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4,march,1394
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In 1415, he helped lead the Portuguese capture of the Moorish port of Ceuta at the Strait of Gibraltar
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In 1417, he became grand master of Portugal’s Order of Christ, one of the country’s wealthiest institutions
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He sent the Portuguese explorers Joao Goncalves Zarco and Tristao Vaz Teixeira down the African coast to find a more direct overland route to central Africa. By 1420, the two explorers had reached the islands of Porto Santo and Madeira, both part of the Madeira Islands group.
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died on Nov. 13, 1460