 Text search
 Related images
 HistoryWorld
 Link
 Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms. |
|  |
| | | | | | | |
|
| 1549 |
| | | Brazil becomes a Portuguese royal province, under the control of a governor general | |
| |
|
| 1549 |
| | | The first Portuguese governor general of Brazil selects Bahia (now Salvador) as his capital | |
| |
|
| c. 1550 |
| | | Africans, bought in the Portuguese trading posts of west Africa, are shipped across the Atlantic as slaves | |
| |
|
| 1557 |
| | | The Portuguese establish a trading post on Macao, a small peninsula off the south coast of China | |
| |
|
| c. 1625 |
| | | The Dutch gradually exclude the Portuguese from the immensely lucrative trade in cloves from the Spice Islands (or Moluccas) | |
| |
|
| 1641 |
| | | The Dutch expel the Portuguese from their trading posts in Malacca | |
| |
|
| 1656 |
| | | After a six-month siege, the Dutch capture Colombo from the Portuguese in Sri Lanka | |
| |
|
| 1658 |
| | | The Dutch expel the Portuguese from the last of their trading posts in Sri Lanka | |
| |
|
| 1668 |
| | | England's East India Company is granted a lease on Bombay by Charles II, who has received it from his Portuguese bride | |
| |
|
| 1698 |
| | | A fleet from Oman evicts the Portuguese from Mombasa and Zanzibar | |
| |
|
| | | | | |
| |