1585 - 1641
Pedro Teixeira (b.1570-1585 - d.4 July 1641), occasionally referred to as the Conqueror of the Amazon, was a Portuguese explorer and military officer, who became, in 1637, the first European to travel up and down the entire length of the Amazon River, he also headed the government of the captaincy of Pará in two different periods, one in 1620-1621 and another in 1640–1641. Teixeira was born either in 1570 or 1585 at the Vila of Cantanhede, born to a noble family, he was a Knight of the Order of Christ and a Portuguese nobleman in service of the royal family, he married Ana Cunha in Praia, Azores, daughter of Sargento-Mor Diogo de Campos Moreno, with whom Teixeira fought together in Maranhão First arriving in Brazil on 1607, Teixeira participated in Portugal's campaign against French Maranhão, he fought in the Battle of Guaxenduba and distinguished himself commanding either the fort of Natividade or Santa Maria. Because of Teixeira and other Portuguese who pushed into the depths of the Amazon, Portugal was able to obtain far more of South America from their Spanish competitors than the Treaty of Tordesillas had granted in 1494. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pedro Teixeira has received more than 48,699 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Pedro Teixeira is the 1,322nd most popular military personnel, the 253rd most popular biography from Portugal and the 2nd most popular Portuguese Military Personnel.
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Among military personnels, Pedro Teixeira ranks 1,322 out of 1,468. Before him are Laomedon of Mytilene, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Karl von Pflanzer-Baltin, Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside, Sergei Khudyakov, and Peter Cosgrove. After him are Gaius Furius Sabinius Aquila Timesitheus, Henri Dentz, Douglas Bader, Hal Moore, Endel Puusepp, and Jinichi Kusaka.
400 BC - 360 BC
HPI: 50.25
Rank: 1,316
1544 - 1590
HPI: 50.22
Rank: 1,317
1855 - 1925
HPI: 50.21
Rank: 1,318
1880 - 1959
HPI: 50.19
Rank: 1,319
1902 - 1950
HPI: 50.16
Rank: 1,320
1947 - Present
HPI: 50.16
Rank: 1,321
1585 - 1641
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 1,322
190 - 243
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 1,323
1881 - 1945
HPI: 50.07
Rank: 1,324
1910 - 1982
HPI: 50.05
Rank: 1,325
1922 - 2017
HPI: 50.03
Rank: 1,326
1909 - 1996
HPI: 50.02
Rank: 1,327
1888 - 1972
HPI: 50.00
Rank: 1,328
Among people born in 1585, Pedro Teixeira ranks 17. Before him are Jacques Lemercier, John Rolfe, Hamnet Shakespeare, Mary Ward, Squanto, and Caspar Bartholin the Elder. After him are Claude Favre de Vaugelas, Johann Baptist Cysat, Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg, Domenico II Contarini, and Gerbrand Bredero. Among people deceased in 1641, Pedro Teixeira ranks 15. Before him are Jan Janszoon, Jeremiah Horrocks, Johan Banér, Hedwig of Denmark, Pau Claris i Casademunt, and Franciscus Gomarus. After him are Adam van Noort, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, and Thomas Heywood.
1585 - 1654
HPI: 56.08
Rank: 11
1585 - 1622
HPI: 54.54
Rank: 12
1585 - 1596
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 13
1585 - 1645
HPI: 53.41
Rank: 14
1585 - 1622
HPI: 51.72
Rank: 15
1585 - 1629
HPI: 50.34
Rank: 16
1585 - 1641
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 17
1585 - 1650
HPI: 49.79
Rank: 18
1585 - 1657
HPI: 49.77
Rank: 19
1585 - 1638
HPI: 49.40
Rank: 20
1585 - 1675
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 21
1585 - 1618
HPI: 48.12
Rank: 22
1570 - 1641
HPI: 58.22
Rank: 9
1618 - 1641
HPI: 58.09
Rank: 10
1596 - 1641
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 11
1581 - 1641
HPI: 52.96
Rank: 12
1586 - 1641
HPI: 52.55
Rank: 13
1563 - 1641
HPI: 52.15
Rank: 14
1585 - 1641
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 15
1562 - 1641
HPI: 49.85
Rank: 16
1593 - 1641
HPI: 48.33
Rank: 17
1574 - 1641
HPI: 40.03
Rank: 18
Among people born in Portugal, Pedro Teixeira ranks 253 out of 555. Before him are Humberto Coelho (1950), Gonçalo Velho Cabral (1400), José Torres (1938), Vasco de Almeida e Costa (1932), John of Coimbra, Prince of Antioch (1431), and Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho (1869). After him are José Costa (1953), Christopher Hampton (1946), José Policarpo (1936), Jorge de Montemor (1520), Marcos Portugal (1762), and Manuel Bento (1948).
1950 - Present
HPI: 50.56
Rank: 247
1400 - 1460
HPI: 50.54
Rank: 248
1938 - 2010
HPI: 50.50
Rank: 249
1932 - 2010
HPI: 50.45
Rank: 250
1431 - 1457
HPI: 50.24
Rank: 251
1869 - 1959
HPI: 50.12
Rank: 252
1585 - 1641
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 253
1953 - Present
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 254
1946 - Present
HPI: 50.00
Rank: 255
1936 - 2014
HPI: 49.93
Rank: 256
1520 - 1561
HPI: 49.92
Rank: 257
1762 - 1830
HPI: 49.91
Rank: 258
1948 - 2007
HPI: 49.81
Rank: 259
Among military personnels born in Portugal, Pedro Teixeira ranks 2. Before him are Cristóvão da Gama (1516). After him are Diogo Lopes de Sequeira (1465).
1516 - 1542
HPI: 54.64
Rank: 1
1585 - 1641
HPI: 50.10
Rank: 2
1465 - 1530
HPI: 48.22
Rank: 3