arguin
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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.
The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:
Arguin (Portugal)
Arguin (Netherlands)
Arguin (Great Britain)
Arguin (France)
Arguin (Brandenburg)
Establishment
January 1446: In 1445, Prince Henry the Navigator set up a trading post on the island.
Chronology
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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.
January 1634: In 1633, during its Dutch-Portuguese War, the Netherlands seized control of Arguin.
January 1666: During the 17th century, Arguin was a key trading post in West Africa, controlled by the Dutch and later the French. In 1665, the English briefly took control of the territory before returning it to the French.
January 1667: In 1666, Arguin was under Dutch control until it was briefly interrupted by English rule in 1665. This period of shifting colonial powers was part of the broader competition for control of trade routes and resources in the region.
January 1679: France took over the island of Arguin in September 1678.
January 1686: In 1685, Captain Cornelius Reers of the frigate Rother Löwe occupied the old Portuguese fort on the island. He successfully concluded a treaty with the native king in which Brandenburg was accepted as a protecting power.
January 1722: Arguin remained a colony of Brandenburg until 1721 when the French successfully assaulted the fort and then took control of the island.
January 1723: The Dutch took Arguin from the French.
January 1725: Arguin conquered by france.
November 1960: Mauritania became independent from France in 1960 through the Franco-Mauritanian agreements. This marked the end of colonial rule in the region and the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.
Disestablishment
November 1960: Mauritania became independent from France in 1960 through the Franco-Mauritanian agreements. This marked the end of colonial rule in the region and the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania.
Selected Sources
Fernández Álvarez, M. (1998): Felipe II y su tiempo, cuarta edición, p. 523
