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Name: cape verde

Type: Cluster

Start: 1463 AD

End: 2022 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Portuguese Cape Verde (Colony)
  • Cape Verde (Castile)
  • Cape Verde (Spain)
  • Portuguese Cape Verde (Province)
  • Cape Verde
  • Establishment


  • January 1463: The Portuguese returned six years later to the island of São Tiago to found Ribeira Grande, in 1462—the first permanent European settlement city in the tropics.
  • Chronology


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    1. War of the Castilian Succession


    1475 - 4 September 1479: military conflict contested from 1475 to 1479 for the succession of the Crown of Castile fought between the supporters of Joanna 'la Beltraneja', reputed daughter of the late monarch Henry IV of Castile, and those of Henry's half-sister, Isabella, who was ultimately successful.

  • January 1477: Castilian fleets fought in the Atlantic Ocean, temporarily occupying the Cape Verde islands (1476).
  • January 1479: Personal Union of Aragon and Castile.
  • September 1479: With the Treaty of Alcáçovas in 1479 Castile, while retaining her rights in the Canaries, recognized the Portuguese monopoly of fishing and navigation along the whole west African coast and Portugal's rights over the Madeira, Azores and Cape Verde islands.

  • 2. War of the Portuguese Succession


    Was a succession crisis caused by the death of the King of Portugal without heirs. The conflict saw two main claimants to the Portuguese throne: António, Prior of Crato, proclaimed in several towns as King of Portugal, and his first cousin Philip II of Spain, who eventually succeeded in claiming the crown, reigning as Philip I of Portugal.

  • October 1580: Philip II of Spain succeeded in claiming the Portuguese crown, reigning as Philip I of Portugal.

  • 3. Portuguese Restoration War


    Was a revolution organized by the Portuguese nobility and bourgeoisie sixty years after the crowning of Philip I (Philip II of Spain), the first "dual monarch", that ended the Iberian Union.

  • November 1640: A revolution organized by the nobility and bourgeoisie on 1 December 1640, sixty years after the crowning of Philip I (Philip II of Spain), the first "dual monarch", ended the Iberian Union between Portugal and Spain.

  • 4. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1952: In 1951, Portugal changed Cape Verde's status from a colony to an overseas province in an attempt to blunt growing nationalism.

  • July 1975: On 30 June 1975 Cape Verdeans elected a National Assembly which received the instruments of independence from Portugal on 5 July 1975.

  • Selected Sources


  • Fernández Álvarez, M. (1998): Felipe II y su tiempo, cuarta edición, p. 523
  • de Oliveira Marques , A. H. R.(1972): History of Portugal, Columbia University Press, p. 322-325
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