Portugal/Malaysia: Diego Lopez de Sequeira (1465-1530), commander of the first Portuguese fleet to Malacca in 1509. Illustration, c. 16th-17th century. Diego Lopes de Sequeira was a Portuguese fidalgo or ‘conquistador’, sent to analyse the trade potential in Madagascar and Malacca. He arrived in Malacca in Malaysia in September 1509, but left the next year when he discovered that Sultan Mahmud Shah, the local ruler, was plotting his assassination. Sequeira was subsequently made governor of Portuguese India (1518-1522), and led a military campaign into the Red Sea in 1520.

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