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BENEDICT I

Benedict I was a pope. He became pope on the death of John III in 574.
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JOAO DE BARROS

Joao de Barros was a Portuguese historian. He was born in 1496 and died in 1570. He was attached to the court of King Emmanuel, who, after the publication in 1520 of Barros' Romance, the Emperor Olarimond, urged him to undertake a history of the Portuguese in India, which appeared thirty-two years later. King John III appointed Barros governor of the Portuguese settlements in Guinea, and general agent for these colonies, further presenting him in 1530 with the province of Maranham in Brazil, for the purpose of colonization. For his losses by the last enterprise the king indemnified him, and he died in retirement in 1570. Besides his standard work, Asia Portuguesa, he wrote a moral dialogue on compromise, and the first Portuguese Grammar.
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JOHN III

John III (John Sobieski) was king of Poland. He was born in 1624 and died in 1696. He was elected king in 1674 and in 1683 saved Vienna from the Turks who were besieging it.

John III was an Italian pope from 561 to 574.
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VASCO DA GAMA

Dom Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer. He was born in 1450 at Sines, Portugal, and died in 1524. He discovered the sea-route from Europe to India by the Cape of Good Hope. The voyage had been projected under John II, and his successor, Emmanuel the Fortunate, having fitted out four vessels, intrusted Gama with the chief command. He sailed from Lisbon on July 8th, 1497, and doubling the Cape, visited Mozambique, Mombaza, Melinda, and Calicut, returning to Lisbon in 1499. For this exploit he was named Admiral of the Indies and received the title of Dom, with an annual pension and extensive privileges in Indian commerce. In the year 1502 he was placed at the head of a powerful fleet, with which he provided for the security of future voyagers by founding establishments at Mozambique and Sofala. He also inflicted signal reprisals on the town of Calicut, where the Portuguese residents had been massacred, and established the first Portuguese factory in the Indies. He re-entered Lisbon in 1503, and passed the next twenty years in obscurity. In 1524 he was appointed Viceroy of India by King John III, but his administration lasted only three months, his death taking place at Goa in the December of that year.
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