caravel.
1441	Nuno Tristão	1	Cabo Branco (Cape Blanc)	Discovers Cape Blanc.
1442	Antão Gonçalves	1	Rio do Ouro	Return trip to ransom captives.
1443	Nuno Tristão	1	Arguim (Arguin island)	Discovers Bay of Arguin. Raids Arguin island,captures slaves.
1444	Frei Gonçalo Velho	?	São Miguel Island
1444	Lançarote de Freitas	6	Arguin Bay	First Lagos Company expedition. Captains: 1.Lançarote de Freitas 2. Gil Eanes 3. Estêvão Afonso 4. Rodrigo Álvares 5. João Dias 6. uncertain (Martim Vincente?) Slave raid at Nar (Nair island), Tider (Tidra island) and Cerina (Serenni peninsula)
1444	Antão Gonçalves	3	Rio do Ouro	Trade mission. Captains: 1.Antão Gonçalves 2. Diogo Afonso 3. Gomes Pires Drop off overland explorer João Fernandes.
1444/45	Gonçalo de Sintra	1	Arguin Bay	Killed on slave raid. First Portuguese casualty. (Legendarily Angra de Cintra (Cintra Bay), but prob. Nair island)
1444/45	Nuno Tristão	1	Ponta da Berberia (Langue de Barbarie)	Discovers Sub-Saharan Africa (Terra da Guiné, "Land of the Blacks")
1444/45	Dinis Dias/Fernandes	1	Cabo Verde (Cape Vert)	Discovers mouth of Senegal River and Cape Vert peninsula.
1445	Antão Gonçalves	3	Arguin Bay	Captains: 1.Antão Gonçalves 2. Diogo Afonso 3. Garcia Mendes/Homem Return expedition to pick up explorer João Fernandes. Slave raid at Arguin island.
1445/46	António/Álvaro Fernandes	1	Arguin Bay	Captains: 1.Antão Gonçalves 2. Diogo Afonso 3. Garcia Mendes/Homem Return expedition to pick up explorer João Fernandes. Slave raid at Arguin island.
1445/46	"Madeira Fleet"	3	Cabo dos Mastos (Cape Naze)	Captains: 1. Tristão Vaz Teixeira - turn back at Cape Blanc 2. Álvaro de Ornellas - turn back at Cape Blanc, slave raid at La Palma 3. António/Álvaro Fernandes - discovers Bay of Dakar, Bezeguiche (Gorée island) and Cabo dos Mastos (Cape Naze).
1445/46	"Lisbon fleet"	3	Arguin Bay	Organized by Gonçalo Pacheco. Captains: 1. Dinis Eanes de Grã 2. Álvaro Gil 3. 'Mafaldo of Setubal' Slave raid on north end of Arguin Bay.
1445/46	"Lagos fleet"	14	Bezeguiche Bay	Second Lagos company expedition. Slave raid at Arguin Bay, then down to Senegal River, then down to Bezeguiche Bay (Dakar). Captains (1-5) reached all the way to Bezeguiche: 1. Lançarote de Freitas 2. Álvaro de Freitas 3. Vicente Dias "the trader" - carried Estêvão Afonso, first explorer of Senegal River 4. Lourenço Dias 5. Gomes Pires Captains (6-7) turned back at Senegal River: 6. Rodrigo Eanes Travassos 7. "Picanço" (= Diogo Gomes?) Captains (8-10) turned back at Arguin (& raided Canaries on return): 8. Soeiro da Costa 9. Gil Eanes 10. Vicente Dias "the captain" 11. Martim Vicente 12. uncertain 13. uncertain (Pedro Alemão?) Captain (14) got lost before Arguin: 14. "Palaçano" (fusta)
1445/46	Dinis Dias/Fernandes	1	Bezeguiche Bay	Rescued Palaçano along the way.
1445/46	João de Castilha	1	Canary Islands	Joined returning Lagos squad in slave raid on La Palma and La Gomera.
1446	Nuno Tristão	1	Saloum River delta	Explored Rio de Barbacins (Saloum River) and Rio do Lago (Diombos River). Ambushed upriver & killed by natives. (Legendarily believed to have reached as far as the Gambia, Geba or even Nunez river (Guinea), now discarded).
1446	Álvaro Fernandes	1	Cape Varela	Explored Casamance River (uncertain). First to reach Cape Roxo, furthest point until 1456.
1446	Estêvão Afonso	9 + 2	Gambia River estuary	9 set out from Lagos, joined by 2 from Madeira, 3 turned back, 8 reached Gambia River estuary (uncertain), battled with natives on shore. Captains (1-9) set out from Lagos: 1. Gil Eanes - turned back at Canary islands 2. Estêvão Afonso 3. Fernão Vilarinho 4. Lourenço Dias 5. Lourenço de Elvas 6. João Bernaldez, 'the pilot' 7. A squire of the Bishop of Algarve - ran aground in Gambia sandbank 8. unknown 9. unknown Captains (10-11) joined at Madeira, but turned back at Canary islands: 10. Tristão Vaz Teixeira 11. Garcia Homem
1447	Valarte	1	Petite Côte	On diplomatic mission to a king on the Petite Côte (prob. Kingdom of Sine). Valarte killed in skirmish on the coast, some sailors taken captive by natives. Caravel returned under Fernando Afonso.
1450	Lourenço Dias	3	Senegal River	Uncertain. Alluded to in Cadamosto. Establish trade with Wolofs of Senegal River.
1453	Cid de Sousa	?	Mauritanian coast	Uncertain. Alluded to in 1453 letter, carrying merchant Nuno Antonio de Goes.
1454	Uncertain	?	Cape Vert	Uncertain. Alluded to in Cadamosto. Possibly an error
1454	Uncertain	?	Palma de Budomel	Uncertain. Alluded to in Cadamosto, carried a Genoese merchant.
1455	Antoniotto Usodimare	2	Cape Vert	Other captain uncertain, squire of Henry. Met Cadamosto in Cape Vert.
1455	Alvise Cadamosto	1	Gambia River	Joined by Usodimare and unnamed Portuguese captain
1456	Alvise Cadamosto	3	Rio Grande (Geba River estuary)	Accompanied by Usodimare and unnamed Portuguese captain. Explored the Gambia River, discovered the Casamance River, Cape Roxo, Cacheu River, the Geba River and the Bissagos Islands.