Timeline Monday 10 February 1502

Events on Monday 10 February 1502 1

• 1502 Vasco da Gama attacks Calicut and burns the Miri Portuguese fleet wages a punitive campaign on India's Malabar coast Vasco da Gama returned to India in 1502 commanding a heavily armed fleet sent to avenge earlier Portuguese losses and enforce a trade monopoly. Off the Malabar coast in October his ships captured and burned the Miri, a vessel carrying Muslim pilgrims returning from Mecca, killing several hundred people. He then bombarded the port city of Calicut, the Zamorin's capital, to punish it for trading with Portugal's rivals.