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The landing of the Spanish Tercios at Terceira during the Portuguese succession crisis of 1580 An 1845 engraving of the island of São Miguel (west is up). In 1427, São Miguel became the second of the islands discovered by Gonçalo Velho Cabral to be settled by colonists from continental Portugal.
Gonçalo Velho Cabral (c. 1400 – c. 1460) was a Portuguese monk and Commander in the Order of Christ, explorer (credited with the discovery of the Formigas, the re-discovery of the islands of Santa Maria and São Miguel in the Azores) and hereditary landowner responsible for administering Crown lands on the same islands, during the Portuguese Age of Discovery.
Rui Gonçalves da Câmara, 3rd Donatary Captain of São Miguel Island, married to Maria de Bettencourt, natural daughter of Maciot de Bettencourt by Teguise, without issue, he had a son by one Maria Rodrigues and three more children by an unknown mother; Garcia Rodrigues da Câmara, married to Violante de Freitas, and had issue
1474–1499 — João Soares de Albergaria; succeed his maternal uncle (Gonçalo Velho Cabral) in the commandership of the Azores, he sold his privileges to São Miguel to Rui Gonçalves da Câmara in order obtain free-up money during his wife's illness; Albergaria was responsible for promoting the settlement on the island and its defense, but ...
Colonization of the island is commonly associated with the settlement of Povoação Velha, the first colony on the island of São Miguel. [3] In 1427, Diogo da Silva first arrived in the area of Povoação, accompanied by several men: "Arriving here on the island, the nine discoverers took land in the place where today we call Povoação Velha for which they made later...and, disembarked ...
The Sete Cidades volcano is situated on the extreme western portion of the island of São Miguel occupying an area of approximately 110 square kilometres (42 sq mi) and refers to a polygenetic volcano (Sete Cidades Massif) and caldera. [6]
São Miguel, Cape Verde, a municipality on the island of Santiago; São Miguel do Mato (Arouca), a civil parish in the municipality of Arouca; São Miguel do Rio Torto, a civil parish in the municipality of Abrantes; Sobral de São Miguel, a civil parish in the municipality of Covilhã; São Miguel (Lisbon), a civil parish in the municipality ...
The islet seen from São Miguel, with Farilhão on the left. The islet is located between 500 metres (1,600 ft) and 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) off the south-central coast of the island of São Miguel, adjacent the municipality, town, and port of Vila Franca do Campo.