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Bartolomeu Dias. Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. Vasco da Gama was the first to reach India ten years later.
In 1498,portugual was the first European country which reached to India.
The first European to reach India by sea in 1498 was Dom Vasco da Gama. This discovery paved the way for a Portuguese colonial empire in Asia.
The French. French explorer Jacques Marquette was the first European to reach the Wisconsin River in 1673.
Dom Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach India by sea. He linked for the first time Europe and Asia by ocean route.