Macao was first settled by Portuguese survivors of the massacres of the Portuguese at Ningbo and at Quanzhou by Chinese government soldiers.

The massacres resulted in the Portuguese survivors fleeing to Macao, where they were allowed by China to start a colony to build sheds for drying goods in 1557.

Among the survivors was Aleixo García, a Portuguese adventurer who had acquired a working knowledge of the Guaraní language.

In 1582 the survivors of a Portuguese shipwreck spent ten weeks battling malaria and aborigines before returning to Macau on a raft.

A similar episode occurred later when Coelho de Sousa seized the house of a wealthy foreign resident in Jinzhou of Fujian, which led authorities to cut off supplies to the Portuguese ; the Portuguese then attacked and ransacked a nearby village for supplies, which prompted Chinese authorities to destroy thirteen of their ships while thirty Portuguese survivors of this settlement fled to the Portuguese settlement at Macau in 1549.

Two survivors of this embassy were still alive around 1536, when they sent letters to Malacca and Goa detailing plans for how the Portuguese could capture Canton by force.

Other survivors of these missions retired to nearby Lampaco ( Lampa ) in Guangdong, where a trade post would exist for several decades ; in 1537, there were written records of the Portuguese having three warehouses at Lampa, Shangchuan Island, and Macau, and were initially allowed there with the excuse of drying their goods in a storm.

In face of this, the Portuguese King offered the enemy survivors an amnesty and free transit home ; an official mourning was decreed in Castile that would last until the Christmas of 1387.

The battle ended after nearly four hours of heavy fighting and resulted in the total defeat of the Portuguese and Abu Abdallah's army with 8, 000 dead, including the slaughter of almost the whole of the country ’ s nobility, and 15, 000 taken prisoner ; perhaps 100 survivors escaped to the coast.

Thousands of Kxoe were murdered in Angola after independence, as they had been used by the Portuguese as trackers, and the survivors fled to Zambia.

There are persistent stories that there was an earlier European contact with survivors of a Spanish or Portuguese shipwreck known locally as the Stradbroke Island Galleon.

The Portuguese word is amply attested already in one of the earliest Portuguese reports about China: letters from the imprisoned survivors of the Tomé Pires ' embassy, which were most likely written in 1524, and in Castanheda's História do descobrimento e conquista da Índia pelos portugueses.

The survivors and Emperor Gelawdewos were afterward able to join forces and, drawing on the Portuguese supplies, attacked Ahmad on February 21, 1543 in the Battle of Wayna Daga, where their 9, 000 troops managed to defeat the 15, 000 soldiers under Imam Ahmad.

Urdaneta was one of the few survivors of Loaísa Expedition to reach the Spice Islands late in the year 1526, just to be taken prisoner by the Portuguese.

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.

** Portuguese São Tomé and Príncipe

A Portuguese version, O desafio das linguas, was published in 2002 ( Campinas, São Paulo, Pontes ).

The Annobón population, native to Angola, was introduced by the Portuguese via São Tomé.

Colonisation began in 1603, when the Portuguese Pero Coelho de Souza constructed the Fort of São Tiago and founded the settlement of Nova Lisboa ( New Lisbon ).

* 1128: Battle of São Mamede, formation of Portuguese sovereignty.

Ndongo would also engage in slave trading with the Portuguese, with São Tomé being a transit point to Brazil.

Portuguese explorer Paulo Dias de Novais founded Luanda on 25 January 1576 as " São Paulo da Assumpção de Loanda ", with a hundred families of settlers and four hundred soldiers.

In 1618 the Portuguese built the fortress called Fortaleza São Pedro da Barra, and they subsequently built two more: Fortaleza de São Miguel ( 1634 ) and Forte de São Francisco do Penedo ( 1765-6 ).

Many places in Brazil called São Luís in Portuguese are named after the French Saint Louis.

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.

" Mozambique " first described a small coral island at the mouth of Mossuril Bay, then the fort and town on that island, São Sebastião de Moçambique, and later extended to the whole of the Portuguese colonies on the east coast of Africa.

* Ponta de São Lourenço, Madeira Islands ( Portuguese Territory )

The capital of this Kongolese kingdom, Mbanza Kongo, later baptized as São Salvador by the Portuguese, is a town in northern Angola near the border with the DRC.

The discovery of Brazil in 1500 and the need for labor to work on the Portuguese plantations in Brazil, Cape Verde and São Tomé led Portugal to look for more slaves.

The islands of São Tomé and Príncipe were uninhabited before the arrival of the Portuguese sometime in 1469, 1470, or 1471.

São Tomé and Príncipe were taken over and administered by the Portuguese crown in 1522 and 1573, respectively.

Although a small country, São Tomé and Príncipe has four national languages: Portuguese ( the official language, spoken by 95 % of the population ), and the Portuguese-based creoles Forro ( 85 %), Angolar ( 3 %) and Principense ( 0. 1 %).

In the 1970s, there were two significant population movements — the exodus of most of the 4, 000 Portuguese residents and the influx of several hundred São Toméan refugees from Angola.

* São Luís, the Portuguese language cognate of the name

* January 12 – The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta by the Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco, who had previously taken the city of São Luís in Maranhão from the French.

In that year the Portuguese built a fort, São de Mina ( modern day Elmina ), on the Gold Coast, and their king, John II, was permitted by the Pope II or Innocent VIII to style himself Lord of Guinea, a title that survived until the recent extinction of the monarchy.

In 1975, Portugal granted independence to its Overseas Provinces ( Províncias Ultramarinas in Portuguese ) in Africa ( Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe ).

* June 20 – Paulo Bento, Portuguese football player and coach

To check the situation on the ground, Bento de Góis, a Portuguese former soldier and explorer who had joined the Jesuits as a Lay Brother in Goa, India, traveled in 1603 – 1605 from India via Afghanistan and one of the routes of the traditional Silk Road ( via Badakhshan, the Pamirs, Yarkand, Kucha, and Turpan to the Ming China's border as Suzhou, Gansu.

The São Bento Palace, home to the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic, in Lisbon

To resolve the China-Cathay controversy, the India Jesuits sent a Portuguese lay brother, Bento de Góis on an overland expedition north and east, with the goal of reaching Cathay and finding out once and for all whether it is China or some other country.

The Portuguese Jesuit priest Bento de Goes crossed from the Wakhan to China between 1602 and 1606.

On 21 September 2010, Paulo Bento, the former Sporting Clube de Portugal coach, was appointed as the Portuguese head coach.

* Bento de Góis ( 1562-1607 ), a Portuguese traveler, probably the first European to travel overland from India to China via Afghanistan

Paulo Bento, the Portuguese manager, called his behaviour " a desertion.

José Bento Azevedo Carvalho ( born 19 September 1973 in Vila do Conde, Grande Porto ) is a Portuguese former professional road racing cyclist.

Karashahr become known to Europeans ( as Cialis-an Italianized transcription of the Turkic Chalish ) in the early 17th century, when the Portuguese Jesuit Lay Brother Bento de Góis visited it on his way from India to China ( via Kabul and Kashgar ).

* Portuguese: Benedicto, Benedito, Bento

* São Bento ( disambiguation ), Portuguese for Saint Benedict, several meanings

In Diz que é uma Espécie de Magazine, Portuguese politicians and personalities are mostly played by Ricardo Araújo Pereira, with the most spoofed being José Sócrates, Valentim Loureiro, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and Paulo Bento.

In 1615, the temporary Angolan governor Bento Banha Cardoso encouraged some Imbangala to cross the river and enter Portuguese service, and with their help he expanded the colony along the Lukala River, north of Ndongo.

São Bento ( Portuguese for Saint Benedict ) is the name of several parishes:

It is known in popular legend as the place where rhubarb was first grown and is also the town where the Portuguese Jesuit missionary and explorer Bento de Góis ( 1562 – 1607 ) was robbed and died destitute.

The name of the place comes from the saint ( São Bento in Portuguese ) and the river Sapucaí, that crosses town.

Bento António Gonçalves, ( 1902 – 1942 ) was the second Secretary General of the Portuguese Communist Party.

* an illustrated novel drawn by the Portuguese artist Fernando Bento and first published in the Fifties in the boy's journal Cavaleiro Andante

Pereira was first called to the Portuguese national team in October 2010, following the appointment of new coach Paulo Bento.

Despite professed disgust at their customs, Portuguese governors of Luanda sometimes hired the Imbangala for their campaigns, beginning with Bento Banha Cardoso in 1615 but most notably following Luis Mendes de Vasconcelos's 1618 assault on Ndongo.

The Infante Francis, Duke of Beja (; Francisco Xavier José António Bento Urbano ; ) was a Portuguese infante ( prince ) son of Peter II, King of Portugal and his second wife Maria Sofia of the Palatinate.

The Palácio de São Bento (), " Saint Benedict's Palace ", is the home of the Assembly of the Republic, the Portuguese parliament.