Mbwila

This article is about the specific polity Mbwila 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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Was a precolonial polity in Angola, first mentioned only in the early seventeenth century. It was made a vassal of Portugal for a period of 80 years, but was then independent again until 1758 when it was definitively annexed to Portuguese Angola.

Establishment

January 1601: The origins of the polity of Mbwila are unknown, and it is first mentioned only in the early seventeenth century.

Chronology

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1. Events

January 1621: The Kasanje Kingdom was formed in 1620 by a mercenary band of Imbangala, which had deserted the Portuguese ranks.

January 1621: In 1619-20, Portuguese forces from the colony of Angola, founded in 1575, attacked Mbwila and forced its ruler to sign an act of vassalage.

January 1631: In 1627-30, when the Portuguese were seeking to subdue the forces of Queen Njinga of Ndongo, Mbwila ceased to be obedient to Portugal.

January 1694: Portugal sent another major army to attack Mbwila and reassert its vassalage in 1692-3.

January 1701: The chiefdom of Mbailundu was established in part of the Kimbundu speaking-areas of Angola by Katiavala I in ca. 1700.

January 1701: End of Mbwila vassalage to Portugal.

Disestablishment

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.