The known and sometimes formally documented history of Mauritius begins with its possible discovery by Austronesians under the Austronesian expansion from pre-Han Taiwan,circa 1500 to 1000 BC,and then by Arabs,,followed by Portuguese and its appearance on European maps in the early 16th century. Mauritius was successively colonized by the Netherlands,France and Great Britain,and became independent on 12 March 1968.
Sebastian was King of Portugal from 11 June 1557 to 4 August 1578 and the penultimate Portuguese monarch of the House of Aviz.
D. Pedro Mascarenhas was a Portuguese explorer and colonial administrator. He was the first European to discover the island of Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean in 1512. He also encountered the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius in 1512,although he may not have been the first Portuguese explorer to do so;earlier expeditions by Diogo Dias and Afonso de Albuquerque along with Diogo Fernandes Pereira may have encountered the islands. In 1528 explorer Diogo Rodrigues named the islands of Réunion,Mauritius,and Rodrigues the Mascarene Islands,after the name of Mascarenhas.
Francisco Barreto was a Portuguese soldier and explorer. An officer in Morocco during his early life,Barreto sailed to Portuguese India and was eventually appointed viceroy of the colony. After his return to Lisbon,he was tasked with an expedition to southeast Africa in search of legendary gold mines. Barreto died in what is now Mozambique,having never reached the mines.
Francisco de Mascarenhas was the 1st count of Vila da Horta,the 1st count of Santa Cruz and the 13th viceroy of Portuguese controlled India from 1581 until 1584,captain of donatary of the islands of Flores and Corvo.
Lambert Mascarenhas was an Indian journalist,independence activist,and writer.
Telo de Mascarenhas was a writer,a poet,a journalist and freedom-fighter from Goa.
D. António de Almeida Soares de Portugal,1st Count and 1st Marquess of Lavradio,4th Count of Avintes,Governor General of Angola and Viceroy of Brazil. Born in Lisbon,Portugal on 1 May 1701;died in São Salvador da Bahia,Brazil on 4 July 1760. The first Marquess of Lavradio was a prominent Portuguese statesman and the head of an established noble family.
Domingos António da Silva,known as Mascarenhas,was an Angolan footballer who played as a forward.
The action of 12–17 January 1640 was a naval battle between a Dutch fleet and a combined Spanish-Portuguese fleet during the Eighty Years' War. The battle took place on the Brazilian coast off Pernambuco and was an attempt by a fleet consisting of approximately eighty vessels transporting about 5,000 soldiers under the command of Portuguese Admiral Fernando de Mascarenhas to land reinforcements to bolster the Portuguese militia besieging the city of Recife. On 12 January this fleet was intercepted by a Dutch task force of about forty ships commanded by Willem Loos. The ensuing battle lasted with occasional breaks until the evening of 17 January,when the Spanish and Portuguese fleet retreated and sailed away to the north.
Fernando de Mascarenhas,1st Count of Torre was a Portuguese military and colonial administrator who held the position of governor-general of Brazil from 20 January 1639 to 20 November 1639,appointed by King Philip III.
Francisco de Meneses was the 3rd Governor of Portuguese Ceylon. de Meneses was appointed in 1613 under Philip II of Portugal,he was Governor until 1614. He was succeeded by Manuel Mascarenhas Homem.
Manuel Mascarenhas Homem was a colonial governor. He was appointed in under Philip II of Portugal,Governor of Pernambuco between 1596 and 1605. In 1614,he was the Governor of Portuguese Ceylon,serving until 1616 and being succeeded by Nuno Álvares Pereira.
António Mascarenhas was the 14th Governor of Portuguese Ceylon. Mascarenhas was appointed in 1638 under Philip III of Portugal and was Governor until 1640. He was succeeded by Filipe Mascarenhas.
Manuel Mascarenhas Homem was the Governor of Portuguese Ceylon and viceroy of Portuguese India.
General Vasco Mascarenhas,1st Count of Óbidos,OC,was a Portuguese nobleman and colonial governor,who was Governor General of Brazil,Viceroy of Brazil and Viceroy of India.
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The Fort São João da Barra also known as Fort São João Baptista or Fort Conceição,is located to the east of the town of Cabanas de Tavira,on a small hill below the Ria Formosa in the municipality of Tavira,in Algarve,southern Portugal.
The siege of Bintan of 1526 was a military operation in which Portuguese forces successfully sieged,assaulted and destroyed the city of Bintan,capital of the former Sultan of Malacca Mahmud Shah.
