Distracted by hostilities elsewhere in the archipelago, such as Ambon and Ternate, the Portuguese did not return until 1529 ; a Portuguese trader Captain Garcia landed troops in the Bandas.

The Japanese did not acquire firearms until the 16th century, and then from the Portuguese rather than the Chinese.

Portuguese conquest and consolidation of the interior did not begin until the latter half of the 19th century.

The interior of Portuguese Guinea was brought under control after more than 30 years of fighting ; final subjugation of the Bijagós Islands did not occur until 1936.

Few dared venture inland from the coast ; those that did, like the Portuguese, often met defeats and had to retreat to the coast.

During this time, the Portuguese government effectively abandoned the territory, and did not resume the decolonisation process.

However, Macau did not develop as a major settlement until the Portuguese arrived in the 16th century.

But not until 1557 did the Portuguese establish a permanent settlement in Macau, at an annual rent of 500 taels ( 20 kilograms / 44 pounds ) of silver.

The successful Portuguese efforts to control the Atlantic coast in the 15th century did not affect the Mediterranean heart of Morocco.

The Portuguese did not settle there permanently, but used the site for landing and engaged in commerce in the region.

The steady growth of influence and prestige of the Federal League frightened the Portuguese government, which did not want the League's republicanism to spread to the adjoining Portuguese colony of Brazil.

Emden argued that the Zohar misquotes passages of Scripture ; misunderstands the Talmud ; contains some ritual observances which were ordained by later rabbinical authorities ; mentions The Crusades against Muslims ( who did not exist in the 2nd century ); uses the expression " esnoga ," a Portuguese term for " synagogue "; and gives a mystical explanation of the Hebrew vowel-points, which were not introduced until long after the Talmudic period.

Unlike other European nations, the Portuguese regime did not leave its African colonies, or the overseas provinces, during the 1950s and 1960s.

The Portuguese, for the most part, were more interested in economic and trading relations with the regional powers and did little to interfere with Brunei's development.

However, the Portuguese did not give up their exploratory efforts.

Portugal sought in Mozambique, as it did in all its colonies, to Europeanize the local population and assimilate them into Portuguese culture.

As part of its policy of assimilation, the Portuguese sought to break down the African legal system and did not study or codify much of it.

The strong industrial and agricultural development that did occur throughout the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s was based on Portuguese development plans, and also included British and South African investment.

He did, however, redeem himself in injury time when a French defender fumbled the ball, enabling a Portuguese player to mount a last-moment attack.

As Tetum did not have any official recognition or support under either Portuguese or Indonesian rule, it is only recently that a standardised orthography has been established by the National Institute of Linguistics ( INL ).

This largesse ultimately backfired on the Portuguese, however, as literate Cape Verdeans became aware of the pressures for independence building on the mainland, while the islands continued suffering from frequent drought and famine, at times from epidemic diseases and volcanic eruptions, and the Portuguese government did nothing.

Unlike other European nations, the Portuguese regime did not leave its African colonies or the overseas provinces ( províncias ultramarinas ), during the 1950s and 1960s.

Mozambique's Portuguese population in a vengeful turn of events were ordered to leave the country within 24 hours, an order which was given by Armando Guebuza.

Panicked Portuguese left the country via plane, road and sea and had to leave behind all their assets, returning to Portugal where they became destitute and fell under the ridicule of the European Portuguese who saw their rehabilitation as a burden on the country's meagre resources.

This does not mean that relations were always cordial, such as in 1536 when the Portuguese attacked the Muslims in the Moluccas and the ambassador to the Brunei court had to leave because of the sultan's hostility.

The Black West Indians, unlike the Portuguese, were British citizens, and not obliged to leave Bermuda, as many Portuguese were, at the end of a contracted period.

They refused to leave, being familiar with the Portuguese as slave-hunters.

* 1916-Rhenish missionaries are forced to leave Ondjiva in southern Angola under pressure from the Portuguese authorities and Chief Mandume of the Kwanyama.

He then faced Portugal, and several violent tackles by the Portuguese defenders caused him to leave the match and the tournament.

However, with his death, eunuch influence at court was challenged by Yang Tinghe, who announced the rejection of the Portuguese embassy under Pires and Andrade the day after the emperor's death ; the embassy was forced to leave and arrived back in Canton in September.

Earlier, in April and May 1521, five Portuguese ships docked at Tuen Mun to begin trading, but were ordered to leave once officials came to the region to announce the emperor's death.

The prisoners of these sea battles were eventually executed in 1523 for crimes of " robbery in the high seas " and cannibalism, while Tomé Pires was kept prisoner so that he could write letters to the King of Portugal, the Viceroy of Portuguese India, and the Governor of Malacca conveying the new Ming emperor's message that the Portuguese should leave Malacca and restore it to the rightful rule of its deposed king.

They were about to leave for the West Indies when they encountered a fleet of 42 Portuguese ships in the Todos os Santos ' Bay, waiting for two men-of-war of 70 guns each to escort them to Lisbon.

The war lasted thirteen years and devastated Portuguese society, forcing many thousands of Portuguese citizens to leave the country, both to seek a better future in countries like France, Germany or Switzerland and to escape conscription.

From 1954, peaceful Satyagrahis attempts from outside Goa at forcing the Portuguese to leave Goa were brutally suppressed.

A flourishing Jewish community lived in Recife under them and they had to leave it because of the Portuguese Inquisition.

* March 13 – Portuguese pilots Captain Gago Coutinho and Captain Sacadura Cabral leave Lisbon to attempt the first aerial crossing of the South Atlantic.

" But the Portuguese did not leave the English club.

In the 17th century many Christians of the Kerala region in India decided to leave the Church of Malabar — the local Church that had been connected to the Church of the East and since the second half of 16th century was under Portuguese control — and to align themselves under the hierarchy of the Syriac Orthodox Church.

With it, the Portuguese would retire from the Río de la Plata and leave the Banda Oriental for Spain, but in exchange Spain would leave for them the area of Rio Grande do Sul.

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.

India uses common law except in the state of Goa which retains the Portuguese civil code.

The exception to this rule is in the state of Goa, where a Portuguese uniform civil code is in place, in which all religions have a common law regarding marriages, divorces and adoption.

Portuguese women in Goa, India, 16th century

From August until March 1542 he remained in Mozambique, having reached Goa, then capital of Portuguese India's on 6 May 1542, and also visiting Vasai.

The Portuguese soon set up trading posts in Goa, Daman, Diu and Bombay.

Although these continental European powers controlled various coastal regions of southern and eastern India during the ensuing century, they eventually lost all their territories in India to the British islanders, with the exception of the French outposts of Pondicherry and Chandernagore, the Dutch port of Travancore, and the Portuguese colonies of Goa, Daman and Diu.

The European powers had control of other parts of Asia by the 1900s, such as British India, French Indochina, Spanish East Indies, and Portuguese Macau and Goa.

In 1510, the Portuguese seized Goa on the coast of India, which Portugal held until 1961.

The Portuguese, based at Goa and Malacca, had now established a lucrative maritime empire in the Indian Ocean meant to monopolise the spice trade.

In 1639 it acquired Madras on the east coast of India, where it quickly surpassed Portuguese Goa as the principal European trading centre on the Indian Subcontinent.

* 1946 – Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, a Socialist, calls for a Direct Action Day against the Portuguese in Goa.

* 1874 – Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos is appointed the Archbishop of the Portuguese colonial enclave of Goa.

Also in the small state of Goa, a civil code based on the old Portuguese Family Laws was allowed to continue, and Muslim Personal law was prohibited by Nehru.

After years of failed negotiations, Nehru authorized the Indian Army to liberate Goa in 1961 from Portuguese occupation, and then he formally annexed it to India.

The instrument is also very popular in Goa, India ( a former Portuguese colony ).

The sailors later established posts at Goa in 1510, and conquered Malacca in 1511, driving the Sultan to the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula from where he kept making raids on the Portuguese.

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.

In 1558 the Portuguese established a small garrison with a Viador ( Viyazoru ), or overseer of a factory ( trading post ) in the Maldives, which they administered from their main colony in Goa.

* 1542 – Francis Xavier reaches Old Goa, the capital of Portuguese India at the time.

Its first known permanent resident was Portuguese, Fernão Lopez who had turned traitor in India and had been mutilated by order of Albuquerque, the Governor of Goa.

* December 18 – India opens hostilities in its annexation of Portuguese India, the colonies of Goa, Damao and Diu.

** Portuguese surrender Goa to India after 400 years of Portuguese rule.