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Madeira

Autonomous Region of Portugal in the archipelago of Madeira

6 dated entries naming Madeira, drawn from 6 separate years between 1418 CE and 1963 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Madeira Islands in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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15th century

  • 1418João Gonçalves Zarco leads one of the first Portuguese expeditions to the Madeira Islands.source
  • 1479May 13 – Christopher Columbus, an experienced mariner and successful trader in the thriving Genoese expatriate community in Portugal, marries Felipa Perestrelo Moniz (Italian on her father's side), and receives as dowry her late father's maps and papers, charting the seas and winds around the Madeira Islands, and other Portuguese possessions in the Ocean Sea.source

16th century

  • 1524January 17 – Florentine explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, on board La Dauphine in the service of Francis I of France, sets out from Madeira for the New World, to seek out a western sea route to the Pacific Ocean.source

18th century

  • 1724November 19 – The Dutch East India Company frigate Slot ter Hooge strikes rocks and sinks off Porto Santo Island, Madeira, with the loss of 221 of the 254 people on board.source

20th century

  • 1931April 6 – The Portuguese government declares martial law in Madeira and in the Azores, because of the Madeira uprising in Funchal.source
  • 1963December 22 – The cruise ship TSMS Lakonia burns 180 mi north of Madeira, with the loss of 128 lives.source

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