17 June 1591 –24 August 1599
Aires de Saldanha (Santarém,Portugal,10 May 1542 - Terceira,19 August 1605) was a Portuguese soldier. He was the son of António de Saldanha,military and navigator who discovered the bay of Saldanha. He went to Portuguese India in 1558,with the viceroy Constantino of Braganza,this time serving for twelve years in the region.
He returned to Portugal in 1570,where he married Joana de Albuquerque,soon after he returned to India,this time with the Viceroy Rui Lourenço de Távora. [1] He was appointed captain of Portuguese Malacca,where he built the fort of Tidor. Returning to Portugal,he was appointed governor of Tangier,a position he held for 9 years.
In 1600,he was named 17th Viceroy of India [2] and 34th Governor of India. [3] During his viceroyalty,in addition to financial difficulties,had to struggle against the Dutch on several fronts,defending Cochim and Goa,and repel them in the Moluccas.
He died during his return to Portugal,near the island of Terceira,being first buried in Angra do Heroísmo,after his body was moved to Santarém.
A viceroy is an official who reigns over a polity in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory.
Dona Maria II "the Educator" or "the Good Mother",was Queen of Portugal from 1826 to 1828,and again from 1834 to 1853. Her supporters considered her to be the rightful queen also during the period between her two reigns.
DomMiguel I,nicknamed "the Absolutist","the Traditionalist" and "the Usurper",was the King of Portugal between 1828 and 1834. He was the seventh child and third son of King John VI and Queen Carlota Joaquina.
Santarém is a Portuguese city and municipality located in the district of Santarém. The population of the historic Ribatejo capital in 2021 was 58,671,in an area of 552.54 km2. The population of the city proper was 29,929 in 2012.
The State of India,also known as the Portuguese State of India or Portuguese India,was a state of the Portuguese Empire founded six years after the discovery of the sea route to the Indian subcontinent by Vasco da Gama,a subject of the Kingdom of Portugal. The capital of Portuguese India served as the governing centre of a string of military forts and maritime ports scattered along the coasts of the Indian Ocean.
João Baptista da Silva Leitão de Almeida Garrett,1st Viscount of Almeida Garrett was a Portuguese poet,orator,playwright,novelist,journalist,politician,and a peer of the realm. A major promoter of theater in Portugal he is considered the greatest figure of Portuguese Romanticism and a true revolutionary and humanist. He proposed the construction of the D. Maria II National Theatre and the creation of the Conservatory of Dramatic Art.
The Iberian Union is a historiographical term used to describe the personal union of the Kingdom of Portugal with the Monarchy of Spain,which in turn was itself the dynastic union of the crowns of Castile and Aragon,and of their respective colonial empires,that existed between 1580 and 1640 and brought the entire Iberian Peninsula except Andorra,as well as Portuguese and Spanish overseas possessions,under the Spanish Habsburg monarchs Philip II,Philip III,and Philip IV. The union began after the Portuguese succession crisis of 1580 and the ensuing War of the Portuguese Succession,and lasted until the Portuguese Restoration War,during which the House of Braganza was established as Portugal's new ruling dynasty with the acclamation of John IV as the new king of Portugal.
This is a historical timeline of Portugal.
Fort Vasai is a ruined fort of the town of Vasai (Bassein),Konkan Division,Maharashtra,India. The structure was formally christened as the Fort of St Sebastian in the Indo-Portuguese era. The fort is a monument of national importance and is protected by the Archaeological Survey of India.
D. João de Castro was a Portuguese nobleman,scientist,writer and colonial administrator,being the fourth Portuguese Viceroy of India from 1545 to 1548. He was called Strong Castro by the poet Luís de Camões. De Castro was the second son of Álvaro de Castro,the civil governor of Lisbon. His wife was Leonor Coutinho.
Freeman Freeman-Thomas,1st Marquess of Willingdon,styled as the Earl of Willingdon between 1931 and 1936,was a British Liberal politician and administrator who served as Governor General of Canada and as Viceroy and Governor-General of India.
Luís da Silva Mouzinho de Albuquerque was a Portuguese military officer,engineer,poet,scientist and politician,who distinguished himself during the Liberal Wars and in the conflicts that marked Portugal's history in the first half of the 19th century. He served as the Minister of the Kingdom during the liberal regency of Pedro of Braganza. This was the most prominent post inside the government at that time,which made him the Prime Minister of Portugal in all but name. He was also several times minister and deputy minister during the Constitutional Monarchical period. Among other offices,he served as Chief of the National Mint,captain-general and governor of Madeira,and inspector-general of public works. He was the grandfather of Joaquim Augusto Mouzinho de Albuquerque,a military officer and colonial administrator.
António de Saldanha was a Castilian-Portuguese 16th-century captain. He was the first European to set anchor in what is now called Table Bay,South Africa,and made the first recorded ascent of Table Mountain.
Bombay,also called Bom Bahia or Bom Baim in Indo-Portuguese creole,Mumbai in the local language;is the financial and commercial capital of India and one of the most populous cities in the world. It's also the cosmopolitan city centre of the Greater Bombay Metropolitan Area,and the cultural base of the Bollywood film industry. At the time of arrival of the Portuguese Armadas,Bombay was an archipelago of seven islands. Between the third century BCE and 1348,the islands came under the control of successive Hindu dynasties. The Delhi Sultanate had been ruling the area along with Chaul,New Bombay (Thana) &Damaon;with the local administration at Bassein (Vasai) since the raids of Malik Kafur in the Konkan region and across the Indian subcontinent. This territory in North Konkan along with the Bombay islands were later taken over by the Sultan of Guzerat from 1391 to 1534,when he had declared the end of the suzerainty to Delhi,after the Timurid invasion of it. Growing apprehensive of the power of the Moghal emperor Humayun,Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat was obliged to sign the Treaty of Bassein on 23 December 1534;according to which,the Seven Islands of Bombay,Fort San Sebastian of Bassein in strategic town of Bassein (Vasai),and its dependencies were offered to the Portuguese East Indies. The places were only later officially surrendered on 25 October 1535,by the Sultan of Guzerat.
Bernardo Peres da Silva was a Portuguese politician and former medical practitioner who served as a governor of Portuguese India from January to February 1835. He was the first and only native Goan to be appointed to this post during the 451 years of Portuguese colonial and provincial governance. He was also one of the first elected representatives in the Portuguese Parliament from its overseas Indian colonies.
João Carlos Gregório Domingos Vicente Francisco de Saldanha Oliveira e Daun,1st Duke of Saldanha was a Portuguese marshal and statesman.
Jorge Cabral was a Portuguese nobleman,soldier and explorer who was the 15th ruler of Portuguese India as governor from 13 June 1549 to November 1550.
The Luso–Maratha War was an armed conflict between the Portuguese in Goa and Bombay and the Mahratta Confederacy,who invaded and raided Portugal-controlled villages near the walled city of Damaon.
Adil Shahi–Portuguese conflicts refers to the various armed engagements that took place in India between the Portuguese Empire and the Sultanate of Bijapur,ruled by the Adil Shahi dynasty,whose rulers were known to the Portuguese as Hidalcão.