When was the portuguese empire

Go to Moluccas in World Encyclopedia 1 ed. The Portuguese capture Hormuz and establish a garrison to control the Gulf of Oman. The Portuguese force the local ruler to cede to them the island of Bombay. Brazil becomes a Portuguese royal province, under the control of a governor general. The first Portuguese governor general of Brazil selects Bahia now Salvador as his capital. Africans, bought in the Portuguese trading posts of west Africa, are shipped across the Atlantic as slaves.

The Portuguese establish a trading post on Macao, a small peninsula off the south coast of China. Go to Macao in Oxford Dictionary of English 3 ed.

The 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 Malacca. Go to Colombo in World Encyclopedia 1 ed. The Dutch expel the Portuguese from the last of their trading posts in Sri Lanka. A fleet from Oman evicts the Portuguese from Mombasa and Zanzibar.

Go to Mombasa in World Encyclopedia 1 ed. Tiradentes the 'puller of teeth' leads the first rebellion against Portuguese rule in Brazil. The Brazilian rebel Tiradentes is beheaded in public in Rio de Janeiro as a warning to would-be revolutionaries. Brazil is given equal standing with Portugal, forming together the Kingdom of Portugal and Brazil.

The year-old Portuguese prince, Dom Pedro, is made regent of Brazil. Go to Pedro I — in World Encyclopedia 1 ed. The Portuguese regent, Dom Pedro, proclaims the independence of Brazil and three months later is crowned emperor, as Pedro I. The Portuguese ban the shipping of slaves from the coast of Angola.

Slavery is finally made illegal in the Portuguese empire. Go to slave trade, abolition of in A Dictionary of World History 2 ed. The imperial government in China formally acknowledges Portuguese territorial rights in Macao. Go to Macao in World Encyclopedia 1 ed. Frelimo emerges as a Marxist guerrilla group dedicated to winning independence for Mozambique. Portuguese East Africa becomes independent as Mozambique, with Frelimo as the only political party. The Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa, become independent as the republic of Cape Verde.

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