Notwithstanding the vehement protests of the Portuguese inhabitants of St Thome, the English gained absolute control over all lands up to St Thomas Mount for a period of three years.

* 1833 – Admiral Charles Napier defeats the navy of the Portuguese usurper Dom Miguel at the third Battle of Cape St. Vincent.

On St. Laurence's Day in 1500, Portuguese explorer Diogo Dias landed on the island and christened it São Lourenço, but Polo's name was preferred and popularized on Renaissance maps.

Once St Helena ’ s location was more widely known, English ships of war began to lie in wait in the area to attack Portuguese India carracks on their way home.

* Brooke, T. H., A History of the Island of St Helena from its Discovery by the Portuguese to the Year 1806 ”, Printed for Black, Parry and Kingsbury, London, 1808

* Portuguese sailors reach Mina de Ouro on the Gold Coast ( present-day Ghana ) and explore Cape St. Catherine, two degrees south of the equator.

The Portuguese continued trading with the islanders and named the island São Lourenço ( St. Lawrence ).

In Uvari, in Tamil Nadu, India, the church of St. Anthony is home to an ancient wooden statue that is said to have cured the entire crew of a Portuguese ship suffering from cholera.

* St. Bonaventure's Church, a 16th century Portuguese church is situated on the beach in Erangal near Mumbai.

The city was founded by newspaper and railroad man Alexander St. Clair-Abrams in 1880 and named for a Portuguese ancestor.

As the Portuguese community began to increase, they established the first Portuguese parish in the city, St. John the Baptist ( 1871 ).

Festa Junina was introduced to Northeastern Brazil by the Portuguese for whom St John's day ( also celebrated as Midsummer Day in several European countries ), on 24 June, is one of the oldest and most popular celebrations of the year.

Early contact with Europeans came about in the mid-16th century, when Portuguese missionarries encountered Mandaeans in Southern Iraq and controversially designated them " Christians of St. John ".

Her household contained between four and six priests and in 1665 Catherine decided to build a religious house east of St James's to be occupied by thirteen Portuguese Franciscans of the order of St Peter of Alcantara.

As a boy, Novello was a chorister at the Sardinian chapel in Duke Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, where he learnt the organ ; and from 1796 to 1822 he became in succession organist of the Sardinian, Spanish ( in Manchester Square ) and Portuguese ( in South Street, Grosvenor Square ) chapels, and from 1840 to 1843 of St Mary's chapel, Moorfields.

When the Portuguese first encountered them, they mistakenly identified them as " St. John Christians ," analogous to the St. Thomas Christians of India.

According to one Portuguese Grandmother, the tradition is that St. John was a scalliwag in his youth and the people hit him on the head with the garlic saying " return to the right path ".

Walpole reports that St Germain: ' spoke Italian and French with the greatest facility, though it was evident that neither was his language ; he understood Polish, and soon learnt to understand English and talk it a little [...] But Spanish or Portuguese seemed his natural language '.

But the firm has recognized the tight dollar and the tourist's desire to visit the `` smaller, less-traveled and relatively inexpensive countries '', and is now prepared to teach modern Greek and Portuguese through recordings.

We can vote in the UN against South African apartheid or Portuguese rule in Angola, but we cannot even introduce a motion on the Berlin Wall -- much less, give the simple order to push the Wall down.

Hong Kong interests loudly protest limiting their exports to Britain, while Spanish and Portuguese textiles pour into British market unrestrictedly.

The Vikings, the Portuguese, and the Spaniards were the most famous among early explorers.

* In 1419 and 1427, Portuguese navigators reached Madeira and Azores, respectively.

* From 1415 to 1488, Portuguese navigators sailed along the Western African coast, reaching the Cape of Good Hope.

Of course, the " substrate " of Angolan culture is African, mostly Bantu, while Portuguese culture has been imported.

In this urban culture, the Portuguese heritage has become more and more dominant.

An African influence is evident in music and dance, and is moulding the way in which Portuguese is spoken, but is almost disappearing from the vocabulary.

A Polish journalist's account of Portuguese withdrawal from Angola and the beginning of the civil war.

Rethinking the Angolan Crisis and the Portuguese Revolution, 1974 – 1976, Itinerario: European Journal of Overseas History, 26 / 2, 2000, pp. 22 – 44

In addition, mixed race ( European and African ) people amount to about 2 %, with a small ( 1 %) population of whites, mainly ethnically Portuguese ( as a former overseas territory of Portugal until 1975, the Portuguese make up currently the largest non-African population, with certainly more than 100, 000, a number that has been constantly increasing from the 2000s, because of Angola's growing demand for qualified human resources.

Besides the Portuguese, significant numbers of people from other European and from diverse Latin American countries ( especially Brazil ) can be found.

The legal system was based on Portuguese and customary law but was weak and fragmented.

Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founded Luanda in 1575 as " São Paulo de Loanda ", and the region developed as a slave trade market with the help of local Imbangala and Mbundu peoples who were notable slave hunters.

Trade was mostly with the Portuguese colony of Brazil ; Brazilian ships were the most numerous in the ports of Luanda and Benguela.

By this time, Angola, a Portuguese colony, was in fact like a colony of Brazil, paradoxically another Portuguese colony.

The colonial power, Portugal, becoming ever richer and more powerful, would not tolerate the growth of these neighbouring states and subjugated them one by one, so that by the beginning of this century the Portuguese had complete control over the entire area.

The Dutch, a major enemy of Castile, invaded many Portuguese overseas possessions, including Luanda.

John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen, conquered the Portuguese possessions of Saint George del Mina, Saint Thomas, and Luanda, Angola, on the west coast of Africa.

After the dissolution of the Iberian Union in 1640, Portugal would reestablish its authority over the lost territories of the Portuguese Empire.

The Portuguese started to develop townships, trading posts, logging camps and small processing factories.

By 1850, Luanda was one of the greatest and most developed Portuguese cities in the vast Portuguese Empire outside Mainland Portugal, full of trading companies, exporting ( together with Benguela ) palm and peanut oil, wax, copal, timber, ivory, cotton, coffee, and cocoa, among many other products.