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Pedro Álvares Cabral (c. 1467 – c. 1520) was a Portuguesenoble, military
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commander, navigator and explorer regarded as the discoverer of Brazil. Cabral conducted the
first substantial exploration of the northeast coast of South America and claimed it for  The Japan Atomic Energy A

Portugal. He was appointed to head an expedition to India in 1500, following Vasco da the Fukushima I nuclear a

Gama's newly opened route around Africa. His fleet of 13 ships sailed far into the the International Nuclear Ev

western Atlantic Ocean, perhaps intentionally, where he made landfall on what he initially  Former Ivory Coast Presiden
assumed to be a large island. As the new land was within the Portuguese sphere according to arrested after a five-month s
theTreaty of Tordesillas, Cabral claimed it for the Portuguese Crown. He explored the coast,
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realizing that the large land mass was likely a continent, and dispatched a ship to notify
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King Manuel I of the new territory. The continent was South America, and the land he had
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claimed for Portugal later came to be known as Brazil. Cabral was later passed over, possibly
covering.
as a result of a quarrel with Manuel I, when a new fleet was assembled to establish a more
robust presence in India. Having lost favor with the King, he retired to a private life of which  Iceland rejects a plan to rep

few records survive. His accomplishments slipped into obscurity for more than 300 years. over guarantee savings after

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discovery was accidental or intentional. Nevertheless, although he was overshadowed by
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