Kingdom of Mutapa (Portugal)

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Period of Vassalage of the Mutapa Kingdom to the Portuguese.

Establishment

January 1630: In 1629 the Mwenemutapa attempted to throw out the Portuguese. He failed and in turn he himself was overthrown, leading to the Portuguese installation of Mavura Mhande Felipe on the throne. Mutapa signed treaties making it a Portuguese vassal and ceding gold mines, but none of these concessions were ever put into effect. Mutapa remained nominally independent, though practically a client state.

Chronology

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1. 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.

2. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

January 1651: The Barotse, also known as the Lozi people, established their kingdom along the Zambezi River in the 17th Century. By 1650, their territory extended from Southern Rhodesia to the Congo and from Angola to the Kafue River.

January 1676: A local leader, Changamire Dombo, developed a military force which became, in the 1670s, predominant on the north-eastern plateau of Zimbabwe.

January 1695: Vassalage to the Rozwi Empire from 1663 until the Portuguese return in 1694.

Disestablishment

January 1696: In 1695, Changamire Dombo overran the gold-producing kingdom of Manyika and took his army east and destroyed the Portuguese fair-town of Masikwesi.