Portugal’s Timeline: A Brief History of Portugal Part 3 November 25, 2019. by Emily Mudge. A Portuguese prince, Henry the Navigator, becomes fascinated by exploration down the coast of Africa and commissions successive voyagesThe Portuguese, discovering the lush and uninhabited island of Madeira, send colonists to settle itPortugal claims ownership of the region of Guinea, subsequently the centre of their slave trade on the west African coastThe caravel, a sailing ship developed in the Mediterranean and used down the west coast of Africa, is adapted by the Portuguese for Atlantic useThe Portuguese settlers on the Cape Verde islands are granted a monopoly on the new slave tradeThe Portuguese establish a further presence on the west coast of Africa, at the mouth of the Congo riverBartolomeu Dias, sailing for the king of Portugal, becomes the first European navigator to round the Cape of Good HopePope Alexander VI draws a line through the Atlantic, dividing new discoveries between Spain (west) and Portugal (east)In negotiations about the New World at Tordesillas, the king of Portugal insists on a new demarcation line which later brings him BrazilVasco da Gama reaches the southern coast of India, at Calicut, after sailing across the Indian Ocean from east AfricaPortuguese explorer Pedro Cabral, with a fleet of thirteen ships, makes landfall in BrazilThe Portuguese establish trading posts in east Africa, on the coast of MozambiqueVasco da Gama wins a trading treaty for Portuguese merchants after bombarding the Indian port of Calicut into submissionThe Portuguese set up a trading post on the east African island of ZanzibarThe Portuguese establish a presence in Sri Lanka, trading in the island's crop of cinnamonThe Portuguese seize Goa and make it their colonial capital in IndiaThe Portuguese take control of Malacca, in the Malay peninsula, as a base for trade further eastThe Portuguese make treaties in the Moluccas (or Spice Islands), to trade in cloves and nutmegThe Portuguese capture Hormuz and establish a garrison to control the Gulf of OmanThe Portuguese force the local ruler to cede to them the island of BombayBrazil becomes a Portuguese royal province, under the control of a governor generalThe first Portuguese governor general of Brazil selects Bahia (now Salvador) as his capitalAfricans, bought in the Portuguese trading posts of west Africa, are shipped across the Atlantic as slavesThe Portuguese establish a trading post on Macao, a small peninsula off the south coast of ChinaThe Dutch gradually exclude the Portuguese from the immensely lucrative trade in cloves from the Spice Islands (or Moluccas)The Dutch expel the Portuguese from their trading posts in MalaccaAfter a six-month siege, the Dutch capture Colombo from the Portuguese in Sri LankaThe Dutch expel the Portuguese from the last of their trading posts in Sri LankaEngland's East India Company is granted a lease on Bombay by Charles II, who has received it from his Portuguese brideA fleet from Oman evicts the Portuguese from Mombasa and ZanzibarThe capital of the Portuguese colony of Brazil is moved from Bahia to Rio de JaneiroTiradentes (the 'puller of teeth') leads the first rebellion against Portuguese rule in BrazilThe Brazilian rebel Tiradentes is beheaded in public in Rio de Janeiro as a warning to would-be revolutionariesBrazil is given equal standing with Portugal, forming together the Kingdom of Portugal and BrazilThe 22-year-old Portuguese prince, Dom Pedro, is made regent of BrazilThe Portuguese regent, Dom Pedro, proclaims the independence of Brazil and three months later is crowned emperor, as Pedro IThe Portuguese ban the shipping of slaves from the coast of AngolaSlavery is finally made illegal in the Portuguese empireThe imperial government in China formally acknowledges Portuguese territorial rights in MacaoThe MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) is formed as a guerrilla movement to end Portuguese ruleFrelimo emerges as a Marxist guerrilla group dedicated to winning independence for MozambiqueUNITA, led by Jonas Savimbi, joins the fight for Angolan independencePortuguese Guinea becomes independent as Guinea-Bissau, with Luís Cabral as presidentPortuguese East Africa becomes independent as Mozambique, with Frelimo as the only political partyThe Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa, become independent as the republic of Cape VerdeThe island of Macau reverts from Portuguese ownership to the People's Republic of China
It is the sixth most spoken language in the world.
The abolition of all types of slavery occurred in 1761 in Portugal. Go to Madeira in The Oxford Companion to Architecture (1 ed.) But when that didn’t work they started attacking in September of 1964, this began the war.
The Portuguese, with imperial ambitions focussed originally on the east Indies, are slower than the Spanish in setting up any form of administration in America. Then in 1466, the Cape Verde settlers are granted the monopoly over their Portuguese Slave Trade. This inspired the trade between Europe and Africa, thus leading to the formation of the Atlantic Slave Trade Triangle. The Portuguese Empire was the first modern European empire to be established, and also the longest-lasting of these empires.
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