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Diogo Cão

1440 - 1486

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Diogo Cão (c. 1452 – 1486), also known as Diogo Cam, was a Portuguese mariner and one of the most notable explorers of the fifteenth century. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Diogo Cão has received more than 261,979 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Diogo Cão is the 53rd most popular explorer (up from 56th in 2019), the 52nd most popular biography from Portugal (up from 61st in 2019) and the 6th most popular Portuguese Explorer.

Diogo Cão is most famous for being the first European to discover the mouth of the Congo River.

Memorability Metrics

  • 260k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXPLORERS

Among explorers, Diogo Cão ranks 53 out of 498. Before him are Jacob Roggeveen, Louis Antoine de Bougainville, Robert Falcon Scott, Samuel de Champlain, Giovanni da Verrazzano, and Ernest Shackleton. After him are William Adams, Hanno the Navigator, Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, John Smith, and Henry Hudson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1440, Diogo Cão ranks 5. Before him are Ivan III of Russia, Ladislaus the Posthumous, Kabir, and Hugo van der Goes. After him are Sten Sture the Elder, Hartmann Schedel, Antonio Vivarini, Jorge Manrique, Gian Giacomo Trivulzio, Alain I of Albret, and Bartolomé Bermejo. Among people deceased in 1486, Diogo Cão ranks 1. After him are Albrecht III Achilles, Elector of Brandenburg, Ernest, Elector of Saxony, Margaret of Denmark, Queen of Scotland, Tizoc, Sittişah Hatun, Margaret of Foix, Marco Barbarigo, Margaret of Austria, Electress of Saxony, Aristotele Fioravanti, and Louis I, Count of Montpensier.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Diogo Cão ranks 52 out of 633. Before him are Luís I of Portugal (1838), Afonso IV of Portugal (1291), Peter III of Portugal (1717), Mário Soares (1924), Afonso II of Portugal (1185), and Sister Lúcia (1907). After him are Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal (1699), Peter II of Portugal (1648), Pedro V of Portugal (1837), Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (1434), Ferdinand I of Portugal (1345), and José Manuel Barroso (1956).

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Among EXPLORERS In Portugal

Among explorers born in Portugal, Diogo Cão ranks 6. Before him are Ferdinand Magellan (1480), Vasco da Gama (1460), Bartolomeu Dias (1450), Prince Henry the Navigator (1394), and Pedro Álvares Cabral (1467). After him are Diogo Dias (1450), Diego Columbus (1479), Tristão da Cunha (1460), João Gonçalves Zarco (1390), Fernão Mendes Pinto (1509), and Pedro Fernandes de Queirós (1565).

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