* 1808 – Battle of Vimeiro: British and Portuguese forces led by General Arthur Wellesley defeat French force under Major-General Jean-Andoche Junot near the village of Vimeiro, Portugal, the first Anglo-Portuguese victory of the Peninsular War.

A fishing colony was established on the island about 1521 – 22 by the Portuguese under João Álvares Fagundes.

Between 1580 and 1640 the Crown of Portugal and the Crown of Spain were held by the same kings and therefore Casablanca and all other areas occupied by the Portuguese were under Spanish control, even though maintaining an autonomous Portuguese administration.

As Portugal broke the ties with the Spanish king in 1640, Casablanca came under fully Portuguese control once again.

Acting under a charter sanctioned by the Dutch government, the Dutch East India Company ( VOC ) defeated Portuguese forces and established itself in the Moluccan Islands in order to profit from the European demand for spices.

* 1542 – Portuguese under Christovão da Gama capture a Muslim-occupied hill fort in northern Ethiopia in the Battle of Baçente.

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.

By 1973 the PAIGC controlled most of the interior of the country, while the coastal and estuary towns, including the main populational and economic centres remained under Portuguese control.

A map of the Spanish and Portuguese Empires in the period of Iberian Union under the personal union of the Spanish monarchs ( 1580 – 1640 ).

Portuguese discoveries | Portuguese expeditions 1415 – 1542: arrival places and dates ; Portuguese spice trade routes in the Indian Ocean ( blue ); territories of the Portuguese empire under King John III of Portugal | King John III rule ( green )

The Portuguese presence in East Africa officially began after 1505, when flagships under the command of Dom Francisco de Almeida conquered Kilwa, an island located in what is now southern Tanzania.

Omani Arab colonization of the Kenyan and Tanzanian coasts brought the once independent city-states under closer foreign scrutiny and domination than was experienced during the Portuguese period.

In the 19th century, still under Portuguese rule, Luanda experienced a major economic revolution.

*** Governor of Macau ( under Portuguese rule, now replaced by Chief Executive )

China retained sovereignty and Chinese residents were subject to Chinese law, but the territory was under Portuguese administration.

In 1891 the Portuguese shifted the administration of much of the country to a large private company, under a charter granting sovereign rights for 50 years to the Mozambique Company, which, though it had its headquarters at Beira, was controlled and financed mostly by the British.

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.

When the Portuguese who were the first colonial power to dominate the island raised local militias under the command of local leaders known as Mudaliyars.

* Jorge Afonso, Portuguese Renaissance painter.

Among those in the picture are Monarchy of Belgium | King Albert II of Belgium | Albert II of the Belgians, U. S. President George W. Bush, President of the French Republic | French President Jacques Chirac, President of the Philippines | Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of Estonia | Estonian President Arnold Rüütel, and President of Portugal | Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio.

Panel of glazed tiles by Jorge Colaço ( 1922 ) depicting an episode from the battle of Aljubarrota ( 1385 ) between the Portuguese and Crown of Castile | Castilian armies.

* 1695 – Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho.

* 1971 – Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer

Little was known in the West about the island until the 19th century, although Portuguese and Spanish explorers, such as Dom Jorge de Meneses and Yñigo Ortiz de Retez, respectively, had encountered it as early as the 16th century.

In 1526 – 27, the Portuguese explorer Jorge de Menezes accidentally came upon the principal island and is credited with naming it Papua, a Malay word for the frizzled quality of Melanesian hair.

* 1939 – Jorge Sampaio, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 18th President of Portugal

* March 9 – Jorge Sampaio is the new Portuguese president.

** Jorge Costa, Portuguese footballer

** Jorge Andrade, Portuguese footballer

* May – Portuguese explorer Jorge Álvares lands on Lintin Island in the Pearl River estuary.

* The Portuguese erect the Fort of Sao Jorge de Mina ( Fort Elmina ) near the mouth of the River Benya on the Gold Coast.

Extra provisions were picked up on the way at the Portuguese fortress of São Jorge de Mina on the Gold Coast.

This was the main driving factor for the Portuguese explorations of the Indian Ocean, including the sea of China, resulting in the arrival in 1513 of the first European trading ship to the coasts of China, under Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, followed by the Fernão Pires de Andrade and Tomé Pires diplomatic and commercial mission of 1517, under the orders of Manuel I of Portugal, which opened formally relations between the Portuguese Empire and the Ming Dynasty during the reign of the Zhengde Emperor.

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.

Sannazaro's Arcadia-coupled with the Portuguese author Jorge de Montemayor's Diana ( Los siete libros de la Diana, 1559 ), itself indebted to Sannazaro's work-had a profound impact on literature throughout Europe up until the middle of the seventeenth century.

* Jorge Vala, Portuguese academic

Following independence in Malawi, Banda strengthened his relationship with the Portuguese colonial government by appointing Jorge Jardim as Malawi ’ s Honorary Consul in Mozambique in September 1964.

When in the early 16th century the Portuguese reached South-East Asia ( Afonso de Albuquerque conquering Malacca in 1511 ) and the southern coast of China ( Jorge Álvares reaching the Pearl River estuary in 1513 ), they started calling the country by the name used in South and South-East Asia.

The Dutch and later the Portuguese attempted several times to conquer Palmares, until an army led by famed São Paulo-born Domingos Jorge Velho managed to destroy the great quilombo and kill Zumbi in 1695.

The Venetian Sebastiano Caboto was Sebastián Caboto, Georg von Speyer hispanized as Jorge de la Espira, Eusebius Franz Kühn hispanicized as Eusebio Francisco Kino, Wenceslaus Linck was Wenceslao Linck, Ferdinand Konščak, was Fernando Consag, Amerigo Vespucci was Américo Vespucio, the Portuguese Aleixo Garcia was in Castilian army Alejo García etc.

* 1385 – Portuguese Crisis of 1383 – 1385: Battle of Aljubarrota – Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.

* 1500 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral lands in Brazil.

Francisco Álvares ( c. 1465, Coimbra-1536 ~ 1541, Rome ) was a Portuguese missionary and explorer.

* Pedro Álvares Cabral ( – ), Portuguese navigator and explorer.

* Pêro Vaz de Caminha ( – 1500 ), Portuguese explorer that accompanied Pedro Álvares Cabral in the discovery of Brazil.

* 1500: Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral claims Brazil for Portugal.

** Francisco Álvares, Portuguese missionary and explorer ( d. 1541 )

* April 22 – Portuguese navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral officially discovers Brazil and claims the land for Portugal.

* April 1 – Nuno Álvares Pereira, Portuguese general and religious figure

* July 24 – Nuno Álvares Pereira, Portuguese general

* January 1 – Portuguese explorers, led by Pedro Álvares Cabral, sail into Guanabara Bay, Brazil, mistaking it for the mouth of a river, which they name Rio de Janeiro.

Manuel Álvares ( 1526 – 1583 ), a Portuguese Jesuit educator, in his work " Ethiopia Minor and a geographical account of the Province of Sierra Leone ", writes about the " Biafar heathen " in chapter 13 of the same book.

July 25, 1415 marked the beginning of the Portuguese Empire, when the Portuguese Armada departed to the rich trade Islamic centre of Ceuta in North Africa with King John I and his wife Phillipa of Lancaster and their sons Prince Duarte ( future king ), Prince Pedro, Prince Henry the Navigator ( born in Porto in 1394 ) and Prince Afonso, and legendary Portuguese hero Nuno Álvares Pereira.

The follow-up expedition, the Second India Armada launched in 1500, was placed under the command Pedro Álvares Cabral, with the mission of making a treaty with the Zamorin of Calicut and setting up a Portuguese factory in the city.

João Álvares Fagundes and Pêro de Barcelos established fishing outposts in Newfoundland and Nova Scotia around 1521 CE ; however, these were later abandoned, with the Portuguese colonizers focusing their efforts on South America.

Mateus reached Portugal via Goa, having returned with a Portuguese embassy, along with priest Francisco Álvares in 1520.