Portuguese people

citizens or residents of Portugal

13 dated entries naming Portuguese people, drawn from 12 separate years between 1372 CE and 2010 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.

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14th century

1372Encounter of Sintra: Twenty Portuguese knights rout four hundred Castilian infantrymen of the country.source

15th century

1421Portuguese sailors sent by Prince Henry the Navigator cross Cape Non, going as far as Cape Bojador.source
1442Portuguese sailors first arrive at the Senegal River.source
1443Portuguese explorer Nuno Tristão penetrates the Arguin Gulf, off the west coast of Africa.source
1445Portuguese explorer Dinis Dias discovers the Cap-Vert, on the western coast of Africa.source
1471August 29 – The Portuguese occupy Tangier, after its population flees the city.source

16th century

1515The Portuguese are the first Europeans to land in Timor island, as the first settlers arrive to the north coast of Madeira Island, there establishing Saint George.source
1520October 21 (Feast of St. Ursula) – The islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon are discovered by Portuguese explorer João Álvares Fagundes, off Newfoundland. He names them Islands of the 11,000 Virgins, in honour of Saint Ursula.source
1543August 25 – (24th day of 7th month of Tenbun 12) The first Europeans arrive in Japan and introduce firearms to the Asian monarchy, as the Chinese pirate Wang Zhi escorts Portuguese traders to in Tanegashima island in southern Kyushu. The first European visitors include António Mota, António Peixoto, Francisco Zeimoto, and Fernão Mendes Pinto.source

19th century

1878September 30 – The ship Priscilla arrives in Hawaii from Funchal, Madeira, marking the beginning of the Portuguese immigration to the Hawaiian Islands (1878–1913).source

20th century

1911April 18 – SS Lusitania, a 5,557-ton Portuguese passenger liner en route from Mozambique to Lisbon, strikes Bellows Rock just off Cape Point and sinks.source
1911April 18 – Lusitania, a Portuguese 5,557 ton passenger liner, strikes Bellows Rock just off Cape Point en route from Mozambique to Lisbon and sinks. Only 8 out of the 774 people on board lose their lives.source

21st century

2010March 23: Portuguese Prime Minister Jose Socrates arrived in Algiers on March 22 for a working visit. He pointed to Algeria's water and renewable energy sectors as attractive investment opportunities.source