A.D. Dom Francisco de Almeida (VICEROY) 1505 -- 1509 Afonso de Albuquerque (GOVERNOR) 1509 -- 1515 Lopo Soares de Albergaria (GOVERNOR) 1515 -- 1518 Diogo Lopes de Sequeira (GOVERNOR) 1518 -- 1521 Dom Duarte de Menezes (GOVERNOR) 1521 -- 1524 Dom Vasco da Gama, Conde de Vidigueria (VICEROY) 1524 Dom Henrique de Menezes (GOVERNOR) 1525 -- 1526 Lopo Vaz de Sampaio (GOVERNOR) 1526 -- 1529 Nuno da Cunha (GOVERNOR) 1529 -- 1538 Dom Garcia de Noronha (VICEROY) 1538 -- 1540 Dom Estevao da Gama (GOVERNOR) 1540 -- 1542 Martim Affonso de Sousa (GOVERNOR) 1542 -- 1545 Dom Joao de Castro (GOVERNOR AND CAPTAIN-IN-CHIEF) 1545 -- 1547 ,, ,, (VICEROY) 1547 -- 1548 Garcia de Sa (GOVERNOR) 1548 -- 1549 Jorge Cabral (GOVERNOR) 1549 -- 1550 Dom Affonso de Noronha (VICEROY) 1550 -- 1554 Dom Pedro Mascarenhas (VICEROY) 1554 -- 1555 Francisco Barreto (GOVERNOR) 1555 -- 1558 Dom Constantino de Braganza (VICEROY) 1558 -- 1561 Dom Francisco Coutinho, Conde de Redondo (VICEROY) 1561 -- 1564 Joao de Medonca (GOVERNOR) 1564 Dom Antonio de Noronha (VICEROY) 1564 -- 1568 [The above List is extracted from Mr. Danvers's work, "The Portuguese in India" (vol. ii. p. 487). The author continues the List to the present day.] NOTES [1] -- Translation of the "Chronica dos reis de Bisnaga", written by Domingos Paes and Fernao Nunes about 1520 and 1535, respectively, with historical introduction. Includes bibliographical references. [2] -- The letters from China were copied by a different hand. [3] -- Barros was apparently never himself in India, but held an official position in the India Office in Lisbon. His work was completed in four Decadas. Couto repeats the fourth DECADA of Barros, and continues the history in eight more DECADAS. The first three DECADAS of Barros were published in A.D. 1552, 1553, and 1563, bringing the history down to 1527, under the title of DOS FEITOS QUE OS PORTUGUESES FIZERAM NO DESCUBRIMENTO E CONQUISTA DOS MARES E TERRAS DO ORIENTE. His fourth DECADA, published by Couto, dealt with the period A.D. 1527 to 1539, and contained an account of the events that occurred during the governorships of Lopo Vaz de Sampaio and Nuno da Cunha. Couto's own eight DECADAS covered the subsequent period down to 1600. The combined work is generally called the DA ASIA. Couto completed his publication in 1614. The fourth DECADA was published in 1602, the fifth in 1612, the sixth in 1614, the seventh in 1616, the year of his death. Couto spent almost all his life in India, for which country he embarked in 1556. [4] -- CHRONICA DOS REIS DE BISNAGA, by David Lopes, S.S.G.L. Lisbon, 1897: at the National Press. The extract given is taken from his Introduction, p. lxxxvi.