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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.
Zarco was born in Portugal, and became a knight at the service of Prince Henry the Navigator's household. In his service at an early age, Zarco commanded the caravels guarding the coast of the Algarve from Muslim incursions, was at the conquest of Ceuta , and later led the caravels that recognized the island of Porto Santo in 1418 to 1419 and ...
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 ...
Location of São Miguel Island in the Azores. On Sunday the 26th of June, since the weather was in their favor, the Marquess decided to send the twelve galleys ahead under the command of Captain Diego de Medrano. [22] Medrano's galleys set sail before the rest of the fleet and arrived at San Miguel without incident on 3 July 1583. [23]
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 ...
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