1506 Massacre of the New Christians in Lisbon.
1508 Albuquerque supersedes Almeida as viceroy in India.
1510 Albuquerque is repulsed in an attack on Calicut and conquers Goa
1511 and Malacca.
1512 Serrão discovers the Moluccas.
1515 Albuquerque captures Ormus. Portuguese established at Diu.
1517 Andrade settles at Canton.
1518 Portuguese settlement established in Ceylon.
1520 Magellan discovers the straits of Magellan.
1521 Andrade reaches Pekin. Emmanuel dies, and is succeeded by João III. He finds his countrymen too eager to gain wealth by foreign adventure and emigration, thus threatening depopulation.