Timeline of Portuguese history (Second Dynasty)

This is a historical timeline of Portugal.

Main article: History of Portugal

Second Dynasty: Aviz

1385
- April – João I of Portugal acclaimed king by the Portuguese; Castilians do not accept this claim.
- August 14 – Battle of Aljubarrota: João I defeats the Castilians and secures the throne.
1386 - Treaty of Windsor, an alliance between England and Portugal.
1394 – Henry the Navigator, son of king João I of Portugal, is born.

1415 – João I conquers the city of Ceuta in northern Africa
1419 – Madeira Islands discovered by João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz Teixeira.
1427 – Azores Islands discovered by Diogo Silves.
1433 – Duarte of Portugal becomes king.
1434 – Gil Eanes crosses the Bojador Cape: exploration of the African coast begins.
1438 – Afonso V of Portugal becomes king.
1444/1460 – discovery and settling of Cape Verde islands.
1481 – João II of Portugal becomes king.
1483 – João II executes Fernando, the third Duke of Braganza, and Diogo, the Duke of Viseu, putting an end to high nobility conspiracies.
1484 – Diogo Cão discovers the Congo river.
1491 – Bartolomeu Dias becomes the first European captain to cross the Cape of Good Hope.
1494 – The Treaty of Tordesilhas signed between Spain and Portugal, dividing the colonisable world in two halves.
1495 – Manuel I of Portugal becomes king.
1498 – Vasco da Gama reaches India through navigation around Africa.

1500
- Easter Day – Pedro Álvares Cabral discovers Brazil.
- Manuel I orders expulsion or conversion of the Portuguese Jews.
1511 - Invasion & cruel conquest on Malacca.
1521 – João III of Portugal becomes king.
1542 – Portuguese explorers are the first Europeans to land in Japan.
1557 – Sebastião of Portugal becomes king.
1568 – King Sebastião of Portugal comes of age and takes control of government.
1569
- Plague epidemic in Portugal. Only in Lisbon 60,000 people die.
- Nagasaki, in Japan, is open to Portuguese traders.
1570
- Luís de Camões returns to Lisbon from theOrient.
- Goa, in Portuguese India, is attacked by a coalition of Indian forces, but these are defeated by Portuguese Vice-Roy Luís de Ataíde, Count of Atouguia.
1578
- Portuguese troops utterly defeated in Africa, in the battle of Alcacer-Quibir; king Sebastião disappears in the battle never to be seen again.
- Cardinal Henrique I of Portugal becomes king.
1579 - Cortes in Lisbon.
1580
- Cortes in Almeirim.
- King Cardinal Henrique I of Portugal dies.