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Even before the war's final resolution, the crown established the Overseas Council, conceived in 1642 on the short-lived model of the Council of India (1604–1614), and established in 1643, it was the governing body for most of the Portuguese overseas empire. The exceptions were North Africa, Madeira, and the Azores.
The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis.. The Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, which lasted almost two centuries, led to the establishment of the provinces of Lusitania in the south and Gallaecia in the north of what is now Portugal.
See also Spanish–Portuguese War (1735–1737) 1534 Brazil according to the Treaty of Tordesillas. Earlier treaties, such as the Treaty of Tordesillas and the Treaty of Zaragoza, drawn up by both countries and mediated by Pope Alexander VI, stipulated that the Portuguese empire in South America could extend no further west than 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands (called the ...
King John IV of Portugal, the first Braganza to reign. The Curse of the Braganzas (in Portuguese a Maldição dos Braganças) is a myth, referred to in several historical chronicles, concerning the House of Braganza, that ruled the Kingdom of Portugal (1640–1910), the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves (1815–1822) and the Empire of Brazil (1822–1889) and, therefore, all ...
Portuguese presence in Africa started in 1415 with the conquest of Ceuta and is generally viewed as ending in 1975, with the independence of its later colonies, although the present autonomous region of Madeira is located in the African Plate, some 650 km (360 mi) off the North African coast, Madeira belongs and has always belonged ethnically, culturally, economically and politically to Europe ...
Portuguese Empire: Tokugawa shogunate: Defeat: Battle of Swally (1612) Location: Indian subcontinent. Portuguese Empire. Portuguese India; English East India Company: Defeat: Cummean Revolt (1617–1621) Location: Brazil. Portuguese Empire. State of Brazil; Tupinambá people: Victory: Sack of Madeira (1617) Location: Iberian Peninsula. Kingdom ...
From the House of Braganza restoration in 1640 until the end of the reign of the Marquis of Pombal in 1777, the Kingdom of Portugal was in a transition period. Having been near its height at the start of the Iberian Union, the Portuguese Empire continued to enjoy the widespread influence in the world during this period that had characterized the period of the Discoveries.
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 ...