Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Afonso de Albuquerque across 3 places, from 1453 to 1516.
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Afonso de Albuquerque, 1st Duke of Goa ( – 16 December 1515), was a Portuguese general, admiral, statesman, and conquistador.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Afonso de Albuquerque was documented, and when
1453year
Alhandra, São João dos Montes e Calhandrizattested“Afonso de Albuquerque was born in 1453 in Alhandra, near Lisbon.”source: Wikipedia: Afonso de Albuquerque
Suezattested“Hearing rumours that the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt was preparing a magnificent army at Suez to prevent the conquest of Ormuz, he repented of having replaced Afonso, and in March 1516 urgently wrote to Albergaria to return the command of all…”source: Wikipedia: Afonso de Albuquerque
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Alhandra, São João dos Montes e Calhandriz1 presence · 1453
Suez1 presence · 1516
Other places tied to Afonso de Albuquerque in the record
In each of these, a source puts Afonso de Albuquerque and the place in the same dated sentence without stating
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1471year
Moroccomentioned“In 1471, under the command of Afonso V, he was present at the conquest of Tangier and Arzila in Morocco, and he served there as an officer for some years.”source: Wikipedia: Afonso de Albuquerque
1489year
Graciosa fortressmentioned“In 1489, he returned to military campaigning in North Africa, as commander of defense in the Graciosa fortress, an island in the river Luco near the city of Larache.”source: Wikipedia: Afonso de Albuquerque
1489year
Graciosamentioned“In 1489, he returned to military campaigning in North Africa, as commander of defense in the Graciosa fortress, an island in the river Luco near the city of Larache.”source: Wikipedia: Afonso de Albuquerque
1495year
Arzilamentioned“He returned to Arzila in 1495, where his younger brother Martim died fighting by his side.”source: Wikipedia: Afonso de Albuquerque
1502year
Kozhikodementioned“Albuquerque achieved during his term a favourable end to hostilities between the Portuguese and the Zamorin of Calicut, which had lasted since the massacre of the Portuguese in Calicut in 1502.”source: Wikipedia: Afonso de Albuquerque
6 April 1503exact date
Indiamentioned“Eight years later, on 6 April 1503 Albuquerque was sent on his first expedition to India together with his cousin Francisco de Albuquerque.”source: Wikipedia: Afonso de Albuquerque
Socotramentioned“Mateus was sent by the regent queen Eleni, following the arrival of the Portuguese from Socotra in 1507, as an ambassador for the king of Portugal in search of a coalition to help face growing Muslim influence.”source: Wikipedia: Afonso de Albuquerque
December 1508month
Kannurmentioned“Afonso arrived at Cannanore on the Malabar coast in December 1508, where he opened the sealed letter that he had received from the king before the viceroy, Dom Francisco de Almeida, which named him as governor to succeed Almeida.”source: Wikipedia: Afonso de Albuquerque
1509year
Portugalmentioned“In 1509, the nobleman Diogo Lopes de Sequeira was sent with a fleet to Southeast Asia, to seek an agreement with Sultan Mahmud Shah of Malacca, but failed and returned to Portugal.”source: Wikipedia: Afonso de Albuquerque
February 1511month
Malaccamentioned“I am very sure that, if this Malacca trade is taken out of their hands, Cairo and Mecca will be completely lost." (The Commentaries of the Great Afonso de Albuquerque) In February 1511, through a friendly Hindu merchant, Nina Chatu, Afon…”source: Wikipedia: Afonso de Albuquerque
1512year
Javamentioned“Malay sailors were recruited to guide them through Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands and the Ambon Island to Banda Islands, where they arrived in early 1512.”source: Wikipedia: Afonso de Albuquerque
1512year
Banda Islandsmentioned“Malay sailors were recruited to guide them through Java, the Lesser Sunda Islands and the Ambon Island to Banda Islands, where they arrived in early 1512.”source: Wikipedia: Afonso de Albuquerque
1512 to 1522period
Ternatementioned“Sultan Abu Lais of Ternate heard of their stranding, and, seeing a chance to ally himself with a powerful foreign nation, brought them to Ternate in 1512 where they were permitted to build a fort on the island, the Forte de São João Bapt…”source: Wikipedia: Afonso de Albuquerque
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