The first assembly of the estates-general convened at Lamego ( wherein he would have been given the crown from the Archbishop of Braga, to confirm his independence ) is a 17th century embellishment of Portuguese history.

* 1823 – Bahia Independence Day: the end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.

With the decline of Portuguese power, especially during the period when the crown of Portugal was combined with the crown of Spain ( 1580 – 1640 ), the Portuguese coastal settlements were ignored and fell into a ruinous condition.

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

* May 15 – Duarte Pio, Duke of Braganza, heir to the Portuguese crown

* The Portuguese crown divides Brazil into fifteen donatory captaincies.

In addition, as Portugal had been united with the Spanish crown, with which the Dutch Republic was at war in 1580, the Portuguese Empire became an appropriate target for Dutch military incursions.

His eldest son, Pedro I of Brazil, briefly became Pedro IV of Portugal, but neither the Portuguese nor the Brazilians wanted a unified monarchy ; consequently, Pedro abdicated the Portuguese crown in favor of his 7-year-old daughter, Maria da Glória, on the condition that when of age she would marry his brother, Miguel.

That he then convened the first assembly of the estates-general at Lamego ( wherein he would have been given the crown from the Archbishop of Braga, to confirm the independence ) is likely to be a 17th century embellishment of Portuguese history.

After Henry's death in 1460, the Portuguese crown showed little interest in continuing and, in 1469, sold off the neglected African enterprise to a private Lisbon merchant consortium led by Fernão Gomes.

Over his numerous years serving the Portuguese crown, da Gama was rewarded with many different titles, distinctions, and offices:

Following da Gama's initial voyage, the Portuguese crown realized that securing outposts on the eastern coast of Africa would prove vital to maintaining national trade routes to the Far East.

His long reign was characterized by a strengthening of the king's power due to the incomes the crown earned by exploring the newly found gold and diamond mines in the Portuguese colony of Brazil.

The assumption of the regency by the queen was badly received in many Portuguese cities ; Leonor was considered a treasonous interloper who intended to usurp the Portuguese crown for Castile and end Portugal's independence.

To secure the succession of the throne of Portugal, the Portuguese Cortes covenanted marriage between Beatrice and John I of Castile, on 2 April 1383 in Salvaterra de Magos, with the stipulation that upon the death of Ferdinand I, with no issue of sons, the crown would pass to Beatrice, and her husband become titular king of Portugal.

The Master of Aviz wrote John, urging him to seize the Portuguese crown by right of his wife, and the Master himself would assume the regency.

He was the grandson of Catherine, Duchess of Braganza, who had in 1580 claimed the Portuguese crown and sparked the struggle for the throne of Portugal.

Neither the Portuguese nor the Brazilians wanted a unified monarchy ; consequently, Pedro abdicated the Portuguese crown in favor of his daughter, Dona Maria da Glória, a child of seven, on the condition that when of age she would marry Miguel.

But perhaps his most important contribution was the importance he gave to the Portuguese navy.

In 1809 an Anglo-Portuguese naval squadron took French Guiana ( ousting governor Victor Hugues ) and gave it to the Portuguese in Brazil.

After arriving in Portuguese Malacca in October of that year and waiting three months in vain for a ship to Makassar, he gave up the goal of his voyage and left Malacca on 1 January 1546, for Ambon Island where he stayed until mid-June.

In 1628, a decisive battle allowed them to put a puppet mwanamutapa named Mavura, who signed treaties that gave favorable mineral export rights to the Portuguese.

In 1557, the Ming court finally gave consent for a permanent and official Portuguese trade base at Macau.

The Portuguese reached the area via the Mozambican port of Tete in the 16th century and gave the first written reports on the people of Malawi.

This confirmation of Romanus Pontifex also gave the Portuguese the military Order of Christ under Prince Henry the Navigator.

The Portuguese and Spanish soon gave up regularly calling at the island, partly because they used ports along the West African coast, but also because of attacks on their shipping, desecration to their chapel and images, destruction of their livestock and destruction of plantations by Dutch and English sailors.

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.

The Arab navigator, Ahmad Bin Majid, visited Bahrain in 1489 and gave a contemporary account of the country that the first Portuguese would have seen: " In Awal ( Bahrain ) there are 360 villages and fresh water can be found in a number of places.

In 1489, the King of Bemobi gave his realms to the Portuguese king and became Christian.

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.

It is argued that collectively the two bulls issued by Nicholas gave the Portuguese the rights to acquire slaves along the African coast by force or trade.

With Christmas pending, da Gama and his crew gave the coast they were passing the name Natal, which carried the connotation of " birth of Christ " in Portuguese.

A parade and a state banquet completed the independence festivities in the capital, which was expected to be renamed Can Phumo, or " Place of Phumo ", after a Shangaan chief who lived in the area before the Portuguese navigator Lourenço Marques founded the city in 1545 and gave his name to it.

On the coasts, the integration of the East Asians, Middle Easterns, East Africans ( Bantus ) and Europeans ( Portuguese ) gave birth to Antakarana Boina Menabe and Vezo ( West Coast ), Mahafaly and Antandroy ( South ), Antesaka Antambahoaka Antemoro Antanala Betsimisaraka ( East Coast ) kingdoms / tribes.

Forum gave birth to Italian foro " law court ", Spanish fuero " jurisdiction ", Portuguese foro " id.

Necetur gave French noyer, Italian annegare, Portuguese / Spanish anegar, Romanian îneca " to drown ")

* In May, 2007, Portuguese Foreign Minister Luís Amado gave strong support for Serbian ambitions to join the European Union.

Kim Yong Nam has made statements affirming the good relationship between the two countries, such as the condolences he gave then-President Jorge Sampaio when Francisco da Costa Gomes died, and the congratulations he extended to President Aníbal Cavaco Silva after he won the Portuguese elections.

A parade and a state banquet completed the independence festivities in the capital, which was expected to be renamed Can Phumo, or " Place of Phumo ," after a Shangaan chief who lived in the area before the Portuguese navigator Lourenço Marques first visited the site in 1545 and gave his name to it.

The French and Spanish gave their sea commanders similar titles while in Portuguese the word changed to almirante.

The Portuguese King John II was not pleased with that arrangement, feeling that it gave him far too little land — it prevented him from possessing India, his near term goal ( as of 1493, Portuguese explorers had only reached the east coast of Africa ).

The Trịnh-Nguyễn War gave European traders the opportunities to support each side with weapons and technology: the Portuguese assisted the Nguyễn in the South while the Dutch helped the Trịnh in the North.