• the capture of Malacca in 1511 was accomplished by Afonso de Albuquerque with 1,200 men and less than 20 ships?
• the 1510 conquest of Goa by the Portuguese Governor Albuquerque was accomplished with the help of the Hindus against a Muslim army?
• in the capture of Ormuz (1507), Afonso de Albuquerque subdued Hormuz Island and established a fort?
• Francisco Serrão, one of the Portuguese vessel commanders sent by Afonso de Albuquerque to the 'Spice Islands', took a Javanese woman as his wife when his ship berthed at Gresik?

Facts on topics related to Afonso de Albuquerque

Portuguese Empire

• Ati Konanayakar (pictured) was constructed as a successor to the Temple of Thousand Pillars that was destroyed by the Portuguese colonials in 1622?
• Carlos Eugénio Correia da Silva, Count of Paço d'Arcos served as the governor of various colonies as far as India, Timor, Macao and Mozambique in the Portuguese Empire?
• the Diu Fort (pictured) in India was voted one of seven wonders of Portuguese colonialism in an opinion poll in Portugal?
• when VOC forces led by Steven van der Hagen captured a Portuguese fort on Ambon in 1605, it was the first territory captured by the Dutch Republic in the East Indies?

Maluku Islands

• the Dutch government created the Museum Maluku (pictured) in Utrecht as a gift to the Moluccan community in the Netherlands?

Portugal

• 18th century Franco-Portuguese industrialist Jácome Ratton (pictured) left a vivid account of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake in his memoirs and was exiled to the Azores during the Napoleonic Wars?
• Angola gained its independence from Portugal through the Alvor Agreement?
• Eça de Queirós, one of the greatest writers in the Portuguese language, was born in Praça do Almada, the civic center of Póvoa de Varzim in Portugal?
• Italian explorer Rafael Perestrello, a cousin of Christopher Columbus, sailed on behalf of Portugal and established trading relationships for that country with the Ming Dynasty in China in 1516?
• Portugal was taken to court over its failure to implement EU directives regarding its water supply and sanitation systems?
• Portuguese Josefa de Óbidos was one of the few women dedicated to painting (pictured: still life by her) in the Baroque era?
• Portuguese architect Mateus Fernandes is best known for his Manueline-style work at the Monastery of Batalha?
• Portuguese soldier and explorer Francisco Barreto led an expedition to Monomotapa in search of legendary gold mines, but died along the way from tropical diseases, as did many of his men?
• Ulysses S. Grant awarded Bolama to Portugal, who made it the first capital of Portuguese Guinea?
• Arthur Raikes was a British army officer but received honours from Zanzibar, Austria and Portugal?

Malacca

• the present Cape Rachado Lighthouse, erected in 1863 in Malacca, Malaysia, includes an additional concrete tower that was completed in 1990 to house a MEASAT radar?

Macau

• after launching from Spain in 1789, the corvettes Descubierta and Atrevida visited Montevideo, Monterey, Macao, Nootka Sound, Dusky Sound and Doubtful Sound, on a four-year trip?
• under the Sino-Portuguese Joint Declaration on the Question of Macau, Communist China would guarantee complete autonomy and democratic self-government in Macau up to 2049?