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Historic period when Angola was under Portuguese rule. The Portuguese gradually colonised Angola starting from the coast in the 18th century.
Establishment
January 1576: In 1575, the settlement of Luanda was established on the coast south of the Kongo Kingdom.
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.
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.
Was a global conflict between the Portuguese Empire and the Dutch Empire. The conflict primarily saw the Dutch companies invading Portuguese colonies in the Americas, Africa, and the East Indies.
3.1.Operations in West Africa and Angola
Were the military operations of the Dutch in West Africa and Angola during the Dutch-Portuguese War.
August 1648: Portuguese forces defeated the Dutch in Luanda and Benguela, securing control of Angola.
3.1.1.Dutch Invasion of Portuguese Africa
Was the Dutch invasion of Portuguese Angola during the Dutch-Portuguese War.
August 1641: In 1641, a Dutch fleet under the command of Cornelis Jol, seized Luanda from the Portuguese.
August 1641: The Dutch ruled Angola from August 26, 1641.
The Kasanje Kingdom was incorporated into Portuguese Angola in 1910-1911.
January 1912: Kasanje was incorporated into Portuguese Angola in 1910-1911.
Was a global conflict between two coalitions, the Allies (primarily France, the United Kingdom, Russia, Italy, Japan, and the United States) and the Central Powers (led by Germany, Austria-Hungary, and the Ottoman Empire). It was mainly caused by the competition of the western countries over domain in Europe and in the rest of the world with their colonial empires. The war ended with the defeat of the Central Powers. The war also caused the Russian Revolution and the ensuing Russian Civil War.
5.1.World War I African Theatre
Was the African Theatre of World War I.
5.1.1.German campaign in Angola
German and Portuguese troops clashed several times on the border between German South West Africa and Portuguese Angola.
December 1914: On 18 December the largest clash of the German campaign in Angola occurred. A German force of 2,000 men under the command of Major Victor Franke attacked Portuguese forces positioned at Naulila. After stubborn resistance, the Portuguese were forced to withdraw towards the Humbe region.
December 1914: After the explosion of the munitions magazine at Forte Roçadas base, the Portuguese also left the Humbe to the German army, withdrawing farther north.
July 1915: Portuguese forces under the command of General Pereira d'Eça reoccupied the Humbe region.
Was a war fought between the Mbunda people of Angola and the Portuguese in 1914.
January 1915: The Mbunda Kingdom was ultimately conquered in a war with Portugal in 1914, called the Kolongongo War.
January 1618: In 1617, the territory of Benguela was officially incorporated into the Portuguese colony of Angola.
January 1650: Salvador Correia de Sá e Benevides, the new governor, made destroying Kasanze his first priority. He sent a force under Diogo Gomes de Sampaio including the Imbangala chief Kabuka ka Ndonga to face panji a ndona's forces. The Portuguese force was victorious. Panji a Ndona fled north but was overwhelmed by Portuguese ammunition, surrendering in 1649.
January 1658: Portuguese conquest of the Kingdom of Ngola-Ndongo.
January 1701: The chiefdom of Mbailundu was established in part of the Kimbundu speaking-areas of Angola by Katiavala I in ca. 1700.
January 1759: After a number of unsuccessful attempts, the Portuguese built a fort at Encoge, not far to the south of Mbwila in an attempt to control the trade in 1758.
January 1801: Control of most of the central highlands of Angola was achieved by the Portuguese in the 18th century.
January 1801: In 1800, Kahala I Kanene, a prominent leader of the Wambu people, took control of the territory that is now the actual Huambo province in Angola.
January 1836: Ndumbu Saciyambu becomes the first king of the chiefdom of Kalukembe.
January 1863: In 1862, Portuguese explorer Serpa Pinto led an expedition to the Cuango basin in Angola, a colony at the time. The lack of land routes forced them to navigate through the river courses to establish control over the interior regions.
January 1873: The region between Zeuza and Dande, which was located in present-day Angola, was under Portuguese colonial rule from 1872.
January 1885: At the start of the colonial era (1884), the Lunda heartland was divided between Portuguese Angola, King Leopold II of Belgium's Congo Free State and the British in North-Western Rhodesia, which became Angola, DR Congo and Zambia respectively.
February 1885: The Berlin Conference divides Africa: parts of the Congo absorbed by France, Belgium and Portugal.
January 1886: The Kakongo Kingdom is incorporated into Portuguese Angola.
January 1887: Cubango basin conquered by portugal.
January 1896: Expansion of Angola into the Zambezi basin (1895-1896).
January 1896: Cuanza basin conquered by portugal.
January 1901: The Kingdom of Matamba was only integrated into Angola in the late nineteenth century.
January 1903: The State of Wambu was extinguished by Portugal in 1902.
January 1904: The Bailundo Kingdom was only subdued by the Portuguese Colonial Empire in 1903.
January 1904: The Portuguese effectively annexed the lands of the Ovimbundu to the colony of Angola only in 1903.
January 1907: Portuguese conquest of the Cunene Basin (Angola).
January 1914: The borders are finalized according to the Berlin Conference agreement (1884).
January 1921: Full Portuguese administrative control of the entire territory of Angola was not achieved until the beginning of the 20th century. "Effective occupation", as required by the Berlin Conference (1884) was achieved only by the 1920s.
January 1933: Cabinda was annexed to Portuguese Angola.
October 1951: Designation of Angola as an overseas province.
Disestablishment
October 1951: Designation of Angola as an overseas province.
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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Angola (Colony)
