crown of Kongo was sent to Lisbon. Nevertheless, a diminished Kongo Kingdom would still exist until 1885, when the last Manicongo, Pedro V, ceded his...
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each other in a cavalry charge. 1384 Battle of Atoleiros 6 April – Nuno Álvares Pereira (Portuguese general) defeats Castile. Siege of Lisbon Portugal...
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first arrived in Brazil in April 1500, when a fleet commanded by Pedro Álvares Cabral on behalf of the Portuguese crown arrived in present-day Porto Seguro...
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of the Bakongo people and supporting the restoration of the historical Kongo Empire. It rapidly developed into a nationalist movement, supported in its...
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October 31 – Meindert Hobbema, Dutch painter (d. 1709) November 4 – Nuno Álvares Pereira de Melo, 1st Duke of Cadaval, Portuguese nobleman and statesman...
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