Timeline of Portuguese history (Second Dynasty)

This is a historical timeline of Portugal.

econd Dynasty: Aviz

14th century

*1385
**April – João I of Portugal acclaimed king by the Portuguese; Castilians do not accept this claim.
**August 14 – Battle of Aljubarrota: João I defeats the Castilians and secures the throne.
*1386 - Treaty of Windsor, an alliance between England and Portugal.
*1394 – Henry the Navigator, son of king João I of Portugal, is born.

15th century

*1415 – João I conquers the city of Ceuta in northern Africa
*1419 – Madeira Islands discovered by João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira.
*1427 – Azores Islands discovered by Diogo Silves.
*1433 – Duarte of Portugal becomes king.
*1434 – Gil Eanes crosses the Bojador Cape: exploration of the African coast begins.
*1438 – Afonso V of Portugal becomes king.
*1444/1460 – discovery and settling of Cape Verde islands.
*1481 – João II of Portugal becomes king.
*1483 – João II executes Fernando, the third Duke of Braganza, and Diogo, the Duke of Viseu, putting an end to high nobility conspiracies.
*1484 – Diogo Cão discovers the Congo river.
*1491 – Bartolomeu Dias becomes the first European captain to cross the Cape of Good Hope.
*1494 – The Treaty of Tordesilhas signed between Spain and Portugal, dividing the colonisable world in two halves.
*1495 – Manuel I of Portugal becomes king.
*1498 – Vasco da Gama reaches India through navigation around Africa.

16th century

*1500
**Easter Day – Pedro Álvares Cabral discovers Brazil.
**Manuel I orders expulsion or conversion of the Portuguese Jews.
*1511 - Invasion and cruel conquest of Malacca.
*1515 - Afonso de Albuquerque captures the Kingdom of Hormuz.
*1521 – João III of Portugal becomes king.
*1521 - Antonio Correia captures Bahrain, which is under Portuguese rule until 1602.
*1542 – Portuguese explorers are the first Europeans to land in Japan.
*1557 – Sebastião of Portugal becomes king.
*1568 – King Sebastião of Portugal comes of age and takes control of government.
*1569
**Plague epidemic in Portugal. Only in Lisbon 60,000 people die.
**Nagasaki, in Japan, is open to Portuguese traders.
*1570
**Luís de Camões returns to Lisbon from the Orient.
**Goa, in Portuguese India, is attacked by a coalition of Indian forces, but these are defeated by Portuguese Vice-Roy Luís de Ataíde, Count of Atouguia.
*1578
**Portuguese troops utterly defeated in Africa, in the battle of Alcacer-Quibir; king Sebastião disappears in the battle never to be seen again.
**Cardinal Henrique I of Portugal becomes king.
*1579 - "Cortes" in Lisbon.
*1580
**"Cortes" in Almeirim.
**King Cardinal Henrique I of Portugal dies.

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*Timeline of Portuguese history
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