Question

When did Vasco da Gama discover India?
(A) $1494$
(B) $1472$
(C) $1498$
(D) $1453$

Answer 1

Hint Vasco da Gama, $1$ st prince Vidigueira, was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His first trip to India was the first to connect Europe and Asia across the ocean, and the Atlantic and the Indian ocean, and thus west and the orient.

Complete step by step answer
Vasco da Gama was born to an aristocratic family in Sines, Portugal, circa $1460$ . little is known about his childhood, except that he was the third son of Estevao da Gama, who ruled the Fort Sines in southwestern Portugal. When he was old enough, young da Gama joined the marines, where he was taught the navigation.

The discovery of a sea route to India is a description sometimes used in Europe and among the Portuguese for the first recorded voyage directly from Europe to India across the Atlantic. It was under the command of the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama during the reign of king Manuel I in $1497 - 1499$ . considered by Europe to be one of the most remarkable voyages of the age of discovery, it consolidated and the Portuguese maritime presence in Indian ocean and that country’s dominance of global trade routes.

Thus the option (C) is correct

Note Vasco da Gama called for all Muslims to be banned from India. His trip to India is considered the beginning of multiculturalism. Da Gama came to Goa to fight the corruption that was burdening the Portuguese government in India. He immediately fell ill and died in Kochi in December at $1524$ .