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At Blackthorne's suggestion the Portuguese ship is asked to lend cannon to blast the boats clear, but in return the Jesuits, seeing the presence of a Protestant pilot in Toranaga's confidence as a grave threat, will only offer aid to Toranaga in exchange for physical custody Blackthorne.
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At and Portuguese
* 1653 – At the Coonan Cross Oath, the Eastern Church in India cuts itself off from colonial Portuguese tutelage.
At the Portuguese Grand Prix at Monsanto Park, Brabham was chasing race leader Moss when a backmarker moved over on him and launched the Cooper into the air.
At present, there are two special administrative regions, namely Hong Kong and Macau, which were former British and Portuguese territories respectively.
At the time of the arrival of the Portuguese, Ngola Kiluange was in power, and by maintaining a policy of alliances with neighbouring states, managed to hold out against the foreigners for several decades.
At the head of this formidable alliance, she forced the Portuguese to retreat.
* At the Portuguese Cortes, Peter, Duke of Coimbra is appointed Regent of the Kingdom.
At age four, she began performing and singing in Portuguese.
At the age of 12, she began writing songs, and as a teenager, she performed in a Portuguese marching band.
At the same time, the Portuguese trade system was unable to increase supply to satisfy growing demand, in particular the demand for pepper.
At home, life was calm and serene with the first two Spanish kings ; they maintained Portugal's status, gave excellent positions to Portuguese nobles in the Spanish courts, and Portugal maintained an independent law, currency and government.
At this time, however, the Almohads had triumphed in Africa and invaded the Peninsula, where they were able to check the Portuguese reconquest, although isolated bands of crusading adventurers succeeded in establishing themselves in various cities of Alentejo.
At his accession the Portuguese people was not homogeneous ; it was a long process in which its component peoples " Moors and Mozarabs of the south, Galicians of the north, Jews and foreign crusaders " would be fused into one nationality.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, a faltering home economy prompted the Portuguese to extract greater wealth from its colonies, resulting in increased resistance to Portuguese rule in East Timor.
At a military level, a part of Guinea-Bissau was de facto independent since 1973, but the capital and the major towns were still under Portuguese control.
At the behest of the Spanish Crown Magellan, a Portuguese sailor, led the first expedition to circumnavigate the world, sailing between August 1519 and April 1521.
At one point, there was also a Portuguese version in Brazil.
At the Portuguese Grand Prix, Hill charged to third after having to start from the back having stalled on the warmup lap from pole.
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At this time, Portuguese began to convert the Timorese to Catholicism.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, a faltering home economy prompted the Portuguese to extract greater wealth from its colonies.
At a meeting in the Javanese town of Wonosobo in 1974, he told Suharto that an independent Portuguese Timor would be ' an unviable state, and a potential threat to the stability of the region '.
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