{"slug": "portuguese-india", "label": "Portuguese India", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_India", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q323904", "qid": "Q323904", "description": "Portuguese colonies in South Asia (1505–1961)", "entries": 20, "years": 17, "span": [1505, 1961], "span_label": ["1505 CE", "1961 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 6}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "goa", "label": "Goa", "shared": 9}, {"slug": "afonso-de-albuquerque", "label": "Afonso de Albuquerque", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "hinduism", "label": "Hinduism", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "india", "label": "India", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "christianity", "label": "Christianity", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-portugal", "label": "Kingdom of Portugal", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kerala", "label": "Kerala", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sri-lanka", "label": "Sri Lanka", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dutch-east-india-company", "label": "Dutch East India Company", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "persian-gulf", "label": "Persian Gulf", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bangladesh", "label": "Bangladesh", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "red-sea", "label": "Red Sea", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1505, "year_label": "1505 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 15", "text": "August 15 – The Portuguese State of India is founded in what is now the state of Kerala, after the Kingdom of Portugal takes over territory of the Bijapur sultanate at Calicut.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360582113#July–September", "title": "1505", "revid": 1360582113, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1509, "year_label": "1509 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 4", "text": "November 4 – Afonso de Albuquerque becomes the Viceroy of Portuguese India, replacing Francisco de Almeida, who departs five days later from Diu. Almeida never makes it home, getting killed along with his 64 men in a battle on March 1 with the local Khoekhoe people at South Africa's Cape of Good Hope.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369335853#October–December", "title": "1509", "revid": 1369335853, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1510, "year_label": "1510 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 25", "text": "November 25 – Afonso de Albuquerque succeeds in conquering Goa and establishes the colony of Portuguese India.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366972051#October–December", "title": "1510", "revid": 1366972051, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1512, "year_label": "1512 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 10", "text": "September 10 – Portuguese Admiral Afonso de Albuquerque departs from the Indian city of Cochin with 14 ships and 1,700 troops to retake the fortress of Goa, capital of Portuguese India, from Bijapur's General Rasul Khan. A day before a planned Portuguese attack on Bihar's army, Rasul Khan and his occupying forces depart from Goa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323795843#July–September", "title": "1512", "revid": 1323795843, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1513, "year_label": "1513 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 26", "text": "March 26 – On Easter Sunday, Afonso de Albuquerque, Governor of Portuguese India, makes an unsuccessful attempt to capture the port city of Aden, on the Arabian Peninsula, from the Mamluk Sultanate, using 20 ships and 2,500 soldiers. The 1,700 Portuguese, along with 800 mercenaries from Malabar, lose at least 100 killed during the attack and retreat.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363949569#January–March", "title": "1513", "revid": 1363949569, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1518, "year_label": "1518 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 9", "text": "May 9 – A fleet of four Portuguese ships, commanded by João da Silveira from Portuguese India, arrived in Chittagong (now part of Bangladesh, but at the time part of the Sultanate of Bengal), reputed to be the wealthiest region in the Indian subcontinent.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362000593#April–June", "title": "1518", "revid": 1362000593, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1519, "year_label": "1519 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 18", "text": "February 18 – Because of the large population of Jews included converts to Christianity (\"New Christians\") in the colony of Portuguese India at Goa, King Manuel I of Portugal announces that there will be no further appointment of New Christians to government offices, but affirms that those already in office are not to be dismissed", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365433723#January–March", "title": "1519", "revid": 1365433723, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1526, "year_label": "1526 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 21", "text": "February 21 – Lopo Vaz de Sampaio becomes the new Governor of Portuguese India following the February 2 death of the 30-year-old Governor Henrique de Meneses from gangrene resulting from a battle injury to his leg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369353275#January–March", "title": "1526", "revid": 1369353275, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1540, "year_label": "1540 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 3", "text": "April 3– Estêvão da Gama becomes the new Governor of Portuguese India.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366494590#April–June", "title": "1540", "revid": 1366494590, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1540, "year_label": "1540 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 31", "text": "December 31 – Estêvão da Gama, Governor of Portuguese India, departs from Goa with a plan to sail into the Red Sea, and destroy the Ottoman Empire's access to the Indian Ocean by plundering Suez. The planned attack fails.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366494590#October–December", "title": "1540", "revid": 1366494590, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1546, "year_label": "1546 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "March 8", "text": "March 8 – King John III of Portugal issues an order for Portuguese India (at Goa) to forbid Hinduism, destroy Hindu temples, prohibit the public celebration of Hindu feasts, expel Hindu priests and severely punish those who created any Hindu images in Portuguese possessions in India.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368296265#January–March", "title": "1546", "revid": 1368296265, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1546, "year_label": "1546 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 16", "text": "May 16 – Writing from Portuguese India, Jesuit missionary Francis Xavier asks King João III of Portugal, proposing what will become the Goa Inquisition of 1561.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368296265#April–June", "title": "1546", "revid": 1368296265, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1546, "year_label": "1546 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "November 10", "text": "November 10 – The European colonists defending the city of Diu in Portuguese India defeat the six-month siege that had been started by the Gujarat Sultanate on April 20. 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