On May 20, 1498, Vasco da Gama reached Calicut and left India on August 29, 1498, He came to India with 20 ships in 1502-1503. On his third visit to India as a Portugese viceroy-as appointed by King John III, he died of Malaria in Cochin on December 24, 1524. Which king sent him on the first expedition?