nov 4, 1509 - Afonso de Albuquerque becomes the Viceroy of Portuguese India,[18] replacing Francisco de Almeida, who departs five days later from Diu.[19] Almeida never makes it home, getting killed along with his 64 men in a battle on March 1 with the local Khoekhoe people at South Africa's Cape of Good Hope
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