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Hace 2 días · John IV of Portugal At home, there was peace under the first two Spanish kings, Philip II and Philip III . They maintained Portugal's status, gave positions to Portuguese nobles in the Spanish courts , and Portugal maintained an independent law, currency and government.
Hace 2 días · St. Francis Xavier requesting John III of Portugal for a missionary expedition in Asia. In 1542, Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier arrived in Goa at the service of King John III of Portugal, in charge of an Apostolic Nunciature. At the same time Francisco Zeimoto, António Mota, and other traders arrived in Japan for the first time.
Hace 4 días · One of these was King John III of Portugal, who desired diligent priests to minister to the Christians and to evangelize the peoples in his new Asian dominions. When illness prevented one of the two originally chosen for the task from departing, Ignatius designated Francis as his substitute.
Hace 2 días · In the 1540s, John III was forced to change his policy. He placed Brazil under direct royal control (as in Spanish America) and appointed a governor general. The first governor general of Brazil arrived in 1549 and headquartered himself at Bahia (today known as Salvador).
Hace 1 día · Portugal, country lying along the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula in southwestern Europe. Once continental Europe’s greatest power, Portugal shares commonalities—geographic and cultural—with the countries of both northern Europe and the Mediterranean.
Hace 3 días · Bartolomeu Dias (born c. 1450—died May 29, 1500, at sea, near Cape of Good Hope) was a Portuguese navigator and explorer who led the first European expedition to round the Cape of Good Hope (1488), opening the sea route to Asia via the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
Hace 5 días · Manuell Cyrne to John III. of Portugal. R. O. Writes the news, as Fernão Dalurez advised him to do. The ambassador writes of the licence which the king of Scotland says he has given to the family of Robert Breton (Barton) to arm [ships] against the Portuguese. Hears of no ship out as yet. So old a quarrel ought to be finished.
