Portuguese explorer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasco_da_Gama" id="mwVA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vasco da Gama">Vasco da Gama</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery_of_the_sea_route_to_India" id="mwVQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Discovery of the sea route to India">discovers the sea route to India</a> when he arrives at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kozhikode" id="mwVg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Kozhikode">Kozhikode</a> (previously known as Calicut), India.<sup about="#mwt28" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"}}' id="cite_ref-4" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./May_20#cite_note-4" id="mwVw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 3;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwWA">[3]</span></a></sup>
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