Estácio de Sá Politician

Estácio de Sá (1520–1567) was a Portuguese soldier and officer. Sá travelled to the colony of Brazil on the orders of the Portuguese crown to wage war on the French colonists commanded by Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon. These French colonists had established themselves in 1555 at Guanabara Bay in Rio de Janeiro, in a settlement known as France Antarctique. He was the founder of Rio de Janeiro, now the second largest city in Brazil.

Personal facts

Estácio de Sá
Birth dateJanuary 01, 1520
Birth place
Portugal , Santarém Portugal , Kingdom of Portugal
Nationality
Portuguese people
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1567
Place of death
Rio de Janeiro , Colonial Brazil

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military operations
Battle of Rio de Janeiro (1567)
monarch
Sebastian of Portugal
officeGovernor of Rio de Janeiro
successor

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