History of Portugal for Everyone

Massacre of Jews in Portugal D. Manuel was a very religious man, he invested a good part of the country's fortune in churches and convents, as well as sending enough missionaries for the evangelization of the new colonies. Picture 1- King of Portugal- D. Manuel I However the darkest part of his reign came about with the persecution of Jews and Muslims in Portugal to please the Catholic kings of Spain and to fulfill the clauses of his marriage contract with the heiress of Spain, Isabel de Castile, with whom he married in 1497 From this religious political attitude the 1506 Massacre of Lisbon was developed by a multitude of Portuguese Christians who persecuted, raped, tortured and killed hundreds of Jews (more than 4,000) accused of being the cause of a drought, famine and plague in the country This event took place before the beginning of the Inquisition in Portugal and 9 years after the forced conversion of the Jews into new Christians. This massacre lasted 3 ...

JAPAN The Portuguese navigators António da Mota and António Peixoto and Francisco Zeimoto will have arrived for the first time in Japan Picture 1- Map of Japan Picture 2- Arrival of the Portuguese to Japan It is known that the first Portuguese to contact Japan will have been merchants and adventurers who were exploring Portuguese India and China, one of these men could indeed have been Francisco Zeimoto. Francisco and his colleagues António da Mota and António Peixoto will have finally arrived in Japan on September 23, 1543, and this contact was reported by the chronicler Fernão Mendes Pinto and according to this the island of Tanegashima was the first place visited by the Portuguese that frightened Its inhabitants with their reports, customs and clear with the novelty of the art of arms. Picture 3- Map of  Tanegashima Island Picture 4- Island of Tanegashima Francisco Zeimoto offered the governor of the island his weapon and demonstra...

Australia and New Zealand The Portuguese explorer, Cristóvão Mendonça in 1521 departs from Malacca on an expedition to discover the golden islands, located south of East India, but ends up discovering Australia and New Zealand Picture 1- Cristóvão Mendonça The trip to Australia was kept secret because this territory did not belong to Portugal, according to what was stipulated in the Treaty of Tordesilhas. Reason why there is no documentary evidence of the Portuguese discovery to Australia Picture 2- Map of  Australia and New Zealand In a publication in the Australian newspaper "The Sydney Morning Herald" on 19 March 2007 journalist Peter Trickett confirms the veracity of the Portuguese presence on Australian soil, since according to a study of this journalist on a world map or map of Dieppe, Mundi that were produced in the city of Dieppe, France, in the sixteenth century based on the Portuguese maps) we can see that on the coast lestes and south Austr...

Fernão de Magalhães Picture 1- Fernão de Magalhães It was a Portuguese navigator who stood out for being the 1st to make the first circumnavigation trip (the 1st trip around the world) In 1517 he leaves for Seville and decides to help Spain to reach the Moluccas to the West, by seas not reserved to the Portuguese as it was conceived in the Treaty of Tordesilhas. His voyage back to the world performed in the service of the King of Spain, Charles V. Its journey begins then in the year of 1519 until 1522 It was the first to reach the land of Fire in the extreme south of the American continent, and reached the Magellan Strait (a navigable passage of 600 km south of South America) crosses the Pacific Ocean - name attributed by Fernão de Magalhães - to think that This ocean was more Pacific than the Atlantic Ocean Picture 2-  Map of Terra de Fogo, reached by Fernão de Magalhães, located South in South America Picture 3-  Strait of Magellan, name giv...

MADAGASCAR, MALAYSIA, INDONESIA and TIMOR-LESTE Diogo Dias   It was the Portuguese Navigator who participated in the expedition led by Pedro Álvares Cabral, who arrives in Brazil, but moving away from the expedition on August 10, 1500, he discovers an island that gives the name of São Lourenço because it is a commemorative day for this saint This island is named Madagascar Picture 1- Map of Madagascar Afonso Albuquerque Picture 2- Afonso Albuquerque Afonso Albuquerque, who in August 1511 conquered Malacca (capital of Malaysia), and from Malacca reached the Spice Island in November, the Moluccas Island, which belongs to the Indonesian archipelago, ending the secret of the location Of these islands by the Arabs. The Portuguese António Abreu arrives at the Moluccas, Timor- Leste and the Banda Islands (Bante) - group of 10 islands belonging to Indonesia in 1512. Picture 3-  Island of the Moluccas or the Spices belong to the Archipelago of I...