A few months later, however, Bahadur was dead, killed when a botched plan to kidnap the Portuguese viceroy ended in a fire-fight which the Sultan lost.

Early in the 16th century Afonso de Albuquerque ( left ) emerged as the Portuguese colonial viceroy most instrumental in consolidating Portugal's holdings in Africa and in Asia.

The senate of Macao complained to the viceroy of Goa, of the contempt with which the Chinese authorities treated them, confessing however that, “ it was owing more to the Portuguese themselves than to the Chinese .” The Chinese were obliged to restrict the commerce of Portugal to the port of Macao, in 1631.

The Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan gave orders in 1631 to Qasim Khan, the Mughal viceroy of Bengal, to drive out the Portuguese from their trading post at Port Hoogly, the trading post was heavily armed with cannons, battleships, fortified walls, and other instruments of war.

Letter from Duarte de Meneses, viceroy of Portuguese India, to Hideyoshi dated April 1588, concerning the suppression of Christians, a National Treasure of Japan

When the Portuguese king Manuel I of Portugal decided to appoint the first governor and viceroy of Portuguese India in 1505, Vasco da Gama was conspicuously overlooked, and the post given to D. Francisco de Almeida.

A viceroy ( or Governor-General with extensive powers ) was nominated, but this was not enough to defend the Portuguese possessions in India.

After an unsuccessful expedition in 1509, Malacca was finally conquered by Afonso de Albuquerque, the Portuguese viceroy of India, on 24 August 1511.

He was nominated as first viceroy of Portuguese India in 1504, but could not take up this post owing to temporary blindness.

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The following February, the Portuguese viceroy destroyed the allied fleet at Battle of Diu, thus confirming Portuguese domination of the Indian Ocean.

Mascarenhas served as Captain-Major of the Portuguese colony of Malacca from 1525 to 1526, and as viceroy of Goa, capital of the Portuguese possessions in Asia, from 1554 until his death in 1555.

The extraordinary Portuguese discoveries and the " new kingdom that they exalted so much " (" novo reino que tanto sublimaram ") in the East, and certainly the recent and extraordinary deeds of " strong Castro " (" Castro forte ", the viceroy D. João de Castro ), who had died some years before the poet's arrival to Indian lands, were the decisive factors for Camões completing the Portuguese epic.

The Southern Province, also known simply as Goa, was the headquarters of Portuguese India, and seat of the Portuguese viceroy who governed the Portuguese possessions in Asia.

In 1505, the King of Portugal, Manuel I, sent his first viceroy, Dom Francisco de Almeida with twenty one vessels to strengthen the fledgling Portuguese empire in East Africa and India.

In March 1508, commanded by Mamluk admiral Mirocem ( Amir Husain Al-Kurdi ) or Admiral ( Husain Al-Kurdi ), the Egyptian Mamluk fleets arrived at Chaul in India where they surprised a Portuguese fleet commanded by Lourenço de Almeida, son of the Portuguese viceroy.

Afonso de Albuquerque ( or archaically spelt as Aphonso d ' Albuquerque and also spelt as Alfonso, and Alphonso ; ; 1453December 16, 1515 ), 1st Duke of Goa, was a Portuguese fidalgo, or nobleman, an admiral whose military and administrative activities as second governor of Portuguese India conquered and established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean.

Afonso I ( 25 June 1109, Guimarães or Viseu – 6 December 1185, Coimbra ), more commonly known as Afonso Henriques (), nicknamed " the Conqueror " (), " the Founder " () or " the Great " () by the Portuguese, and El-Bortukali (" the Portuguese ") and Ibn-Arrik (" son of Henry ", " Henriques ") by the Moors whom he fought, was the first King of Portugal.

Afonso, born in 1109, took the title of Prince after taking the throne of his mother, supported by the generality of the Portuguese nobility who disliked the alliance between Galicia and Portugal Countess Theresa had come to, marrying a second time the most powerful Galician count.

Afonso II (; English Alphonzo ), or Affonso ( Archaic Portuguese ), Alfonso or Alphonso ( Portuguese-Galician ) or Alphonsus ( Latin version ), nicknamed " the Fat " ( Portuguese o Gordo ), King of Portugal, was born in Coimbra on 23 April 1185 and died on 25 March 1223 in the same city.

Afonso III (; rare English alternatives: Alphonzo or Alphonse ), or Affonso ( Archaic Portuguese ), Alfonso or Alphonso ( Portuguese-Galician ) or Alphonsus ( Latin ), the Bolognian ( Port.

Afonso, born in Lisbon, was the rightful heir to the Portuguese throne.

Opposition rose and without any important ally among the Portuguese aristocracy other than Afonso, Count of Barcelos, the illegitimate half brother of King Edward and count of Barcelos, the queen's position was untenable.

Variants of the name include: Alfonso ( Italian and Spanish ), Alfons ( Catalan, Dutch, German, Polish and Scandinavian ), Afonso ( Portuguese and Galician ), Affonso ( Ancient Portuguese ), Alphonse, Alfonse ( Italian, French and English ), Αλφόνσος Alphonsos ( Greek ), Alphonsus ( Latin ), Alphons ( Dutch ), Alfonsu in ( Leonese ), Alfonsas ( Lithuanian ).

* João Afonso de Aveiro, Portuguese explorer.

* Jorge Afonso, Portuguese Renaissance painter.

* Afonso de Santa Maria de Bragança, 2nd claimant in line to the Portuguese throne.

* Afonso de Albuquerque, a Portuguese naval officer.

* Nadir Afonso ( born 1920 ), Portuguese painter.

* Zeca Afonso, Portuguese folk and political musician.

* 1871 – Afonso Costa, Portuguese politician ( d. 1937 )

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.

The Angolan Armed Forces ( Portuguese: Forças Armadas Angolanas ) are the military in Angola that succeeded Forças Armadas de Libertação de Angola ( FAPLA ) following the abortive Bicesse Accord with UNITA in 1991.

* 1517 – Seven Portuguese armed vessels led by Fernão Pires de Andrade meet Chinese officials at the Pearl River estuary.

* 1965 – Maria de Medeiros, Portuguese actress and director

In Peru and Rio de la Plata many powerful figures proposed an American Monarchy such as those who wanted an independent Peruvian king of the still alive Inca Royal House, and those who requested a Prince of the Spanish house of Bourbon to come and rule directly in Lima, Mexico City or Bogota, as the Portuguese House of Orleans-Braganza had done in Rio de Janeiro.

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In 1943, during World War II, the Portuguese rules António de Oliveira Salazar leased air and naval bases in the Azores to the British Empire.

The Judia (" Jewess ", for the ancestry of its owner Fernão de Loronha ) was the Portuguese ship that discovered the feature by running aground on it in 1506.

Corcovado, meaning " hunchback " in Portuguese, is a mountain in central Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Conectiva was a company founded on August 28, 1995, in Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, by a group of friends, among them Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo, who was a pioneer in the distribution of Linux and open source software in Brazilian Portuguese, Spanish and English for all of Latin America.

Some Chaosium products have been translated into French, Portuguese, Japanese, German, Spanish and Italian, and were available in France from Jeux Descartes, in Germany from Pegasus Press, in Spain from Joc Internacional and La factoría de ideas and in Italy from Stratelibri and Grifo Edizioni.

* 1908 – Manoel de Oliveira, Portuguese director

The Portuguese navigator Pedro de Mascarenhas may have discovered the island during his voyage of 1512 – 1513, but there is little corroborative evidence for this ; cartographic analysis points to 1532 or later.

* 1736 – António Manoel de Vilhena, Portuguese prince and military leader ( b. 1663 )

In 1663 en 1664 the de WIC sold more slaves than Portuguese and English together.