This thesis investigates the formation of modern historiography through the chronic genre in the Portuguese empire. Written in the second half of the 16th century, Asia, by João de Barros has a unique history and its writing was continued by two writers of Goa in the seventeenth century, Diogo do Couto and António Bocarro. In this study, I seek to establish the definitions and functions of the concept of history in the literate humanist Portuguese culture and the variations of historiographic practices, related to the establishment of the State of India between chroniclers and travelers of the Ottoman-Turkish Empire and Malabar. Our hypothesis supports the argument that in this period a regime of historicity emerges distinct from that practiced in the Middle Ages, which is called by the category stories of the world.