Portuguese Guinea
This article is about the specific polity Portuguese Guinea and therefore only includes events related to its territory and not to its possessions or colonies. If you are interested in the possession, this is the link to the article about the nation which includes all possessions as well as all the different incarnations of the nation.
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The Portuguese started the colonization of modern-day Guinea-Bissau in 1474. The interior of the country was added in the XIX century. It gained independency as the Republic of Guinea-Bissau in 1973.
Establishment
January 1475: Previously, since 1474, Portugal rented land along rivers to set up trading posts.
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 an armed independence conflict that took place in Portuguese Guinea between 1963 and 1974.
September 1973: Independence of Guinea-Bissau.
September 1974: The war ended when Portugal, after the Carnation Revolution of 1974, granted independence to Guinea-Bissau.
January 1646: The first European settlement in Ziguinchor was founded by the Portuguese in 1645. This marked the beginning of Portuguese Guinea, a territory established by the Portuguese in West Africa.
January 1801: During the 19th century, Portuguese explorers and traders established settlements along the rivers of Guinea, including Bissau, Cacheu, and Ziguinchor. These settlements were key points for trade and colonization in Portuguese Guinea, now known as Guinea Bissau.
January 1801: Further British interest in the area led to a brief attempt in the 1790s to establish a base on the island of Bolama, where there was no evidence of any continuous Portuguese presence.
January 1838: Official Portuguese occupation of the island of Bolama in 1837.
January 1842: The beginning of the invasion of Guinea by the Portuguese can be estimated around 1841, when the first Portuguese books relating to Guinea were published.
January 1851: Fouladou was a kingdom created in Senegal, between the middle and the end of the 19th century.
April 1888: The town of Ziguinchor was eventually handed over to France, in a deal brokered amongst the colonial powers at the Berlin conference of 1886.
January 1891: By 1890, the colony of Senegal practically covered all the territories of modern-day Senegal.
January 1904: Portuguese forces suppressed the state of N'Gabu and integrated it into Portuguese Guinea.
Disestablishment
September 1974: The war ended when Portugal, after the Carnation Revolution of 1974, granted independence to Guinea-Bissau.
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
