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XIII Century · 3

1240s 1
  1. 1244 Francisco de Freitas Correia had the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Perpétuo Socorro built at Queimada, Água de Pena; the printed year 1244 is presumably a misprint.
1300s 2
  1. 13?? Members of the Deniz family were using the surname in the fourteenth century.
  2. 13?? Filipe Perestrelo came to Portugal from Lombardy in the late fourteenth century.

XIV Century · 29

1360s 1
  1. 1364 Maria de Bourbon granted Vostitza and Corinth to Reniero Acciaiuoli.
1370s 2
  1. 1378 Guilherme Arnau accompanied Philippa of Lancaster to Portugal.
  2. 12 April 1379 At Alenquer, King Fernando granted houses in Lisbon to Machico, master of his barge.
1390s 3
  1. c. 1390 João Gonçalves Zarco was probably born shortly after 1390.
  2. 1394 Prince Henry the Navigator was born.
  3. 1399 Filippone Palestrello proved his family's nobility.
1400s 23
  1. 1400–1425 Porto Santo and Madeira were discovered in the first quarter of the fifteenth century.
  2. 1400–1425 Simão Acciaioly arrived in Madeira from Florence.
  3. 14?? Joana Tavares lived in Madeira in the mid-fifteenth century.
  4. 14?? Valentim Fernandes settled in Lisbon as a printer and publisher.
  5. 14?? Gil Anes founded the chapel of Nosso Senhor Jesus Cristo in Santa Cruz.
  6. 14?? Manuel Afonso Sanha and Mécia de Carvalhal founded an entail at Ponta Delgada.
  7. 14?? The first entailed estates in Madeira date from the late fifteenth century, after which sesmeiros held land as absolute owners.
  8. 14?? The Corpo Santo chapel was built by Funchal seafarers.
  9. 14?? Álvaro de Ornelas founded the entailed estate of Consolação in Caniço.
  10. 14?? Caniço was made one of about ten 'lugares' when the towns of Funchal and Machico were created.
  11. 14?? By the mid-fifteenth century communications between Madeira and Europe were no longer very rare.
  12. 14?? The parish of Machico was created with its seat in Tristão Vaz's chapel.
  13. 14?? Gomes Eanes de Azurara wrote his chronicle covering the discovery of Madeira.
  14. 14?? João Esmeraldo reportedly built a Santo Amaro chapel at Lombada dos Esmeraldos.
  15. 14?? Madeira was the first of the fifteenth-century Portuguese discoveries.
  16. 14?? Canarian islanders came to Madeira, probably introducing the word gofio.
  17. 14?? André Gonçalves de França arrived and received sesmaria lands at Estreito da Calheta.
  18. 14?? A small settled population existed in the Curral das Freiras by the late fifteenth century.
  19. 14?? Braz Gonçalves de Gaias lived in Machico.
  20. 14?? Corregedores were present in Madeira to curb abuses of jurisdiction by donataries and their ouvidores.
  21. 14?? Machico and Porto Santo became the archipelago's first towns.
  22. 14?? Florentines including the Salviati rose against the Medici and were defeated, some fleeing into exile.
  23. 14??–15?? The Madeiran sugar industry reached great development in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, giving rise to confectionery-making.

XV Century · 253

1410s 10
  1. c. 1414 João Gonçalves da Câmara was probably born about 1414.
  2. 1415 Portugal conquered Ceuta, its first African conquest, with members of the Order of Christ taking part.
  3. 1417 According to Cordeiro, the Canaries were discovered for the third time by the Béthencourts.
  4. 1418 Before 1418 the archipelago was already known to Portuguese navigators.
  5. 1418–1425 Zarco and Tristão Vaz probably reconnoitred the archipelago between 1418 and 1425.
  6. 1418 Porto Santo was discovered, traditionally in 1418 (or 1419); Bartolomeu Perestrelo was falsely said to have taken part.
  7. 1419–1775 The Provedoria register spanned from 1419 until the office was extinguished in 1775.
  8. 1 July 1419 Passing Ponta de São Lourenço, the caravel São Lourenço approached Machico bay.
  9. 2 July 1419 Zarco made the first landing on Madeira at Machico on the feast of the Visitation, where accompanying Franciscans reportedly celebrated the first Mass; next day he reached Porto do Seixo.
  10. 1419–1420 Madeira was discovered by João Gonçalves Zarco and Tristão Vaz under Prince Henry, most commonly dated 1419, by some 1420.
1420s 8
  1. c. 1425 Settlement of Madeira began under the first donatary captains, with settlers from mainland Portugal, some first sheltering at the Ilhéus of Funchal.
  2. 1425 Bartolomeu Perestrelo became donatary of Porto Santo.
  3. 1425 According to a family document, João Escorcio Drumond moved to Madeira.
  4. 1425 Constança Rodrigues de Almeida founded the chapel and almshouse of Santa Catarina in Funchal, reputedly the first church and first charity on Madeira; the date 1425 is carved on its portal.
  5. 1425 Sugar cane was introduced into Madeira, reportedly from Sicily.
  6. May 1425 Tristão Vaz settled at Machico with his wife and children.
  7. 1425–1450 Santa Cruz was probably created as an autonomous parish.
  8. 1426 The date inscribed over its outer door marks the first construction of the São Paulo chapel.
1430s 13
  1. c. 1430 Frei Rogério arrived and apparently formed the first regular Franciscan community on Madeira.
  2. c. 1438 The church of Nossa Senhora do Calhau was built and became seat of Santa Maria Maior, Funchal's first parish.
  3. 1430 The parish of Câmara de Lobos, apparently the first outside Funchal, was created with its seat in the Espírito Santo chapel.
  4. 1430 The parish of Calheta was created, first seated at the Estrela chapel.
  5. 8 June 1431 King João I granted Bartolomeu Perestrelo and Margarida Martins houses in Rua Nova.
  6. 1432 The Franciscans began building the hospice and hermitage of São João in Funchal.
  7. 1433 Death of King João I, closing the first period of Madeiran history in Azevedo's scheme.
  8. 26 September 1433 King Duarte granted the archipelago to Prince Henry, requiring the kingdom's coin to circulate, and its spiritual jurisdiction to the Order of Christ.
  9. 1435 Portuguese discoverers landed two horses on the African coast, naming Angra dos Cavalos.
  10. 1435 Frei Pedro da Guarda was born in Guarda.
  11. 1437 The Porto Santo captaincy was restored to the second Bartolomeu Perestrelo, per the Elucidário's date.
  12. 1439 The dowry deed for the marriage of Isabel Gonçalves da Câmara, Zarco's daughter, to Diogo Afonso de Aguiar was drawn up.
  13. 20 May 1439 A charter issued in Lisbon granted the spirituality of the islands to the Order of Christ.
1440s 16
  1. c. 1440 Colonisation of Ponta do Sol began.
  2. c. 1443 Nuno Tristão discovered the island of Arguim.
  3. c. 1445 Malvasia vines were reportedly imported from Crete; Cadamosto found newly planted vines on Madeira.
  4. 1440–1450 Charters of 1440, 1446 and 1450 granted the captaincies of Machico, Porto Santo and Funchal to their first captains.
  5. 1440 The parishes of Ribeira Brava and Caniço were reportedly created.
  6. 1440 Manuscripts claim the parish of São Vicente was founded, a date the Elucidário rejects.
  7. 8 May 1440 Prince Henry granted the captaincy of Machico to Tristão Vaz.
  8. 1444 Battle of Varna, after which Henrique Alemão reputedly vowed to go on pilgrimage.
  9. 25 March 1445 Cadamosto anchored at Porto Santo, according to his narrative.
  10. 28 March 1445 Cadamosto anchored in the bay of Machico.
  11. 1446 Funchal already had a meat market.
  12. 1 November 1446 Prince Henry granted the captaincy of Porto Santo to Bartolomeu Perestrelo by charter.
  13. 1447 A document spells the donatary's surname 'Zargo'.
  14. 1449–1450 Pestana Júnior dates Cadamosto's voyages to 1449 and 1450.
  15. 1449 A royal letter of Afonso V wrote Zarco's name as Zarquo.
  16. 11 March 1449 Afonso V confirmed the grant of the islands to Prince Henry.
1450s 27
  1. c. 1450 Cadamosto's voyage account, which spelt the name Zarco, recorded wine and vine growing in Madeira.
  2. c. 1450 Construction of the Portuguese fortress on Arguim began.
  3. c. 1450 Antão Pacheco and Gomes Pacheco came to Madeira.
  4. c. 1450 João Afonso Escudeiro came to Madeira.
  5. c. 1450 Rodrigo Enes is conjectured to have settled at Ponta do Sol.
  6. c. 1457 Bartolomeu Perestrelo died at Vila Baleira, aged a little over fifty.
  7. 1450 The parish of Machico was created, with Frei João Garcia sent as its first vicar.
  8. 1450 Chapters from Prince Henry and the Order of Christ on alcaides and taxes were registered in the Funchal council archive.
  9. 1450 A diploma required the alcaide's assistants in Funchal to be of good conduct.
  10. 1450 The Funchal municipality already existed, the donatary being ordered to propose candidates for alcaide to its senate.
  11. 1450 João Gonçalves Zargo founded the entail later held by the counts of Calheta.
  12. 1 November 1450 Prince Henry granted João Gonçalves Zarco the captaincy of Funchal.
  13. 1451 Infante D. Fernando ordered two officials appointed to share out irrigation water.
  14. 25 November 1451 Royal confirmation of Zargo's grant of the Funchal captaincy.
  15. 1451–1452 D. Afonso V raised Funchal to the status of town, with Machico and Baleira (Porto Santo) probably made towns and municipalities about the same time.
  16. 1452 Diogo de Teive contracted with Prince Henry to build Madeira's first water-powered sugar mill, giving the Infante a third of its sugar.
  17. 1452 D. Afonso V granted Funchal a charter exempting islanders from siza, tolls and levies.
  18. 1453 Azurara wrote his chronicle around this year.
  19. 25 March 1454 Zargo donated land beside the São Paulo chapel for Funchal's first hospital.
  20. 1455 Cadamosto's voyage to Madeira, in which he described its prized timber including cedar and yew.
  21. 1456 The Acciaiuoli principality was destroyed by Mehmed II.
  22. 1457 António Correia was born in Madeira.
  23. 29 April 1457 Infante D. Henrique confirmed Henrique Alemão's land grant at Madalena do Mar.
  24. 18 May 1457 King Afonso V confirmed Henrique Alemão's land grant at Madalena do Mar.
  25. 1459 The first Franciscan friars left the São João hospice in Funchal for Xabregas near Lisbon.
  26. 1 August 1459 Gonçalo Eanes de Velosa died, according to his epitaph dated era 1497.
  27. 17 August 1459 Afonso V again confirmed the donation of the islands to Prince Henry.
1460s 24
  1. c. 1460 Rui Mendes Pereira, called o Tacão, came to Madeira.
  2. c. 1460 João de Braga settled in Madeira and received a land grant at Laranjal.
  3. c. 1467 João Gonçalves Zargo died around 1467 and his son succeeded to the captaincy of Funchal.
  4. 1460 Death of the earlier holder of the Valença title.
  5. 1460 Garcia Homem de Sousa founded the chapel of Santo Amaro.
  6. 1460 The Genoese navigator António da Nola called at Madeira on a voyage with Diogo Gomes.
  7. 1 May 1460 The Portuguese discovered Santiago island in Cape Verde on the feast of St James the Less.
  8. 4 July 1460 By charter of Afonso V, Zarco was ennobled as João Gonçalves de Câmara de Lobos and granted a coat of arms bearing a tower and wolves.
  9. 18 September 1460 Prince Henry issued a donation charter granting the islands' spirituality to the Order of Christ, referring to the start of settlement.
  10. 22 September 1460 Prince Henry granted the University of Coimbra twelve marks of silver yearly from the Order of Christ's Madeiran tithes for the chief chair of theology.
  11. 13 November 1460 Prince Henry the Navigator, lord of Madeira, died.
  12. 3 December 1460 Afonso V granted the archipelago to Prince Fernando, who thus inherited the lordship of Madeira from Prince Henry.
  13. 1461 Infante D. Fernando issued the oldest known levada law, appointing two sworn men to share out irrigation water.
  14. 1461 Infante D. Fernando ordered municipal offices to be filled by annual election.
  15. 1461 The Elucidário considers 1461 the most probable year of Zargo's death, though 1471 is also possible.
  16. 1461 Infante D. Fernando answered a Funchal petition asking that Jews and Genoese be barred from trading in Madeira.
  17. 1461 Municipal records mention the first flag of Funchal, sent by Infante D. Fernando.
  18. 16 August 1461 Afonso V confirmed the donation of Madeira and Zargo's captaincy grant.
  19. 1466 Oldest recorded appointment of a corregedor in Madeira, Denis Anes de Aragão.
  20. 1468 Inhabitants of Câmara de Lobos were ordered to join the Corpus Christi procession with their crafts.
  21. 1469 Funchal's first hospital was built at public expense near the chapel of São Paulo.
  22. 1469 Manuel Afonso de Sanha received a land grant from Ponta Delgada to Ribeira das Vacas.
  23. 1469 Afonso V confirmed the grant of Madeira's black soap works to Rui Gonçalves da Câmara.
  24. 1469 Pope Paul II issued a brief alluding to the great forest fire of Madeira.
1470s 34
  1. c. 1470 D. Afonso de Aragão, a Neapolitan knight, reached Madeira.
  2. c. 1470 Gonçalo Diniz da Silva founded an Almas Pobres chapel in Santa Maria Maior.
  3. c. 1470 Pedro de Brito Oliveira Pestana and João Mendes de Brito came to Madeira.
  4. c. 1470 Adão Gonçalves Ferreira built the chapel that became Nossa Senhora do Monte.
  5. c. 1470 Tristão Vaz Teixeira, first donatary of Machico, died.
  6. c. 1475 Pedro de Brito de Oliveira Pestana and his brother settled in Madeira.
  7. c. 1478 The Florentine João Salviati, implicated in a conspiracy against the Medici, took refuge in Madeira.
  8. 1470 The first surviving book of Funchal council proceedings dates from this year.
  9. 1470 Infante D. Fernando asked the donatary João Gonçalves da Câmara to build a council house and municipal pound in Funchal, granting land by the church.
  10. 1471 Diogo and Francisco Pires were resident in Madeira.
  11. 1471 A letter from the infanta required everyone to serve in municipal offices regardless of exemptions.
  12. 1471 Lopo Vaz was working as a goldsmith in Funchal.
  13. 1471 Estêvão do Azinhal sat on the governing body of the town of Funchal.
  14. 2 November 1471 Afonso V granted António Leme letters of nobility and a coat of arms (another entry dates it 12 November).
  15. 1472 Frutuoso dates the Funchal charter (foral) to 1472, a date Azevedo considered erroneous.
  16. 1473 Luís Álvares da Costa, with his son, founded the Franciscan convent of São Francisco in Funchal.
  17. 1473 Rui Gonçalves da Câmara leased the Lombada da Ponta do Sol to João Esmeraldo for 600$000 réis plus an annual rent.
  18. 1474 The infante ordered that no slave might keep a house of his own.
  19. 1474 Rui Gonçalves da Câmara moved to São Miguel in the Azores as its captain-donatary.
  20. 1474 Infanta D. Beatriz reportedly ordered the chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Anjos built.
  21. 1475–1499 The Água de Mel entail was instituted in the last quarter of the fifteenth century.
  22. 1475–1499 The corregedor Álvaro Fernandes came to Madeira with jurisdiction over the whole island.
  23. 1475–1499 João Batista settled in Madeira.
  24. 1475–1499 Frei Nuno Cão came to Madeira on behalf of the Order of Christ to superintend religious services.
  25. 1475–1499 João Afonso was buried in the Espírito Santo chapel.
  26. 1475–1500 João Alvares was living in Ribeira Brava.
  27. 1475–1500 Álvaro de Ornelas founded the entailed estate at Quinta, Caniço.
  28. 1476 The Genoese brothers João Baptista and Urbano Lomelino arrived in Madeira.
  29. 1476 Franciscans under Frei Rodrigo de Arruda reached Funchal, a papal brief authorised the community, and the friars moved from São João into the convent of São Francisco.
  30. 15 March 1477 A royal charter created the customs houses of Funchal, Santa Cruz and Machico, the Funchal customs being the archipelago's oldest public office.
  31. 1478 The first war contribution was imposed on Madeira and was resisted by the nobles.
  32. 1479 A document cited by Azevedo shows Madeira already sending representatives to the Cortes.
  33. 1479 The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Estrela was reportedly built.
  34. 147?–149? São Vicente was constituted as a parish in the late fifteenth century.
1480s 33
  1. c. 1480 João Esmeraldo, from Picardy, arrived in Funchal.
  2. c. 1480 Henrique Aragão settled in Funchal.
  3. c. 1480 Antão Álvares de Sousa settled in Santa Cruz.
  4. c. 1480 Lopo Franco de Monção came to Madeira.
  5. c. 1480 Fernão Álvaro de Agrela settled in Madeira.
  6. c. 1483 Martim de Leme came to Madeira with recommendations from the infante D. Fernando.
  7. c. 1485 Frei Pedro da Guarda came to Madeira to live in the convent of São Bernardino.
  8. 1480 The French settler Rui Vaz Uzel (Urzel) came to Madeira and settled at Tábua.
  9. 11 September 1480 Rui Teixeira and Branca Ferreira sold the Curral estate to captain-donatary João Gonçalves da Câmara; it was later given to the Convent of Santa Clara.
  10. 1481 Funchal residents were exempted from a duty on certain goods.
  11. 23 August 1481 D. Diogo, Duke of Viseu and lord of Madeira, was killed by King João II, and the lordship passed to his brother D. Manuel.
  12. 1483 A decree allowed captured runaway slaves to be sold if unclaimed within four months, and an inquiry into slaves' lives was ordered.
  13. 1483 A regulation fixed the order of the trades in the Funchal Corpus Christi procession.
  14. 1483 Álvaro Afonso donated land for the Misericórdia building.
  15. 1483 D. Fernando, Duke of Bragança, was executed for conspiracy against João II.
  16. 1484 The Funchal hospital moved to Santa Maria Maior.
  17. 1485 A letter ordered irrigation water released on Sundays to all water-rights holders (heréus), the first official use of the term in its modern sense.
  18. 1485 A levy on wine was authorised to meet the island's municipal expenses.
  19. 1485 D. Manuel, Duke of Beja, ceded land in the Campo do Duque, Funchal, for the church (later cathedral) and town hall; sources give 5 June or 5 November 1485.
  20. 20 February 1485 King João II granted arms to João Fernandes de Andrade.
  21. 1486 The Funchal council ordered foreigners, including sugar growers, to leave the island by September, but the Duke, lord of Madeira, blocked the expulsion by letter of 7 August.
  22. 1486 Duke D. Manuel ordered a square, council house, notaries' office and pillory built on the Campo do Duque in Funchal.
  23. 1486 Afonso Sanches reportedly sailed from Portugal, was carried to America and later landed in Madeira.
  24. 1486 The Machico customs house was again ordered to operate.
  25. 1486 João do Porto was appointed Judge of Residues, the earliest known holder of the office.
  26. 8 April 1486 Rodrigo Enes made testamentary provisions ordering a chapel of the Holy Spirit in the church of Ponta do Sol.
  27. 15 December 1486 Diogo Cabral, Zarco's son-in-law and founder of the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Estrela at Calheta, died and was buried in it.
  28. 1488 Council records place Funchal's meat market near Santa Catarina.
  29. 17 July 1488 D. Manuel wrote to the Madeirans urging the foundation of a nunnery.
  30. 22 October 1488 D. Manuel assigned half of the island's fines to building the Funchal church.
  31. 1489 The captain-donatary allowed merchants and householders to carry sword and dagger until curfew.
  32. 1489 João Gonçalves da Câmara was born in Funchal.
  33. 5 September 1489 Vasco Martins Moniz founded by will an entailed estate at Caniçal for his son Garcia Moniz.
1490s 43
  1. c. 1490 Diogo de Arvelos settled in Machico.
  2. 1490 Natives of Gran Canaria, La Palma, Tenerife and La Gomera were forbidden to reside in Madeira.
  3. 1490 João Afonso Correia founded the first of the Torre Bela entails.
  4. 1491 D. Nuno de Aguiar, bishop of Tangier, died in mainland Portugal.
  5. 1492–1497 The captain-donatary founded the Convent of Santa Clara in Funchal, whose construction began in 1492; the first nuns entered in 1497.
  6. 1492–1497 João Gonçalves da Câmara gave the Curral to the Santa Clara convent as dowry for his daughters, the place becoming known as Curral das Freiras.
  7. 1493 A war levy was imposed but never paid.
  8. 1493 The wine levy was applied to building Funchal Cathedral, whose construction began shortly afterwards.
  9. 1493 The Funchal council requested a 'Tronco' to detain the insane.
  10. 1493 Brás Ferreira made his will naming himself founder of the chapel of São Brás at Arco da Calheta.
  11. 1493–1767 Period covered by the archival list of judges of residues and chapels.
  12. 7 March 1493–7 May 1493 King João II issued charters regulating irrigation water and denying private rights over springs, and reserving ash and cedar wood to the Crown, the oldest such laws known in Madeira.
  13. 8 May 1493 A letter of João II ordered the captains to restore obstructed levadas, fining obstructors 500 cruzados, and referred to their 'terradas & trastes'.
  14. 21 June 1493 Duke Manuel ordered walls built round the town of Funchal.
  15. 1494 Date inscribed on a window of the so-called house of Columbus, marking its Renaissance restoration.
  16. 9 January 1494 A royal letter revoked the order to wall Funchal, allowing only bastions.
  17. 20 February 1494 Francisco Álvares was appointed first judge of the Funchal customs house.
  18. 1495 D. Manuel ascended the throne and asked the Funchal council to acclaim him and hold João II's funeral rites.
  19. 1495 The council ordered butchers to slaughter cattle at Cabo do Calhau.
  20. 1495 Death of the poet João Gomes da Ilha, the Troubadour.
  21. 8 October 1495 A petition to the Funchal council asked that the brothel quarter be moved away from the seafront.
  22. 1496 Sugar of one and two boilings was priced at 350 and 600 reais per arroba.
  23. 7 October 1496 A regimento denied foreigners permanent residence in Madeira.
  24. December 1496 D. Manuel published the decree expelling the Jews from Portugal.
  25. 1497 Gonçalo Anes de Velosa founded the Albergaria de São Bartolomeu for poor clergy in Funchal, and died that year, being buried in the church he founded.
  26. 1497 The levy of gibonetes was established.
  27. 1497 Rui Gonçalves da Câmara made his will naming his natural son as successor.
  28. 2 March 1497 A charter shows that an armoury already existed in Madeira.
  29. 27 April 1497 D. Manuel's charter made Madeira permanently and inalienably Crown land, together with the mastership of the Order of Christ, dealing a major blow to the donataries' privileges.
  30. 1498 Madeira produced over 120,000 arrobas of sugar.
  31. 1498 Zarco's children reportedly gave the organ to the Santa Clara convent.
  32. 1498 Francisco da Silveira wrote verses mocking a Madeiran nobleman in Castile.
  33. 1498 Vasco Martins Moniz de Meneses founded an entail by an approved will.
  34. 1498 Terra Negra's pamphlet refers to Madeira as it was in 1498, the time of the voyage recounted in the Lusíadas.
  35. 28 January 1498 João Esmeraldo acquired the Lombada da Ponta do Sol from Rui Gonçalves da Câmara.
  36. 8 March 1498 D. Manuel ordered that sentences in Madeira not confirmed by him should not be executed.
  37. 22 March 1498 By a charter (alvará), King Manuel allowed foreigners to reside permanently and trade freely in Madeira.
  38. 1499 Álvaro de Ornelas instituted an entailed estate in Caniço.
  39. 1499 King Manuel I granted Machico its arms and ordered bronze standard weights, which bear this date.
  40. 1499 An old manuscript dates the building of the present parish church of Machico to this year.
  41. 1499 King Manuel gave an organ to the parish church of Machico.
  42. 149? Gonçalo Alves de Araújo came to Madeira in the late fifteenth century.
  43. 149? Teresa de Lira, wife of D. Afonso de Aragão, lived at this time; according to some genealogies their son introduced the Lira surname to Madeira.
1500s 45
  1. c. 1500 Manuel Camilo de Melo e Alvino arrived in Madeira, bringing the Alvino surname.
  2. c. 1500 António de Aragão e Teive settled in Madeira.
  3. c. 1500 Pedro Ribeiro and Mécia de Carvalhal lived around this time.
  4. c. 1500 João Rodrigues Mondragão settled in Madeira.
  5. c. 1500 Pedro Figueira settled in Madeira.
  6. c. 1500 Gonçalo Pinto Alcoforado came to Madeira and settled in Machico.
  7. c. 1500 André Gonçalves Alvarenga settled with his family in Funchal.
  8. c. 1500 Afonso de Viana settled in Caniço, founding the Viana family in Madeira.
  9. 1500 Death of Lopo Fernandes Pinto, one of the first sesmaria land-grant holders in the Santana and São Jorge area.
  10. 1500 João Martins de Aldromar is recorded as living in Câmara de Lobos.
  11. 1500–1535 Pedro Giraldes lived in Calheta.
  12. 1500 Madeira and Porto Santo had about 16,000 inhabitants.
  13. 25 March 1500 D. Manuel issued the first royal diploma ordering Madeira's nobles and vassals to serve with him in an African expedition; the demand was later revoked for Madeira.
  14. 1500–1525 Probable foundation of the Misericórdia of Machico.
  15. 1500–1525 Bartolomeu Nunes lived in Porto Santo.
  16. 1500–1525 The Acciaioli family came from Florence to Madeira and founded the morgado of Nossa Senhora da Natividade.
  17. 1500–1525 António and Leonardo Espínola came from Genoa to Madeira.
  18. 150? The Misericórdia of Santa Cruz was founded.
  19. 150? Bartolomeu Malheiro gave land for a new hospital in Funchal.
  20. 150? Lourenço Vaz Pereira da Gama came to Madeira as provedor of the deceased and absent.
  21. 150? D. Isabel de Abreu had the first chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição built at Amoreiras, Arco da Calheta.
  22. 150? João Escórcio Drumond built the chapel of São Pedro on the Lombada de São Pedro, Santa Cruz.
  23. 150? João Rodrigues Madureira fought in Africa.
  24. 150? The chapel of Nossa Senhora do Loreto was built at Lombada do Loreto, Arco da Calheta.
  25. 150? João Afonso Escudeiro founded a chapel of São Lázaro in Santa Cruz.
  26. 150? Martim and Isabel Afonso founded the Anjos chapel in Canhas.
  27. 150?–154? Damião de Góis lived and wrote his chronicles.
  28. 15?? The João Diniz springs flowed directly onto the Funchal beach.
  29. 15?? The chapel of Santo António at Achada de Santo António, Santana, was founded around the mid-16th century.
  30. 15?? Permanent settlers were already living on the slopes of the Ribeira da Janela.
  31. 15?? The Piedade chapel on Monte Gordo, Caniçal, is said to have been founded by Garcia Moniz.
  32. 15?? Manuel de Faria Azeredo was shipwrecked in Madeira and settled there.
  33. 15?? Madeira's sugar output exceeded 300,000 arrobas around the mid-16th century.
  34. 15?? Pedro Lopes de Figueiredo resided in Machico and Santa Cruz.
  35. 15?? The parish of Campanário was created and the Vera Cruz chapel passed to it.
  36. 15?? António de Almada married Isabel Rodrigues Leal of Porto da Cruz.
  37. 15?? The Manueline Madre de Deus chapel at Caniço was built, reputedly by the Salvago family.
  38. 15?? According to Dr Azevedo, the colonia contract emerged from the sesmaria held under entailment.
  39. 15?? Pedro Bogalho settled in Madeira.
  40. 15?? João de Barros wrote of the lasting timber shortage caused by the first fire on Madeira.
  41. 15??–17?? Soft stone was widely used in Madeiran building before hard basalt became general.
  42. 15?? Fr. Pedro de Bettencourt was born in Madeira around the mid-16th century.
  43. 15?? Lopo Rebelo lived and died in Funchal.
  44. 15?? In the late 16th century Madeiran customs began to change through wider contacts, trade, overseas service and Spanish rule.
  45. 15?? The chapel of Nossa Senhora das Neves was built.

XVI Century · 534

1500s 36
  1. 26 March 1501 João Gonçalves da Câmara, Zarco's eldest son, second captain-donatary of Funchal and founder of the Convent of Santa Clara, died in Funchal aged 87 (sources give 25 or 26 March).
  2. 2 December 1501 By royal charter of D. Manuel I, Ponta do Sol was raised to the status of town and municipality.
  3. 1502 A petition by Funchal residents to abolish the customs houses of Santa Cruz and Machico was refused.
  4. 1502 A royal letter extended the wine levy of Ponta do Sol and Calheta to the works of the Funchal church.
  5. 1502 It was ordered that in the towns the Corpus Christi procession be held on the Sunday after the feast.
  6. 9 February 1502 King Manuel confirmed the earlier water laws of Madeira and eased the building of aqueducts (levadas).
  7. 10 February 1502 A royal charter added a moio of wheat to the stipend of the priest of Seixal.
  8. 1 July 1502 By royal charter Calheta was raised to a town and made a municipality, reducing the area of Ponta do Sol.
  9. 16 August 1502 A royal reply to the Funchal council already referred to Vila Nova da Calheta.
  10. 15 November 1502 A royal letter to the Funchal council recommended using ash against the sugar-cane borer.
  11. 1503 João de França founded at Estreito da Calheta one of Madeira's oldest entails.
  12. 1503 On Deserta Grande shepherds repelled about 80 Englishmen led by the corsair Penteado by rolling stones down on them.
  13. 26 August 1503 An alvará ended the restrictions on Madeiran sugar exports.
  14. 1504 Lopo de Abreu sailed to India with Lopo Soares's fleet.
  15. 1505 The donataries obtained a royal alvará allowing them to have slaves' ears cut off as punishment for certain crimes.
  16. 1505 Rodrigo Enes founded the chapel of Santa Catarina in Calheta.
  17. 9 February 1505 A charter of King Manuel confirmed and extended Madeira's water regulations; the main common levadas were built in this period.
  18. 11 February 1505 A regulation fixed the officers of the Funchal council.
  19. 27 July 1505 Frei Pedro da Guarda died at the convent of São Bernardino, Câmara de Lobos.
  20. 1506 João Gomes de Abreu sailed as a ship's captain in the fleet to India.
  21. 1507 Cadamosto's Navegações, describing Madeira and Porto Santo, were first published in Italian.
  22. 1507 Death of Sanha, founder of a chapel at Ponta Delgada.
  23. 25 May 1507 D. Manuel ordered the construction of a new hospital in Funchal.
  24. 1508 Bishop D. João Lobo blessed the unfinished Igreja Grande of Funchal, later the cathedral, and the parish seat moved there.
  25. 1508 The Order of Christ sent Bishop D. João Lobo to Madeira, the first bishop to visit the island, before the diocese was created.
  26. 1508 Martim Afonso and Isabel Afonso reportedly founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Anjos at Canhas, with an entail.
  27. 1508 Baltazar de Teive was born in Madeira.
  28. 1508 Sebastião de Morais, o Velho, proved his nobility.
  29. 17 August 1508 A charter of D. Manuel ordered the Funchal council to be governed like Lisbon's, with only noblemen as councillors and triennial elections confirmed by the king.
  30. 18 August 1508 A regulation first set the municipality's place behind the canopy in the Corpus Christi procession.
  31. 21 August 1508 By royal charter D. Manuel raised Funchal to city status, the first city in Portugal's overseas domains.
  32. 27 August 1508 D. João Lobo, Bishop of Tangier, consecrated the chapel of Espírito Santo at the Lombada dos Esmeraldos, Ponta do Sol, the first consecrated church in Madeira.
  33. 1509 The parish of Estreito de Câmara de Lobos was created, according to the annotator of the Saudades.
  34. 20 April 1509 D. Manuel granted concessions by royal letter to Simão Gonçalves da Câmara.
  35. 12 May 1509 The king ordered the people of Funchal to provide themselves with arms and horses.
  36. 29 June 1509 A royal letter announced Fernão Rodrigues's mission to Madeira to combat the sugar-cane borer.
1510s 43
  1. c. 1510 Madalena, Canhas and Tabua are supposed to have been separated from Ponta do Sol as parishes around this time.
  2. 1510 The chapel of Nossa Senhora do Loreto in Arco da Calheta was reportedly built.
  3. 1510 Vasco Martins Moniz died at Torrão.
  4. 1511 João de França died and was buried in the church he had founded at Estreito da Calheta.
  5. 1511 João Esmeraldo founded the Santo Espírito entail at the Lombada da Ponta do Sol.
  6. 1511 Nuno Fernandes Cardoso and Leonor Dias founded by will the entail of São João de Latrão at Gaula.
  7. 1511 António de Abreu went to India.
  8. 21 January 1511 Foreigners were permitted to load Madeiran sugar for export.
  9. 13 August 1511 King Manuel confirmed João Esmeraldo's noble privileges.
  10. 1512 Rui Pires held the oldest recorded appointment as juiz de fora in Funchal.
  11. 1512 Gaspar do Casal was born in Santarém.
  12. 1512 João Esmeraldo founded the Lombada dos Esmeraldos entail.
  13. 15 January 1512 Clearance of sugar exports was restricted to the Funchal customs house.
  14. 21 June 1512 By his will João Afonso Escudeiro founded the Bemposta and São Lázaro entails; he died that year.
  15. 25 July 1512 The transfer of the Funchal leper house to Santa Catarina was permitted.
  16. 2 September 1512 Simão Gonçalves da Câmara was born in Funchal.
  17. 1513 Arms were granted to the Espínola de Adorno branch.
  18. 1513 Pedro da Luz was clerk of the Funchal Misericórdia.
  19. 13 May 1513 A royal letter ordered protection for João de Carceres, builder of Funchal's first bastion and defensive walls.
  20. September 1513 João de Abreu arrived at the bar of Goa.
  21. 1514 The Misericórdia of Funchal was founded and King Manuel gave the hospital and the chapel of the Holy Kings to it.
  22. 1514 João Gonçalves da Câmara returned to Africa with several hundred men to fight the Moors.
  23. 12 June 1514 Pope Leo X's bull Pro excellenti praeeminentia created the diocese of Funchal, ending the Order of Christ's spiritual supremacy; the church became a cathedral, D. Diogo Pinheiro was named first bishop and Frei Nuno Cão first dean.
  24. 1515 Simão Acciaiuoli, the first of the family known in Madeira, came to the island.
  25. 1515 Lopo Dias de Lira Varela became moço fidalgo of the royal household.
  26. 1515 The 1490 ban was revoked for Canarians working in Madeira as sugar masters.
  27. 1515 Lopo Franco became the first judge of the Santa Cruz council.
  28. 1515 Bombardiers in Madeira were granted privileges.
  29. 1515 The Funchal Câmara ordered all lepers confined at São Lázaro.
  30. January 1515 The Regimento das Madeiras, Madeira's first forest code, was issued, ordering pine and chestnut planting and banning felling without council licence.
  31. 22 February 1515 D. Manuel issued a charter at Almeirim forbidding changes to the Santa Luzia levada in Funchal, which already existed.
  32. 4 June 1515 D. Manuel assigned the wine tax to finish the Misericórdia hospital in Funchal.
  33. 26 June 1515 King Manuel raised Santa Cruz to a town and municipality, created from Machico territory (dated 20 or 26 June 1515).
  34. 17 July 1515 The royal letter creating Santa Cruz was presented at Machico, where some councillors objected.
  35. 6 August 1515 King Manuel granted a common foral to Funchal, Ponta do Sol and Calheta, fixing tithes, the fifth of sugars, alcaidaria revenues, soap prices and other dues.
  36. November 1515 António de Abreu sailed from Malacca with three ships to explore the Moluccas.
  37. 15 December 1515 Machico and Santa Cruz jointly received a foral with privileges, providing for a customs house.
  38. 1516 António de Teive was born at Ribeira Brava.
  39. 18 October 1516 Bishop D. Duarte, visiting Madeira to perform episcopal functions, consecrated Funchal Cathedral on St Luke's day.
  40. 1517 The parish of São Jorge, including the Arco, was created, probably with a chaplain appointed.
  41. 1518 Father Luís Gonçalves da Câmara was born in Madeira.
  42. 1518 Urbano Lomelino died, entailing his estate to complete and maintain the Santa Cruz convent of Nossa Senhora da Piedade.
  43. 1518–1521 D. Manuel gave the processional cross to Funchal Cathedral.
1520s 39
  1. 1520 The Misericórdia's hospital building in Santa Cruz was erected.
  2. 1520 António da Gama was born in Funchal.
  3. 1520 Pedro Álvares de Almada erected the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Graça in Santa Cruz.
  4. 1520 The will of João Rodrigues de Freitas's son claimed the founding of the Madalena chapel.
  5. 16 May 1520 João Esmeraldo was granted arms and made a nobleman of the royal household.
  6. 1521–1538 Plague afflicted Funchal from before 1521, with the sick isolated outside the city, until it ceased in 1538.
  7. 1521 King Manuel I died.
  8. 1521 João Rodrigues de Noronha was captain of Ormuz under governor Duarte de Menezes.
  9. 11 June 1521 Amid plague and famine, Funchal council chose St James the Less as the city's patron by lot.
  10. 21 July 1521 Construction of the chapel of St James in Funchal began with a solemn procession.
  11. 1522 Gaspar Frutuoso, the chronicler, was born in Ponta Delgada.
  12. 12 June 1522 João Esmeraldo divided his Santo Espírito entail into the entails of Santo Espírito and Vale da Bica.
  13. 6 November 1522 A royal charter allowed the wife and daughters-in-law of the Porto Santo donatary Bartolomeu Perestrelo to be styled 'dom'.
  14. 13 November 1522 King João III confirmed the division of the Esmeraldo entails.
  15. 1523 Funchal resolved to paint St James the Less on the city's banner and seal.
  16. 1523 João Rodrigues de Freitas died at Madalena and was buried in the church founded by Henrique Alemão.
  17. 1523 Pedro Álvares was juiz of the Funchal municipal council.
  18. 24 January 1523 Amid plague and famine, the captain, council and cathedral chapter of Funchal made a solemn perpetual vow to St James, with a feast on 1 May.
  19. 21 July 1523 The first stone of the São Tiago church in Funchal was laid in a solemn procession.
  20. 1524 João Mendes de Brito and Isabel Fernandes Tavares founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Apresentação at Ribeira Brava as seat of an entail.
  21. 30 April 1524 António Espínola donated land at the edge of Funchal on which the chapel of São Tiago was built.
  22. 5 November 1524 A royal grant of arms was issued to Pedro Berenguer or a successor.
  23. 1525 A document attesting the Drumond family's Scottish origin was issued in Scotland.
  24. 1525 The first book of resolutions of the Funchal cathedral chapter begins.
  25. 1525–1550 The Saint Anthony chapel of Santana was first built.
  26. 1525–1550 Gil de Carvalho built a small hermitage, probably dedicated to Saint Anthony, at Alcoforado.
  27. 1526 Jean Gossart painted «Nossa Senhora do Amparo», now in the Sacred Art Museum.
  28. 1526 Probable birth year of Padre Manuel Álvares.
  29. 1526 António de Abreu returned to India as appointed captain-major of Malacca.
  30. 1526 Bishop D. Diogo Pinheiro died at Tomar after governing the diocese of Funchal for 12 years.
  31. 1527 The cathedral dean's salary was raised to 25,000 réis a year.
  32. 9 April 1527 João Fernandes de Andrade (do Arco) died and was buried in his chapel at Arco da Calheta.
  33. 1528 Simão Gonçalves da Câmara renounced the captaincy of Funchal and his son João Gonçalves da Câmara took over its administration.
  34. 17 April 1528 King João III confirmed the Andrade arms to Fernão Dias de Andrade.
  35. 1529 Porto Santo had some 820 inhabitants, the earliest recorded population figure for the island.
  36. 1529 Simão Acciaioly received a grant of arms and confirmation of nobility.
  37. 1529 Bartolomeu Perestrelo (III) succeeded as donatary of Porto Santo.
  38. 3 January 1529 A royal charter fixed the annual stipend of the Porto Santo parish priest.
  39. 4 August 1529 Francisco Homem de Gouveia and his wife Isabel Afonso founded the Reis Magos entail at Estreito da Calheta, with the chapel of the Reis Magos at Lombo dos Reis as its seat.
1530s 41
  1. c. 1530 Date of a map showing a 'Great Java' that Major linked to António de Abreu's voyages.
  2. 1530 Simão Gonçalves da Câmara, captain of Funchal, died nearly destitute at Matosinhos, and his son João Gonçalves da Câmara assumed personal government of the captaincy.
  3. 1531 João Rodrigues Neto Calassa died in the Rua dos Netos, Funchal.
  4. 1531 Padre João Soares became chaplain of the Faial hermitage.
  5. 1532 Pedro Frazão was living in Madeira.
  6. 1532 An anadel-mór of musketeers was appointed for Madeira.
  7. 1533–10 March 1533 Fernão Nunes and Filipa Nunes posed as prophets on Porto Santo, gaining wide credence and inciting disorders; the corregedor's inquiry ended on 10 March 1533.
  8. 1533 Simão Gonçalves da Câmara led a Madeiran expedition that relieved Santa Cruz do Cabo de Gué from a Moorish siege.
  9. 1533 The parish church of Santa Cruz was built under João de Freitas, granted its chancel on 29 September.
  10. 31 January 1533 Funchal was raised by papal bull to an archdiocese with suffragans Angra, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Goa, its cathedral becoming an archiepiscopal see.
  11. 11 February 1533–1547 D. Martinho de Portugal was appointed Archbishop of Funchal, the only holder of that title, governing until 1547.
  12. 1533–1535 Death of Francisco Moniz, founder of the Porto do Moniz settlement.
  13. 1534 A fine of 20 cruzados was set for soliciting votes or bribing electors.
  14. 1534 D. Sebastião de Morais was born in Funchal.
  15. 1535 The Misericórdia of Calheta was founded by royal charter, its founder being Pedro Giraldes.
  16. 1535 Pedro Pacheco justified his nobility.
  17. 1535 António Teixeira founded the Penha de Águia entail.
  18. 1535 João Bettencourt de Vasconcelos was born.
  19. 27 February 1535 Arms were granted to the Espínola de la Rosa branch.
  20. 1535–1536 António de Leme built the chapel of São Filipe at the Quinta do Leme, dated 1535 by Álvaro Rodrigues de Azevedo and 1536 elsewhere.
  21. 1536 The fourth donatary of Funchal died aged 47, apparently of the plague then raging in Madeira.
  22. 1536 Leonor Ribeiro died.
  23. 1536 Two half-prebend canonries were added to the Funchal cathedral chapter.
  24. 6 June 1536 Ameixoeira, near Lisbon, then called Funchal, became a parish independent of Lumiar.
  25. 19 June 1536 The Fleming João Esmeraldo died and was buried in his church at the Lombada.
  26. 1537 António da Gama went to study law at Coimbra.
  27. 1537 Jordão de Freitas received Amboina from the king of Ternate.
  28. 1537 The parish of Santa Maria Maior in Funchal was created by division, with António Mourão as first vicar.
  29. February 1537 A royal alvará granted the blind Baltazar Dias a privilege to print and sell his works (dated '29 February', an impossible date in 1537).
  30. 1538 After a lawsuit lasting until 1536, King João III removed Diogo Teixeira from the captaincy of Machico.
  31. 1538–1539 Bishop Ambrósio Brandão came to Madeira and exercised episcopal functions on behalf of Archbishop D. Martinho de Portugal, conferring minor orders among others on Manuel Alvares.
  32. 1538 A provision required the council clerk to be a nobleman entitled to ride a saddled mule.
  33. 1538 Frei António Pires Cabral signed as vicar of the churches of Caniço.
  34. 1538 Chapel chaplains at Madalena do Mar were allowed to administer sacraments.
  35. 1538 King João III granted a coat of arms to Amador de Almeida.
  36. 1538 Fr. Hercules da Cunha was already vicar of Santa Cruz.
  37. 2 January 1538–1 May 1538 A strong earthquake struck Funchal and a severe plague followed until May, ending, according to Frutuoso, after a procession to St James's chapel; the vow is commemorated by the 1 May procession.
  38. 1539 Father Sebastião Vaz is recorded as vicar of Estreito de Câmara de Lobos.
  39. 1539 Permission was granted to build a baptismal font at Madalena do Mar.
  40. 8 July 1539 A papal bull transferred Funchal's four suffragan sees to Lisbon, ending the archbishopric of Funchal.
  41. 13 July 1539 Gonçalo Fernandes died and was buried in his chapel at Arco da Calheta (one entry gives 15 June 1539).
1540s 34
  1. c. 1540 Fernão Tavares de Vasconcelos settled in Santa Cruz.
  2. c. 1540 A collegiate church with four beneficiaries was established at Ribeira Brava.
  3. 1540 The Society of Jesus was founded.
  4. 1540 Diogo Teixeira, deposed captain of Machico, died in Funchal without legitimate heir, and the captaincy reverted to the Crown.
  5. March 1540 D. Diogo de Teive was baptised at Ribeira Brava.
  6. 1541 King João III granted the captaincy of Machico to António da Silveira (one entry gives 1542).
  7. 1541 João Gonçalves da Câmara, later donatary of Funchal, was born in Lisbon.
  8. May 1542 Francisco de Couto Cardoso, founder of an entailed estate in Paul do Mar, died.
  9. 11 September 1542 A royal alvará ordered the works on the São Lourenço bastion in Funchal to continue.
  10. 1543 António da Gama took his bachelor's degree.
  11. 1543 João III confirmed Jordão de Freitas's lordship of Amboina granted by the king of Ternate.
  12. 1543 Frei Afonso da Ilha published Tesouro da Virtude.
  13. 1543 Tristão Gomes de Castro was born in Madeira.
  14. 1543 Jerónimo Barreto, later bishop of Funchal, was born in the archdiocese of Braga.
  15. 1544 New Christians presented judicial evidence of false accusations in Rome.
  16. 15 February 1544 Simão Acciaioly, founder of the entail on whose lands the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Natividade was built, died.
  17. 21 August 1544 Luís de Figueiredo de Lemos, later bishop of Funchal, was born on Santa Maria in the Azores.
  18. 1545 The Order of Christ's grain commandery of Porto Santo was valued at 64,000 réis.
  19. 1545 Diogo Soares Perestrelo inherited the captaincy of Porto Santo.
  20. 1545 Fernão Favela died, according to Henriques de Noronha (Rodrigues de Azevedo gives 1537).
  21. October 1545 António Favila died and was buried in the Chapel of Nossa Senhora da Ajuda.
  22. 1546 Luís Doria Velosa, builder of the Piornais levada, died.
  23. 1546 Fr. António da Visitação was born in Madeira.
  24. 23 February 1546 Dr. António da Gama competed for a chair at Coimbra University.
  25. 2 April 1546 Padre Luís Gonçalves da Câmara made his profession in the Society of Jesus at Coimbra.
  26. 4 July 1546 Padre Manuel Alvares entered the Society of Jesus.
  27. 1547 Padre Luís Gonçalves da Câmara was appointed rector of the College of Coimbra.
  28. 1547 The Inquisition was definitively established in Portugal.
  29. 1547 D. Manuel de Noronha was appointed bishop of Lamego.
  30. 15 November 1547 D. Martinho de Portugal, Archbishop of Funchal, died in Lisbon.
  31. 9 December 1548 Jorge Lomelino died and was buried in the church of the Convento de Nossa Senhora da Piedade at Santa Cruz.
  32. 1549 António da Silveira sold the captaincy of Machico, with royal authorisation, to D. Afonso de Portugal, Count of Vimioso.
  33. 10 May 1549 The office of factor was created at the Santa Cruz customs house, with Domingos Fernandes appointed.
  34. 28 May 1549 A royal decree added a moio of wheat to the stipend of the vicar of Ribeira Brava.
1550s 53
  1. 1550 António Galvão wrote his treatise on ancient and modern discoveries, including the discovery of Madeira.
  2. 1550 The office of doorkeeper already existed at the Santa Cruz customs house.
  3. 1550 D. Sebastião de Morais entered the Society of Jesus.
  4. 1550 The posts of almoxarife and alcaide de mar were created at the Machico customs house.
  5. 6 February 1550 A royal charter increased the salary of the treasurer of Caniço church.
  6. 20 February 1550 A royal charter created the parish of Faial.
  7. 1550–1575 The ordenanças militia were established in Madeira.
  8. 1550–1575 Fr. João Pinto da Vitória was born in Madeira.
  9. 1550–1599 Most of Madeira's collegiate chapters were created.
  10. 1551 The archdiocese of Funchal was abolished by the bull Super universis.
  11. 1551 The office of clerk already existed at the Santa Cruz customs house.
  12. 1551 The king granted a son of João Rodrigues Cavaleiro the office of notary of the Holy Office.
  13. 1551 D. Fr. Gaspar do Casal was appointed third bishop of Funchal.
  14. 1551 Cardinal Infante D. Henrique issued the first index of condemned autos.
  15. 1551 Irvão (Hirão) Teixeira died and was buried in Machico.
  16. 6 August 1551 Cristóvão Pires, having built and endowed the original chapel of São Roque at Faial, asked the chapter of Funchal Cathedral for licence to hold services there.
  17. 1552 Confession rolls recorded 2,700 slaves in Funchal, rising to 3,000 after four ships brought 300 more.
  18. 1552 Possession of the see of Funchal was taken for Bishop Gaspar do Casal by proxy through Dr. António da Costa.
  19. 1552 The English traveller Nichols recorded banana cultivation in Madeira.
  20. 1552–1561 Thomas Nichols lived in the Canary Islands.
  21. 3 February 1552 A royal charter increased the curate's stipend at Ponta Delgada, the oldest record of the parish name.
  22. 17 May 1552 Pedro Nunes Cardoso died in Gaula.
  23. 4 June 1552 A royal charter raised the São Jorge parish priest's stipend and created a curacy at Santana served jointly with São Jorge.
  24. 1553 D. Inês Moniz was born.
  25. 11 April 1553 A royal charter increased the stipend of the Fajã da Ovelha curate, the oldest known document naming the parish.
  26. 20 June 1553 A royal charter erected Seixal into a parish.
  27. 1554 The post of organist at Funchal Cathedral already existed.
  28. 1554 Duarte Mendes de Vasconcelos built the Chapel of the Magi at Quinta dos Reis, Monte.
  29. 4 March 1554 Bishop D. Sancho Truxillo, visiting Madeira, consecrated the rebuilt church of the São Francisco convent in Funchal (one entry dates his visit to 1548).
  30. 5 March 1554 Isabel Afonso died.
  31. 1555 The Order of Christ's commandery of the Machico and Porto Santo fish tithes was valued at 35,000 réis.
  32. 1555 Festivities with the game of canes marked António Gonçalves da Câmara's return to Madeira.
  33. 1555 Simão Gonçalves da Câmara left for the kingdom, leaving his uncle Francisco Gonçalves da Câmara as interim captain-donatary of Funchal.
  34. 1555 João Gavião died in Caniço.
  35. 1556 French privateers raided Porto Santo and sacked its parish church.
  36. 9 March 1556 Pope Paul IV confirmed Jorge de Lemos as bishop of Funchal.
  37. 8 April 1556 A royal charter appointed Gaspar Calaça almoxarife of the Porto Santo customs post.
  38. 28 July 1556 A royal decree fixed the stipend of the vicar of Ribeira Brava in money, silver, wheat and wine.
  39. 28 August 1556 A royal charter increased the stipend of the vicar of Campanário, showing the parish already existed.
  40. September 1556 Cristóvão de Leme died in prison in Lisbon, shortly after his father Pedro.
  41. 1557 A levy of 7,000 cruzados was imposed to pay for the fortifications of Funchal.
  42. 1557 The oldest parish registers of Santo António date from this year, taken as the creation of an autonomous curacy.
  43. 1557 António Alves Uzadamar became the first judge of the Machico customs house.
  44. 17 November 1557 The post of preacher was created in Santa Cruz parish.
  45. 18 November 1557 A royal charter divided Funchal's single parish into the Sé and Santa Maria Maior (Calhau) parishes and created a collegiate body for the church.
  46. 1558–1569 D. Fr. Jorge de Lemos governed the diocese of Funchal as its first resident bishop, reorganising the cathedral chapel music.
  47. 1558 Gaula was separated from Santa Cruz and made a parish.
  48. 21 February 1558 A royal charter raised the stipend of the vicar of Caniço to 8$300 réis a year.
  49. 23 February 1558 A charter set the annual stipend of the vicar of Santa Maria Maior.
  50. 1559 Jorge Pinto founded the entail of Ilha at São Jorge.
  51. 26 July 1559 A royal charter further increased the pay of the priest of Fajã da Ovelha.
  52. 28 August 1559 A royal charter fixed the stipend of the parish priest of Ponta do Sol.
  53. 24 September 1559 Mendo d'Ornelas e Vasconcelos married Helena Gomes at Machico.
1560s 59
  1. c. 1560 Canon Manuel Ferreira Teixeira gave the Selvagens islands to his niece Filipa Cabral de Vasconcelos.
  2. c. 1561 The parish of Caniçal was created, the oldest of Madeira's small parishes.
  3. c. 1569 Pedro Gonçalves de Arvelos served as judge in Santa Cruz.
  4. 1560 Rui de Sousa rebuilt the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Estrela.
  5. 1560 Queen Catarina granted arms to the Spaniard Diogo Martins.
  6. 11 February 1560 The stipend of the vicar of Machico was fixed at 12,300 réis plus wheat and wine.
  7. 4 March 1560 A royal charter increased the stipend of the priest of Ponta do Pargo, showing the parish existed by then.
  8. 30 March 1560 An order was given to build the enclosure behind the Blessed Sacrament chapel of Funchal Cathedral.
  9. 1561 The parish of Água de Pena began to function under Padre Tomé Gomes.
  10. April 1561 Saint-Sulpice arrived in Lisbon as French ambassador.
  11. 1562 Filipe Gentil de Limoges founded the chapel of São Filipe in Funchal and instituted his entail.
  12. 12 January 1562 A royal charter raised the priest's stipend at Estreito da Calheta, proving the parish already existed.
  13. 6 July 1562 King Sebastião created by charter the post of jailer of the Funchal Aljube.
  14. 20 July 1562 A royal charter created two curacies at the Sé, relieving the dean of parish duties.
  15. 27 August 1562 Queen-regent Catarina promulgated the Regimento das Madeiras, Madeira's forest code, requiring licences for felling, ordering chestnut and pine planting and entrusting forest protection to local officials.
  16. 26 September 1562 Queen Catarina ordered the Socorridos, Piornais and Castelejo levadas to be cleaned at the owners' expense.
  17. 19 October 1562 An alvará of Queen-regent Catarina extended the cleaning duty to all levadas, placing them under the captain-donataries with priority for cane fields and mills.
  18. 1563 Cardinal D. Henrique issued three charters on stream and levada cleaning and water pricing favouring sugar cane.
  19. 1563 António Galvão's Tratado dos Descobrimentos first published the legend of Machim.
  20. 1563 Bishop Jorge de Lemos left Madeira for Portugal, where he became chief almoner to King Sebastião.
  21. 1563 The salary of the dean of Funchal chapter was raised to 45,000 réis a year.
  22. 1563 The flag of the city of Funchal bore the image of St James the Apostle.
  23. 6 March 1563 A royal charter further regulated irrigation water.
  24. 18 August 1563 The office of judge of the Santa Cruz customs house was created and Tomé Alves appointed.
  25. 18 August 1563 A royal charter further regulated irrigation water.
  26. 30 November 1563 The stipend of the Sé curates was raised to 17,450 réis.
  27. 12 September 1564 A royal decree fixed the stipend of the priest of Caniçal at 14,300 réis.
  28. 28 October 1564 A royal warrant raised the salary of the clerk of the ecclesiastical chamber from three to eight thousand réis.
  29. 1565 Santana received its own chaplain, Father Sebastião de Moraes.
  30. 1565 A royal decree banned profane acts and masks in churches and processions.
  31. 7 March 1565 A royal charter created the parish of Monte, making the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Monte a parish church.
  32. 1566 Gonçalo Pires lived in Funchal as clerk of accounts.
  33. 1566 A customs register records Madeira wine exports valued at 3,200 réis a pipe.
  34. 1566 Santo António probably became a parish, separated from the Sé.
  35. 1566 The post of chapel master of Funchal cathedral was officially created.
  36. 1566 The Jesuits settled in the São Bartolomeu hospice in Funchal.
  37. 1566 Manuel Vieira and Favila Vieira were living in Funchal.
  38. 1566–1775 Period covered by the 24 register volumes of the Provedoria index in the Torre do Tombo.
  39. 20 June 1566 A charter of King Sebastião created the parish of São Pedro in Funchal, seated in the São Paulo chapel, ending Franciscan service there (20 July according to the Provedoria index).
  40. 20 June 1566 A charter appointed Gonçalo Fernandes first constable of the fortress of São Lourenço.
  41. 23 July 1566 A royal charter raised the stipend of the vicar of Ponta do Sol to 13$300 réis.
  42. September 1566 Montluc's fleet sailed from Bordeaux early in September.
  43. 20 September 1566 King Sebastião created the Funchal Seminary by royal charter.
  44. 2 October 1566 French pirates sacked Porto Santo, its earliest recorded raid, before attacking Funchal the next day.
  45. 3 October 1566–17 October 1566 French corsairs sacked Funchal and the nuns of Santa Clara fled to the Curral das Freiras.
  46. 3 October 1566–17 October 1566 French Huguenot corsairs under Montluc, guided by Gaspar Caldeira, landed at Praia Formosa and sacked Funchal, storming the fortress of São Lourenço, profaning the cathedral and the Santa Clara convent, whose nuns fled to the Curral; Gaspar de Braga died resisting them. The attack, during the captaincy of Francisco Gonçalves da Câmara, prompted new coastal fortifications.
  47. 22 October 1566 The Portuguese ambassador in France protested to Charles IX over the sack of Funchal, demanding punishment.
  48. 16 December 1566 Cardinal Henrique wrote to the French ambassador about the sack of Funchal.
  49. 19 December 1566 The French ambassador Forquevaux wrote to his government from Madrid about the sack.
  50. 1567 King Sebastião issued regulations for the coastal lookout posts (vigias) of the archipelago.
  51. 1567 Pompeu Arditti wrote his account describing Madeira's dense forests.
  52. 1568 João Enes Rocha was almoxarife in Funchal.
  53. 1568 Fr. António da Visitação took the Carmelite habit.
  54. 1569 The Calheta Misericórdia was empowered to collect its rents and debts by enforcement, like the royal treasury.
  55. 1569 A royal charter of King Sebastião ruled that no one was exempt from lookout service.
  56. 1569 D. Pantaleão de Teive died in Madrid.
  57. 20 August 1569 King Sebastião founded the Jesuit college of Funchal by royal charter.
  58. 23 September 1569 D. Manuel de Noronha died and was buried in the chapel of São Nicolau at Lamego.
  59. 15 November 1569 Nominated by King Sebastião, Fernando de Távora was appointed bishop of Funchal by the pope, who accepted the resignation of Jorge de Lemos.
1570s 80
  1. c. 1570 D. Sebastiana de Albuquerque married Jacinto de Freitas, establishing the Albuquerque name in Madeira.
  2. c. 1577 The parish of Canhas was created and installed in the chapel of São Tiago.
  3. 1570 Francisco de Sousa wrote his Tratado das Ilhas Novas.
  4. 1570–1680 Period for which the names of twelve parish priests of Câmara de Lobos are known.
  5. 1570–1760 The Jesuits were established in Madeira from 1570 until their expulsion in 1760.
  6. 9 March 1570 The founding Jesuit community left Lisbon for Madeira.
  7. 18 March 1570 The founding Jesuit community arrived in Madeira and lodged at the São Bartolomeu church and hospice.
  8. 6 May 1570 Solemn opening of the Jesuit classes in Funchal.
  9. 13 June 1570–30 June 1570 The fleet carrying Inácio de Azevedo and forty Jesuits anchored at Funchal, stayed there, and left for Brazil on 30 June.
  10. 15 July 1570 Huguenot corsairs attacked the fleet off La Palma in the Canaries and killed the forty Jesuits, led by Inácio de Azevedo, who had passed through Madeira.
  11. 15 July 1570 A stone commemorates the martyrdom of Inácio de Azevedo and 39 Jesuits off La Palma, which it dates to 15 July 1579 (the martyrdom occurred in 1570).
  12. 14 November 1570 Pope Pius V confirmed Fernando de Távora as fifth bishop of Funchal.
  13. 10 December 1570 A regulation organised the ordenanças into companies and capitanias-mores.
  14. 1571 Gaspar de Teive contracted a silk manufacturer to produce silk in Madeira.
  15. 1572 Jerónimo Dias Leite took possession of a half-prebend canonry at Funchal Cathedral.
  16. 1572 Padre Nuno Vaz, the first known vicar of Porto Santo, apparently began serving the parish.
  17. 1572 Funchal's defence plan was revised to a three-bastion fortress and city walls with five gates.
  18. 1572 António Correia died, according to several genealogists.
  19. 1572 The stipend of the priest of Água de Pena was raised to 9$000 réis.
  20. 1572 Os Lusíadas, containing Camões's reference to Madeira, was published.
  21. 1572 D. Jerónimo Barreto was appointed bishop of Madeira.
  22. 20 January 1572 A charter increased the stipend of Gonçalo de Aguiar, parish priest of Estreito de Câmara de Lobos.
  23. 13 March 1572 A royal charter raised vicars' stipends in Ponta do Sol and Ribeira Brava.
  24. 9 June 1572 King Sebastião's charter raised the Gaula priest's stipend to 20$000 réis.
  25. 18 June 1572 A royal charter authorised the curacy that created the parish of Arco da Calheta.
  26. 18 June 1572 A charter increased the pay of beneficiaries of the Machico and Santa Cruz collegiate churches.
  27. 20 August 1572 The vicar's stipend of São Pedro was raised to 25,000 réis.
  28. 25 November 1572 A royal charter increased the stipend of Belchior Mourato, vicar of Caniço.
  29. 27 November 1572 A royal decree set the São Jorge priest's salary at 25,000 réis, when the parish had 106 households.
  30. 1573 Fernando de Távora resigned the see of Funchal and became royal almoner.
  31. 1573 Bishop Jerónimo Barreto received episcopal consecration.
  32. 6 July 1573 The stipend of the vicar of the newly independent parish of Fajã da Ovelha was fixed at 20,000 réis.
  33. 28 November 1573 D. Aleixo de Teive was found dead with 24 wounds.
  34. 1573–1586 The Funchal seminary actually began operating at some point in this period.
  35. 1574–1585 D. Jerónimo Barreto was Bishop of Funchal and had lodgings on Rua Direita.
  36. 1574 Giulio Landi's description of Madeira was published in Latin and Italian at Piacenza.
  37. 1574 Simão Gonçalves da Câmara accompanied King Sebastião on his first African expedition.
  38. 1574 D. Sebastião confirmed Gonçalo de Freitas da Silva's Asian lordships.
  39. 11 March 1574 Oldest cited royal letter concerning the parish of Porto do Moniz.
  40. 12 March 1574 A royal letter names the Porto do Moniz parish Nossa Senhora da Conceição da Ponta do Tristão.
  41. 16 September 1574 King Sebastião raised the Santo António priest's stipend as the parish reached 120 households.
  42. 31 October 1574 Bishop Jerónimo Barreto arrived in Funchal to govern the diocese.
  43. 1575 A pay increase granted to Funchal's sargento-mor shows the ordenanças existed.
  44. 15 March 1575 Padre Luís Gonçalves da Câmara died in Lisbon aged 57.
  45. 16 September 1575 Pedro Gonçalves da Câmara sold Zarco's house to Francisco Gonçalves da Câmara.
  46. 18 September 1575 A royal charter fixed the São Vicente parish priest's stipend at 25$000 réis.
  47. 22 November 1575 The Seixal priest's stipend was raised to 20$000 réis a year.
  48. 1575–1599 Pedro Berenguer de Lemilhana came to Madeira in the last quarter of the sixteenth century.
  49. 1576 A 100,000-cruzado levy was imposed for Funchal's fortifications.
  50. 1576 Diogo Soares Perestrelo succeeded as donatary of Porto Santo.
  51. 1576 King Sebastião confirmed the donataries' revenues, including rights over water and wind.
  52. 20 August 1576 A royal charter of King Sebastião created Simão Gonçalves da Câmara, fifth captain-donatary of Funchal, Count of Calheta, the first known noble title in Madeira.
  53. 5 November 1576 King Sebastião authorised Bishop Jerónimo Barreto to create a curacy in the Câmara de Lobos parish church.
  54. 15 November 1576 A royal charter created a curacy in Machico.
  55. 1577 A document recorded the chapel of the Reis Magos at Ponta Delgada as already in poor repair.
  56. 1577 Bishop Jerónimo Barreto abolished the curacy of Vera Cruz.
  57. 1577 Two further half-prebend canonries were added to the cathedral chapter of Funchal.
  58. 1577 The Alecrins entail was instituted.
  59. 1577 Earliest record of the Senhor Jesus pilgrimage at Ponta Delgada.
  60. 1577 Death of D. Fernando de Távora, who was buried in the convent of São Domingos, Lisbon.
  61. 26 February 1577 By alvará the curacy of Câmara de Lobos was made removable.
  62. 28 February 1577 Ponta Delgada became a full parish with a vicar's stipend.
  63. 1 March 1577 Royal charters of 1 March 1577 raised the stipends of the priests of several Madeiran parishes, including Tábua, Monte (then 58 households), Ponta do Pargo (20$000 réis) and Porto do Moniz, the last being the first document to use that name.
  64. 5 September 1577 The number of beneficiaries of the Ribeira Brava church was reduced to three.
  65. 26 September 1577 A royal charter empowered Bishop Jerónimo Barreto to erect the parish of Porto da Cruz.
  66. 1578–1730 Period covered by the list of Madeiran and Azorean students at the University of Coimbra.
  67. 1578 The Franciscan convent of Funchal underwent major repairs and enlargements under its guardian Fr. Diogo Nabo.
  68. 1578 The sugar masters and residents of Ponta do Sol were obliged to join the Corpus Christi procession with torches and canes.
  69. 1578 The chapel of São Cristóvão at Ponta Delgada was recorded in poor repair.
  70. 1578 D. Sebastião de Morais's life of Princess Maria of Portugal was published in Bologna.
  71. 4 August 1578 D. Gaspar de Teive was killed at the battle of Alcácer Quibir.
  72. 13 October 1578–18 October 1578 Madeira's first diocesan synod, held in Funchal Cathedral under Bishop Jerónimo Barreto, drew up and promulgated the Diocesan Constitutions, which among other things forbade plays in churches without the bishop's licence.
  73. 1579 The Cardinal-King D. Henrique made judicial offices royal appointments, curtailing the powers of the donataries.
  74. 1579–1790 The chapel of São Roque served as the parish church of São Roque.
  75. 1579 King D. Henrique reduced the notaries and judicial clerks of Funchal from 35 to 17.
  76. 1579 Jerónimo Dias Leite wrote his manuscript on the discovery of Madeira.
  77. 1579 Bishop Luís Figueiredo de Lemos promulgated the Constituições Extravagantes.
  78. 3 March 1579 A royal charter of the Cardinal-King abolished the Funchal parish of São Pedro and authorised Bishop Jerónimo Barreto to create the parishes of São Roque and São Martinho.
  79. 4 May 1579 Bishop Jerónimo Barreto approved the diocesan constitutions by alvará and ordered their enforcement, including rules regulating teaching.
  80. 20 July 1579 A royal charter on irrigation water in Madeira was issued.
1580s 68
  1. c. 1580 Luís Fernandes de Matos Coutinho settled in Madeira and set up a trading house in Funchal.
  2. c. 1580 João Cahus of Rouen settled in Funchal as a merchant.
  3. c. 1585 Manuel Dias de Andrade was born around this year.
  4. 1580 Bernardo Tavares de Sousa settled in Madeira after 1580.
  5. 1580 With the start of Philippine rule the captain-donataries ceased residing in Madeira and were succeeded by governors-general.
  6. 1580 A bronze standard weight bearing Funchal's original arms was made.
  7. 1580 João Bettencourt de Vasconcelos sailed to India as captain of the nau São Gregório.
  8. 1580 The Duke of Alba's army, including António Herédia, entered Portugal.
  9. 1580 Guiomar Lomelino donated land for the new parish church of Porto da Cruz.
  10. 1580–1640 The fort of São Filipe in Funchal was apparently built during Philippine rule.
  11. 4 March 1580 The fifth captain-donatary of Funchal, Simão Gonçalves da Câmara, died in Funchal after a stroke suffered in 1578.
  12. 4 June 1580 João Gonçalves da Câmara, sixth and last effective captain-donatary of Funchal, died at Almeirim.
  13. September 1580 Philip II was proclaimed king of Portugal, the proclamation being made in Funchal.
  14. 5 December 1580 A royal charter set the annual stipend of the vicar of Santa Cruz.
  15. 1581 Francisca Frazão married Diogo de Ornelas e Vasconcelos.
  16. 1581–1587 The combined customs revenue of Madeira and Porto Santo was recorded for the seven years 1581 to 1587.
  17. 1581–1640 Under Philippine (Spanish) rule Madeira was governed by governors-general, beginning with João Leitão, who took over the administration of the whole archipelago; the captains-donatary were reduced to honorary status.
  18. 1581 Bishop Jerónimo Barreto published the diocesan Constitutions.
  19. 1581 Belchior de Teive was already a law professor at Salamanca.
  20. 2 June 1581 The stipend of the vicar of Ponta Delgada was raised to 25$000 réis.
  21. 9 June 1581 A royal charter raised the stipends of the vicars of several parishes, including Monte, Ponta do Pargo, Campanário and Seixal, to 25$000 réis a year.
  22. 16 July 1581 A charter raised the stipend of the parish priest of São Martinho.
  23. 1582 Fearing a landing by the French fleet of D. António, Prior of Crato, António do Carvalhal brought 300 men to Funchal.
  24. 1582 João Bettencourt de Vasconcelos was beheaded on Terceira for supporting Philip II.
  25. 1582 Tristão Vaz da Veiga, governor-general of the archipelago, kept twelve Indian slaves.
  26. 1582 Fr. João do Espírito Santo was hanged in Funchal for supporting the cause of the Prior of Crato.
  27. 1582 Zenobio Acciaioli founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Natividade at Faial.
  28. 5 January 1582 A provision of Philip II appointed João Leitão treasury provedor and dispatched him to Madeira.
  29. 1 February 1582 Madalena do Mar was made an independent parish by Bishop Jerónimo Barreto.
  30. 25 February 1582 Philip II granted the captaincy of Machico to Tristão Vaz da Veiga.
  31. 26 July 1582 At the naval battle off Vila Franca do Campo, D. Francisco de Portugal, Count of Vimioso, died fighting for the Prior of Crato.
  32. 12 November 1582 Agostinho Herrera was sent to Madeira as general of arms and governor-general to prepare its defences against the French fleet of the Prior of Crato.
  33. 1583 Administration of foundlings was entrusted to the bishop.
  34. 30 December 1583 Padre Manuel Álvares died at the College of Évora.
  35. 1584 Agostinho Herrera left Madeira and João Leitão resumed full civil and military jurisdiction.
  36. 9 August 1584 D. Fr. Gaspar do Casal died in Coimbra.
  37. 1585 Pedro Gonçalves de Azevedo proved his nobility.
  38. 1585 Manuel Tomás was born in Guimarães.
  39. 1585–4 August 1586 D. Luís Figueiredo de Lemos was presented as bishop of Funchal in 1585 and, after papal confirmation, arrived in Madeira on 4 August 1586.
  40. 1585 The Constituições Synodaes do Bispado do Funchal of Bishop Jerónimo Barreto's 1578 synod were printed in Lisbon, and Barreto was transferred to Silves.
  41. 10 October 1585 A provision still styled Simão Gonçalves da Câmara captain-donatary of Funchal.
  42. 19 October 1585–22 November 1585 João Leitão's government ended and Tristão Vaz da Veiga was appointed governor-general of Madeira on 19 October 1585, taking office on 22 November.
  43. 1586–1608 D. Luís Figueiredo de Lemos governed the diocese and built the first episcopal palace in Funchal.
  44. 1586 The annotator of the Saudades gives this year for the creation of the parish of Tábua.
  45. 1587 Two ships seized by a corsair in Funchal bay were recovered.
  46. 1587 A diocesan synod under Bishop Luís Figueiredo de Lemos promulgated new diocesan constitutions.
  47. 1587 Bishop Luís Figueiredo de Lemos found the chapel at Achadas da Cruz in poor condition.
  48. 19 February 1587 Pope Sixtus V confirmed D. Sebastião de Morais as bishop of Funai, the first diocese in Japan.
  49. 26 April 1587 A royal charter on irrigation water was issued.
  50. 14 August 1587 The parish of São Pedro in Funchal was restored by Filipe I.
  51. 22 September 1587 A royal charter fixed the stipend of the priest of Madalena do Mar at 20,000 réis.
  52. 1588 An English ship raiding shipping off Funchal was sunk.
  53. 19 August 1588 D. Sebastião de Morais died in Mozambique while travelling to his diocese.
  54. 1 December 1588 A royal charter named the priest of Santana vicar, marking roughly when it became an independent parish.
  55. 12 December 1588 The vicar's stipend at Ponta Delgada was fixed at 16$000 réis plus wheat and wine.
  56. 15 December 1588 A royal charter raised the stipend of the priest of Tábua.
  57. 1589 The parish of São Pedro in Funchal was restored.
  58. 1589 Death of D. Inês Moniz.
  59. 1589 D. Jerónimo Barreto died in Silves aged 45.
  60. 16 January 1589 A royal charter raised the São Roque priest's stipend to 19,000 réis, half a moio of wheat and a quarter of wine.
  61. 18 January 1589 A royal charter increased the stipend of the vicar of Campanário.
  62. 30 January 1589 A further charter added money, wheat and wine to parish priests' stipends, including São Roque and São Martinho.
  63. 8 April 1589 Padre Leão Henriques died in Lisbon.
  64. 20 April 1589 A royal charter increased the priests' stipends at São Jorge and São Vicente with wheat and wine.
  65. 26 May 1589 A collegiate with two beneficiaries was created in the parish of São Pedro.
  66. 26 August 1589 A royal charter created the curacy of Ponta do Sol.
  67. 27 August 1589 Royal charters created curacies in several parishes, including Porto Santo (20,000 réis a year), Calheta, Santa Cruz, Santa Maria Maior and São Pedro.
  68. 10 September 1589 The Seixal priest's stipend was increased by half a moio of wheat and a quarter of wine.
1590s 57
  1. 1590 Gaspar Frutuoso wrote the Saudades da Terra in São Miguel, a key source for Madeira's history; the same year Jerónimo Dias Leite was named full-prebend canon.
  2. 1590 Gaspar Frutuoso described Rua Direita as the largest street in Funchal, and described the parish of Tábua.
  3. 1590 Gaspar Frutuoso described Santana as rich farmland.
  4. 1590 Frutuoso recorded the reduced number of notaries then serving in Funchal.
  5. 1590 Gaspar Frutuoso described the south-west coast localities, including Paul do Mar.
  6. 1590 Gaspar Frutuoso recorded household counts for parishes such as Caniço (200), Faial (about 100) and Porto do Moniz (thirty).
  7. 1590 Gaspar Frutuoso wrote that the parish of Porto Santo was dedicated to the Salvador.
  8. 1590 According to Frutuoso, Porto Santo had about 400 households, some 1,600 inhabitants.
  9. 1590 Gaspar Frutuoso already called the springs by the name of João Diniz.
  10. 1590 Gaspar Frutuoso described the Pico do Castelo on Porto Santo as naturally defensible.
  11. 1590 Gaspar Frutuoso recorded that the landing place at Machico was called the Desembarcadouro, and recorded the name Ponta Delgada.
  12. 1590 Antonia Jaime Cuibém and her husband Roberto Vizovi came to Madeira.
  13. 1590 Gaspar Frutuoso described Malvasia as the best wine in the world, exported to India.
  14. 1590 The captaincy of Machico yielded about 900,000 réis a year to its donatary, per Frutuoso.
  15. 1590 Gaspar Frutuoso described Seixal as a parish of about twenty households with a church of São Brás.
  16. 1590 An eight-volume register of chapels was begun by the Juiz dos Resíduos e Capelas.
  17. 9 July 1590 A charter raised the stipends of the vicar and beneficiaries of Santa Cruz.
  18. 4 August 1590 A post of preacher was created in Machico church.
  19. 30 December 1590 António Pereira de Barredo was appointed governor-general of Madeira.
  20. 1591 Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos founded the morgado and chapel of Nossa Senhora da Consolação at the Quinta, Caniço.
  21. 27 April 1591 The Monte priest's stipend was fixed at 16,000 réis, a moio of wheat and a pipe of wine.
  22. 8 May 1591 A royal alvará reset parish stipends: the Ribeira Brava vicar's at 27,000 réis plus wheat and wine, and the Câmara de Lobos priest's money stipend at 11$000 réis.
  23. 21 August 1591 António Pereira de Barredo took office as governor-general of Madeira.
  24. 24 August 1591 Gaspar Frutuoso, author of the Saudades da Terra, died at Ribeira Grande aged 69.
  25. 15 November 1591 A royal charter raised or fixed the stipends of the priests of Tábua and Porto da Cruz in money, wine and wheat.
  26. 20 November 1591 Philip II created the Conselho de Fazenda.
  27. 1592 The bishop D. Luís de Figueiredo transferred the inhabitants of Achadas da Cruz to the parish of Porto Moniz.
  28. 5 February 1592 A royal charter raised the Água de Pena priest's stipend to 19$000 réis plus grain and wine.
  29. 4 July 1592 A charter fixed the Gaula priest's stipend at 16$000 réis plus a pipe of wine and a moio and a half of wheat.
  30. 1593 The earliest known record of the Madalena chapel dates from this year, when a quit-rent was donated to it.
  31. 24 July 1593–26 July 1593 After a violent, extremely hot east wind blew over Madeira on 24 and 25 July, the 'Fogo do Céu' fire of 26 July 1593 destroyed about 150 houses, sugar stores and crops in the city.
  32. 1594 Francisco de Betencourt built the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Vitória in São Martinho.
  33. 1594 The São Sebastião chapel at Caniçal was enlarged or rebuilt.
  34. 23 May 1594 Diogo de Azambuja de Melo was appointed governor-general of Madeira.
  35. 30 August 1594 The curacy of Ribeira Brava parish was created.
  36. 27 November 1594 A post of organist was created in Machico church.
  37. 1595 English ships under Captain Amias Preston attacked and burned Porto Santo.
  38. 20 January 1595–20 April 1595 Diogo de Azambuja de Melo took office as governor-general of Madeira, bringing António Pereira de Barredo's governorship to an end.
  39. 10 February 1595 A royal warrant appointed a fortificador (named Francisco Jorge or Jerónimo Jorge in different entries) to direct the fortification works of Madeira.
  40. 30 March 1595 Dr António da Gama died in Lisbon.
  41. 1596 Manuel Soares founded the chapel of Senhora da Boa Morte in São Pedro church.
  42. 29 June 1596 João Fernandes Vieira was probably baptised in Faial parish.
  43. 1597 The offices of provedor and corregedor in Madeira were united.
  44. 1597 A municipal book recorded four seaward gates in Funchal.
  45. 29 June 1597–15 August 1597 Bishop Luís Figueiredo de Lemos held a diocesan synod in Funchal Cathedral producing the Constituições Extravagantes, which received episcopal approval on 15 August 1597.
  46. 1598 Funchal council obtained a charter barring ships from loading foreign sugar in Madeira.
  47. 15 July 1598 António do Carvalhal died in Ponta Delgada parish.
  48. 27 November 1598 A royal charter raised the stipend of the vicar of Ponta do Sol to 29$000 réis.
  49. 1599 Henrique de Bettencourt founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Glória.
  50. 1599 Padre Manuel Constantino's Insulae Materiae, a Latin history of Madeira's discovery, was published in Rome.
  51. 22 October 1599 A further 3,000 réis was added to the stipend of the vicar of Ribeira Brava.
  52. 159? Madeira declined as its sugar and timber trades were overtaken by America and Africa.
  53. 159? Simão Darja owned a sugar-cane mill in Funchal.
  54. 159? The English colony began to gain importance in Madeira.
  55. 159? Funchal extended as far as the Cabo do Calhau.
  56. 159? Porto Santo's decline became marked.
  57. 159? Madeira's Malvasia wine began to gain great renown.
1600s 24
  1. c. 1600 Brás Dias Aranha lived in Funchal.
  2. c. 1600 Bartolomeu Telo Moniz de Meneses founded a chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Santa Cruz.
  3. 1600–1602 Serious disturbances in Funchal prompted a punitive commission sent from Lisbon.
  4. 1600 The Spanish garrison in Madeira mutinied over arrears of pay.
  5. 1600 A document records the three-day route of the Litanies procession in Ponta do Sol.
  6. 1600 The mill tithes commandery of Madeira and the Azores was valued at 140,000 réis.
  7. 1600 The office of alcaide do mar already existed at the Santa Cruz customs house.
  8. 1600 The first recorded lease of seafront land in Funchal for building a capstan was made.
  9. 1600 Governor-general Diogo de Azambuja de Melo died in Funchal.
  10. 1600–1650 Padre Manuel de Lira died in Calheta.
  11. 1600 Friar Damião das Chagas died in mainland Portugal.
  12. 1600–1625 Canon Jorge Furtado de Sousa founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Desterro.
  13. 21 February 1600 The stipend of the Sé parish curates was raised to 20,000 réis.
  14. 20 April 1600 Cristóvão Falcão e Sousa was appointed governor-general of the Madeira archipelago.
  15. 160? Manuel João Ferreira built the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso at Garachico, Estreito de Câmara de Lobos.
  16. 16?? A slow landslide pushed land into the sea in São Jorge parish.
  17. 16?? The feast of the Menino Jesus Perdido was established at the Santa Clara convent.
  18. 16?? Sebastião de Oliveira is said to have founded the Livramento chapel in Caniço.
  19. 16?? The fortress of Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Ilhéu was built.
  20. 16?? Francisco Rodrigues Jardim was hanged in effigy at the Funchal pillory for abducting D. Maria de Ornelas.
  21. 16?? According to tradition the Forte de Loures was built by a private individual.
  22. 16?? Inácio da Câmara Leme rebuilt the house and chapel of the Quinta do Leme.
  23. 16?? The chapel of Santo Espírito at Lombada dos Esmeraldos, Ponta do Sol, was rebuilt on a larger scale.
  24. 16?? The cut-leaved sweet potato was introduced to Madeira.

XVII Century · 543

1600s 32
  1. 1601 Bishop Luís de Figueiredo had the diocesan Constitutions reprinted in Lisbon by Pedro Craesbeeck together with the Constituições Extravagantes.
  2. 1601 The chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios was built in Quinta Grande.
  3. 1601 Ambrósio Berenguer founded an entailed estate in Ponta do Sol parish.
  4. 1601 The French traveller Moquet visited Madeira and recorded destructive floods.
  5. 1601 António Favila died.
  6. 1602 António Correia Herédia came to Madeira as captain of the Castilian garrison company.
  7. 1602 Mateus Fernandes received a letter of appointment as fortificador.
  8. 20 October 1602 Philip II created a curacy in the parish of Estreito da Calheta.
  9. 29 October 1602 A curacy was created in the parish of Santo António.
  10. 1603 Gaspar Berenguer de Andrade was born.
  11. 1603 Disorders broke out in the Corpus Christi procession in Funchal when the vicar-general left his place to police it.
  12. 14 August 1603 João Fogaça de Eça was appointed governor-general of Madeira.
  13. 5 December 1603 A regulation fixed the powers of the alcaides-mores appointed by the Philippine government.
  14. 1604 The captaincy of Machico was recovered by and passed to D. Luís de Portugal, Count of Vimioso.
  15. 1604 Tristão Vaz da Veiga died in or shortly before 1604, aged about 67.
  16. 20 October 1605 The curacy of Caniço was created.
  17. 1606 The date 1606 was carved with the Ornelas arms on the gate of a surviving Gothic house in Funchal.
  18. 2 January 1606 The curate's annual salary at Ribeira Brava was set at 20,000 réis.
  19. 2 January 1606 A royal charter created the curacy of São Vicente.
  20. 8 October 1606 Antónia Delgada died.
  21. 13 October 1606 Fr. António da Visitação died.
  22. 1607 The Ponta do Sol council reordered the route of the Litanies procession and excused the parishioners of Canhas and Madalena do Mar.
  23. 1607 Francisco Dias built the Santana chapel in São Roque.
  24. 1607 Belchior de Teive left teaching for royal service and was sent to Portugal as superintendent general of public finances.
  25. 12 December 1607 The will of João Bettencourt de Vasconcelos, entailing his third to the Convent of São Bernardino, was approved.
  26. 1608 The first consulate in Madeira, the Flemish one, was created.
  27. 26 November 1608 Bishop D. Luís Figueiredo de Lemos died in Funchal and was buried in his São Luís chapel beside the Episcopal Palace.
  28. 1609 A tower clock already existed at Machico parish church before 1609.
  29. 1609 Francisco de Abreu founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Alegria in São Roque.
  30. 31 August 1609 A final decree raised the Caniçal priest's stipend to 24,000 réis plus wheat and wine.
  31. October 1609 D. Lourenço de Távora was appointed bishop of Madeira.
  32. 22 November 1609 D. Manuel Pereira Coutinho was appointed governor-general of Madeira.
1610s 49
  1. 1610 João Gomes de Castro was administrator of the Prazeres chapel in Santa Maria Maior.
  2. 6 July 1610 D. Lourenço de Távora received episcopal consecration.
  3. 1611 D. Lourenço de Távora took charge of the diocese of Funchal.
  4. 1611 Tristão Gomes de Castro founded the Prazeres chapel in Monte; he is also recorded as dying that year.
  5. 1611 A great flood in Funchal largely destroyed the church of Nossa Senhora do Calhau (Santa Maria Maior) and its adjoining hospital.
  6. 1611 The bishop requested restoration of the curacy of Achadas da Cruz for its 84 residents.
  7. 1611 Desembargador Francisco Cardoso was sent to Funchal over hostility to Philippine rule.
  8. 21 March 1611 Philip II granted the title of Count of Castelo-Melhor to Rui Mendes de Vasconcelos.
  9. 12 November 1611 A royal charter set rules for corregedors conducting municipal elections and penalties for bribery.
  10. 9 December 1611 The Madalena do Mar priest's stipend was increased by 3,000 réis.
  11. 1612 Fr. João Pinto da Vitória's Vida del Fr. Juan Sanz was published in Valencia.
  12. 1612 A stone dated 1612 commemorates foundlings murdered at the Achada.
  13. 20 July 1612 Francisco Cardoso de Cernejo was commissioned as Inquisition visitor to Madeira.
  14. 3 September 1612 A royal charter granted 70,000 réis for an altarpiece for the chapel at Santo António da Serra.
  15. 1613 A provision regulated how the corregedor selected persons eligible for municipal office.
  16. 1613 Philip II gave an organ to Funchal Cathedral.
  17. 1613 Francisco da Madre de Deus professed in the Franciscan order.
  18. 1613 Domingos Rodrigues Garcez founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade in Funchal, at the Largo da Igrejinha.
  19. 1613 Manuel de Vasconcelos sailed to India with his six sons.
  20. 1613 Birth year of João Fernandes Vieira as given in the first edition.
  21. 1613 The earliest recorded editions of several of Baltazar Dias's autos were printed.
  22. 1613–1833 Period covered by the loose manuscripts on Madeira and Porto Santo in the Arquivo da Marinha e Ultramar.
  23. 28 June 1613 The Funchal council protested against Governor Manuel Pereira Coutinho's interference in the works on the stream walls.
  24. 1614 The Fortress of São Tiago in Funchal was built under Philippine rule, its original portal bearing the date 1614.
  25. 1614 Fr. Rafael de Jesus was born.
  26. 1614 Francisco Morais de Aguiar founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Salvação at Moinhos, Caniço.
  27. 18 January 1614 Jorge da Câmara was appointed governor-general of Madeira.
  28. 12 March 1614 António Pimentel was appointed almoxarife of the Santa Cruz customs house.
  29. 8 April 1614 A royal warrant named Bishop D. Lourenço de Távora interim governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  30. 28 November 1614 Padre Manuel Constantino died in Rome.
  31. 29 November 1614 Philip III commissioned Dr Gonçalo de Sousa to hold an alçada in Madeira to punish crimes.
  32. 17 December 1614 Jorge da Câmara took office as governor-general of Madeira.
  33. 1615 Manuel Afonso Cortez, founder of the Cortez family, died in Câmara de Lobos.
  34. 12 July 1615 João Bettencourt de Vasconcelos died.
  35. 1616 The statutes (compromisso) of the Calheta Misericórdia were dated.
  36. 1616 Fr. João Pinto da Vitória's Gerarchia Carmelitana was published in Valencia.
  37. 14 June 1616 António Veloso de Lira was born in Calheta.
  38. 1617 North African corsairs sacked Porto Santo, killing or carrying off most of the population, burning the parish church and destroying the council and parish archives; the raid prompted fortification of Pico do Castelo.
  39. 1617 Bartolomeu Arias was sent to fortify Madeira after corsair raids on coastal settlements.
  40. 7 October 1617 Bishop D. Lourenço de Távora left Madeira on transfer to the see of Elvas, leaving the see of Funchal vacant.
  41. 1618–1637 Philip III funded the eastern walls of Funchal, completed in 1637.
  42. 1618 Jordão de Freitas da Silva was living in Santa Cruz.
  43. 1618–1651 Padre Manuel de Almeida served as chapel master of Funchal cathedral.
  44. 30 May 1618 Pedro da Silva was appointed governor-general of Madeira.
  45. 6 July 1618 Pedro da Silva took office as governor-general of Madeira.
  46. 10 November 1618 João Bartolomeu was appointed engineer director of the fortifications under construction in Madeira.
  47. 1619 D. Jerónimo Fernando was nominated bishop of Funchal.
  48. 1619 The date 1619 was inscribed over the door of the classroom courtyard of the Jesuit college of São João Evangelista.
  49. 14 March 1619 Philip II wrote to João Fogaça summoning him to represent Madeira at the Cortes at Tomar.
1620s 44
  1. c. 1623 The most advanced beatification process for Frei Pedro da Guarda was conducted.
  2. 1620 A door of the customs house was moved, according to an inscription.
  3. 1620 Luís Gonçalves Mercador built a chapel of Nossa Senhora da Penha de França at Monte.
  4. 20 July 1620 The Conselho da Fazenda ordered the reconstruction of the parish church of Ponta do Pargo.
  5. 1621 Bishop Jerónimo Fernando excommunicated treasury and customs officials; a royal order of 21 November lifted the excommunication.
  6. 1621 D. Jerónimo Fernando took possession of the see of Funchal.
  7. 1621–1638 Fr. Gregório Batista published two Latin works cited in the Bibliotheca Lusitana.
  8. 1621 The priest Jerónimo da Silva founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Paz.
  9. 1621 Belchior de Teive was still a privy councillor of Philip II.
  10. 1621 The Relação das Festas, containing a sermon by Padre Luís de Morais, was published.
  11. 1622 António Dantas founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Penha de França in Funchal.
  12. 1622 A religious play was staged in the church of São João Evangelista in Funchal for the canonisation of Francis Xavier.
  13. 1622 Padre Luís de Morais died.
  14. 20 July 1622 D. Francisco Henriques was appointed governor-general of Madeira.
  15. 28 October 1622–1640 D. Francisco Henriques took office as governor-general of Madeira on 28 October 1622 and began building the Castle of São João Baptista do Pico above Funchal, constructed between 1622 and 1640.
  16. 1623 The ordenanças (militia) were restored after their abolition by Philip II.
  17. 1623 Fr. Gregório Batista published his Completas da Vida de Cristo.
  18. 29 July 1623 João Gonçalves da Câmara's possession of the captaincy of Funchal was confirmed.
  19. 1624–1634 Bishop Jerónimo Fernando governed Madeira, the period of events mentioned in the Arte de Furtar.
  20. 1624 António de Carvalhal Esmeraldo owned the house held to be one of Zarco's dwellings.
  21. 1624 João Fernandes Vieira left Madeira and changed his name.
  22. 1624 Francisco de Sousa was appointed first master gunner of the Pico fortress.
  23. 27 June 1624 Governor-general D. Francisco Henriques died in office in Madeira (another entry gives 23 July 1624).
  24. 3 August 1624 Bishop D. Jerónimo Fernando was confirmed as governor-general of Madeira by royal letter.
  25. 1625 D. Lourenço de Távora resigned the see of Elvas and retired to his convent in Lisbon.
  26. 1625 Canon Jorge Furtado de Sousa founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Desterro at Monte.
  27. January 1625 Pirates, described as Algerian corsairs, raided Fajã dos Padres in Campanário and destroyed the Jesuit chapel there.
  28. 10 January 1625 Fernão Saldanha was appointed Governor General of Madeira.
  29. 11 April 1625 Fernão Saldanha took office as Governor General of Madeira.
  30. 25 September 1625 The office of judge of orphans was created in Machico.
  31. 1625–1675 The present chapel of Santo Amaro was rebuilt.
  32. 1626 Canon Manuel Afonso founded a chapel of Jesus, Maria, José in the Sé parish.
  33. 1626 A Portuguese fleet was lost on the French coast; Félix Ferreira helped save most of the men.
  34. 1626 The French consulate in Madeira was created.
  35. April 1626 Unpaid soldiers rioted in Funchal and besieged the customs house.
  36. 20 April 1626 A royal decree set the Calheta parish priest's stipend at 18,000 réis plus wheat and wine.
  37. 10 June 1626 An alvará noted that tithes did not cover the stipends of the cathedral clergy.
  38. 10 August 1626 Governor Fernão Saldanha died in Madeira and Bishop D. Jerónimo Fernando assumed the government.
  39. 1627 Martim Vaz founded the Nazaré chapel at São Martinho.
  40. 18 January 1627 D. Francisco de Sousa was appointed governor-general of Madeira.
  41. 13 October 1627 Dr Estêvão Leitão (or Coelho) de Meireles was named judge of an alçada to punish crimes in Madeira and enforce earlier sentences.
  42. 1628 The fort of São Filipe da Praça in Funchal was built by order of the bishop-governor D. Jerónimo Fernando.
  43. 1 May 1628 D. Francisco de Sousa took office as governor-general of Madeira.
  44. 11 May 1629 D. Lourenço de Távora died in Lisbon with a reputation for sanctity.
1630s 33
  1. c. 1630 Work began on completing the chancel of Funchal Cathedral with its panelling and choir stalls.
  2. 1630 By tradition, the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Incarnação at Ribeira da Janela was founded by two residents.
  3. 1630 The Dutch invaded Pernambuco while the Madeiran João Fernandes Vieira was a clerk there.
  4. 1631 Fr. João Pinto da Vitória died in Valencia.
  5. 1631 João de Freitas da Silva raised a company of 100 men in Madeira at his own cost to fight in Pernambuco.
  6. 22 March 1631 Filipe III approved the Misericórdia's own statutes.
  7. 31 May 1631 A law established the meia anata tax.
  8. 1632 A chapel of Nossa Senhora da Estrela is recorded in the Calhau parish.
  9. 1632 The first works of the Pico fortress (Castelo de São João do Pico) in Funchal were completed; the date is inscribed over its outer gate.
  10. 16 June 1632 The Funchal council recorded that St James the Less was credited with sparing Madeira from the pirates of 1617.
  11. 22 June 1632 The Funchal council renewed its old vows to St James by a new deed, confirming Madeiran gratitude after grain relief and the building of a new chapel.
  12. 25 July 1632 Bishop D. Jerónimo Fernando blessed the new chapel of St James in Funchal.
  13. 1633 Death of António da Silva Barreto.
  14. 1634 Death of Manuel da Silva Câmara, holder of the Leme entail.
  15. 1634 The Dutch attacked the Portuguese camp in Brazil; João Fernandes Vieira was captured and ransomed.
  16. January 1634 D. João de Meneses took office as governor-general of Madeira.
  17. 1635 Manuel Tomás's poem Insulana, on Madeira, was published in Antwerp.
  18. 1635 The chapel of São Lourenço was built inside the Funchal fortress, which then took its name; the date is inscribed over the chapel door.
  19. 1635–1691 The donativo war tax on the produce of the land was imposed in Madeira under Spanish rule, and is mentioned in municipal records until 1691.
  20. 1635–1714 The Jesuits acquired the Pico do Cardo property in Santo António.
  21. 1635 A second lease of seafront land in Funchal was granted for a capstan.
  22. 28 February 1635 An order was given to complete the main chapel of Funchal Cathedral.
  23. 18 November 1635 Luís de Miranda Henriques Pinto was appointed governor-general of Madeira.
  24. 1636 The church of Ponta Delgada was repaired and modified.
  25. 6 June 1636–6 June 1640 Luís de Miranda Henriques Pinto governed Madeira as the last governor-general under Spanish rule and completed the Pico castle.
  26. 1637 Madeira was obliged to pay 10,000 cruzados yearly towards the fleet to recover Pernambuco, the levy falling first on the clergy.
  27. 1637–1688 Major repairs were made to the parish church of Porto da Cruz.
  28. 1638 Manuel Dias de Andrade died in Cape Verde with a fleet bound to recover Pernambuco.
  29. 1638 The people of Achadas da Cruz again petitioned unsuccessfully for a curacy.
  30. 17 December 1638 Canon António Espranger Rocha entrusted the unfinished Mosteiro Novo to the bishop, D. Jerónimo Fernando.
  31. 1639 A book of masses by Duarte Lobo, later held at Funchal Cathedral, was printed in Antwerp.
  32. 1639 The parish church of Espírito Santo in Calheta was rebuilt.
  33. 24 June 1639 Pedro da Silva died in India while serving as its governor.
1640s 60
  1. c. 1640 Guilherme Acre was living on Porto Santo around 1640.
  2. c. 1641 A chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade was erected in Estreito da Calheta.
  3. 1640 From about 1640 English merchants settled in Madeira in greater numbers, taking over trade and promoting viticulture.
  4. 1640–1834 From 1640 until 1834 Madeira was administered by governors and captains-general, who replaced the governors-general.
  5. 1640 Padre Francisco Valhadolid is said to have been born.
  6. 1640 Fr. Gregório Batista died some time after 1640.
  7. 1640 Works on the Pico fortress in Funchal continued until this year.
  8. 1640 The taro Colocasia antiquorum is said to have been introduced to Madeira.
  9. 22 May 1640 Luís de Miranda Henriques Pinto was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  10. 6 June 1640 Luís de Miranda Henriques Pinto took office as governor of Madeira.
  11. December 1640 At the end of December 1640 a ship from Cádiz brought Madeira vague news of events in Portugal.
  12. 1 December 1640 The revolution of 1 December 1640 in Lisbon ended Castilian rule and gave the throne to the Duke of Bragança as D. João IV; Madeira and Porto Santo joined it with enthusiasm, and António Veloso de Lira led Portuguese students home from Salamanca.
  13. 1641 At the end of 1641 Bishop D. Jerónimo Fernando left for the mainland, never to return.
  14. 1641 The Cortes decreed the finto war tax for three years.
  15. 1641 Padre António Cordeiro was born in Angra.
  16. 1641 D. João IV reformed the militia.
  17. 8 January 1641–9 January 1641 A caravel brought D. João IV's letters to the governor and the bishop of Madeira.
  18. 11 January 1641 News of the Restoration reached Madeira and D. João IV was acclaimed king in the Funchal town hall, ending Castilian rule; the bishop helped calm the people.
  19. 12 January 1641 A charter of D. João IV condemned the continued felling of mountain forests, harmful to rainfall and levadas.
  20. 13 January 1641 Clergy, nobility and people in Funchal swore loyalty to D. João IV.
  21. 25 January 1641 A Funchal crowd expelled Castilian and other officials, and Portuguese citizens replaced Spaniards in council offices.
  22. 26 January 1641 Master Francisco Rodrigues Belo was ordered to ready a caravel for Lisbon.
  23. 26 January 1641 The lepers' allowance at the São Lázaro hospital was raised to 40 réis.
  24. 5 February 1641 Porto Santo received news of the Restoration and celebrated with salvoes, causing an Ottoman squadron of twelve sail that nearly blockaded the island to withdraw.
  25. 16 February 1641 Envoys were elected to carry the Funchal council's letters to the king.
  26. 26 February 1641 New councillors were elected so that the letters to the king could be signed.
  27. March 1641 The caravel carrying the envoys sailed for Lisbon.
  28. 12 April 1641 Funchal voted a voluntary donation for the war with Castile.
  29. 4 June 1641 Manuel Homem da Câmara was appointed first ouvidor of Machico.
  30. 2 August 1641 A royal letter ordered the Funchal Câmara to assist the provedor da fazenda.
  31. 9 August 1641 Nuno Pereira Freire was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  32. 15 November 1641 Padre José da Costa de Lima was appointed first chaplain of the chapel of the São Lourenço fortress, the earliest known such warrant.
  33. 1642 The office of sea alcaide on Porto Santo already existed well before 1642.
  34. 1642 A third lease of seafront land in Funchal for a capstan was granted.
  35. 1642 The governor ordered construction of the Ilhéu fortress.
  36. 20 March 1642 Nuno Pereira Freire took office as the first post-Restoration governor of Madeira.
  37. 1643 D. João IV ordered fleets to be supplied with Madeira wine.
  38. 1643 Patacas, tostões and other coins were recorded in circulation in Madeira.
  39. 1643 António Veloso de Lira's Espelho de Lusitanos was published.
  40. 1644–1655 Royal letters of 1644 and 1655 granted loans for improving springs and aqueducts (levadas) in Madeira.
  41. 1644 An order was given to build a redoubt, a salient in the walls of the Funchal Customs House covering the beach, and it was built.
  42. 1644 Jorge da Costa Osório investigated the murder of the corregedor Gaspar Mousinho.
  43. 26 May 1644 Luís Telo de Meneses was killed at the battle of Montijo.
  44. 11 August 1644 The customs judge of Santa Cruz was made deputy for the Funchal provedor.
  45. 13 September 1644 A royal charter on irrigation water was issued.
  46. 1645 The customs redoubt and its gates were completed under Governor Manuel de Sousa Mascarenhas, as dated by an inscription.
  47. 1645 D. João IV granted the Agrela family the office of clerk of the Funchal council.
  48. 27 February 1645 Manuel de Sousa Mascarenhas was appointed governor of Madeira, taking office on 11 April.
  49. 8 March 1645 The Misericórdia complained to the king about the bad site of its hospital.
  50. 6 July 1645 A decree gave Madeira a seat in the Cortes on the first bench.
  51. 1646 An export duty of one cruzado (400 réis) per pipe of wine was established, when exports were about 2,000 pipes.
  52. 10 April 1646 A regimento fixed the finto tax at 10 per cent of income.
  53. 1647 The bishop allowed the founder's nephews and nieces to live in the Mosteiro Novo building.
  54. 1647 Inácio da Câmara Leme married Isabel de Castelo Branco Bettencourt.
  55. 21 October 1647–May 1648 Manuel Lobo da Silva was appointed captain-general of Madeira on 21 October 1647 and took office in May 1648.
  56. 1649 D. João de Meneses died in Holland.
  57. 1649 With many Madeiran sugar mills already in ruins, a royal charter offered rewards and loans to rebuild them.
  58. 1649 Birth of Francisco da Câmara Leme.
  59. 9 February 1649 The founders signed the deed of endowment of the chapel of Nossa Senhora de Belém.
  60. 28 July 1649 The stipend of the priest of Madalena do Mar was revised.
1650s 52
  1. c. 1654 According to the annotator of the Saudades, the Mosteiro Novo was begun around 1654.
  2. 1650 Gaspar Homem de El-Rei and D. Isabel Florença founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora das Mercês at Lombo das Mercês, Arco da Calheta.
  3. 1650 The English merchant Perry was trading in Funchal.
  4. 1650 Canon Henrique Calaça de Viveiros founded the Incarnação convent in Funchal.
  5. 1650–1675 Rafael Esteves built the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Desterro at Ledo e Vinhático, Arco da Calheta.
  6. 1650–1699 The original chapel of Santa Clara in Funchal was demolished and the church entirely rebuilt and enlarged.
  7. 1650–1699 Francisco Fernandes de Barros Maciel built the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Nazaré at Arco da Calheta.
  8. 2 May 1650 Bishop D. Jerónimo Fernando died and was buried in the Graça convent, Lisbon.
  9. 15 October 1650 A decree fixed the Porto do Moniz parish priest's stipend at 20$000 réis, a moio of wheat and a pipe of wine.
  10. 1651 Captain Manuel de Figueiroa founded the chapel of São João Baptista at the Quinta de São João, Calheta.
  11. 21 August 1651–16 October 1651 Bartolomeu de Vasconcelos da Cunha was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira on 21 August 1651, taking office on 16 October.
  12. 14 September 1651 A charter gave the Conde de Vimioso the sole right to buy and export laurel berries.
  13. 1652 The first recolhidas entered the house of Santa Teresa de Jesus, forerunner of the Incarnação convent.
  14. 1652 António Rodrigues Jardim founded a hermitage to the Souls in Purgatory in Ribeira Brava.
  15. 1653 D. João IV granted the captaincy of Porto Santo to Vitorino Bettencourt Perestrelo.
  16. 1654 D. Francisco Manuel de Melo's third Epanaphora, on the Machim discovery legend, is dated 1654.
  17. 1654 Inácio da Câmara Leme rebuilt the chapel of São Filipe at the Quinta do Leme.
  18. 1654 Fr. Remígio da Assunção died.
  19. 1654 Under the treaty with England, British goods were admitted to Portugal at low duty.
  20. 1654 Troilo de Vasconcelos da Cunha, son of the governor, was born in Funchal.
  21. 1654 The fort of Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Ilhéu at Funchal was built, its inscription naming Governor Bartolomeu de Vasconcelos da Cunha.
  22. 1654 Gaspar Berenguer de Andrade and his wife Isabel de França Andrade founded a house for recolhidas at Calheta, origin of the Convento das Mercês.
  23. 1654 Simão Nunes Machado and his wife endowed the chapel of the Eleven Thousand Virgins in the Jesuit church of São João Evangelista.
  24. 18 January 1654 A royal charter altered the stipend of the priest of Tábua.
  25. 9 May 1654 A regimento removed all exemptions from the finto tax.
  26. 6 July 1654 D. João IV granted Funchal representation in the Cortes.
  27. 1655 Padre Francisco de Castro's Sermão da Visitação was printed at La Rochelle.
  28. 16 January 1655 Pedro da Silva da Cunha was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  29. 7 April 1655 A royal charter concerning irrigation water in Madeira was issued.
  30. 17 April 1655 The fleet carrying D. Francisco Manuel de Melo into exile left Lisbon, reaching Madeira four days later.
  31. 22 April 1655 Pedro da Silva da Cunha took office as governor of Madeira.
  32. 15 May 1655 The fleet carrying D. Francisco Manuel de Melo left Madeira for Cabo Verde.
  33. 4 December 1655 Benedito Catalão was appointed lieutenant of the Castelo de São João do Pico.
  34. 20 December 1655 Cidrão signed the first deed donating property to found the Recolhimento do Bom Jesus.
  35. 1656 Diogo Bernardes Branco built the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Incarnação at Louros.
  36. 1656 João Bettencourt de Atouguia founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora de Jesus.
  37. 1656 The chapel of Nossa Senhora do Livramento at Ponta do Sol was built and endowed, with an entail instituted (deed of 14 September).
  38. 1656 A letter from Queen Luísa de Gusmão announced the death of D. João IV to Funchal.
  39. 1656 The 6th Count of Vimioso died in a quarrel.
  40. 1656 Padre Francisco de Castro's Sermão da Conceição was printed at La Rochelle.
  41. 1656–1660 The Carmo church in Funchal was built, begun in 1656 and completed in 1660.
  42. 1656 Building of the Ilhéu fortress (Nossa Senhora da Conceição) off Funchal began.
  43. 1657 The Piedade chapel at Vargem de Baixo, Calheta, was built.
  44. 18 August 1657 Endowment deed of the Maravilhas chapel founded by Diogo Bettencourt Correia and his wife Catarina da Silva.
  45. 20 September 1657 The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Pena was built and endowed by public deed by its founders.
  46. 1658 Gaspar Betencourt de Andrade founded a chapel in São Pedro, Funchal.
  47. 1658 The captain-general assembled Madeira's councils in Funchal to regularise payment of the donativo for the War of Restoration.
  48. 1658 Domingos Rodrigues built the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Carmo in Campanário.
  49. 1658 The English consulate in Madeira was created, first held by João Cater.
  50. 1658 The house that became the Convento das Mercês was turned into a religious recolhimento under a rule.
  51. 4 January 1659 The deed of endowment of the Saúde chapel in São Pedro was signed.
  52. 17 December 1659 Diogo de Mendonça Furtado was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
1660s 64
  1. c. 1660 The English merchant Ricardo Jarvis settled in Funchal, founding the Jérvis family.
  2. c. 1660 A flood almost completely destroyed the parish church of São Jorge at Calhau.
  3. c. 1660 Honorato Sauvaire came to Madeira as French consul.
  4. 1660 Manuel Ribeiro Neto's canon-law pleadings on Funchal church matters were published in one volume.
  5. 1660–1662 The Anglo-Portuguese royal marriage of D. Catarina de Bragança and Carlos II led to large-scale Madeira wine exports by English merchants, who enjoyed tax exemption on them from 1660 to 1662.
  6. 1660 Canon Domingos Gonçalves de Alvarenga erected the chapel of São João Baptista in Santana.
  7. 1660 The house of the Incarnação became a Poor Clare convent and its founder donated his property to it.
  8. 1660–1668 The new parish church of Porto do Moniz was built.
  9. 1660 Hans Sloane, later a visitor to Madeira, was born in Ireland.
  10. 1660 Matias de Mendonça e Vasconcelos erected a Rosary chapel in Machico.
  11. 1660 D. Francisco Manuel de Melo's third «Epanafora», telling the Machim legend of Madeira's discovery, was first published.
  12. 1660 Bartolomeu João de Abreu was granted his father's office of fortificador.
  13. 4 January 1660 A royal charter ordered protective walls to be built on the Ribeira Brava.
  14. 23 November 1660–7 December 1660 Madeira was granted to Infanta D. Catarina de Bragança by royal warrant of 23 November 1660 (procuration dated 18 November), and Governor Furtado presented the donation deed to the Funchal council for registration on 7 December; it was also registered at Machico.
  15. 2 December 1660 Diogo de Mendonça Furtado took office as governor of Madeira.
  16. 1661 A chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Milagres was built in Monte.
  17. 1661 Francisco de Vasconcelos Bettencourt had the chapel of Nossa Senhora das Virtudes built in São Martinho.
  18. 1661 Francisco Homem de Couto built the Boa Morte chapel at Atouguia, Calheta.
  19. 1661 Captain Manuel Telo de Meneses founded a Desterro chapel at Ribeira Grande, Machico.
  20. 1661 The first stamped paper used in Madeira bore this date.
  21. 1661 Miguel Achaioli wrote a manuscript genealogy of the Acciaioly family.
  22. 5 September 1661 A corps of 100 artillerymen was created to defend Madeira's fortresses.
  23. 1662 Diogo da Costa de Quintal built the chapel of Nossa Senhora das Angústias in Funchal.
  24. 1662 Pedro Ferreira de Mesquita founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Milagres at Ponta do Sol.
  25. 1662 A deputy chief postmaster was appointed for Madeira, beginning regular postal service.
  26. 25 May 1662 Canon Henrique Calaça de Viveiros died aged 73.
  27. 11 December 1662 Endowment deed of the Conceição chapel in São Pedro founded by Rui Dias de Aguiar and his wife.
  28. 1663 Inês Teixeira founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Vida at Fajã do Mar, Arco da Calheta.
  29. 1663 A royal alvará raised the recolhimento of the Mercês at Calheta to a Poor Clare convent.
  30. 10 October 1663 A royal charter concerning irrigation water in Madeira was issued.
  31. 1664 The chapel of Nossa Senhora do Funchal at Ameixoeira, near Lisbon, was rebuilt and enlarged.
  32. 1664–1688 The church of Nossa Senhora do Calhau in Funchal was rebuilt between 1664 and 1688.
  33. 1664 A hexagonal ten-réis stamp, overstamped with an armillary sphere and the provedor's signature, was used on stamped paper.
  34. 1664 D. Mariana da Câmara obtained the office of fortificador of Madeira for her future son-in-law.
  35. 12 January 1664 The Conselho da Fazenda granted 560$000 réis to enlarge the church of São Vicente.
  36. 9 February 1664 A royal letter permitted the minting of gold and silver coin in Madeira.
  37. 1665 Father Francisco de Castro died in Cape Verde.
  38. 1665 Stamped paper was revalidated with a new date placed beside the old one.
  39. 1665 Pope Alexander VII confirmed the elevation of the Mercês recolhimento to a convent.
  40. 1665 João Fernandes Linhares founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Socorro at Canhas.
  41. 1665 Land was bought for the new church of the Hospital de São Lázaro.
  42. 10 April 1665 Manuel Tomás, aged 80, was murdered by a farrier's son.
  43. 31 July 1665 D. Francisco de Mascarenhas was appointed governor of Madeira.
  44. 28 November 1665 D. Francisco de Mascarenhas took office in Funchal as governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  45. 1666 Funeral rites for Queen Luísa de Gusmão were held in Funchal at a cost of 192$300 réis.
  46. 1666 Custódio Nunes da Costa built the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte at the Cabo, Ponta do Pargo.
  47. 1666 D. Francisco Manuel de Melo died.
  48. 1666 The bones of many foundlings murdered by the foundling nurse were buried in the chapel of São Filipe.
  49. 1666 The first women apparently entered the Recolhimento do Bom Jesus.
  50. 1666 D. Mariana de Vasconcelos e Câmara Alencastre was donatary of Funchal.
  51. 10 February 1666 The salary of the collegiate treasurer of Ribeira Brava was fixed.
  52. 1667 Porto Santo was again raided and sacked; the parish church was sacked and later rebuilt, and archives were destroyed.
  53. 1667 The Spanish consulate in Madeira was created.
  54. 1 March 1667 Henrique Henriques de Noronha was born in Câmara de Lobos.
  55. 1668 Manuel Gonçalves Lisboa founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Fé in São Martinho.
  56. 1668 João da Paz de Castro built the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Rosário at Fundoa, São Roque.
  57. 1668 The chapel of Santa Brígida was founded.
  58. 4 May 1668 Gaspar Acciaioly died in Funchal.
  59. 18 September 1668 A popular and ecclesiastical sedition, with nobles attacking the governor, broke out in Funchal and deposed, imprisoned and shipped off Governor D. Francisco de Mascarenhas.
  60. 18 September 1668 Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos was elected governor and captain-general of Madeira after the deposition of Mascarenhas.
  61. 9 November 1668 Aires de Saldanha de Sousa e Meneses was appointed governor of Madeira.
  62. 1669 Norborough stayed in Madeira.
  63. 1669 An alçada under João de Menezes Coutinho investigated the 1668 sedition against Mascarenhas.
  64. 10 April 1669 Aires de Saldanha de Sousa e Meneses took office as governor of Madeira, ending Aires de Ornelas's interim governorship.
1670s 49
  1. c. 1670 The Franciscan friary of Calheta was built from alms.
  2. c. 1670 António de Carvalhal Esmeraldo founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade at Jangão, Ponta do Sol.
  3. c. 1679 Luís Esmeraldo de Atouguia rebuilt the manor house at Lombada dos Esmeraldos.
  4. 1670 Lourenço de Matos Coutinho founded, in fulfilment of a vow, the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Quietação at Alecrins, Santo António.
  5. 1670 D. Maria do Rosário de Arvelos reportedly built a chapel of Nossa Senhora da Penha de França at Lombada, Santa Cruz.
  6. 1670 António Veloso de Lira was appointed canon of Funchal Cathedral.
  7. 1670–1699 Paintings signed by Nicolau Ferreira date from the late 17th century.
  8. 1671 The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Incarnação at Estreito de Câmara de Lobos was probably built, as dated over its portal.
  9. 1671 The fraudulent Relation Historique de la découverte de l'isle de Madère, a French version of Alcoforado's account, was published in Paris.
  10. 1671 D. Manuel Coutinho was born in Vila Nova de Anços.
  11. March 1671–13 July 1674 Bishop Gabriel de Almeida governed the diocese of Funchal and approved the Recolhimento do Bom Jesus.
  12. 4 March 1671 D. Fr. Gabriel de Almeida, consecrated bishop of Funchal, took possession of the see, ending a 20-year vacancy.
  13. 27 June 1672 The deed of endowment of the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Bom Despacho was signed.
  14. July 1672 João Saldanha de Albuquerque was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  15. 20 October 1672 João Saldanha de Albuquerque took office as governor of Madeira.
  16. 1672–1673 André de França e Andrade founded and built the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição at Estreito da Calheta.
  17. 9 October 1673 Further donations were made to the Recolhimento do Bom Jesus by Cidrão or his heirs.
  18. 1673–1674 Brites da Paixão professed at the Mercês convent.
  19. 19 January 1674 A royal charter set the stipend of the vicar of Campanário at 19,000 réis plus grain and wine.
  20. 12 July 1674 Bishop Gabriel de Almeida died in Funchal and was buried in the choir of the cathedral.
  21. 16 December 1674 Pope Clement X confirmed D. Fr. António Teles da Silva as bishop of Funchal.
  22. 1675 Ambrósio Vieira de Andrade built a chapel of St Francis in Santa Luzia.
  23. 1675 An English translation of the account of Francisco Alcoforado was published in London.
  24. 1675 Pedro Lopes de Vasconcelos founded the entail on which the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Saúde do Monte Olivete was built.
  25. 25 April 1675 D. Fr. António Teles da Silva took charge of the diocese of Funchal.
  26. 22 October 1675 The Conselho da Fazenda ordered a new parish church built at Tábua.
  27. 1675–1699 Francisco de Barros Maciel built the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Nazaré at Paredes, Arco da Calheta.
  28. 1675–1699 Morgado Aires de Ornelas built the Ornelas manor in Funchal.
  29. 1675–1699 Padre Matias Jorge Jardim founded a Rosary chapel in São Jorge.
  30. 1675–1700 Raul Esteves built a chapel of Nossa Senhora do Desterro at Ledo, Arco da Calheta.
  31. 1676–1680 The parish of Camacha was created and separated from Caniço, with its seat in the São Lourenço chapel, being definitively constituted in 1680.
  32. 1676 Gonçalo de Freitas Drumond founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Pilar in São Martinho.
  33. 1676 The diocese of Pernambuco was created, with the Madeiran D. Estêvão Brioso de Figueiredo presented as its bishop.
  34. 1676 With the sugar trade in decline, a royal letter ordered 300 to 400 Madeiran couples to be transported to Brazil at state expense, making emigration government-promoted.
  35. 21 April 1676 Alexandre de Moura e Albuquerque was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  36. 9 June 1676 Alexandre de Moura e Albuquerque took office as governor of Madeira.
  37. 27 December 1676 The office of treasurer of the church of Caniço was abolished.
  38. 28 December 1676 Following the prince regent's resolution of October 1676, royal charters of D. Pedro II dated 28 December 1676 created several new parishes and curacies, including Paul do Mar, Prazeres, Santa Luzia, Camacha, Serra de Água, Arco de São Jorge, Achadas da Cruz, Estreito and Arco da Calheta; collegiate benefices at Câmara de Lobos were abolished to fund some of them.
  39. 1677 Lourenço de Matos Coutinho instituted the Alecrins entail.
  40. 1677 The Conselho da Fazenda ordered the building of the chancel of Campanário church to be put out to tender.
  41. 20 July 1677 Padre Manuel Ferreira da Silva was appointed first curate of Achadas da Cruz.
  42. 1678 D. Estêvão Brioso de Figueiredo took possession of the see of Pernambuco.
  43. 1678 Padre Cristóvão Vieira was appointed chaplain of the Curral das Freiras.
  44. 2 February 1678 Bishop António da Silva Teles erected the parish of Serra de Água by episcopal provision.
  45. July 1678 Manuel Martins Brandão founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora das Brotas at Santo António, licensed for worship by alvará of July 1678.
  46. 15 December 1678 The stipend of Seixal parish was reduced to 19$000 réis, a moio and a half of wheat and a pipe of wine.
  47. 1679 Manuel Valente founded a chapel of Nossa Senhora da Vida in São Pedro parish.
  48. 1679 The first edition of Fr. Rafael de Jesus's 'Castrioto Lusitano' was published in Lisbon.
  49. 1679–1684 Zenóbio de Medicis studied theology at Coimbra.
1680s 62
  1. c. 1682 The old chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Varadouros was demolished to open the main gate in the Funchal city walls.
  2. 1680 A reference called the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Quietação the 'church of Alecrins'.
  3. 2 February 1680 João de Brito was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  4. 5 March 1680 Licences fixed the annual stipends of the curate of Achadas da Cruz and the parish priest of Serra de Água.
  5. 10 April 1680 João de Brito took office as governor of Madeira.
  6. 6 June 1680 Bishop D. Fr. António Teles da Silva held a diocesan synod in Funchal.
  7. 1681 Manuel Ribeiro Neto died.
  8. 1681 The traveller Barbot visited Madeira.
  9. 1681 The physician António de França Gomes founded the chapel of Saints Cosmas and Damian at Lombo do Salão, Calheta.
  10. 10 January 1681 João Fernandes Vieira died in Olinda.
  11. 7 July 1681 The endowment deed of the São José chapel in Porto Santo was signed.
  12. 24 July 1681 A royal charter fixed the annual stipend of the first vicar of Santa Luzia.
  13. 1682–15 June 1682 Manuel Fernandes Gomes built the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Penha at Ferreiros, Calheta, and endowed it on 15 June 1682.
  14. 1682 António Teles de Meneses, then living in Madeira, founded a chapel of Saint Anthony in Santa Maria Maior.
  15. 1682 Four guards of the Santa Cruz customs were transferred to the Funchal customs.
  16. 1682–1692 The chapel of the Ilhéu fortress was built at some point between 1682 and 1692.
  17. 1682 Padre Miguel Pereira endowed the chapel of São Miguel in the Jesuit College church of Funchal.
  18. 1682 António de Sousa Torres was serving as Spanish consul in Funchal.
  19. 14 February 1682 Bishop D. Frei António Teles da Silva died in Funchal.
  20. 9 November 1682 A royal decree ordered the building of the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição in the Ilhéu fortress at Funchal.
  21. 1683 Prince Pedro informed the Funchal council of the death of King Afonso VI.
  22. 1683 Lourenço da Costa founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Bom Sucesso at Lombo da Estrela, Calheta.
  23. 1683 Padre Francisco da Cunha e Mendonça founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora das Preces at Câmara de Lobos.
  24. 1683–1685 Padre Manuel Gomes Garcês founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Livramento in São Vicente, erected by 1685.
  25. 1683–1713 Major repairs were carried out on the parish church of Machico in 1683, 1698 and 1713.
  26. 1683 The parish church of Campanário was probably rebuilt, as the date on its façade suggests.
  27. 1683 Domingos de Matos Cerveira investigated accusations against treasury officials in Madeira.
  28. 29 May 1683–18 April 1684 Pedro de Lima Brandão was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira and took office on 18 April 1684.
  29. 1684 João Portes Homem founded the chapel of Santa Maria Madalena at Florenças, Arco da Calheta.
  30. 1684 Inácio Ferreira Pinto had the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Livramento built at Monte.
  31. 1684–April 1685 D. Estêvão Brioso de Figueiredo was appointed bishop of Funchal and assumed government of the diocese in April 1685.
  32. 1684 João Vieira de Afonseca built a chapel of São Francisco Xavier in Santa Cruz.
  33. 1684 Maria de Aguiar founded a chapel of Nossa Senhora do Socorro at Estreito de Câmara de Lobos.
  34. 1684 The new parish of Prazeres was installed in the chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Prazeres.
  35. 11 March 1684 José Machado de Miranda became patron of a Madalena chapel and had it rebuilt.
  36. 1685 Royal provisions transferred the administration of the lepers and of foundlings to the governor-general of Madeira.
  37. 22 July 1685 Land on the Terreiro da Sé in Funchal was leased for a new Misericórdia hospital.
  38. 13 August 1685 The endowment deed of the rock-cut chapel of Nossa Senhora da Penha de França at Faial was signed.
  39. 1686 A judge-conservator of the tobacco monopoly existed in Madeira.
  40. 1686 José de Seixas was serving as Spanish consul in Madeira.
  41. 1686 The Santa Isabel hospital in Funchal was begun after this year.
  42. 30 July 1686 The offices of quintador and clerk of the fifths at Calheta were abolished.
  43. 1687 The 7th Count of Vimioso died.
  44. 3 June 1687 The stipend of the vicar of Fajã da Ovelha was raised to 25,000 réis plus wheat and wine.
  45. 4 August 1687 D. Lourenço de Almada was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  46. 21 October 1687–23 October 1687 Dr Hans Sloane stayed in Madeira, recording armed merchants, the use of the corsa sledge and cases of syphilis.
  47. 1688 Diogo Afonso de Aguiar founded a chapel in Tabua.
  48. 1688 Death of the 1st Viscount of Fonte Arcada, as recorded in the entry on Pedro Joaquim de Magalhãis.
  49. 1688 The Conselho da Fazenda authorised 900$000 réis for a new church at Monte, which was apparently never built.
  50. 13 April 1688–1690 D. Lourenço de Almada took office as governor and captain-general of Madeira, serving until 1690.
  51. 15 October 1688 A decree abolished the fifth levied on sugars, replacing it with an eighth.
  52. 1689 John Ovington called at Madeira on his voyage to Surat, noting the inhabitants' black clothing and their swords.
  53. 1689 The Funchal city walls were completed under the governor D. Lourenço de Almada, and the Varadouros chapel was rebuilt above the new Portão dos Varadouros.
  54. 1689 João Moniz da Silva was presented as bishop of Funchal but declined the appointment.
  55. 1689 António Veloso de Lira was raised to magistral canon of Funchal Cathedral.
  56. 1689–25 November 1690 King Pedro II nominated Fr. José de Santa Maria bishop of Funchal. Pope Alexander VIII confirmed the appointment on 6 March 1690, and he was consecrated by Cardinal de Lencastre on 25 November 1690.
  57. 13 March 1689–27 April 1689 D. António Jorge de Melo was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira and took office on 27 April 1689.
  58. 15 April 1689 D. Mariana de Alencastre, 9th donatary of Funchal, died.
  59. 20 April 1689 On Easter night a great landslide, about half a league long, at Arco de São Jorge carried land into the sea, forming the Quebrada.
  60. 20 May 1689 Bishop D. Estêvão Brioso de Figueiredo died in Lisbon.
  61. 8 November 1689 The Conselho da Fazenda authorised payment of 1:007$000 réis for works on the Palácio de São Lourenço.
  62. 2 December 1689–20 October 1690 D. Rodrigo da Costa was appointed governor of Madeira and took office on 20 October 1690.
1690s 63
  1. c. 1699 Flood waters entered the old church of Faial and carried away the body of the Rei Pequeno from his tomb.
  2. 1690–1692 The chapel of São Cristóvão at Caramanchão, Machico, was built by the children of Cristóvão Moniz de Meneses under his will. The date 1692 is carved on its portico.
  3. 1690 Canon Manuel Ferreira Teixeira founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios at Moreno, Santa Cruz (not in 1610, as had been claimed).
  4. 20 July 1690 The Conselho da Fazenda ordered a new church to be built at Estreito da Calheta.
  5. 11 December 1690 Two French corsairs sacked Porto Santo and robbed its church, destroying the parish archive.
  6. 1691 Canon António Espranger, the last of his family to occupy the Mosteiro Novo, died.
  7. 1691 The last legal instrument concerning the donativo was issued.
  8. 1691 Gaspar Berenguer de Andrade died.
  9. 4 January 1691 Canon António Veloso de Lira died in Funchal and was buried in the cathedral chancel.
  10. March 1691 Bishop D. Fr. José de Santa Maria arrived in his diocese of Funchal.
  11. 1692 Francisco Dias Franco founded a chapel of Nossa Senhora do Amparo in Machico.
  12. 1692 The people of São Vicente built the chapel of São Vicente on a basalt rock at the mouth of the stream.
  13. 1692–14 June 1695 The Quinta das Cruzes chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade was built, endowed and inspected for worship.
  14. 1692 The chapel of Nossa Senhora das Neves passed to D. Guiomar Castelo Branco.
  15. 31 July 1692 Padre José de Andrade was appointed first chaplain of the chapel of the fortress of Nossa Senhora da Conceição do Ilhéu.
  16. 23 September 1692 An order was issued for a new church at Estreito de Câmara de Lobos, contracted to Francisco Rodrigues.
  17. 1693 Fr. Rafael de Jesus died.
  18. 1693 D. Mécia was accidentally shot dead by a friar from the grounds of the São Francisco convent.
  19. 1693 Superintendence of the Hospital de São Lázaro passed to the juiz de fora.
  20. 1693 The Funchal municipal council took over superintendence of foundlings.
  21. 1693–7 August 1693 Manuel da Silva Pinheiro built the chapel of São Francisco Xavier at Cadeado, Lombo do Salão, Calheta, and endowed it by deed on 7 August 1693.
  22. 1694 The remains of Padre Inácio Barbosa da Silva were moved to the Nazaré chapel at Arco da Calheta.
  23. 1 March 1694–22 July 1694 Pantaleão de Sá e Melo was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira and took office on 22 July 1694.
  24. 13 March 1694 The Conselho da Fazenda ordered 651$000 réis for a new church at Água de Pena, probably never executed.
  25. 10 May 1694 The deed of endowment of the chapel of Jesus-Maria-José at Câmara de Lobos was executed.
  26. 1695 A deed of donation was made for the Piedade chapel and worship began there; its portal is dated 1692.
  27. 1695 Pedro de Sousa Maciel was master gunner of the fort of São Roque at Machico.
  28. 25 July 1695 Pedro Júlio da Câmara Leme was born.
  29. 1696 The parish church of Tábua was probably completed, as the date on its façade inscription indicates.
  30. 1696 The Anunciação chapel at Lombo dos Canhas was rebuilt; it later served as the parish church.
  31. 1696 John Ovington's 'A voyage to Suratt' was published in London.
  32. 13 August 1696 The endowment deed of the chapel of Santo António da Malvasia was made, the chapel being founded that year.
  33. 15 September 1696 Bishop D. Fr. José de Santa Maria left Madeira and relinquished the administration of the diocese.
  34. 1697 The Diocesan Seminary was installed in the Mosteiro Novo in Funchal.
  35. 1697 King Pedro II appointed José de Sousa Castelo Branco bishop of Funchal.
  36. 1697 Canon Pedro Correia Barbosa founded the chapel of São Francisco das Furnas in São Pedro parish.
  37. 1697 Manuel Mendes Serrão is recorded as a familiar of the Holy Office.
  38. 1697 Manuel Telo Catanho de Meneses was honorary captain of the Fortaleza de São Tiago.
  39. 13 June 1697 Pedro Correia Barbosa preached a panegyric sermon to St Anthony at the feast of the Funchal Cathedral chapter.
  40. 25 November 1697 Manuel Rodrigues was born in Funchal.
  41. 1698 Fr. Francisco de Santa Teresa died.
  42. 1698 A provision announced a new tobacco administration in Madeira from 1699.
  43. 1698 The present parish church of Santana was built at government expense.
  44. 1698 Bartolomeu de Sá Machado built or rebuilt the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Amparo at Álamos.
  45. 1698 The first master gunner of the Ilhéu fort was appointed.
  46. 1698 A curacy was reportedly created in Campanário.
  47. 2 May 1698 The Conselho da Fazenda ordered the completion of works on the parish church of Serra de Água.
  48. 29 June 1698 José de Sousa Castelo Branco was consecrated bishop in Lisbon.
  49. 10 August 1698 Bishop José de Sousa Castelo Branco arrived at Mazagão to perform episcopal duties.
  50. 29 August 1698 Bishop José de Sousa Castelo Branco arrived in Funchal to take up his diocese.
  51. 1699 The precentor Domingos de Andrade e Alvarenga built the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Graça in the Sé parish.
  52. 1699 Pedro Correia Barbosa published his panegyric sermon to St Anthony.
  53. 1699 A protective wall was built for the Faial chapel against floods.
  54. 1699 D. Manuel Coutinho took his doctorate in theology at Coimbra.
  55. 1699 The parish church of Serra de Água was substantially enlarged.
  56. 1699 Manuel Gomes Ferreira was brought from Setúbal to Madeira as fortificador.
  57. 25 February 1699 D. Francisco de Mascarenhas died.
  58. 14 May 1699 A fire broke out in the houses of São Lourenço in Funchal.
  59. 7 September 1699 The chapel at Ribeira da Janela, built by the people, received its endowment, probably marking its first construction.
  60. 169? Four sugar mills stood on the banks of the Ribeira de Santa Luzia.
  61. 169? The plane tree already grew in and around Funchal.
  62. 169? A fire destroyed nearly all the valuable archive of the Câmara Eclesiástica.
  63. 169? The present chapel of Santa Catarina in Funchal was rebuilt.
1700s 35
  1. c. 1700 The parish church of Ponta Delgada was considerably enlarged.
  2. 1700 Filipe de Carvalhal Esmeraldo administered the Santo Amaro entail.
  3. 1700 Clipped money in Madeira was ordered withdrawn and 80,000 cruzados in new coin were sent.
  4. 1700 The parish of Prazeres was suppressed and reattached to Estreito da Calheta.
  5. 17 June 1700 The chapel of St John at Câmara de Lobos was endowed by public deed.
  6. 8 July 1700 Canon António Lopes de Andrade built and endowed the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição at São Roque.
  7. 17 July 1700 Father Francisco Valhadolid died in the parish of Santos, Lisbon, and was buried in its church.
  8. 18 July 1700 An edict of the provedor required all goods to be landed at the customs redoubt in Funchal.
  9. 1700–1725 The fort of Caniçal was built after pirates landed there.
  10. 170? The Oliveira family house in Rua da Cadeia Velha, Funchal, was probably built.
  11. 170?–174? The Espírito Santo chapel at Lombada dos Esmeraldos was rebuilt.
  12. 17?? The Bânger pillar stood on a reef reached by canoe from the city wall.
  13. 17?? Domingos de Oliveira Álvares settled in Funchal as a wine merchant.
  14. 17?? A curacy was created in the parish of Fajã da Ovelha as its population grew.
  15. 17?? A new parish church replaced the São Lourenço chapel at Fajã da Ovelha.
  16. 17?? A flood destroyed the Calheta municipal archive.
  17. 17?? Dr Heberden, visiting Madeira, estimated average life expectancy on the island at 39 years.
  18. 17?? João José Bettencourt de Freitas rebuilt the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Livramento at Monte.
  19. 17?? According to tradition, a ship wrecked at Funchal brought the first Figueira da Índia to Madeira.
  20. 17?? The fort of São João da Pontinha was built on the second islet at Funchal, linking it to land.
  21. 17?? Holy Spirit impérios were held in every street of Funchal, marked by gluttony and drunkenness.
  22. 17??–18?? The síndico of the Funchal senate often replaced the council clerk, drafting and signing the minutes.
  23. 17?? The Sarsfield surname was apparently introduced into Madeira.
  24. 17?? The Madre de Deus chapel at Tabua was destroyed by the nearby stream.
  25. 17?? São Vicente was raised to a town, the only one on the north coast.
  26. 17?? Traditional dating of the cave collapse that killed D. Cosme de Medicis and his friends.
  27. 17?? Vinhático timber was exported to England as Madeira mahogany.
  28. 17?? José Phelps came to Madeira as a merchant.
  29. 17?? A Norwegian ship was wrecked near the Pontinha, bringing the young Luiz Henriques to Madeira.
  30. 17?? Outeiros poetic gatherings took place in Funchal.
  31. 17??–18?? D. Guiomar Madalena Acciaioly lived in Funchal and had her goods seized for debts.
  32. 17?? La Peyrouse visited Madeira and noted the phosphorescence of its seas.
  33. 17?? João Manuel's early two-storey house was still standing, owned by António do Carvalhal.
  34. 17?? The chapel of Santa Isabel in the Funchal Misericórdia building was probably built.
  35. 17?? The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Consolação at Caniço was rebuilt.

XVIII Century · 633

1700s 30
  1. 1701 Eusébio da Silva Barros founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Boa Nova at São Gonçalo.
  2. 11 January 1701 The provedor da Fazenda was allowed to summon militia officers and soldiers as witnesses without the governor's leave.
  3. 1 March 1701 João da Costa de Ataíde e Azevedo was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  4. 12 June 1701 João da Costa de Ataíde e Azevedo took office as governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  5. 18 October 1701 A charter reduced the municipal election of militia officers to mere recommendation.
  6. 1702 D. Rodrigo da Costa was appointed governor of Bahia.
  7. 1702 Diogo Sálter de Macedo investigated conflicts between the bishop, the governor and the provedor in Madeira.
  8. 15 November 1703 Duarte Sodré Pereira was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  9. 8 March 1704 Governor João da Costa de Ataíde e Azevedo died in Funchal.
  10. 20 April 1704 Duarte Sodré Pereira took office as governor of Madeira.
  11. 19 May 1704 The Conselho da Fazenda ordered the new church and sacristy of São Roque to be put out to tender for 795$000 réis.
  12. 15 August 1704 Governor Duarte Sodré revalued the coins circulating in Madeira.
  13. 1705 Inácio Viana do Rego built the chapel of Santo António at the Quinta de Santo António, Estreito de Câmara de Lobos.
  14. 1705 Teodoro de Pavia's book «Il Primo Scuoprimento dell'isola di Madera» was published at Tortona, Italy.
  15. 27 June 1705 A charter of the regent Infanta D. Catarina authorised building a new parish church at Fajã da Ovelha on a more suitable site.
  16. 27 June 1705 The regent D. Catarina approved moving the new church of Estreito da Calheta to another site.
  17. 5 December 1705 Licence was granted to bless the new Madre de Deus chapel at Estreito de Câmara de Lobos.
  18. 1706 King Pedro II died, an event commemorated in sonnets by Francisco de Vasconcelos Coutinho.
  19. 1706 The fort of Nossa Senhora do Amparo was built.
  20. 1707 A flood damaged the church of Nossa Senhora do Calhau in Funchal and much of its churchyard.
  21. 1707 Construction of the Fort of São Pedro in Funchal, ordered by Duarte Sodré Pereira, was completed, according to an inscription on its gate.
  22. 1707–1725 Hans Sloane's Voyage, including his impressions of Madeira, was published in London.
  23. 1707 D. Rodrigo da Costa was appointed viceroy of India.
  24. 1707 A flood caused considerable damage across Madeira.
  25. 15 November 1707 D. João V instituted the new ordenanças (militia).
  26. 1708 Probable construction of the Preces chapel in Santo António.
  27. 1708 The fort of São João Baptista at Machico was built; the fort of Porto da Cruz is also dated to this year.
  28. January 1708 French pirates raided and sacked Porto Santo, burning the parish church and some houses.
  29. 26 October 1708 D. Fr. José de Santa Maria, former bishop of Funchal, died in Porto as its bishop.
  30. 30 October 1708 The Jesus-Maria-José chapel at Lombo do Doutor, Calheta, was founded and endowed by public deed.
1710s 31
  1. c. 1710 The people built a chapel of the Souls in the churchyard of Estreito de Câmara de Lobos parish church.
  2. c. 1713 The Socorro hermitage at Porto da Cruz was built.
  3. 1710 Gaspar Mendes de Vasconcelos had a new marble tombstone with inscription made for Martim Mendes de Vasconcelos in the church of Santa Clara.
  4. 1710 Luís Gonçalves da Silva founded the São José chapel at Ribeira Brava.
  5. 1710 Henrique Henriques de Noronha wrote the Árvore dos Henriques.
  6. 1711–28 June 1711 Manuel Pestana Teixeira and his wife founded the Boa Viagem chapel at Carne Azeda, inspected for worship on 28 June 1711.
  7. 1711 D. Frei João do Nascimento took a doctorate in canon law at Coimbra.
  8. 1711 Inácio Gomes Fragoso became engineer of fortifications in Madeira.
  9. 30 March 1711 D. Pedro Alvares da Cunha was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  10. 1712 D. Luísa de Mendonça founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Amparo in São Martinho.
  11. 1712 The Penha de França fort and chapel in Funchal were built or rebuilt.
  12. 1 October 1712 D. Pedro Alvares da Cunha took office as governor of Madeira.
  13. 1713 D. Frei João do Nascimento entered the Franciscan seminary of Varatojo.
  14. 1713 João de Vasconcelos Uzel was appointed captain of the Porto da Cruz fort.
  15. 11 April 1713 Earliest known document concerning the official who struck the hours at Funchal Cathedral.
  16. 1714 João de Aguiar built the chapel of Santo António at the Funchal Customs House.
  17. 1715 Manuel Rodrigues enlisted in a regiment bound for Colónia do Sacramento.
  18. 4 May 1715–27 June 1715 João de Saldanha da Gama was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira on 4 May 1715 and took office on 27 June.
  19. June 1715 Bishop José de Sousa de Castelo Branco left Madeira.
  20. 1716–1717 Poems by Francisco de Vasconcelos Coutinho were included in the Fenix renascida.
  21. 10 March 1716 D. João V renewed the title of Marquess of Valença for the 8th Count of Vimioso.
  22. 1717 The first edition of the Historia Insulana was published.
  23. 1717 Manuel Ferreira Teixeira entailed the Selvagens Islands.
  24. 1717 Captain Manuel Rodrigues Ferreira Ferro died and was buried in his Blessed Sacrament chapel at Porto Moniz.
  25. 1717 Henrique Henriques de Noronha wrote the Non plus ultra da Nobreza.
  26. 16 July 1717 Owing to illness, Bishop D. José de Sousa Castelo Branco left Madeira for Portugal, never to return.
  27. 1718 João de Saldanha da Gama's governorship ended; the Santa Clara nuns performed a farewell play and Francisco de Vasconcelos Coutinho wrote a eulogy.
  28. 1718 The Santo António chapel at Monte was erected.
  29. 1 June 1718–5 October 1718 Jorge Martins de Sousa e Meneses was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira on 1 June 1718 and took office on 5 October.
  30. 1719 Manuel Rodrigues took his vows in the Franciscan order.
  31. 9 September 1719 A royal charter ordered a new parish church to be built at Santa Luzia.
1720s 44
  1. c. 1720 The ruined Espírito Santo chapel at Câmara de Lobos, founded by Zarco, was rebuilt.
  2. 1720 The state rebuilt the São João da Ribeira chapel after a flood destroyed it.
  3. 1720 John Atkins visited Madeira.
  4. 1721 D. José de Sousa Castelo Branco resigned the bishopric of Funchal.
  5. 1721 An image of Santa Quitéria was donated to the church of Ponta Delgada.
  6. 2 April 1721 Sauvaire, French consul-general in Madeira, wrote a letter on the volcanic island that appeared near São Miguel.
  7. 1722 The chapel of São Gonçalo was built.
  8. 1722 D. Rodrigo da Costa died.
  9. 2 February 1722 Padre António Cordeiro died in Lisbon.
  10. 25 November 1722 King João V nominated D. Manuel Coutinho bishop of Funchal.
  11. 1723 D. Francisco Júlio de Oliveira was appointed bishop of Funchal but did not take possession.
  12. 1723–1726 Dr Julião Fernandes da Silva was born in Funchal.
  13. 1724 Nicolau Francisco Xavier da Silva published Puro e affectuoso sacrificio in Lisbon.
  14. 27 May 1724 A royal letter removed games, dances and figures from the Corpus Christi procession, except St George.
  15. 30 May 1724 The Santa Quitéria chapel at Lombo da Estrela, Calheta, was built and its deed of endowment signed.
  16. 4 June 1724 The deed of endowment of the Santo António chapel at Arco da Calheta, built in 1724, was executed.
  17. 6 June 1724 Francisco da Costa Freire was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  18. 27 July 1724 Francisco da Costa Freire took office as governor of Madeira.
  19. 18 November 1724 A flood devastated Machico, killing 26 people and razing over 80 houses.
  20. 23 December 1724 Funchal merchants petitioned the Senate on the wine trade and the entry of north-coast wine.
  21. 1725 Governor Francisco da Costa Freire founded the Recolhimento das Órfãs in Funchal with four orphans.
  22. 1725 Nicolau Francisco Xavier da Silva took his doctorate in canon law at Coimbra.
  23. 1725–1726 Governor Francisco da Costa Freire arrested two councillors over precedence in the Corpus Christi procession.
  24. 19 February 1725 The Holy See confirmed D. Manuel Coutinho as bishop of Funchal after delays caused by disputes with Rome.
  25. 13 May 1725 D. Manuel Coutinho was consecrated bishop by Patriarch Tomaz de Almeida.
  26. 22 July 1725 Bishop D. Manuel Coutinho arrived in Funchal and took charge of the diocese.
  27. 1 October 1725 Manuel de Carvalho Valdavesso built the chapel of São Luís at Diferença, Faial, and its deed of endowment was executed.
  28. 1726 Afonso Caminha de Vasconcelos e Sousa received the captaincy of Funchal.
  29. 1726 The São Pedro chapel at Lamaceiros was recorded as badly ruined.
  30. 22 May 1726 The deed of endowment was made for the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Boa Hora above Funchal.
  31. 4 June 1726 António Vogado endowed the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Vale by public deed.
  32. 25 September 1726 Bishop D. Manuel Coutinho established a provisional curacy in the chapel at Ribeira da Janela.
  33. 1726–1750 São Vicente was raised to a town, the first new town in Madeira since the early 16th century.
  34. 1727 The chapel of Santo António da Mouraria was erected.
  35. 9 May 1727 A royal charter fixed the stipend of the Campanário curate at 20,000 réis, and the post was filled.
  36. 3 July 1727 The deed of endowment of the Santa Quitéria chapel at Pico do Cardo was signed.
  37. 13 August 1727 D. Filipe de Alarcão e Mascarenhas was appointed governor of Madeira, taking office on 27 September.
  38. 1728 Padre João Betencourt da Câmara founded the chapel of St John the Baptist in Campanário.
  39. 24 January 1728 Jorge Martins de Sousa e Meneses died.
  40. June 1728 The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade at Monte was founded and endowed.
  41. 1729 Francisco de Vasconcelos Coutinho's Feudo do Parnaso and Hecatombe metrico were published in Lisbon.
  42. 1729–13 April 1730 Santana parishioners obtained leave to rebuild the chapel of Santo António at Achada de Santo António, which was rebuilt and inspected ahead of its blessing in April 1730.
  43. 2 May 1729 D. Lourenço de Almada died.
  44. 4 August 1729 Troilo de Vasconcelos da Cunha died in Lisbon.
1730s 42
  1. c. 1735 The old parish church of São Martinho was almost entirely rebuilt.
  2. 1730 The date 1730 inscribed over the portico probably marks the building of the church of the Porciúncula convent at Ribeira Brava.
  3. 1730 João do Couto Cardoso founded the Piedade chapel at Jardim do Mar.
  4. 1730 Padre António Gonçalves Franco founded the São José chapel in Machico.
  5. 1730–1740 The main sacristy and chapter house of Funchal Cathedral were built.
  6. 26 April 1730 Henrique Henriques de Noronha died.
  7. 1731 The people of Boaventura built the chapel of Santa Quitéria at Serrão.
  8. 1731 Francisco Aurélio da Câmara Leme married Antónia Maria Acciaioli de Vasconcelos Bettencourt.
  9. 1732–1773 Major repairs were carried out on the Madalena chapel in 1732, 1766 and 1773.
  10. 1732–1757 Manuel Rodrigues published numerous sermons and discourses in Lisbon.
  11. 1732 The Funchal council asked that its members be immune from arrest by civil and church authorities.
  12. 16 May 1732 Canon Francisco Cândido Correia Henriques built and endowed the chapel of São Cândido at Fonte da Rocha, Câmara de Lobos.
  13. 1733 A contract worth 3,050,000 réis was made for building the great sacristy and chapter house of Funchal Cathedral.
  14. 1733 Manuel Rodrigues de Canha built a chapel dedicated to Nossa Senhora and Santana at Outeiro.
  15. 4 February 1733 A royal charter formally created the curacy of Ribeira da Janela.
  16. 4 February 1733 King João V authorised the creation of a curacy at Boaventura.
  17. 30 July 1733 Major works on the Funchal customs building were ordered.
  18. 7 August 1733 João de Abreu Castelo Branco was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  19. 12 November 1733 A charter created the curacy of Prazeres, separating it from Estreito da Calheta and making it dependent on Paul do Mar.
  20. 1734–20 November 1734 The ruined and profaned chapel of São Sebastião at Ponta do Sol was rebuilt at the municipal council's expense and inspected for divine offices on 20 November 1734.
  21. 21 April 1734 João de Abreu Castelo Branco took office as governor of Madeira.
  22. 18 July 1734 The deed of endowment of the Rosary chapel at Campanário was signed.
  23. 8 September 1734 The rebuilt chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade at Porto da Cruz was licensed for blessing.
  24. 15 November 1734 An alvará of King João V created the curacy of Jardim do Mar.
  25. 1735 The last Antwerp edition of Dr António da Gama's Decisiones appeared.
  26. 10 March 1735 A mandate confirmed the power of Madeira's provedor da fazenda to arrest persons without the corregedor's licence.
  27. 1736 Madeira began importing sugar from abroad, marking the decline of its own sugar production.
  28. 1736 The smaller organ of Funchal Cathedral was acquired.
  29. 1736 Pedro José de Faria Bettencourt was administrator of the entail seated at the Brotas chapel.
  30. 1736 The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade at Jardim do Mar was founded.
  31. 28 February 1736 The naturalist Daniel Carlos Solander was born in Nordland.
  32. 12 March 1736 An alvará fixed the stipend of Manuel do Nascimento, curate of Jardim do Mar.
  33. 2 May 1736 A certified copy of the 1515 charter was extracted from the Livro das Ilhas.
  34. 20 November 1736 The chapel of Nossa Senhora das Maravilhas, rebuilt by Mariana da Silva, was inspected for the celebration of Mass.
  35. 1737–1739 A new parish church of São Pedro, Funchal, was built by contract.
  36. 9 January 1737 The Funchal Senate issued an ordinance banning north-coast wines from the town.
  37. 18 May 1737 Francisco Pedro de Meneses Gorjão was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  38. 16 July 1737 Francisco Pedro de Meneses Gorjão took office as governor of Madeira in Funchal.
  39. 1739 Works for a new church at Monte were put out to tender for 6.742$000 réis.
  40. 1739 Padre Augusto de Góis is recorded as a familiar of the Holy Office.
  41. 1739–6 June 1739 The ruined chapel of São Roque at Machico was rebuilt by its confraternity on its present site, and licence for its blessing was granted on 6 June 1739.
  42. 31 January 1739 A law granted the style of excelência to great churchmen and to captains-general within their governments.
1740s 65
  1. c. 1740 Francisco João Róscio was born in Madeira.
  2. 18 January 1740 The Conselho de Fazenda ordered the building of a new parish church at Arco de São Jorge.
  3. September 1740 George Anson's squadron of eight ships called at Madeira on its way to the Pacific.
  4. 7 November 1740–5 May 1741 Frei João do Nascimento was appointed bishop of Funchal by João V, confirmed by Pope Benedict XIV on 5 January 1741, and consecrated on 5 May 1741.
  5. 1741 The new church of Santa Luzia was presumably completed.
  6. 1741 Padre António Ribeiro de Sousa is recorded as a familiar of the Holy Office.
  7. 25 February 1741 Bishop Manuel Coutinho left Madeira for the mainland following his appointment to Lamego.
  8. 10 June 1741 The foundation stone of the new Monte church was laid after the old chapel was demolished.
  9. 11 August 1741 José da Costa Torres, later bishop, was born in Setúbal.
  10. 5 September 1741 Bishop Frei João do Nascimento arrived in Madeira.
  11. 5 November 1741 The stipend of the beneficiaries of Machico was commuted.
  12. 1742 A royal order denied the Funchal council authority over ships.
  13. 7 August 1742 Bishop Manuel Coutinho died at Soure on his way to Lamego.
  14. 2 July 1743 A curacy was established in the parish of Tábua.
  15. 23 August 1743 São Vicente was raised to a town and municipality, separated from Machico and taking in Porto Moniz.
  16. 1744 The office of alcaide do mar at the Santa Cruz customs house was abolished.
  17. 1744 João Moniz de Abreu was hired as fortificador for Madeira's fortifications.
  18. 19 March 1744 The new parish church of Arco de São Jorge, dedicated to São José, was blessed.
  19. 25 August 1744 A royal charter raised the parish of São Vicente to the status of a town and municipality, attaching northern localities such as Porto Moniz, Ponta Delgada and Seixal to it and further reducing the municipality of Machico.
  20. 30 October 1744 The contract for building the new parish church of Arco da Calheta was awarded.
  21. 20 November 1744 Construction of the new church of Faial was awarded to Cristóvão Gomes.
  22. 11 December 1744 Father Manuel de Nóbrega founded and endowed the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Esperança at Vale Formoso.
  23. 1745 A memorial stone to the Jesuit martyrs led by Inácio de Azevedo was erected at Pico do Cardo.
  24. 1745 The sacristy and bell-tower of Santana church were built.
  25. 1745 Thomas Nichols's description of Madeira was published in Astley's collection.
  26. 1745 Francisco Newton founded the wine house later known as Cossart, Gordon & Co.
  27. 1745 The works on the new church of Prazeres were put out to contract for 4,100$000 réis.
  28. 13 March 1745 A last decree fixed the stipend of the beneficiaries of Ribeira Brava parish.
  29. 2 April 1745 A new church for Água de Pena was ordered, for 4:000$000 réis, on a less windy site.
  30. 5 August 1745 The first stone of the new church of Faial was blessed.
  31. 13 August 1745 A royal charter created a curacy in the parish of Santa Luzia.
  32. 1746 Death of the former bishop D. José de Sousa Castelo Branco.
  33. 1746–1752 Major repairs costing 1,200$000 réis were carried out on the Convento das Mercês.
  34. 11 February 1746 A royal letter created a curacy in Faial whose curate had to serve the chapel of São Roque.
  35. 15 May 1746 Francisco João de Vasconcelos Bettencourt was admitted to the Assembleia dos Únicos do Funchal and delivered an academic oration.
  36. 1747 A tabernacle with the Blessed Sacrament was requested for the church of Tábua.
  37. 1747 The new church of Nossa Senhora do Monte was declared complete.
  38. 1747–1754 The Treasury Council authorised payments in 1747, 1751 and 1754 for building the new church of São Jorge.
  39. 1747–1751 Dr Thomas Heberden made the first meteorological observations in Madeira, at Funchal.
  40. 1747 A royal letter asked the captain-general to assist emigration from Madeira to Brazil.
  41. 24 January 1747 The Conselho da Fazenda awarded the contract to build the new church of Fajã da Ovelha to the carpenter Francisco Gomes.
  42. 5 May 1747–1751 Bishop D. Frei João do Nascimento was appointed governor of Madeira, governing the archipelago until 1751.
  43. 27 May 1747 Governor Francisco Pedro de Meneses Gorjão left Madeira to govern Maranhão.
  44. 18 July 1747 João Francisco Lopes Rocha was born in the Sé parish of Funchal.
  45. 9 August 1747 A royal charter ordered the building of walls along the ribeiras at Santa Cruz.
  46. 1748–1751 The Episcopal Palace of Funchal was built at a cost of twenty contos de réis.
  47. 1748 Francisco Xavier de Ornelas, a founder of the Arcadia Funchalense, was born.
  48. 1748 Conventional end of Madeira's sugar-making period; according to Dr Azevedo, the industry disappeared owing to American competition.
  49. 1748 The chapel of São Cristóvão at Ponta Delgada was demolished.
  50. 1748 The Rosary chapel at Campanário was inspected and opened for worship.
  51. 1748 Domingos Rodrigues Martins succeeded as fortificador of Madeira.
  52. 31 March 1748–1 April 1748 On the night of 31 March to 1 April 1748 a violent earthquake struck Madeira, causing few deaths but heavy damage to buildings, including the cathedral, the bishops' palace, the customs house, the Monte church, the Mosteiro Novo house and numerous chapels and parish churches.
  53. 20 May 1748 Padre Inácio Barbosa da Silva bequeathed houses for a hospital of the Misericórdia of Machico.
  54. 18 July 1748 A royal charter ordered the building of river walls at Machico.
  55. 30 October 1748 A royal charter authorised 2,450$000 réis for building a new church at Porto da Cruz.
  56. 17 November 1748 Dr Julião Fernandes da Silva completed his medical degree at Coimbra.
  57. 16 December 1748 A confraternity to support the Hospital of São Lázaro was authorised.
  58. 1749 The chapel of Nossa Senhora das Vitórias was built in Machico.
  59. 1749 Death of the 8th Count of Vimioso.
  60. 1749–1750 According to Heberden, 1749 and 1750 were very dry years in Madeira.
  61. 1749 The Fort of São Francisco was built in Santa Cruz, funded by fines on militiamen who missed lookout duty.
  62. 1 April 1749 D. João V pardoned the finto tax owed for 1739–1749.
  63. 9 June 1749 The foundation stone of the new Caniçal church was laid.
  64. 10 June 1749 The stipend of the vicar of São Pedro was raised to 60,000 réis.
  65. 5 October 1749 The stipend of the priest of Serra de Água was confirmed without increase.
1750s 83
  1. c. 1755 The Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament in Funchal Cathedral was demolished and rebuilt.
  2. 1750 The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Graça in Machico was rebuilt by its confraternity.
  3. 1750 Bishop D. Frei João do Nascimento founded the Confraria dos Escravos de Nossa Senhora do Monte.
  4. 1750 Pecunia Insulana copper coins bearing Funchal's original arms were struck for circulation only in Madeira and the Azores.
  5. 1750 An English account of the discovery and present state of Madeira, an abridged version of Alcoforado's narrative attributed to Dr Johns, was published in London.
  6. 1750 Canon Agostinho de Góis e Meneses founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora das Preces at Machico.
  7. 1750 Heberden recorded shade temperatures of up to 25° during the leste wind.
  8. 1750–1753 Papal briefs were granted for private oratories in the parish of Estreito da Calheta.
  9. 1750 Tomé João Pimenta rebuilt the chapel of São João Baptista at Lombo de São João, Ribeira Brava.
  10. 10 February 1750 A royal alvará granted one conto de réis for repairs and a new choir at the Convent of the Incarnação.
  11. 15 April 1750 Licence was granted to bless the São José chapel at Ribeira Brava.
  12. 7 July 1750 The endowment deed of the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Monte at Ponta do Sol was signed.
  13. 13 December 1750 The new church of Caniçal was solemnly blessed.
  14. 1750–1799 Manuel de Santana e Vasconcelos lived in the second half of the eighteenth century.
  15. 1751 Dr Heberden gave the first favourable account of Madeira's climate.
  16. 1751 A measles epidemic caused notable mortality in Madeira; Dr Thomas Heberden gave excellent service during it in Funchal.
  17. 1751 Rodrigo da Costa Almeida held the post of capitão-cabo of the Fortress of Pico.
  18. 1751 Bernardo da Gama was captain of the Fort of São Jorge at Calheta.
  19. 1751 The old episcopal palace of Funchal was built.
  20. 1751–15 September 1751 The chapel of Nossa Senhora do Monte at Lombo das Terças, Ponta do Sol, was built by local people, and licence to bless it was granted on 15 September 1751.
  21. 1751 The date 1751 was inscribed on the high altar of the Chapel of São Roque, Machico, perhaps marking a new altar.
  22. 4 January 1751 D. José I was acclaimed king in Funchal.
  23. 10 March 1751 Padre José Lopes wrote that the chapel was dedicated to St Quitéria.
  24. 21 July 1751–27 August 1751 D. Álvaro José Xavier Botelho de Távora was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira and took office on 27 August 1751.
  25. 9 September 1751 The foundation stone of the parish church of Prazeres was laid and blessed.
  26. 1752 Francisco Aurélio da Câmara Leme rebuilt the Chapel of São Filipe and the manor house at Quinta do Leme, Santo António.
  27. 1752–1768 The Funchal council resolved to demolish the old chapel of St James and build a larger church, completed in 1768.
  28. 1752 A royal charter gave Madeiran foundling wet-nurses the privileges of those in Lisbon.
  29. 1 August 1752 Tithes beyond the clergy's upkeep were secularised.
  30. 5 September 1752 Vitúrio Lopes Rocha was born in Funchal.
  31. 1753 Hans Sloane died in Chelsea.
  32. 1753 The second edition of Espelho de Lusitanos by António Veloso de Lira appeared.
  33. 1753 Gunners' daily pay at the Fortress of São Lourenço rose from 30 to 80 réis.
  34. 3 February 1753 The foundation stone of the new parish church of Estreito de Câmara de Lobos was laid.
  35. 17 October 1753 The Council of the Treasury authorised building a new parish church in Gaula.
  36. 6 November 1753 Bishop D. Frei João do Nascimento died in Funchal (one entry gives 26 November).
  37. 19 December 1753 Funeral rites for D. João V were held in Funchal Cathedral.
  38. 1753–1754 A French astronomical commission made observations in Funchal and was attacked by the populace.
  39. 1754 Nuno de Freitas da Silva rebuilt the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição at Ponta Delgada.
  40. 1754 Services were still held in the Chapel of Santa Brígida.
  41. 1754 Captain-general Manuel Saldanha da Gama Albuquerque reported on the poor state of the militias.
  42. 1754 A list of British merchants active in Funchal is recorded.
  43. 1754 Captain Roque João Acciaioly was master gunner of the Fort of São Filipe da Praça.
  44. 1754 The Fort of Santo António at Paul do Mar was built.
  45. 6 March 1754–16 May 1754 Manuel Saldanha da Gama Albuquerque was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira and took office on 16 May 1754.
  46. 28 April 1754 Licence was granted to bless the enlarged chapel at Ribeira da Janela.
  47. 6 May 1754 D. Álvaro José Xavier Botelho de Távora left the governorship of Madeira.
  48. 17 August 1754 Nicolau Francisco Xavier da Silva died in Lisbon.
  49. 1755 Riots broke out in Calheta, Ponta do Sol and São Vicente over a concession of Paul da Serra.
  50. 1755 Major repairs to the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Penha de França were paid for by the faithful.
  51. 1755 De Bory visited Madeira aboard the Cometa.
  52. 1 January 1755 The new parish church of Arco da Calheta was solemnly blessed.
  53. 29 March 1755–27 May 1755 Aires José Maria de Saldanha, 2nd Count of Ega, son of the governor, was born in Funchal and baptised on 27 May in the chapel of the São Lourenço palace.
  54. 28 August 1755–7 September 1755 Fr. João de São José wrote his letter to Dr Julião Fernandes da Silva, and the Carta critica closed on 7 September 1755.
  55. 1 November 1755 The great earthquake struck Portugal and caused sea movements on Madeira's coast.
  56. 1756 Joaquim Leonardo da Rocha was born in Portugal.
  57. 1756 The book "The Affecting" was published in London.
  58. 1756 Episcopal visitor António Mendes de Almeida inspected the chapel of Santo António in Curral das Freiras.
  59. 1756 The office overseeing Madeira's fortifications began to be held by trained military engineers.
  60. 18 January 1756 The chancel of the new church of Estreito de Câmara de Lobos was blessed.
  61. 22 May 1756 A royal letter ordered the construction of a harbour of refuge in Funchal.
  62. 19 July 1756 Pope Benedict XIV confirmed Gaspar Afonso da Costa Brandão as bishop of Funchal.
  63. 24 July 1756 The Provedor da Fazenda reported that the walls of Funchal's streams needed rebuilding.
  64. 8 August 1756 Mateus de Abreu Pereira, later a bishop, was reportedly born in Madeira.
  65. 1757 A great storm endangered ships and damaged the Funchal harbour works.
  66. 1757 D. Maria do Rosário Henriques built the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Nazaré at Câmara de Lobos.
  67. 1757 According to the Elucidário, Ricardo Smith founded an acclimatisation garden in Funchal.
  68. 1757–1762 Walls were built joining the inner Pontinha islet to the Funchal coast, the first stage of the Pontinha mole.
  69. 1757–1784 D. Gaspar Afonso da Costa Brandão governed the diocese of Funchal as its 17th bishop.
  70. February 1757 Governor Manuel Saldanha da Gama Albuquerque was recalled to Lisbon and replaced by Bishop Gaspar Afonso da Costa Brandão.
  71. 5 August 1757 Bishop Brandão arrived in Funchal.
  72. September 1757–November 1757 A famine caused by a shortage of bread struck Madeira until cereal supplies arrived in November.
  73. 4 November 1757 A gale damaged the newly begun Pontinha wall in Funchal.
  74. 1758 The chapel of Nossa Senhora de Belém was rebuilt by Francisco Inácio Telo de Meneses.
  75. 1758 João de Morais Perestrelo was captain of the Caniçal fort.
  76. 1758 The palace that now houses Funchal's town hall was built.
  77. 1758–1759 Bishop Brandão served as governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  78. 17 May 1758 José Correia de Sá was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  79. 4 July 1758 A decree required passports for those leaving Madeira.
  80. 1759 The Misericórdia building of Santa Cruz underwent major repairs paid for by public charity.
  81. 1759 The Jesuits' property in Madeira, including Quinta Grande, was confiscated.
  82. 27 May 1759 José Correia de Sá took office as governor of Madeira.
  83. 29 May 1759–16 July 1760 On Pombal's orders the Jesuit college in Funchal was surrounded and the Jesuits confined, ending their teaching; the eighteen Madeiran Jesuits were shipped under arrest to Lisbon on 16 July 1760.
1760s 79
  1. c. 1760 The chapel of Santo António at Terra do Baptista was founded by the Nunes Caldeira family.
  2. c. 1760 The repaired Mosteiro Novo building became the seminary again.
  3. c. 1768 Inácio Correia Drumond was born in Funchal.
  4. 1760 João Pedro de Freitas Pereira Drumond was born in Câmara de Lobos.
  5. 1760 António Rodrigues Ciebra published his Narração cirúrgica on a malignant carbuncle in Lisbon.
  6. 1760 Potato cultivation began in Madeira.
  7. 1760 The School of Geometry and Trigonometry was founded in Funchal at the end of 1760.
  8. 2 May 1760 The deed of the chapel of St Francis Borgia at Cruz da Guarda, Porto da Cruz, was executed.
  9. 1761 Francisco José Rodrigues de Andrade was born.
  10. 1761 The Carta critica by Julião Fernandes da Silva was printed.
  11. 1761 A Council of War provision added a pipe of wine to the annual pay of the Paul do Mar fort's master gunner.
  12. 3 January 1761 An order licensed British subjects to build a cemetery in Funchal.
  13. 9 March 1761 João Francisco de Oliveira was born in Funchal.
  14. 7 May 1761 Funchal council consulted the government on the treasurer's collection of the wine levy for foundlings.
  15. 19 September 1761 A royal decree prohibited transporting slaves to mainland Portugal and freed those arriving there.
  16. 9 December 1761 Funchal council resolved to hold festivities for the birth of Prince José.
  17. 22 December 1761 The Conselho de Fazenda was confirmed by law.
  18. 1762 Bishop Gaspar Afonso da Costa Brandão founded a confraternity of St John the Baptist at the chapel.
  19. 1762 The chapel of Nossa Senhora do Bom Despacho in Campanário was rebuilt by Padre Francisco Nicolau de Brito.
  20. 1762 Francisco João Róscio was appointed infantry adjutant.
  21. 21 May 1762 At the Corpus Christi procession Governor José Correia de Sá walked behind the canopy with the Knights of Christ despite council objections.
  22. 23 July 1762 Governor José Correia de Sá reported emigration from Madeira to Lisbon due to overpopulation.
  23. 1763–1768 Dr Thomas Heberden observed Jupiter's first satellite at Funchal.
  24. 1763–1766 The Count of Lippe's military regulations were introduced under D. José I, affecting the Madeiran militia.
  25. 1763 The church of the Convent of São Bernardino was enlarged and rebuilt.
  26. 1763 Pedro Jorge Monteiro settled in Funchal as tobacco administrator.
  27. 1763 The Blessed Sacrament chapel was built in the parish of Porto da Cruz.
  28. 1763 The district magistrate complained to the governor about abuses in the court of the Juiz dos Resíduos e Capelas.
  29. 2 April 1763 A royal decree confirmed the Funchal council's right to walk behind the canopy in the Corpus Christi procession.
  30. 13 July 1764–19 July 1764 Commodore John Byron's ships Dolphin and Tamar called at Madeira and were well received by the governor.
  31. 16 May 1765 Manuel Caetano Pimenta de Aguiar was born in Funchal.
  32. 3 June 1765 António José de Jesus Lamedo was appointed doorkeeper and bookkeeper of the Funchal council.
  33. 11 September 1765 The São Sebastião chapel at São Jorge, rebuilt by the parish priest, was blessed.
  34. 20 September 1765 Joaquim de Menezes e Ataíde was born in Porto.
  35. 18 November 1765 Funchal's streams flooded, destroying the Ponte da Praça.
  36. 1766–9 December 1767 João António de Sá Pereira was appointed captain-general of Madeira in 1766 and took office on 9 December 1767.
  37. 18 February 1766 An oil bequest for the church of Arco de São Jorge was ratified by deed.
  38. June 1766 The bishop ordered a copy to be made of Faial's decayed first baptismal book.
  39. 2 August 1766 A decree created the offices of corregedor and juiz de fora for the Azores, later extended to Madeira.
  40. 17 August 1766 A royal warrant confirmed Lamedo's appointment to the Funchal council.
  41. 7 September 1766–12 September 1766 Philip Carteret's ship Swallow stayed at Madeira on its way to the Pacific.
  42. 9 September 1766 The last donatary of Funchal, the Count of Castelo Melhor, ceded the captaincy's jurisdictional rights to the Crown, abolishing the donatary captaincy and leaving him a mere alcaide-mor.
  43. 1767 The Fortress of São Tiago in Funchal was rebuilt and enlarged under governor José Correia de Sá and armed with fifty cannon brought from London.
  44. 1767–1777 João António de Sá Pereira governed Madeira during the Pombaline period (the text misprints 1677 to 1766).
  45. 1767 Captain João Francisco de Freitas Esmeraldo had a chapel built at Cruz do Carvalho.
  46. 1767–9 December 1767 The Mother of God chapel at Corujeira, Tabua, destroyed by flood, was rebuilt on the opposite bank and inspected for divine service on 9 December 1767.
  47. 14 March 1767 Manuel Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade was born in Campanário.
  48. 9 April 1767 A royal charter approved the statutes of the Misericórdia of Porto Santo.
  49. 10 September 1767 Land for the first British cemetery in Funchal was acquired.
  50. October 1767 José Correia de Sá's governorship of Madeira ended.
  51. 15 October 1767 The 1766 decree was applied to Madeira, and the first permanent, separate corregedor and juiz de fora took office, regularising justice on the island.
  52. 20 October 1767 The Conselho de Fazenda ordered the Provedor to take the Machico captaincy for the Crown, apparently without effect.
  53. November 1767 A slave ship arrived in Madeira, but the corregedor forbade the sale of its slaves.
  54. 1768 Date sometimes given for the completion of the new church associated with the Voto a São Tiago.
  55. 1768 António Francisco de Caires founded the hermitage of Sant'Ana at Fajã do Penedo, Boaventura, endowing it by deed of 20 April 1768.
  56. 1768 The chapel of Nossa Senhora das Preces at Santo António was built.
  57. 1768 A petition shows the Santa Cruz customs house was already extinct.
  58. 1768 The posts of Juiz de Fora and Presidente dos Resíduos were created, and Governor Sá Pereira banned mixing north and south coast wines.
  59. 1768 Heberden recorded the magnetic declination at Funchal as 15°30' W.
  60. 1768 An epidemic caused many deaths in the parish of Arco de São Jorge.
  61. 3 February 1768 The Funchal council ordered execution of a royal provision allowing a Tuesday public fair in the Terreiro da Sé.
  62. 21 February 1768 Birth in Madeira of the 1st Viscount of Torre Bela.
  63. 8 March 1768 Birth of Sebastião Xavier Botelho.
  64. 30 April 1768 Governor Sá Pereira questioned the annual payment made by the British to the governors.
  65. 25 May 1768 The Funchal council contracted the building of the Ponte Nova over the Ribeira de Santa Luzia for 890$000 réis.
  66. 31 May 1768 The corregedor reported that the old prison house in Funchal was badly ruined.
  67. 7 July 1768 A letter applying the 1761 decree to Madeira was proclaimed in Funchal, beginning the gradual end of slavery on the island.
  68. 22 July 1768 Diogo Luiz Drumond was appointed almoxarife of Porto Santo, the last known such appointment.
  69. 26 August 1768 Cook left England on his first circumnavigation in the Endeavour.
  70. 12 September 1768–19 September 1768 Cook's Endeavour expedition lay at Funchal before sailing for Rio de Janeiro; Banks and Solander collected plants and the astronomer Green visited Madeira.
  71. 8 October 1768–31 October 1768 The Barão de Alverca ordered engineers to survey the Rabaçal springs and then sent the minister a report on the benefits of using their waters.
  72. 20 November 1768 Francisco de Paula Medina e Vasconcelos was born in Funchal.
  73. 18 December 1768 A royal charter founded Nova Aldeia, or Aldeia da Rainha, at Santo António da Serra for families from Porto Santo.
  74. 1769 Câmara de Lobos fishermen founded a mutual fund dedicated to São Pedro Gonçalves Telmo.
  75. 1769–1771 On Governor Sá Pereira's orders, Francisco de Alincourt surveyed and drew the general map of Madeira and visited Porto Santo.
  76. 1769 Governor Sá Pereira reported the good results of the School of Geometry and Trigonometry to Lisbon.
  77. 6 February 1769 An order allowed anyone to land and sell salt, in practice ending the donatary monopoly.
  78. 31 May 1769 João António Monteiro was born in Funchal.
  79. 9 September 1769 Pombal's law suppressed many small entails.
1770s 82
  1. c. 1773 Padre João Manuel de Freitas Branco was born in Funchal.
  2. c. 1777 José Anselmo Correia Henriques was born in Ribeira Brava.
  3. 1770 Jerónimo Álvares da Silva Pinheiro was born in Calheta.
  4. 1770 Members of a masonic lodge in Madeira were arrested on the governor's orders, among them Francisco de Alincourt, who was soon released.
  5. 1770 The former Jesuit house, chapel and lands at Santo António were sold at public auction for seven contos de réis.
  6. 1770 João Francisco Lopes Rocha graduated in canon law at Coimbra and was ordained priest.
  7. 1770 Captain Rodrigo da Costa was administrator of the chapel of Nossa Senhora das Preces.
  8. 1770 The Quinta Grande estate was sold at auction to João Francisco de Freitas Esmeraldo.
  9. 1770 Vagrant boys from Porto Santo were sent to learn trades in the workshops of the Fortaleza do Pico.
  10. 1770 The people of Machico built the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Terço.
  11. 1770 João Nepomuceno de Freitas Leal founded the chapel of São João Nepomuceno at Lombo dos Leais.
  12. 5 March 1770 A royal charter of José I on irrigation water confirmed old concessions, reaffirmed distribution according to cultivated land and declared water sales abusive.
  13. 3 August 1770 A law reorganised existing entails and restricted the creation of new ones.
  14. 19 August 1770 Licence was granted to bless the rebuilt chapel of São João Baptista at Calheta.
  15. 13 October 1770 The royal charter known as the Law of Quintos e Oitavos reformed land tenure on Porto Santo, letting lands pay fifths and eighths instead of half the produce, to address the island's decline.
  16. 7 December 1770 The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição in Rua da Carreira, founded by Luís Bettencourt de Albuquerque e Freitas, was blessed.
  17. 28 May 1771–20 June 1771 Governor Sá Pereira stayed on Porto Santo to put the 1770 charter into effect.
  18. 15 June 1771–13 July 1771 The council granted two sums of 100,000 réis to build a house for the standard-bearer next to the Casa de Saúde.
  19. 6 December 1771 Death of Manuel Saldanha da Gama Albuquerque.
  20. 1772 Inácio Pedro Quintela leased the Madeira customs revenues for six years.
  21. 1772 The Academy volume dated 1772, published in 1776, contained De Bory's account of his voyage to Madeira.
  22. 1772 Public classes in philosophy, Latin, mathematics and rhetoric were created in Funchal, with Francisco Manuel de Oliveira appointed to the chair of philosophy.
  23. 1772 The Marquês de Pombal reformed the University of Coimbra.
  24. 30 May 1772 Engineer Domingos Rodrigues Martins was called to estimate the rebuilding of the walls of Funchal's streams.
  25. 29 July 1772 Captain James Cook arrived at Funchal in the Resolution on his second voyage, accompanied by the botanists Forster; he recorded large numbers of Black and mulatto people in Madeira.
  26. 6 November 1772 A royal law established secondary classes of Latin, Greek, rhetoric and philosophy in Funchal and the first six public primary schools in Madeira; the Greek class never opened.
  27. 10 November 1772 A law created the subsídio literário tax to fund schools.
  28. 30 November 1772 The poet Francisco Álvares de Nóbrega was born in Machico.
  29. 1773 A second edition of Francisco de Vasconcelos Coutinho's works was published in one volume in Lisbon.
  30. 16 January 1773 A further decree completed the slavery abolition measures of 1768.
  31. 25 August 1773 Luís Monteiro was born in Funchal.
  32. 1774 The English botanist Robins carried out afforestation in Madeira.
  33. 1774 The date 1774 was carved on the doorway of the chapel of Santo André Avelino at Carvalhal, Canhas.
  34. 6 May 1774 Funchal's municipal council read a letter on the advantages of creating a wine company in Madeira.
  35. 1 June 1774 Padre António João de Lessa was born in Madalena do Mar.
  36. 5 August 1774 Morgado Agostinho António de Ornelas, exiled by the governor, died at his manor in Caniço.
  37. 1775 The 9th Count of Vimioso died.
  38. 1775 Captain Skinner drew a plan of Funchal, published by William Johnston with his map of Madeira.
  39. 1775 Governor João António de Sá Pereira had a clock made and installed in the tower of Funchal Cathedral.
  40. 1775 End date of the list of donataries of the captaincy of Machico.
  41. 1775 Dr Fothergill published observations on consumption recommending Madeira's climate for lung patients.
  42. 6 April 1775 A royal letter abolished the Provedoria da Real Fazenda attached to the Funchal customs house and created the Junta da Real Fazenda da Ilha da Madeira.
  43. 30 April 1775 Luís José Baiardo was born, according to the dictionary Portugal.
  44. 10 June 1775 The chapel of Nossa Senhora do Monte at Ponta do Sol was enlarged and blessed again.
  45. 30 July 1775 A royal letter appointed João Francisco Lopes Rocha parish priest of Santa Maria Maior.
  46. 21 August 1775 The last provedor da Fazenda became judge of the customs house.
  47. 11 October 1775 João Batista Pelle was executed for plotting against the Marquis of Pombal.
  48. 1775–1799 Maritime pine and Italian ryegrass were apparently introduced to Madeira in the last quarter of the 18th century.
  49. 1775–1799 Padre Matias Jorge Jardim built a chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade at Ilha, São Jorge.
  50. 1776 Carlos Nunes de Freitas da Silva built the chapel of Santo André Avelino at Carvalhal e Carreira, Canhas.
  51. 1776 The São José chapel at Calheta was rebuilt on a safer site and inspected on 3 June.
  52. 1776 José Júlio de França e Vasconcelos was born in Boaventura.
  53. 1776 Cook began his third voyage, without calling at Madeira.
  54. 1776 Charles Murray bought the fountain's surplus water from morgado Henrique Felix de Freitas.
  55. 1776 The English botanist Downe collected plants on Madeira.
  56. 20 January 1776 The Real Junta da Fazenda held thanksgiving ceremonies in the Colégio church, Funchal, for Pombal's escape from an assassination plot; Fr. Inácio José de Varona's sermon was published in Lisbon that year.
  57. 15 February 1776 Padre Paulo Vieira Jardim, founder of the São Paulo chapel at Porto Moniz, died.
  58. 10 April 1776 A lease was signed for the land on which Funchal's opera house was built.
  59. May 1776–1777 The botanist Francis Masson arrived in Madeira in May 1776 and explored the island botanically into 1777, recording Guinea grass.
  60. 6 August 1776 The council appointed the first keeper of the Cathedral clock.
  61. 3 November 1776 The chapel of São João Nepomuceno at Folhadal, Porto da Cruz, was built and its endowment deed signed.
  62. 16 November 1776 Joaquim de Oliveira Álvares was born in Madeira.
  63. 1777–3 August 1777 The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade at Jangão, Ponta do Sol, was restored and enlarged by Francisco de Ornelas de Vasconcelos, and authorisation to rebless it was given on 3 August 1777.
  64. 5 February 1777 João José de Freitas Aragão was born in Funchal.
  65. May 1777 João Agostinho Pereira de Agrela was born in Funchal.
  66. 10 June 1777 Governor João António de Sá Pereira left Madeira for Lisbon, his enemies celebrating with illuminations and fireworks.
  67. 28 June 1777 Funeral rites for King José I were held in Funchal.
  68. 29 June 1777 Maria I was acclaimed queen in Funchal.
  69. 19 August 1777–15 September 1777 João Gonçalves da Câmara Coutinho was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira on 19 August 1777 and took office on 15 September.
  70. 24 December 1777 Vitúrio Lopes Rocha received the doctoral hood in mathematics at Coimbra.
  71. 1778 Maria I granted the Duke of Lafões the Order of Christ commandery of Terceira, Madeira and São Miguel.
  72. 1778 João de Carvalhal Esmeraldo e Câmara rebuilt the Reis Magos chapel at Ponta Delgada.
  73. 1778 In Caniço the church of Espírito Santo was completely destroyed and that of Santo Antão badly ruined.
  74. 1778 Manuel Caetano Pimenta de Aguiar left for Lisbon to enter the Colégio dos Nobres.
  75. 1778 Manuel António de Azevedo Henriques published his 'Panegyrico Funchalense' in Lisbon.
  76. 1778 Carlos Murray had the fountain at the Quinta do Belo Monte repaired and an aqueduct and roadside fountain built.
  77. 10 January 1778 António de Gamboa e Liz was born.
  78. 7 March 1778 João do Carvalhal Esmeraldo Albuquerque e Câmara, 1st Count of Carvalhal, was born in Funchal.
  79. October 1778 The botanist Francisco Masson stayed in the Azores.
  80. 1779 The governor of Madeira ordered an inquiry into emigrant recruiters and ships.
  81. 17 May 1779 A cemetery for patients of the São Lázaro hospital was completed.
  82. 2 August 1779–28 October 1783 The foundation stone of the new parish church of Caniço was blessed on 2 August 1779, and the church was solemnly blessed on 28 October 1783.
1780s 67
  1. c. 1780 The Teatro Grande was built and apparently completed in Funchal.
  2. c. 1780 Luiz António Jardim was born in Funchal.
  3. 1780 The old church of the Convent of São Francisco in Funchal was demolished and a larger one begun.
  4. 1780 Machico council declared it held the same privileges as the council of Lisbon.
  5. 1780 António de Carvalhal Esmeraldo e Alencastre built the chapel of São Caetano at Lombo das Terças, Ponta do Sol.
  6. 1780–1790 The pilgrims' house at Monte already existed in this period.
  7. 22 April 1780 The deed of endowment was made for the Santana chapel at Ribeiro Seco, São Martinho, built that year.
  8. July 1780 Date of an inscription on a stone later found in the convent grounds of the Jardim Municipal.
  9. 1781–December 1783 Roque José de Araujo had the Almas Pobres chapel built in Funchal; it was endowed with a perpetual pension of 5,000 réis in August 1781 and blessed by the vicar of São Pedro in December 1783.
  10. 1781 Joaquim de Meneses e Ataíde took vows in the Order of Saint Augustine.
  11. 1781 António José de Jesus Lamedo was appointed reweigher of wheat and flour.
  12. 2 April 1781 Pina Manique ordered the inspection of prostitutes in Portugal.
  13. 22 May 1781 A papal brief granted plenary indulgence to visitors of the Madre de Deus chapel at Tabua on the first Sunday of May.
  14. 15 August 1781 A papal brief granted a special privilege to the altar of Senhor Jesus in Porto da Cruz.
  15. 26 September 1781–15 November 1781 D. Diogo Pereira Forjaz Coutinho was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira by royal letter and took office on 15 November 1781.
  16. 16 May 1782 The botanist Daniel Carlos Solander died in London.
  17. 1783–1791 The parish churches of Santo António, Caniço and Estreito da Calheta were built, bearing dated inscriptions of 1783, 1789 and 1791.
  18. 1783 João Nepomuceno de Oliveira was born in Funchal.
  19. 1783 The Porto Santo settlers finally abandoned the Aldeia at Santo António da Serra.
  20. 1783 The Republic of Venice already had a consulate in Funchal.
  21. 9 February 1783–13 October 1783 The chapel of São Pedro de Alcântara at Lombo do Atouguia, Calheta, was built and endowed by deed on 9 February 1783, with licence for its blessing granted on 13 October.
  22. 30 September 1783 The foundation stone of the present parish church of Camacha was laid.
  23. 1784–1800 Funchal council left the dilapidated Campo do Duque building and moved into the Casa da Saúde, which served as the town hall until about 1800.
  24. 1784 The Paço chapel in São Vicente was erected.
  25. 14 January 1784 Bishop D. Gaspar Afonso da Costa Brandão died in Funchal.
  26. 7 April 1784 Funchal council resolved to build a sea wall to stop the sea silting up the João Diniz springs.
  27. 15 May 1784 Funchal municipal council registered the royal grant to the Duke of Lafões.
  28. June 1784 Naturalist António de Carvalho e Almeida arrived in Madeira to organise a collection of natural products.
  29. 5 July 1784 The rebuilt chapel of Nossa Senhora do Livramento at Monte was inspected for worship.
  30. 24 July 1784 Santa Clara convent donated six alqueires of land at Curral das Freiras to the diocese for a new church and chaplain's residence.
  31. 24 August 1784–26 August 1784 Papal briefs granted a privileged altar and plenary indulgence to the church of Arco de São Jorge.
  32. 1785 Botanist Francis Masson finally left Madeira.
  33. 1785 Manuel Caetano Pimenta de Aguiar went to Paris to study arts and sciences.
  34. 1785 Francisco Manuel Jardim Telo de Meneses was captain of the São Jorge redoubt.
  35. 1785 Manuel da Câmara Perestrelo de Noronha became governor of Porto Santo.
  36. 3 July 1785 João Francisco de Oliveira received his doctorate in medicine at Coimbra.
  37. 13 August 1785–16 August 1785 La Pérouse's expedition aboard the Boussole called at Funchal, where he lunched with consul Murray and dined with Monteiro, before leaving for the Canaries on 16 August.
  38. 30 August 1785 A papal brief granted a plenary indulgence for the patronal feast of Faial parish.
  39. October 1785 Botanist Chetien Smith was born.
  40. 1786 The Misericórdia building of Santa Cruz underwent major repairs paid for by public charity.
  41. 1786 Francisco Manuel de Oliveira gave an opening address at the Diocesan Seminary.
  42. 29 January 1786 The Teatro Grande reopened after repairs with a prologue by Francisco Manuel de Oliveira.
  43. 3 March 1786 Licence was granted to bless the chapel of São João Nepomuceno, which received a privileged altar by papal brief that year.
  44. 16 August 1786 A new proclamation imposed severe penalties against wine fraud in Madeira.
  45. November 1786–18 September 1787 Pope Pius VI confirmed D. José da Costa Torres as bishop of Madeira; he took possession of the diocese of Funchal on 18 September 1787.
  46. 9 December 1786 Permission was granted to bless the rebuilt chapel of Nossa Senhora do Rosário at Jardim do Mar.
  47. 1787 João Francisco de Oliveira was appointed substitute in one of the Coimbra university chairs.
  48. 1787 Georg Forster published Plantae Atlanticae, treating some Madeiran plants.
  49. 1787 Gregório Nazianzeno Medina e Vasconcelos was born in Funchal.
  50. 1787 Governor Diogo Forjaz Coutinho had the masonry arch bridge at Torreão built.
  51. 10 August 1787 By royal charter D. Maria I ceded the former Jesuit College buildings to Bishop José da Costa Torres for a diocesan seminary.
  52. 5 November 1787 D. Manuel de Portugal e Castro was born.
  53. 1788 William Johnston made a geo-hydrographic survey of Madeira, the Desertas and Porto Santo.
  54. 1788 Francisco de Paula Medina e Vasconcelos enrolled at Coimbra University.
  55. 1788 The firm Phelps & C.ª existed in Madeira.
  56. 1788 A pamphlet on reviving the drowned, paid for by Carlos Murray, was printed in Lisbon.
  57. 27 February 1788 Governor Diogo Pereira Forjaz Coutinho ordered black cherry trees destroyed and their cultivation banned, as the fruit was used to colour wine fraudulently.
  58. 31 March 1788 The diocesan seminary moved to and was solemnly opened in the former Jesuit College in Funchal.
  59. 20 June 1788 A new entrance was built for the Misericórdia hospital in Funchal.
  60. 12 July 1788 João Gualberto de Oliveira, future Count of Tojal, was born in Funchal.
  61. 6 December 1788 Nicolau Caetano de Bettencourt Pita was born in Funchal.
  62. 1789 The Magdalene chapel at Porto Moniz was enlarged.
  63. 1789 João José de Orquigny arrived in Madeira to study its flora and set up a masonic lodge in Funchal.
  64. 1789 The image of São Tiago was solemnly moved from the cathedral to the new church.
  65. 1789 João Maria de Abreu Castelo Branco Cardoso e Melo, future 1st Count of Fornos de Algodres, was born.
  66. 24 April 1789 D. Álvaro José Xavier Botelho de Távora died.
  67. 10 August 1789 Lourenço José Moniz was born in Funchal.
1790s 83
  1. c. 1790 Francisco de Paula Medina e Vasconcelos was imprisoned at Coimbra and expelled from the university.
  2. 1790 The ruinous old parish church (chapel of São Roque) of São Roque collapsed and could no longer be used for worship.
  3. 1790 The Sociedade Patriótica, Económica, de Comércio, Agricultura, Ciências e Artes was founded in Funchal.
  4. 1790 Baptisms began to be performed at Boaventura.
  5. 1790 A chapel of Santana was built at Cruz do Carvalho, São Pedro, Funchal.
  6. 1790 Arabic documents in the Torre do Tombo were copied, including a Moorish chief's complaint about slave raids.
  7. 1790 João Pedro de Freitas Drumond promoted an early attempt to found an agricultural association in Madeira.
  8. 17 March 1790 A royal charter created the parish of Curral das Freiras, separated from Santo António, with its seat in the chapel of Saint Anthony.
  9. 23 May 1790 Father Caetano Alberto Soares was born in Porto da Cruz.
  10. 1 July 1790 A minister was appointed to supervise the theatre in Funchal.
  11. 1 July 1790 João José de Orquigny delivered a farewell speech to the general assembly of the Sociedade Patriótica in Funchal.
  12. 4 October 1790 Dr António Rodrigues de Oliveira took office as corregedor of Madeira.
  13. 1790–1791 Manuel Caetano Pimenta de Aguiar took part in France's internal revolts, reaching the rank of captain.
  14. 1791 J. H. Castera's French translation of James Bruce's travels to the Nile was published.
  15. 1791 João António Monteiro received his doctorate in philosophy at Coimbra.
  16. 1791 The British consul denounced the fraud of blending Tenerife wine sold as Madeira.
  17. 1791–1793 The present parish church of Estreito da Calheta was built in 1791 and blessed in 1793.
  18. 1791 The United States consulate in Madeira was established.
  19. 17 March 1791 Patrício Malheiro de Melo was born in Funchal.
  20. 20 May 1791 The Funchal council resolved to budget for a slaughterhouse by the Almotaceria.
  21. 1792 José da Fonseca e Gouveia, Baron of Lordelo, was born.
  22. 1792 An Inquisition edict launched a persecution of Madeiran freemasons, leading many families to emigrate to the United States.
  23. 1792 Maria Riddell's book of voyages was published in Edinburgh.
  24. 1792 John Barrow visited Madeira and described the dress of the middle classes.
  25. 1792 The musician José Fradesso Belo was born.
  26. 1792 Francisco de Paula Medina e Vasconcelos returned to Madeira after his release.
  27. 1792 Dr William Gourlay arrived in Madeira.
  28. 1792 Januário Vicente Camacho was born in Funchal.
  29. 20 February 1792 Arsénio Pompílio Pompeu do Carpo was born in Funchal.
  30. 23 June 1792 A pardon for members of secret societies reached Madeira.
  31. 19 July 1792 Several persecuted members of secret societies and their families embarked clandestinely from Madeira.
  32. 18 October 1792 Corregedor Veloso de Oliveira left tree-planting instructions to the Calheta council.
  33. 20 November 1792 A royal charter licensed Tomás Watts and partners to set up fisheries and salt works in Madeira, the first of unsuccessful attempts to found fishing companies (another followed in 1802).
  34. 1793 João Francisco de Freitas Esmeraldo issued the first known Madeiran tokens.
  35. 1793–1803 Dr William Gourlay made meteorological observations in Madeira.
  36. 1793 A primary school was created in Campanário.
  37. 1793 Francisco Manuel de Oliveira published Escolha de Poesias Orientaes in Lisbon.
  38. 19 April 1793–8 August 1793 A Moroccan brig carrying the family of Prince Muley Abdessalam arrived at Funchal; the princesses later left Lisbon for Morocco aboard three Portuguese government ships.
  39. 4 July 1793 Francisco Correia Herédia was born in Madeira.
  40. 16 October 1793 Dean João Francisco Lopes Rocha wrote to minister José de Seabra da Silva complaining of his persecution and continued suspension as a former freemason.
  41. 21 November 1793 D. Manuel Martins Manso, later bishop, was born in Mogadouro.
  42. 1794 Francisco Manuel de Oliveira's Colecção Poética was published, mentioning the Arcadia Funchalense.
  43. 1794 António José de Jesus Lamedo's index of Funchal council records ends in this year.
  44. 1794 Estufas for ageing wine were first used on Madeira.
  45. 1794 D. Mateus de Abreu Pereira was presented as bishop of São Paulo.
  46. 1794 The 2nd Viscount of Torre Bela was born.
  47. 1794 Curral das Freiras had only 110 inhabitants.
  48. 16 October 1794 José Maria Martiniano da Fonseca was born in the Sé parish of Funchal.
  49. 18 October 1794 José Manuel da Veiga was born in Funchal.
  50. 1795 Jerónimo Álvares da Silva Pinheiro was ordained priest.
  51. 1795 The Funchal council asked the Royal Treasury for a loan of 400$000 réis for the slaughterhouse.
  52. 26 March 1795 José Ferreira Pestana was born at Ribeira Brava.
  53. 21 April 1795 A papal brief granted a plenary indulgence to visitors of the church of Porto da Cruz.
  54. 17 June 1795 Pius VI confirmed D. Mateus de Abreu Pereira by bull as bishop of São Paulo.
  55. 7 December 1795 António Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade, later dean, was born in Funchal.
  56. 27 December 1795 José António Monteiro Teixeira was born in Funchal.
  57. 1796–10 March 1798 The Funchal council rented Fernando José Correia Brandão's building until it could no longer afford the rent.
  58. 1796 The Swedish consulate in Madeira was established.
  59. 11 March 1796 A forest decree was issued for Madeira.
  60. 22 June 1796 Bishop José da Costa Torres of Funchal was transferred to the see of Elvas.
  61. 6 October 1796 Bishop José da Costa Torres, surrounded by troops at Penha, was forced to embark by night and left Madeira hastily without farewells.
  62. 19 November 1796 The council ordered quadrilheiros to wear an identifying badge.
  63. 1797 Johann Reinhold Forster's Herbarium Australe, treating some Madeiran plants, was published.
  64. 7 January 1797 The council, nobility and people of Funchal resolved to ask the government for a subsidy for a new town hall; no answer came.
  65. 24 May 1797 António José de Jesus Lamedo died suddenly in the Sé parish of Funchal.
  66. 31 May 1797 D. Mateus de Abreu Pereira took possession of the see of São Paulo.
  67. 7 July 1797 António Aluísio Jervis de Atouguia, later Visconde de Atouguia, was born in Funchal in the house beside the chapel of São Francisco das Furnas.
  68. 29 July 1797 Pius VI confirmed Luís Rodrigues de Vilares as bishop of Madeira.
  69. 31 July 1797 Queen Maria I created the curacy of Porto da Cruz at the chapel of São João Nepomuceno.
  70. 10 August 1797 A treaty was negotiated in France with António de Araújo e Azevedo, later Conde da Barca, as Portuguese plenipotentiary.
  71. 27 November 1797 José Xavier de Cerveira e Sousa, later bishop, was born at Mogofores.
  72. 1798 Bishop Luís Rodrigues de Vilares took possession of the diocese of Funchal early in the year.
  73. 1798 Funchal's arms still showed two sugar canes, as seen on a silver inkstand of that year.
  74. 1798 Joaquim de Oliveira Álvares was appointed second lieutenant in the navy.
  75. 1798 Construction of the Pilar de Banger in Funchal was completed at a cost of 1,350 pounds sterling.
  76. 26 March 1798 Governor Diogo Pereira Forjaz Coutinho left the governorship because of illness.
  77. 30 March 1798 Captain-general Diogo Pereira Forjaz Coutinho died in Funchal and was buried in the Carmo church.
  78. 13 May 1798 The Madeira post office was created under an administrator.
  79. 1 November 1798 The sea brought down one of the two pillars of the bell-shaped islet that gave Campanário its name.
  80. 1799–1824 A government tree nursery was established at the Lombada, Monte, its site chosen by José Maria de Afonseca and designated on 9 August 1799; it distributed over twenty thousand trees for replanting by 1823–24.
  81. 1799 The people owed 162,000 cruzados of finto arrears, which the government ordered collected.
  82. 3 April 1799 Francisco Manuel de Oliveira was retired from his chair by ministerial order.
  83. 14 October 1799 A convoy of 96 ships loaded 3,041 pipes of wine at Funchal.
1800s 27
  1. 1800 The curacy of Porto da Cruz was created, its curate being obliged to serve the chapel of São João Nepomuceno.
  2. 1800 The government recommended the creation of a credit fund in Madeira.
  3. 1800 Joaquim de Oliveira Álvares commanded a Portuguese caique against a French privateer off the Algarve.
  4. 1800 The clerk of the court of bequests and chapels was found to have embezzled bequest money by forgery.
  5. 3 April 1800 Padre Manuel Gonçalves Henriques built and endowed the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade at Caldeira.
  6. 8 May 1800 D. José Manuel da Câmara was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  7. 16 May 1800 José Maria Baldy was born in Lisbon.
  8. July 1800 The English traveller Turnbull visited Madeira.
  9. 29 October 1800 Hemlock and false acacia were introduced to Madeira from seeds sent by the government.
  10. 2 December 1800 The Funchal council expelled two ships lacking bills of health and quarantined their guards for 40 days.
  11. 4 December 1800 D. José Manuel da Câmara took office as governor of Madeira.
  12. 22 December 1800 A decree regulated cask marks to prevent the adulteration of wine.
  13. 1800–1825 The firm Paulo Malheiro de Melo & Filhos traded in Funchal in the first quarter of the 19th century.
  14. 1800–1825 Captain Sebastião António Drumond rebuilt the Espírito Santo chapel at Campo de Baixo, Porto Santo.
  15. 1800–1825 The Conde do Carvalhal introduced the frog Rana temporaria to Madeira.
  16. 1800–1825 Giraldes published in Paris his Estatística Historico-Geographica of Madeira and Porto Santo.
  17. 1800–1825 Gorse was introduced to Madeira at the Quinta do Palheiro.
  18. 1800–1825 Tea was first grown in Madeira at Jardim da Serra, introduced by consul Henry Veitch.
  19. 1800–1825 Madeiran ladies used palanquins for outings and social visits.
  20. 180? Rebuilding of the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Graça on Porto Santo on a larger scale was begun but never completed.
  21. 180?–185? The present parish church of São Roque was built, work finishing around the middle of the century.
  22. 180? Robert Page had two refuge huts built, at Paul da Serra and Ribeira das Cales.
  23. 180? José Maria de Afonseca planned and built a road network across Madeira.
  24. 180? The chayote was already present in Madeira, known as 'pepinos nelas'.
  25. 180? The Caminho do Monte was opened to the public on its present route.
  26. 180? A plant nursery known as the Jardim Botânico existed in Monte.
  27. 18?? Cats were brought to Deserta Grande to kill rodents damaging crops.

XIX Century · 3,108

1800s 141
  1. c. 1809 D. Maria do Monte de Sant'Ana e Vasconcelos Moniz de Bettencourt was born in Funchal.
  2. 1801–1814 Freemasonry in Madeira was reorganised during the British occupations of 1801–1802 and 1807–1814.
  3. 1801 D. Antónia Basília Herédia de Bettencourt married António Saldanha da Gama.
  4. 1801 A curacy was created in Camacha.
  5. 1801 The municipal council granted John Light Banger a privilege to use a kiln for purifying grain.
  6. 5 January 1801 Governor D. José Manuel da Câmara visited the Palheiro property and attended the laying of the doorsteps.
  7. 7 January 1801 José de Freitas Teixeira Spinola de Castelo Branco was born in Funchal.
  8. 18 May 1801 Anastácio Moniz de Bettencourt was appointed substitute professor of rhetoric and philosophy in Funchal.
  9. 22 July 1801 A decree banned the import of Azorean wines into Madeira.
  10. 24 July 1801–January 1802 A British squadron arrived at Funchal, beginning the first British occupation of Madeira; troops under Clinton were quartered in the Jesuit college, the Penha de França fort and the theatre, forcing the seminary back to the Mosteiro Novo.
  11. 4 September 1801 The allowance at the Hospital de S. Lázaro was raised to 100 réis.
  12. 1 October 1801 The preliminaries of the Peace of Amiens were signed, prompting renewed Portuguese demands for the British evacuation of Madeira.
  13. 11 November 1801 José Gerardo Ferreira Passos was born in Elvas.
  14. 1802 Lieutenant-colonel Roberts published a plan of Porto Santo.
  15. 1802 Miguel Fitzgerald brought the first English cattle and long-wool sheep to Madeira.
  16. 1802 Bernardo Francisco Lobato Machado was born in Madeira.
  17. 1802 Dr J. Adams was licensed by the governor and captain-general to vaccinate foundlings against smallpox, apparently the first vaccination in Madeira; the Funchal town council received his request for foundlings on 27 October 1802.
  18. 1802 The workshops of the Fortaleza do Pico expanded greatly.
  19. 1802 A famine on Porto Santo required relief supplies.
  20. 25 January 1802 British troops embarked from Madeira, ending the first British occupation of the island.
  21. 20 March 1802 Minister Rodrigo de Sousa Coutinho informed the captain-general of Madeira of the Prince Regent's satisfaction with the progress of cotton growing on the island.
  22. 4 August 1802–7 August 1802 The botanist Robert Brown stayed in Madeira.
  23. 13 August 1802 An edict of the governor and captain-general prohibited estufas (wine-heating stoves) in Madeira.
  24. 30 August 1802 An explosion aboard a Portuguese ship at Funchal killed 32 people.
  25. 2 September 1802 António da Luz Pita was born at Ponta do Sol.
  26. 4 September 1802 Augusto Frederico de Castilho, later Visconde de Castilho, was born in Lisbon.
  27. 13 November 1802 The Funchal council held its first session in its house on the Largo da Sé.
  28. 4 December 1802 Richard Thomas Lowe, clergyman and naturalist, was born.
  29. 22 December 1802 The Senate of Funchal fixed the seating order at its sessions, ruling that the juiz do povo should sit on a low chair above the eldest of the mesteres.
  30. 23 December 1802 Sérvulo Drumond de Meneses was born in Funchal.
  31. 1803 After the flood destroyed the Calhau church, the seat of Santa Maria Maior parish was transferred to the church of São Tiago Menor.
  32. 1803 The oak was introduced to Madeira by the 1st Count of Carvalhal.
  33. 1803 The juiz de fora allowed the mesteres to sit at the Funchal council table, prompting noble protest and a stormy session.
  34. 1803 An electoral provision almost identical to that of 1613 was issued.
  35. 1803 Dr João António Monteiro's translation of Jenner's work on vaccination was published in Lisbon.
  36. 1803 William Penfold was living in Funchal.
  37. 1803 The morgado João de Freitas da Silva was imprisoned in the fortress of São Tiago.
  38. 4 January 1803–6 January 1803 Funchal held illuminations for the birth of an infante.
  39. 15 January 1803–22 January 1803 On the governor's orders the São Sebastião chapel in Funchal was emptied, its images carried to São Tiago, and razed overnight.
  40. 30 March 1803 Anastácio Moniz de Bettencourt was appointed professor of rational philosophy in Funchal.
  41. April 1803 The Prince Regent granted Dr João Francisco de Oliveira lands in São Jorge and the Quinta de Sant'Ana in Monte.
  42. 5 April 1803 A royal notice granted the Misericórdia of Funchal a lottery of thirty contos, apparently never drawn.
  43. 18 June 1803 A serious conflict between Governor José Manuel da Câmara and Bishop D. Luís Rodrigues de Vilares over the Jesuit college led the governor to force the bishop out of Funchal to Santo da Serra.
  44. 18 June 1803 The São Sebastião market in Funchal was inaugurated.
  45. 23 June 1803 António Gil Gomes was born in Arco de São Jorge.
  46. 30 June 1803 The Senado da Câmara of Funchal took possession of the house on the Largo da Sé.
  47. 21 July 1803 Luís Vicente de Afonseca was born in Estreito de Câmara de Lobos.
  48. 3 September 1803 Henrique Correia was imprisoned on the Ilhéu fortress for failing to dismount before Governor José Manuel da Câmara.
  49. 9 October 1803 The great flood of 9 October 1803, considered Madeira's greatest calamity, devastated Funchal and other parts of the island, killing about 600 people and destroying the Calhau church, stream walls, bridges and chapels in Machico, Santa Cruz and elsewhere. It prompted Oudinot's mission and the city's spread outwards.
  50. 15 October 1803 Ascenso de Sequeira Freire was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  51. 18 October 1803 Funchal council commissioned João Pedro de Freitas Pereira Drumond to report on the city's state after the flood.
  52. 26 October 1803 A royal charter created the Junta da Justiça in Madeira.
  53. 6 November 1803 A further governor's edict prohibited wine estufas in Madeira.
  54. 11 November 1803 The nobility and people of Funchal agreed to the bishop's proposed vow to the Virgin after the flood.
  55. 11 November 1803–13 November 1803 The Funchal town council, and then Bishop D. Luís Rodrigues de Vilares and the cathedral chapter, vowed an annual votive procession and feast every 9 October in honour of Our Lady's patronage.
  56. 5 December 1803 Judge Joaquim António de Araújo and the new governor Ascenso de Sequeira Freire arrived in Funchal on the frigate Carlota.
  57. 8 December 1803 Ascenso de Sequeira Freire took office as governor of Madeira in Funchal.
  58. 10 December 1803–11 December 1803 Bishop D. Luís Rodrigues de Vilares and the dismissed governor sailed separately from Madeira to Lisbon under government orders.
  59. 1804 José Caetano de Paiva Pereira was appointed provedor dos defuntos e ausentes.
  60. 1804 Roberto Page was established in Madeira, where the firm Phelps, Page & C.ª existed.
  61. 1804 Dr João António Monteiro left Portugal on a scientific journey through Europe, never to return.
  62. 1804 A great landslide from the Lombada enlarged Lugar de Baixo and drove the sea into Ponta do Sol.
  63. 1804 Francisco Álvares de Nóbrega's Rimas were published in Lisbon.
  64. 1804 Joaquim de Oliveira Álvares served in Brazil as artillery captain of the São Paulo volunteer legion.
  65. 1804 The Misericórdia brothers almost entirely rebuilt the Capela de Cristo.
  66. 1804 The Porto da Cruz fort was dismantled and its garrison sent to clear the Ribeira de Machico.
  67. 1804 Dr António Caetano de Freitas wrote his first vaccination report and Governor Sequeira Freire urged inoculation in Madeira.
  68. 1804 The Danish consulate in Madeira was established.
  69. 19 February 1804–1806 Brigadier Reinaldo Oudinot arrived in Funchal in February 1804 and channelled and walled the town's three streams; floods in December 1804 proved the walls, and in 1806 houses by the João Gomes and Santa Luzia streams were demolished for the works.
  70. 7 May 1804 A royal order allowed wine estufas in Madeira to operate again.
  71. 11 May 1804 João António Monteiro was appointed professor at the new chemical laboratory of Lisbon.
  72. 14 May 1804 A royal letter on forests ordered hilltop planting on Madeira and Porto Santo and the punishment of forest arsonists.
  73. 21 July 1804 A rescript of Pius VII confirmed Our Lady of Monte as protector of Funchal and instituted the feast of the Patrocínio.
  74. 21 August 1804 The Funchal council instituted compulsory rota labour on stream repairs for men aged 16 to 60.
  75. 13 September 1804 Justino António de Freitas was born.
  76. 1805 Governor Avelar Brotero had the Pico fortress's roof tiles removed to repair the town barracks and his residence.
  77. 1805 The auxiliary artillery corps of Madeira, including a Porto Santo corps, was instituted.
  78. 10 March 1805 A royal order directed that the ruins of the Calhau church be preserved as a memorial of the flood.
  79. 14 March 1805 The Viscondessa das Nogueiras was born in Funchal.
  80. 30 March 1805 The ruins of Funchal's old council house were auctioned to Dr António José Monteiro.
  81. 8 April 1805 A decree annexed the Madeira and Azores posts to the General Postal Administration.
  82. 18 April 1805 Marceliano Ribeiro de Mendonça was born in Funchal.
  83. 2 May 1805 The painter Vieira Portuense died suddenly in Funchal and was buried in the cathedral.
  84. 30 July 1805 A papal brief granted a plenary indulgence for the feast of Nossa Senhora da Luz at Ponta do Sol.
  85. 9 September 1805 Oudinot sent a detailed map of Funchal and its bay to the Visconde de Anadia.
  86. 10 October 1805 Francisco João Róscio died in Brazil.
  87. 12 October 1805–19 October 1805 The British warship Favorita, with surgeon F. B. Spilsbury aboard, called at Madeira on its way to West Africa.
  88. 1806 Benjamim de Oliveira was born in England.
  89. 1806 Francisco de Paula Medina e Vasconcelos's epic poem Zargueida was published in Lisbon.
  90. 1806 D. José da Costa Torres was appointed archbishop of Braga.
  91. 1806 Madeira's tax revenues included 180 contos from customs.
  92. 1806 Cândido Joaquim da Silva was born in Funchal.
  93. 1806 The poet Francisco Álvares de Nóbrega took his own life, and the Inquisition destroyed his writings.
  94. 1806–1809 The fourth reform of the Madeiran militia took place.
  95. 1806 Famine on Porto Santo required relief supplies from Madeira.
  96. 6 June 1806 Francisco de Andrade was born in Funchal.
  97. 27 July 1806 Bartolomeu dos Mártires Dias e Sousa was born.
  98. 12 October 1806 António da Costa Paiva, later Barão de Castelo de Paiva, was born in Porto.
  99. 1807 The alcaidarias of Funchal and Machico yielded 23:110$000 réis.
  100. 1807 After the Portuguese court fled to Brazil, much of the São Carlos theatre company came to perform in Funchal.
  101. 1807 Diogo Vieira de Tóvar e Albuquerque wrote his political and economic description of Madeira.
  102. 1807 Governor Beresford abolished the capstan Patronado and handed it to the merchants.
  103. 1807 For fear of an enemy landing, the Funchal council archive was moved to Santa Luzia and then to Monte.
  104. 1807 Dr António Caetano de Freitas wrote his second report on vaccination in Madeira.
  105. 1807 The painter Joaquim Leonardo da Rocha came to Madeira fleeing the first French invasion of Portugal.
  106. 31 January 1807 The Funchal Câmara resolved to punish those absent without cause from the Crusade Bull procession.
  107. 10 February 1807–12 February 1807 Funchal was illuminated for three nights to celebrate a royal birth.
  108. 11 February 1807 The engineer Reinaldo Oudinot died in Funchal.
  109. 4 March 1807 Pedro Fagundes Bacelar de Antas e Meneses was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  110. 13 March 1807 D. Jorge da Câmara Leme was born in Funchal.
  111. 13 March 1807 António Rogério Gromicho Couceiro was born in Elvas.
  112. 5 August 1807 Pedro Fagundes Bacelar de Antas e Meneses took office as governor of Madeira, succeeding Ascenso de Sequeira Freire.
  113. 19 September 1807 The Funchal council reported receiving pine seed from America.
  114. 24 December 1807–October 1814 On 24 December 1807 Admiral Samuel Hood's squadron anchored at Funchal with troops under General Beresford, beginning the second British occupation of Madeira, which lasted until October 1814; Henrique Veitch was appointed British consul during it.
  115. 26 December 1807 Governor Pedro Fagundes and Beresford signed the capitulation handing Madeira to Britain.
  116. 31 December 1807 José Silvestre Ribeiro, later civil governor, was born in Idanha-a-Nova.
  117. 1808 During the second British occupation John Blandy already had his trading house established in Madeira.
  118. 1808 Padre António João de Lessa left Madeira for Brazil.
  119. 1808 The present British cemetery in Funchal was built.
  120. 1808 The Palácio de São Lourenço was reportedly altered and partly rebuilt during Beresford's occupation.
  121. 1808 English residents paid for a pilgrims' house at Santo António da Serra, opposite the parish residence.
  122. 1808–1814 José António Monteiro Teixeira studied at a college in Pau, France.
  123. 1808–1814 During the second British occupation the Jesuit college in Funchal housed British troops and Beresford's headquarters.
  124. 7 January 1808 The nuns of the Incarnação convent moved to Santa Clara as British troops took over their convent.
  125. 12 January 1808 Silvano Sátiro de Silva was born in Funchal, according to the Elucidário.
  126. 1 February 1808–1 May 1808 The first Aurora Literária, written by lyceum pupils, published six numbers.
  127. 16 March 1808 A convention restored the civil administration of Madeira to Portugal during the British occupation.
  128. 28 March 1808 A black man received six lashes at the Funchal pillory and was paraded through the streets.
  129. April 1808 Governor Pedro Fagundes resumed office at the end of April 1808.
  130. 10 June 1808 A law created the décima urbana tax.
  131. 25 July 1808–28 July 1808 The papal nuncio to Lisbon, travelling from London, stayed in Madeira and left on 28 July to a salute from the forts.
  132. 25 July 1808 A royal order from Rio de Janeiro provisionally confirmed the merchants' capstan establishment.
  133. 17 August 1808 Beresford left Madeira for Lisbon with half the British forces.
  134. 1809–1909 The town council fixed Funchal's city limits in 1809, 1863 and 1909.
  135. 1809 The governor advised Lisbon to exclude the Juiz dos Resíduos e Capelas from the Junta da Justiça.
  136. 1809 João Cirilo Moniz accompanied his father to Rio de Janeiro, according to the Elucidário, though the date conflicts with his stated birth year.
  137. 1809 William Cossart was already involved in the Madeira wine export trade.
  138. 7 July 1809 A royal letter created a drawing and painting class in Funchal.
  139. 20 July 1809 A diocesan provision ordered the curate to reside at Jardim do Mar.
  140. 6 September 1809 Robert Reid Kalley, later a Protestant missionary in Madeira, was born near Glasgow.
  141. 19 December 1809 A Funchal council session appointed a commission that fixed the city limits.
1810s 159
  1. c. 1815 José Joaquim de Abreu Rego was born in Madeira.
  2. c. 1815 Vicente Nery da Silva was ordained priest.
  3. c. 1816 The Count of Lambert was born.
  4. c. 1818 The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Penha de França became national property and was given to the bishop, its pilgrims' house becoming a bishops' summer residence.
  5. 1810 Paulo Perestrelo da Câmara was born in Funchal.
  6. 1810 A treaty allowed British merchants to buy must, giving them control of wine prices in Madeira.
  7. 1810 Cristóvão Esmeraldo was elected provedor of the Misericórdia de Machico.
  8. 1810 Francisco Anacleto de Figueiroa was pronounced dead in Funchal and entombed, apparently while still alive.
  9. 1810 The British Factory bought the land for the Anglican church in Rua da Bela Vista, Funchal.
  10. 7 February 1810 Nicolau Anastácio de Bettencourt was born in Funchal.
  11. March 1810 A class in drawing and painting was created in Funchal, opening in March 1810 under Rocha.
  12. 1 June 1810–6 August 1810 Thieves broke into the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Monte and stripped the image of its jewels; after acts of reparation the image was returned in solemn procession on 6 August.
  13. 20 July 1810–18 September 1811 A royal letter created the Junta de Melhoramentos da Agricultura for Madeira and Porto Santo, supplemented by a royal charter in September 1811.
  14. 1 October 1810 Bishop D. Luís Rodrigues de Vilares died in Funchal.
  15. 15 October 1810 A royal charter created the Junta da Justiça Criminal in the Azores.
  16. 1811 Vice-rectors of Coimbra University were granted the treatment of senhoria for services during the French invasions.
  17. 1811 Napoleon's troops left Portugal and the family of the Count of Ega went to France.
  18. 1811 Padre João Crisóstomo Espínola de Macedo was imprisoned by order of the cathedral chapter after a complaint by the Santa Cruz judge.
  19. 1811 Dr William Gourlay published his Observations on Madeira in London, measuring Pico Ruivo at 2,515 m.
  20. 1811–1815 The collegiate chapter of Calheta sat in the church of the Franciscan convent.
  21. 1811 The Recolhimento do Bom Jesus had 42 residents, with income of 1,367$000 and expenditure of 2,007$000 réis.
  22. 1811 The Funchal council lacked funds to support foundlings.
  23. February 1811 The França brothers formed a company in Estreito da Calheta to tap springs for a levada.
  24. 26 April 1811–2 May 1811 Leopold von Buch and Christen Smith visited Madeira before sailing to the Canaries.
  25. July 1811 Dr Joaquim de Menezes e Ataíde was appointed vicar capitular and governor of the diocese of Funchal, causing a conflict between the cathedral chapter and the central government.
  26. 7 August 1811 The Funchal council ordered the mesteres back to their old seats, a decision later annulled on appeal.
  27. 10 September 1811 The Junta do Desembargo do Paço was created in Madeira.
  28. 18 October 1811 A charter on forests was issued for Madeira.
  29. 15 November 1811 The corregedor urged the transfer of the Funchal prison to a safer house.
  30. 1812 Corregedor Veloso de Oliveira reported to the government on the levada judges.
  31. 1812–1813 Madeira customs revenue reached 228 and 230 contos.
  32. 1812 The Academia Real das Ciências published the first Portuguese translation of Cadamosto's Navegações.
  33. 1812–1822 The chapel of São João Nepomuceno was under interdict after its administrator tried to remove it from parish jurisdiction.
  34. 1812 Nicolau Caetano de Bettencourt Pita published his Account of the Island of Madeira, including its climate, in London.
  35. 1812 Bishop Athaide brought many musicians to Madeira.
  36. 1812 The set of bells of Funchal cathedral was acquired.
  37. 1812 Wickerwork reportedly began in Camacha.
  38. 1812 Manuel Celestino Emídio was born.
  39. 1812 Joaquim Coelho de Meireles was treasurer of the Funchal council.
  40. 1812 The Russian consulate in Madeira was established.
  41. 21 January 1812 A royal letter ordered the Funchal council to let the Casa dos Vinte e Quatro use its council chamber.
  42. 3 May 1812 The Funchal council heard that 9,233 trees had been planted in Ribeira Brava.
  43. 20 May 1812 The Funchal council asked the captain-general for nightly military patrols against theft.
  44. 20 May 1812 The Funchal council ordered a register of pregnant prostitutes so that they would rear their own children.
  45. 24 June 1812 Nicolau Caetano de Bettencourt Pita received his doctorate in medicine at Edinburgh.
  46. July 1812 Major-General Gordon replaced Colonel Mead in command of the British troops occupying Madeira.
  47. 29 August 1812 Diogo d'Ornelas Frazão, later Count of Calçada, was born.
  48. 29 August 1812 The Funchal council resolved to import four moios of pine seed from Portugal.
  49. 2 September 1812 Bishop D. Joaquim de Meneses e Ataíde created an archpriesthood seated at São Vicente.
  50. 17 December 1812 A decree created Fernando José Correia Brandão Bettencourt de Noronha Henriques Viscount of Torre Bela.
  51. 1813 The governor reported that some Madeiran levadas had cost their owners up to thirty thousand cruzados.
  52. 1813 The captain-general sent Lisbon a description of the Santa Luzia levada.
  53. 1813 Madeira wine production stood at 25,440 pipes.
  54. 1813 The chapel of São João Baptista at Campanário was administered by Luís Sauvayre.
  55. 1813 The firm Penfold & Veitch was operating in Funchal.
  56. 1813 The curacy of Santo da Serra was created as a dependency of Machico.
  57. 13 February 1813 Luís Beltrão de Gouveia e Almeida was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  58. 15 April 1813 The image of Senhor dos Milagres was returned from Funchal cathedral to its restored chapel.
  59. 19 April 1813 José António de Almada was born in Machico.
  60. May 1813 Governor Pedro Fagundes Bacelar de Antas e Meneses was struck by paralysis.
  61. 7 August 1813–10 August 1813 The new governor Luís Beltrão de Gouveia e Almeida arrived in Funchal on 7 August 1813 and took office on 10 August.
  62. 12 September 1813 A sermon was preached on the anniversary of the consecration of D. Mateus de Abreu Pereira, bishop of São Paulo.
  63. 1 November 1813 Former governor Pedro Fagundes Bacelar de Antas e Meneses died in Lisbon.
  64. December 1813 Governor Luís Beltrão de Gouveia e Almeida convened the first meeting of the Junta de Melhoramentos da Agricultura of Madeira and Porto Santo.
  65. December 1813 An English soldier was hanged in Funchal for murdering a sergeant, despite the governor's protest.
  66. 20 December 1813 The Funchal council resolved to build a new prison from the sale of the old one, but the alcaide-mor refused to contribute.
  67. 1814 The chapel of Santa Quitéria at Pico do Cardo was found desecrated and long disused.
  68. 1814–14 August 1814 The chapel of Santana and São João at the Quinta do Trapiche was built, being blessed and holding its first Mass on 14 August 1814.
  69. 1814 Alleged relics of Machim's cross were reportedly found in the Senhor dos Milagres chapel at Machico.
  70. 1814 Bishop D. Joaquim de Meneses e Ataíde consecrated the parish church of Estreito de Câmara de Lobos.
  71. 1814 A street (now Rua Hermenegildo Capelo) was opened through the Franciscan convent grounds in Funchal despite the friars' opposition.
  72. 1814 The ruined chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade at Porto da Cruz was closed.
  73. 1814 Rafael Coelho Machado was born in Madeira.
  74. 12 January 1814 Funchal council minutes mention a lottery held for the benefit of lepers.
  75. 13 January 1814 The Funchal council requested 80 militiamen nightly to restore the quadrilha policing system.
  76. 14 January 1814 The jurisdiction of the archpriest of São Vicente was extended to Porto Moniz, Ribeira da Janela and Seixal.
  77. 7 February 1814 António Pedro de Azevedo was born in Caminha.
  78. 8 March 1814 A royal letter granted Nicolau Caetano Bettencourt Pita the privileges of Coimbra medical graduates.
  79. 1 July 1814 Governor Luís Beltrão de Gouveia e Almeida died suddenly in Funchal and an interim government took over.
  80. 3 October 1814 The last British troops left Funchal, ending the second British occupation of Madeira.
  81. 12 October 1814 Florêncio José Correia de Melo was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  82. 9 November 1814 The interim government ordered the sowing of pines in São Martinho and Santo António.
  83. 28 December 1814 A report noted that protective works were still lacking on Funchal's streams.
  84. 1815 The Funchal Misericórdia tried, unsuccessfully, to take over the property of the four rural Misericórdias.
  85. 1815 A smallpox epidemic, brought by a ship from Cape Verde, killed about 2,000 people in Madeira.
  86. 1815 The Câmara complained to the bishop because a chaplain rather than a canon had incensed it at the church of São Tiago.
  87. 1815 Councillors were summoned to a beija-mão at the Palácio de São Lourenço for Queen Maria I's birthday.
  88. 1815 Manuel de Pontes Câmara was born.
  89. 1815 The Funchal council ordered a silk standard from Lisbon costing 524$000 réis.
  90. 1815 Famine on Porto Santo required relief supplies.
  91. 1815 Januário Vicente Camacho was ordained priest.
  92. 1815 The municipal council greatly improved the Caminho do Paiol.
  93. 1815 The council ordered the monthly vaccination of foundlings by the físico-mor.
  94. 3 January 1815 Jacinto Augusto Camacho was born in Funchal.
  95. 16 April 1815–22 April 1815 Florêncio José Correia de Melo arrived in Funchal on 16 April 1815 and took office as governor and captain-general of the archipelago on 22 April.
  96. 13 June 1815 The Funchal municipal council accompanied the procession of Saint Anthony.
  97. 7 July 1815–9 July 1815 Illuminations were held for a religious solemnity in honour of St James the Less.
  98. 16 July 1815–7 August 1815 Napoleon boarded HMS Bellerophon at Rochefort and was later transferred to the Northumberland under Sir George Cockburn, which sailed south.
  99. 1 August 1815 Lourenço José Moniz defended his Latin thesis De Ictero at Edinburgh.
  100. 22 August 1815–25 August 1815 The squadron carrying Napoleon aboard the Northumberland to exile on Saint Helena arrived off Funchal, where consul Henry Veitch visited him, and left for Saint Helena.
  101. 23 August 1815 An exceptionally hot leste wind and storm damaged crops and houses in Madeira, popularly blamed on Napoleon.
  102. 11 September 1815 Princess Leopoldina called at Madeira en route to Brazil.
  103. 15 October 1815 The squadron carrying Napoleon anchored at Saint Helena.
  104. 26 October 1815 A major flood damaged Funchal, especially along the São João stream.
  105. 1816–1835 Joaquim José da Costa de Macedo's memoirs on the Canaries were published.
  106. 1816 José Manuel da Veiga enrolled in the faculty of canon law at Coimbra.
  107. 1816 Robert Page upheld Madeira wine prices against a monopoly and was thanked by the Funchal council.
  108. 1816 Manuel Caetano Pimenta de Aguiar published his first tragedy, Virgínia.
  109. 1816 Famine on Porto Santo again required relief supplies.
  110. 28 June 1816–2 July 1816 The French frigate Medusa passed within sight of Madeira without landing and was wrecked days later on the Arguin bank.
  111. 1 July 1816–8 July 1816 The Funchal council read the governor's order to build a lazaretto and petitioned the Prince Regent for a loan to build it.
  112. 10 August 1816 The Misericórdia approved regulations for the Hospital Real de Santa Isabel, creating a medical-surgical class; they were printed in 1820.
  113. 21 September 1816 Chetien Smith died in the Congo.
  114. 27 October 1816 Joaquim de Oliveira Alvares defeated Artigas's forces at Carumbé.
  115. 17 December 1816 Funchal's council held the breaking-of-shields ceremony and royal funeral rites for Queen Maria I.
  116. 1817 The Austrian and Bavarian governments organised a scientific expedition to Brazil, which included the naturalist Martius.
  117. 1817 The Fundoa reservoir and aqueduct supplying central Funchal were built.
  118. 1817 Paulo Dias de Almeida wrote his manuscript description of Madeira, recording details such as carapuças, the Pontinha landing stair and a view of the São Lourenço palace.
  119. 1817 Paulo Dias de Almeida made the general map of Madeira on the orders of D. João VI.
  120. 1817 William Hinton was born in Naples.
  121. 1817 Paulo Dias de Almeida urged the creation of a municipality of Porto Moniz.
  122. 1817 After a council session on 13 March described the old fish-selling site as filthy, the Funchal Câmara built a small fish market for 159,000 réis.
  123. 4 January 1817 Joaquim de Oliveira Alvares distinguished himself at the battle of Catalán.
  124. 26 March 1817 D. Luís da Câmara Leme was born in Funchal.
  125. 11 September 1817 The squadron carrying Archduchess Leopoldina to Rio de Janeiro anchored at Funchal.
  126. 12 September 1817 Leopoldina was fêted at the Quinta do Palheiro at a party given by João de Carvalhal.
  127. 13 September 1817 Leopoldina visited the Monte and was received at the Quinta do Belo Monte.
  128. 15 November 1817 A royal decree granted the title of senhoria to the canons of Funchal Cathedral.
  129. 1818 Bishop D. Joaquim de Meneses e Ataíde built a small cemetery for the Santa Isabel hospital.
  130. 1818 João VI decreed decimal uniformity of weights and measures.
  131. 1818 The Prince of Joinville was born.
  132. 1818–1821 Inácio Correia Drumond lived in Rio de Janeiro.
  133. 1818 Observations by Leopold von Buch and companions were published in the narrative of the Tuckey expedition.
  134. 1818 Parishioners of Folhadal petitioned to move the Porto da Cruz parish seat to the São João Nepomuceno chapel.
  135. 1818–1820 The Teatro de Bom Gosto was probably built in Funchal.
  136. 1818 Princess Adelaide married the future King William IV.
  137. 1818 João Pedro de Freitas Pereira Drumond's Noticias Mineralogicas, mentioning the Arco de São Jorge landslide, was published.
  138. 3 January 1818 Jacinto António de Sousa was born in Madeira.
  139. 21 January 1818 The Campo da Barca was handed over to the Funchal council by order of the governor.
  140. 28 January 1818 João Cirilo Moniz was born in Funchal.
  141. 7 April 1818 João VI was acclaimed king in Funchal.
  142. 15 June 1818 Sebastião Xavier Botelho was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  143. 17 August 1818 Luiz da Costa Pereira was born in Funchal.
  144. 20 December 1818 The church of Nossa Senhora do Monte was consecrated by Bishop D. Joaquim de Meneses e Ataíde.
  145. 1819 The Army Arsenal made the decimal standards of weights and measures later found in Funchal.
  146. 1819 A foreign work describing Madeiran penitential processions was published.
  147. 1819 Governor Sebastião Xavier Botelho urged the central government to build the levada.
  148. 1819 A Historical Sketch of the Island of Madeira was published in London.
  149. 1819 Regulations of the Hospital Real de Santa Isabel of Funchal were printed in Lisbon and confirmed by royal provision on 19 October 1819.
  150. 1819 The Lancasterian School was founded in Funchal, briefly housed in Rua do Ribeirinho de Baixo.
  151. 1819 D. Manuel Martins Manso graduated in canon law at Coimbra.
  152. 1819 Francisco Manuel de Oliveira died shortly before this year.
  153. 1819 Works for the military powder magazine were costed at 5:358$000 réis.
  154. May 1819 Governor Florêncio José Correia de Melo handed over the government and left Madeira.
  155. 8 May 1819 João Francisco Lopes Rocha died in Funchal aged 71.
  156. 12 May 1819–15 May 1819 Sebastião Xavier Botelho arrived in Funchal on 12 May and took office as governor of Madeira on 15 May.
  157. 29 May 1819 Aníbal Álvares da Silva was born in Funchal.
  158. 19 August 1819 Luiz de Freitas Branco was born in Funchal.
  159. 28 August 1819 The Holy See confirmed D. João Joaquim Bernardino de Brito as bishop of Funchal.
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  1. c. 1820 A new parish church for Porto da Cruz costing 26 contos was planned but never built.
  2. c. 1820 António Alfredo de Santa Catarina Braga left the Franciscan convent to become a secular priest.
  3. c. 1820 The Bom Gosto theatre was built in Funchal.
  4. c. 1820 Caetano Alberto Soares completed his law degree at Coimbra.
  5. c. 1825 Roberto Page had the Meio Paul shelter built on the Paul da Serra plateau.
  6. c. 1825 Maria Clementina professed as a nun at the Convent of Santa Clara to satisfy her father's wishes.
  7. c. 1828 João da Silveira Caldeira apparently took his own life.
  8. 1820–1834 Joaquim José Ferreira de Freitas, known as 'Padre Amaro', published the periodical Padre Amaro in London during the years of Portuguese political upheaval.
  9. 1820 The Madalena chapel was by then already well advanced in ruin.
  10. 1820–1824 After Governor Sebastião Xavier Botelho wrote to Lisbon in January 1820 urging its creation, the military hospital of Funchal was established.
  11. 1820 Manuel Caetano Pimenta de Aguiar published his last tragedy.
  12. 1820 Captain-general Sebastião Botelho had a small fort built above the Aldonça landing in Gaula.
  13. 14 January 1820 The Funchal council decided to install a foundling wheel in the house of the official wet-nurse.
  14. 8 February 1820 Bishop Joaquim de Meneses e Ataíde created the curacy of Quinta Grande.
  15. April 1820 The Mesa do Desembargo do Paço acquitted Dr João Francisco de Oliveira of the charges over the abduction.
  16. 2 April 1820 Patrício Moniz was born in Funchal.
  17. 14 May 1820 Bishop João Joaquim Bernardino de Brito took possession of the see of Funchal by proxy.
  18. 19 May 1820 Joseph Banks died in London, aged 80.
  19. 28 May 1820 Manuel Luís Viana de Freitas was born in Funchal.
  20. June 1820 Two notables were ordered to the Pico fortress for refusing to carry the canopy poles in the Corpus Christi procession.
  21. July 1820 João Francisco Lopes Rocha's 1793 letter was published in the London review Campeão Portuguez.
  22. 3 July 1820 José Ferreira Pestana received his doctorate in mathematics at Coimbra.
  23. 10 July 1820 William Mudge's survey of Porto Santo was published.
  24. 26 July 1820 Bishop João Joaquim Bernardino de Brito died in Lisbon.
  25. 21 August 1820 The council made its first appointment of vintage inspectors.
  26. 24 August 1820 The Portuguese Liberal Revolution broke out in Porto on 24 August 1820, an event later commemorated on the medal of the Constitutional Monument in Funchal.
  27. 24 August 1820–15 September 1820 The liberal revolution broke out in Porto on 24 August and was echoed in Lisbon on 15 September; the Elucidário gives 1821, but these events occurred in 1820.
  28. 15 September 1820 The liberal revolution was echoed in Lisbon.
  29. 25 September 1820 The brig Providência brought detailed news of the liberal revolution to Madeira.
  30. November 1820 The Duke of Palmela visited Madeira on his way to Brazil and was honoured with a ball by Governor Sebastião Xavier Botelho.
  31. 1820–1829 The potato was introduced to Porto Santo shortly after 1820.
  32. 1821 Madeira elected its first deputies to the Constituent Cortes by indirect election, among them Dr. António João Rodrigues Garcez.
  33. 1821–1822 The Portuguese Constituent Cortes sat in Lisbon, with Francisco João Moniz, João José de Freitas Aragão and others as deputies for Madeira.
  34. 1821 Luís José Baiardo left Madeira for Lisbon and published a pamphlet against Sebastião Xavier Botelho, who published his defence in Lisbon.
  35. 1821 The Sociedade Funchalense dos Amigos das Ciências e Artes was established in Funchal.
  36. 1821 The revenues of the Convent of Santa Clara reached 14 contos, with a two-conto deficit.
  37. 1821 Salaries of Funchal's secondary teachers are recorded for this year.
  38. 1821 A collection of poems offered to Sebastião Xavier Botelho, including works by him and by Lino Nicolau Atouguia, was published in Funchal.
  39. 1821 Bishop Joaquim de Meneses e Ataíde hastily left the diocese of Funchal and was named bishop of Elvas.
  40. 1821 Fabri's Companhia Grotesca performed at the theatre in Funchal.
  41. 1821 Giuseppe Raddi's 'Brevi Osservazioni sull'Isola di Madeira' was published in Florence.
  42. 1821 António Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade was ordained priest.
  43. 1821 The Terreiro da Sé in Funchal was renamed Praça da Constituição.
  44. 1821 The boys' school of Caniço was created.
  45. 1821 William Combe's illustrated History of Madeira was published in London.
  46. 1821 A Sociedade Patriótica existed in Funchal.
  47. 1821 José Anselmo Correia Henriques published the political journal O Zorragar das côrtes novas in London.
  48. 1821 Clavering and Sabine measured Pico Ruivo at 1,657 m.
  49. 1821 The Junta de Melhoramentos da Agricultura of Madeira and Porto Santo was abolished.
  50. 1821–1834 The collegiate chapter of Calheta sat in the parish church.
  51. 1821 The Teatro de Bom Gosto in Funchal is known to have existed by this year.
  52. 1821 Prisoners were transferred to the fortress of São João do Pico.
  53. 23 January 1821 A courier from Rio de Janeiro confirmed João VI's acceptance of the new constitutional system.
  54. 28 January 1821 Madeira adhered to the liberal revolution and the constitutional regime was solemnly proclaimed in Funchal, the square being renamed Praça da Constituição.
  55. 1 February 1821 The people of Funchal demolished the market stalls to rebuild the chapel of São Sebastião.
  56. 18 February 1821 Francisco Justino Gonçalves de Andrade was born in Campanário.
  57. 26 February 1821 Funchal council resolved to place lanterns in each street at residents' expense, a short-lived measure.
  58. 15 May 1821 The Council and Feliciano António de Matos inspected an alternative market site in Funchal.
  59. June 1821–2 July 1821 D. Rodrigo António de Melo was appointed governor of Madeira in June and took office on 2 July.
  60. 28 June 1821 The Constituent Congress guaranteed primary education to all citizens.
  61. 2 July 1821 The first issue of O Patriota Funchalense, Madeira's first newspaper, appeared in Funchal on the anniversary of the island's discovery.
  62. 22 August 1821 A law dissolved the ordenanças and militias.
  63. 21 September 1821 Pope Pius VII confirmed D. Francisco José Rodrigues de Andrade as bishop of Funchal.
  64. 16 October 1821 João da Silva Carvalho was born in Funchal.
  65. 26 October 1821 Severiano Ferraz proposed ordering pine seed for sowing.
  66. 31 October 1821 The 1st Viscount of Torre Bela died in Naples.
  67. 21 December 1821 The Associação Funchalense for promoting mutual teaching was founded.
  68. 22 December 1821 Dr. Luiz Henriques was naturalised a Portuguese citizen by decree.
  69. 1822 The Conde de Carvalhal sold a levada to the Junta da Real Fazenda, reserving nine water-days for himself.
  70. 1822 General elections under the new Constitution, held by direct vote, chose Madeira's deputies to the Cortes, among them Freitas Branco, with Macedo and Luiz António Jardim as substitutes.
  71. 1822 Dr Tiarks measured the difference in longitude between Greenwich and Funchal.
  72. 1822 Joaquim José Ferreira de Freitas published in London a memoir on the Gomes Freire conspiracy.
  73. 1822 Dean João Francisco Lopes Rocha's letter of complaint was published in London in O Campeão Português.
  74. 1822–1823 Dr João Francisco de Oliveira and Manuel Caetano Pimenta de Aguiar sat in the Cortes as deputies for Madeira.
  75. 1822 A gala performance at the Funchal theatre featured Drumond's symphony and Pimenta de Aguiar's A Festa do Olimpo.
  76. 1822 The Italian-born merchant João António Bianchi was already living in Funchal.
  77. 1822 José Manuel da Veiga received his doctorate and joined the teaching staff at Coimbra.
  78. 1822 The statutes of the Sociedade Funchalense dos Amigos das Ciências e Artes were printed at the press of O Patriota in Funchal, the first work printed in Madeira.
  79. 1822 A great drought struck Porto Santo, and Roberto Page sent aid.
  80. 1822 The Constitution of 1822 provided for elected judges in the parishes.
  81. 1822 Severiano Alberto de Freitas Ferraz built a new steam still.
  82. 1822 D. Manuel Martins Manso was ordained priest.
  83. 1822 The council created a free vaccination service at the Funchal Misericórdia hospital.
  84. 21 January 1822 Joaquim José de Faria Santos was born in Funchal.
  85. 28 January 1822 Funchal celebrated the first anniversary of the Constitution's proclamation with festivities, a thanksgiving sermon by Freitas Branco in the cathedral, and the laying by Governor D. Rodrigo António de Melo of the foundation stone of a constitutional monument in the Terreiro da Sé.
  86. 8 February 1822–9 February 1822 After Funchal council minutes denounced Padre João Crisóstomo Espinola de Macedo as a public insulter, artillery officers dragged him from his home and flogged him at the Funchal pillory.
  87. March 1822 The Anglican church in Rua da Bela Vista, Funchal, was completed at a cost of 40,000 dollars.
  88. 1 March 1822–1 May 1822 Bishop Francisco José Rodrigues de Andrade took possession of the see of Funchal by proxy on 1 March and assumed direction of the diocese on 1 May.
  89. 2 March 1822 António Correia Herédia was born.
  90. 15 March 1822 The council announced the distribution of maritime pine seed to farmers.
  91. 22 March 1822 A royal letter dismissed D. Rodrigo António de Melo as governor of Madeira at his own request.
  92. 26 March 1822 A royal letter appointed António Manuel de Noronha governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  93. 22 April 1822 António Manuel de Noronha took office as governor of Madeira, succeeding D. Rodrigo António de Melo.
  94. 31 May 1822 The municipal council declared the pilgrims' house at Monte municipal property.
  95. 24 June 1822 João da Câmara Carvalhal Esmeraldo married Teresa Xavier Botelho.
  96. 23 July 1822 João Maria Moniz was born in Funchal.
  97. 29 July 1822 The future Visconde de Atouguia graduated in mathematics at Coimbra.
  98. 23 August 1822–7 September 1822 The Sociedade Funchalense dos Amigos das Ciências e Artes held its first public session, of which the Patriota Funchalense published an account on 7 September.
  99. 13 September 1822 Dr António Alves da Silva was born in Funchal.
  100. 3 November 1822 A constitutional municipal council was elected without the mesteres (guild representatives).
  101. 21 November 1822 A fishing company was founded in Funchal, run by fishermen brought from Sesimbra; it dissolved two years later after losses.
  102. December 1822 The Associação Funchalense acquired land for the Lancasterian school building.
  103. 24 December 1822 The Franciscan friars leased the market land to the Funchal council.
  104. 1823 The Sociedade Funchalense dos Amigos das Ciências e Artes came to an end with the restoration of absolute government in 1823.
  105. 1823 A foundling wheel was installed at Câmara de Lobos beside the Espírito Santo chapel.
  106. 1823 A new lottery was granted to the Misericórdia to pay debts and repair the Recolhimento das Órfãs.
  107. 1823 João António Pedroso was deported from Madeira to Porto Santo for political reasons.
  108. 1823 Morgado Luís Correia was administrator of the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Glória.
  109. 1823 The naturalist Bowdich studied Madeira, identifying Porto Santo's fossil beds as Tertiary, measuring Pico Ruivo and noting the Paul da Serra's productive potential.
  110. 1823 The Count of Ega was absolved of the crimes imputed to him.
  111. 1823 José Pedro Pereira carried out a major repair of the Cathedral clock.
  112. 1823 Francisco Vicente Espinosa da Câmara requested a 30-year monopoly on salt-making in Madeira.
  113. 1823 Francisco João de Freitas Ferraz was born in Funchal.
  114. 1823 The corregedor reported to Lisbon on the immense fortune and income of the Count of Carvalhal.
  115. 1823 The Funchal council took custody of the St George image of the Corpus Christi procession and gave it a cloak.
  116. 1823 A mole for Funchal harbour was first considered and the council consulted.
  117. 1823 Potatoes, tobacco and vines were tried unsuccessfully on Deserta Grande.
  118. 4 February 1823 António Manuel de Noronha requested his resignation on grounds of ill health.
  119. 5 February 1823 In parliament, Dr João Francisco de Oliveira proposed a bank, a wine-export company and a quay for Funchal.
  120. 6 February 1823 A report on the progress of the Lancasterian school was published.
  121. 17 February 1823 O Pregador Imparcial, Madeira's second newspaper, edited by João Crisóstomo Espínola de Macedo, first appeared in Funchal.
  122. 24 April 1823–29 May 1823 A Atalaia da Liberdade, Funchal's third periodical, was published, its sixth issue appearing on 29 May.
  123. 27 April 1823–15 June 1823 The weekly newspaper O Regedor was published in Funchal, its first series running to nine issues.
  124. May 1823 Macedo was deported for political crimes, leaving Funchal for Gibraltar on the brig Fanny.
  125. 2 May 1823 The zoologist José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage was born in Funchal.
  126. 27 May 1823–3 June 1823 The Vila-Francada revolution of 27 May 1823 led João VI to dissolve the Cortes and restore absolute government in Portugal on 3 June.
  127. 31 May 1823–3 July 1823 Dr João Francisco de Oliveira served in the short-lived ministry formed after the Vila-Francada.
  128. 7 June 1823 The council invited parents to have children vaccinated free at the Misericórdia hospital.
  129. 16 June 1823–17 June 1823 News of the absolutist restoration reached Madeira on 16 June and absolute government was proclaimed and celebrated there the next day.
  130. 24 June 1823 The municipal Mercado de São João was inaugurated in Funchal.
  131. July 1823–1825 D. Manuel de Portugal e Castro, appointed in July 1823, took office as governor and captain-general of Madeira on 28 August and governed until 1825.
  132. 6 July 1823 Frei José Cupertino preached a thanksgiving sermon in Funchal Cathedral for the King's restoration to absolute power (sources give 6 or 8 July).
  133. 13 July 1823 A law restored the ordenanças and militias.
  134. 10 August 1823 By this date the Monte nursery had distributed over 20,000 trees.
  135. 16 August 1823 O Patriota Funchalense ceased publication with issue no. 214.
  136. 26 August 1823–November 1823 An absolutist royal tribunal (alçada) came to Funchal to investigate the 1821 constitutional events, holding its inquiry at the town hall until early November 1823; it dispersed the freemasons and sentenced many liberals to exile, including Joaquim Melchior Gonçalves to Cape Verde and others to Angola.
  137. 26 August 1823 The frigate Amazonas arrived at Funchal with the new governor D. Manuel de Portugal e Castro, infantry regiment no. 7, artillery and the judicial alçada.
  138. 1 September 1823 The absolutist authorities destroyed the foundations of the liberal constitutional monument in Funchal and had its medal crushed and sold.
  139. 1 September 1823 The foundations of the unfinished Constitution monument in Funchal were demolished by order of the governor, and its foundation deposit was recorded.
  140. 18 September 1823 Notices announced the arrival of pine seed for farmers in Madeira.
  141. 11 October 1823–13 October 1823 Illuminations were held to celebrate the restoration of the King of Spain's full powers.
  142. 14 October 1823–26 October 1823 The naturalist Bowdich stayed in Madeira.
  143. 24 October 1823–26 October 1823 The alçada of 1823 sentenced 24 people, mostly of the upper classes, including Pita to four years' exile on Terceira and a fine and Medina to eight years' exile in Angola.
  144. 26 October 1823 António Saldanha da Gama was created Count of Porto Santo by decree.
  145. 1 December 1823 The Lancasterian association's mutual-teaching class opened in Funchal.
  146. 5 December 1823 The corregedor Manuel José Soares de Lobão e Albergaria sent the Conde de Subserra a memorandum on the state of Madeira and its needed improvements.
  147. 1824 António Marcelino Gomes wrote a draft regulation for the Madeira customs house.
  148. 1824 Filipe José Nunes was born at Monte.
  149. 1824 By royal letter of 13 September 1824, Brigadier Francisco António Raposo was sent to study a mole in Funchal; with Major Sant'Ana he chose the Baixas de São Tiago, and the letter was read to the council on 26 November, but although 37 contos were spent on materials the works never began.
  150. 1824 The old tower clock of the Machico parish church stopped working.
  151. 1824 The future Visconde das Nogueiras was born in Funchal.
  152. 1824 Afonso de Castro was born in Lamego.
  153. 1824 Dr Carlos Heineken published an article recommending Funchal's climate for lung diseases.
  154. 1824 The old prison house in Funchal was sold to José António Monteiro.
  155. 1824 Francisco de Paula Medina e Vasconcelos died in exile in Cape Verde.
  156. 1824 António José de Sousa Almada was born in Madeira.
  157. 1824 Dr Lourenço José Moniz was appointed professor of humanities in Funchal.
  158. 1824 The governor reported that Porto Santo and rural Madeira had no operating surgeon and urged Lisbon to create a class in operative surgery.
  159. 1824 The governor complained of the Junta da Justiça's excesses and proposed adopting the Azores model.
  160. 1824–1826 Heineken made weather observations in Madeira.
  161. 1824 D. Manuel Martins Manso was appointed vicar general of Bragança.
  162. 10 January 1824 Death of the naturalist T. E. Bowdich.
  163. 25 February 1824 Januário Justiniano de Nóbrega was born in Funchal.
  164. 5 March 1824 D. Mateus de Abreu Pereira died in São Paulo.
  165. 26 May 1824 Ricardo Júlio Ferraz was born in Funchal.
  166. 1 July 1824 Governor D. Manuel de Portugal e Castro requested the creation of a bank in Funchal.
  167. 2 July 1824 The 61st and last issue of the Funchal periodical O Pregador Imparcial appeared.
  168. 13 October 1824 Daniel Ferreira Pestana was born in Funchal.
  169. 9 November 1824 The Funchal municipal council resolved to have iron chains made for convicts sentenced to forced labour.
  170. 1825 The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade at Jardim do Mar was rebuilt and enlarged by Francisco João de Vasconcelos de Couto Cardoso.
  171. 1825 Henry Nelson Coleridge published Six Months in the West Indies, which includes an account of Madeira.
  172. 1825 Joaquim da Trindade e Vasconcelos was born in Machico.
  173. 1825 João Crisóstomo Espínola de Macedo's anonymous pamphlet O Tramista Descoberto was printed in London.
  174. 1825 Leopold von Buch published his work on the Canaries, including Robert Brown's list of Madeiran plants.
  175. 1825 Bowdich's Excursions in Madeira, citing Kirwan's data, was published in London.
  176. 1825 Serious political disturbances in Campanário required the intervention of armed forces.
  177. 1825 Dr João Francisco de Oliveira founded a surgery class at the Funchal hospital, a forerunner of the Medical-Surgical School.
  178. 1825 The military powder magazine was built.
  179. 1825 Public classes in French and English were created in Funchal.
  180. 10 February 1825 João Jacinto Gonçalves de Andrade was born in Campanário.
  181. 14 February 1825 Luís António Jardim died in Funchal.
  182. March 1825 João Pedro de Freitas Pereira Drumond died without issue.
  183. 20 March 1825 Álvaro Rodrigues de Azevedo was born in Vila Franca de Xira.
  184. 5 April 1825 An association of co-owners of the Levada de D. Isabel was formed by public deed.
  185. 10 April 1825 Governor D. Manuel de Portugal e Castro reported favourably on the petition to create a municipality of Porto Moniz.
  186. 29 April 1825 The Funchal council returned to its premises in the Largo da Sé after works to install the jail there.
  187. 9 September 1825 The Funchal slaughterhouse was moved near the Santa Luzia stream.
  188. 19 November 1825 A decree required oil lanterns instead of wax for public illuminations.
  189. 22 November 1825 Carlos Stuart was granted the title of Count of Machico by decree.
  190. 25 November 1825 The endowment deed of the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Fé at Porto da Cruz was executed.
  191. 1825–1826 João da Câmara de Carvalhal founded the Montepio home for poor widows in Funchal.
  192. 1825–1850 The long-deconsecrated church of São Bartolomeu was demolished.
  193. 1826–1828 Lourenço José Moniz and Manuel Caetano Pimenta de Aguiar sat as deputies for Madeira in the first constitutional Cortes; Aguiar proposed free export of Madeira wine.
  194. 1826 Disturbances accompanied the change of institutions in Madeira.
  195. 1826 Festivities in Funchal marked João VI taking the title of emperor of Brazil, with oil lanterns used for the first time at the town hall.
  196. 1826–11 August 1826 The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Fé at Porto da Cruz was founded by Diogo Dias de Orneias e Vasconcelos and licensed for worship on 11 August.
  197. 1826 José Marciano da Silveira was born in Camacha.
  198. 1826 Padre João Manuel de Freitas Branco was appointed professor of Latin grammar in Funchal.
  199. 1826–1852 The naturalist Ricardo Tomás Lowe resided in Madeira.
  200. 1826 Joaquim Melchior Gonçalves returned from exile.
  201. 1826 Sérvulo Drumond de Meneses was appointed judicial clerk.
  202. 1826 Dr Joaquim de Menezes e Ataíde was made a peer of the realm.
  203. 1826–1831 Renton and Heineken made meteorological observations in Funchal; in 1826 Heineken measured Pico Ruivo at 1,850 m.
  204. 1826 João da Silveira Caldeira published his annotated translation of Vauquelin's assayer's manual.
  205. 1826 A French translation of Bowdich's work on Madeira was published in Paris.
  206. 1826 Much more rain fell in Funchal than in other years.
  207. 1826 Only one sugar mill remained on Madeira.
  208. 1826 António de Gouveia Osório, later Visconde de Vila Mendo, was born at Vila Mendo.
  209. 1826 The author of 'Rambles in Madeira' travelled in Madeira and Portugal and saw Maria Clementina, describing her fair hair and captivating expression.
  210. 1826 The poet Monteiro Teixeira stayed a fortnight in São Vicente and wrote a satirical verse letter.
  211. 1826 A brotherhood of Saint Barbara existed in Funchal to distribute alms to the needy.
  212. 13 January 1826 An English visitor toured and described the Palheiro estate near Funchal.
  213. 21 February 1826 The Funchal Câmara asked the governor to remove the ruined chapel of São Sebastião.
  214. 10 March 1826 King João VI died.
  215. 29 April 1826 D. Pedro IV granted the Constitutional Charter to the Portuguese monarchy.
  216. 1 May 1826 Carlos Stuart was made Marquis of Angra by decree.
  217. 3 May 1826 Francisco António de Freitas e Abreu was born in Ponta Delgada.
  218. 10 May 1826 Funeral rites for João VI were held in Funchal.
  219. 12 July 1826 News of the Constitutional Charter reached Madeira.
  220. 14 July 1826 Soldiers of the absolutist 7th Infantry attacked constitutionalists celebrating the Charter at Manuel José da Silveira's house in Funchal.
  221. 6 August 1826–8 August 1826 The Constitutional Charter was solemnly proclaimed and sworn in Funchal under governor D. Manuel de Portugal e Castro, with festivities and illuminations.
  222. 22 August 1826–23 November 1826 Funchal council sought the suspension of patrols by the absolutist 7th Infantry and its transfer, thanking the Regent D. Isabel Maria in November for ordering its departure.
  223. October 1826 Madeira elected its deputies to the Cortes under the Charter, including Lourenço José Moniz and Padre Caetano Alberto Soares.
  224. October 1826 Manuel Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade was confirmed as bishop of São Paulo.
  225. 22 November 1826 Carlos Stuart was created Count of Machico.
  226. 2 December 1826 D. Jorge da Câmara Leme enlisted as a volunteer in infantry regiment no. 4.
  227. 11 December 1826 Archduchess Leopoldina died in Rio de Janeiro.
  228. 1826–1827 The Sardinian consulate in Madeira was established.
  229. 1826–1850 An Azorean branch of the Vieira family arrived in Madeira.
  230. 1827 The Rev. James Bulwer published twenty-six engravings of Madeira.
  231. 1827 Dr Renton published a paper on Madeira's climate and pulmonary disease in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal.
  232. 1827 A foreign author described the life-sized images of the Ash Wednesday procession (Procissão da Cinza).
  233. 1827 The book Rambles in Madeira and in Portugal was published in London.
  234. 1827 Nicolau Anastácio de Bettencourt joined the liberal academic battalion.
  235. 1827 By this year the Chapel of São Sebastião had been demolished and a fountain built in the square.
  236. 1827 Governor D. Manuel de Portugal e Castro was appointed viceroy of India.
  237. 1827 Birth of the historian João Agostinho de Freitas, linked to Ponta do Sol parish.
  238. 1827 Governor José Lúcio Travassos Valdez began building the Porto Novo fort.
  239. 1827–1828 The Conde de Bonfim (José Lúcio Travassos Valdez) served as governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  240. 1827 A Brazilian vice-consulate was created in Madeira.
  241. 3 February 1827–26 May 1827 The newspaper O Funchalense Liberal first appeared on 3 February 1827, running to its seventeenth issue on 26 May 1827.
  242. March 1827 José Lúcio Travassos Valdez was appointed governor and captain-general of Madeira.
  243. 12 March 1827 Vicente Gomes da Silva was born in Funchal.
  244. 27 April 1827 The new governor José Lúcio Travassos Valdez arrived in Funchal to succeed D. Manuel de Portugal e Castro.
  245. 29 April 1827 José Lúcio Travassos Valdez took office as governor in Funchal.
  246. 25 May 1827 Governor Travassos Valdez wrote on the drawbacks of sending convicts to Madeira.
  247. June 1827–August 1827 The botanist Frederico Holl collected plants in Madeira from June to August.
  248. 2 June 1827 The newspaper A Flor do Oceano first appeared.
  249. 2 June 1827–26 April 1828 The newspaper O Defensor da Liberdade was published from 2 June 1827 to 26 April 1828.
  250. 19 July 1827 Nicolau Caetano Bettencourt Pita was granted the rank of major as a military doctor.
  251. 25 July 1827 The director of the Lancasterian School reported 275 pupils taught and 78 enrolled.
  252. 28 July 1827 O Defensor da Liberdade denounced the conditions of the prison at the Largo da Sé in Funchal.
  253. September 1827 Father João Manuel de Freitas Branco became a member of the censorship board.
  254. 19 October 1827 António João de França Bettencourt was born in Calheta.
  255. 28 October 1827 D. Manuel Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade was consecrated bishop.
  256. December 1827 The theft of the vessel containing the Eucharist from Prazeres church caused a sensation across Madeira.
  257. 5 December 1827 António Gonçalves de Freitas was born in Ponta Delgada.
  258. 1828–1830 Under Governor José Maria Monteiro, Madeira's liberals suffered violent persecution.
  259. 1828 Francisco Ferreira de Abreu was orphans' judge of the Machico captaincy.
  260. 1828 D. Miguel's judicial commission (alçada) came to Madeira, indicting 216 liberals and freemasons and imprisoning 101; some, like Nery and Agrela, were sent to Lisbon, while others fled or hid.
  261. 1828 Richard Thomas Lowe married Catarina Maria.
  262. 1828 A Miguelist expedition under Colonel José António de Azevedo Lemos landed at Machico and occupied Madeira, proclaiming absolutism; Governor Valdez and liberal leaders took refuge aboard the British frigate Alligator.
  263. 1828 Philip Barker Webb spent several months in Madeira studying its flora and forming botanical collections.
  264. 1828 Captain-general José Maria Monteiro created the Voluntários Realistas Urbanos da Madeira.
  265. 1828 Father João Crisóstomo Espínola de Macedo died at an advanced age.
  266. 1828 Fleeing Miguelist persecution, liberals such as the Moniz family, Caetano Alberto Soares and António Gil Gomes left for Brazil, while Bettencourt went to England.
  267. 1828–1834 The political upheavals of 1828–1834 dispersed many Madeiran families and their genealogical records.
  268. 1828 The Lancasterian school method was probably abandoned when its teacher left for America.
  269. 1828 The Miguelist government abolished the Monte nursery.
  270. 1828 A vice-consulate of the Two Sicilies was created in Madeira.
  271. January 1828 Four further issues of O Regedor were published.
  272. 4 February 1828 Luiz Figueiroa de Albuquerque was born in Funchal.
  273. 14 February 1828–24 May 1828 O Regedor Filho ran for 24 issues from 14 February to 24 May 1828.
  274. 26 February 1828 Alexandre Luiz da Cunha was sentenced to thirty days' prison for abuse of press freedom.
  275. March 1828 Severiano Alberto de Freitas Ferraz founded in Funchal the first sugar mill in Madeira since the collapse of the industry.
  276. 12 March 1828–14 March 1828 Illuminations were held to celebrate D. Miguel's arrival in Lisbon.
  277. 26 March 1828 João Fortunato de Oliveira was born in Funchal.
  278. May 1828 The Duke of York, the first steamship to visit Funchal, arrived with many passengers and on 15 May landed over 400 at Porto Santo.
  279. 3 May 1828 D. Miguel dissolved the Cortes, convened the three estates and was proclaimed absolute king, restoring absolutism.
  280. 6 May 1828 D. Manuel de Portugal e Castro left Madeira, according to one statement.
  281. 12 May 1828 News of D. Miguel's proclamation as absolute king reached Madeira.
  282. 15 June 1828 José Maria Monteiro was appointed Miguelist governor of Madeira.
  283. 22 June 1828–22 August 1828 A Flor do Oceano, edited by Sérvulo Drumond de Meneses among others, was published from 22 June to 22 August 1828.
  284. 22 June 1828 Governor Valdez solemnly proclaimed in Madeira the rights of D. Pedro IV and D. Maria.
  285. 22 June 1828 Nicolau Caetano Bettencourt Pita signed the acclamation of D. Pedro IV and D. Maria at Angra.
  286. 25 June 1828 The frigate Príncipe Real arrived at Funchal with the Miguelist governor José Maria Monteiro, whose landing Governor Travassos Valdez refused.
  287. 26 June 1828 Enlistment began in Funchal for the liberal battalion of Voluntários Reais de D. Pedro.
  288. 28 June 1828 The Bishop of Funchal, D. Francisco José Rodrigues de Andrade, issued a pastoral praising representative government and D. Pedro.
  289. 10 July 1828 Fearing the political turmoil, the bishop left Madeira with many clergy.
  290. August 1828 The British corvette Alligator arrived at Madeira to protect British residents.
  291. August 1828 The future Visconde de Atouguia sailed to Madeira to help Governor Travassos Valdez resist the absolutists.
  292. 6 August 1828 A royal letter appointed Francisco António Maciel Monteiro to hold an inquiry (alçada) in Madeira.
  293. 16 August 1828 The Miguelist squadron under Henrique da Fonseca Prego appeared off Funchal.
  294. 20 August 1828 Francisco Xavier Pereira da Silva arrived at Funchal from England to aid the liberal defence.
  295. 22 August 1828–23 August 1828 The Miguelist squadron bombarded Machico, landed troops there and occupied Madeira, entering Funchal unopposed on 23 August; the Forte de S. João Baptista fired on the brig Infante D. Sebastião.
  296. 23 August 1828 After capitulating, Governor Travassos Valdez took refuge with his family aboard HMS Alligator, as did the Conde de Carvalhal.
  297. 24 August 1828 D. Miguel was proclaimed in Madeira and José Maria Monteiro landed in Funchal and took office as Miguelist governor.
  298. 25 August 1828 The two judges of the alçada landed in Funchal with the Miguelist fleet.
  299. 30 August 1828 The alçada began its inquiry into Madeiran liberals.
  300. 6 September 1828 The Alligator left Funchal and transferred Valdez and other liberal émigrés at sea to the brig Jane, bound for England.
  301. 6 September 1828 By this date the alçada had imprisoned some 167 people, including 21 clergy.
  302. 13 September 1828 In Lisbon the Bishop of Funchal issued a pastoral defending absolutism and D. Miguel.
  303. 18 September 1828 The brig Jane reached Saint Ives with the Madeiran refugees.
  304. 24 September 1828 Commander W. P. Canning of the Alligator drowned in the tank of an English merchant's quinta near Funchal.
  305. 26 September 1828 A decree granted privileges to the Voluntários do Reino (royalist volunteers).
  306. 5 November 1828 Dr Joaquim de Menezes e Ataíde died of plague in Gibraltar after fleeing Miguelist persecution.
  307. 1829 Frei João José da Purificação was appointed preacher to the Funchal Municipal Council.
  308. 1829 The yacht Bang Up called at Madeira and Porto Santo.
  309. 1829 Famine struck Porto Santo, requiring relief supplies.
  310. 1829 The court of the Juiz dos Resíduos e Capelas was still functioning in Madeira.
  311. 7 February 1829–9 February 1829 Illuminations were held for D. Miguel's recovery.
  312. 19 March 1829 The old playhouse of the Comédia Velha in Funchal collapsed, leaving only its façade.
  313. 9 April 1829 The Porto tribunal sentenced ten liberal defendants, including José Maria Martiniano da Fonseca, to death, and José Ferreira Pestana to perpetual exile.
  314. 5 May 1829 Funchal Câmara ordered fines for those who failed their duties at the 1 May Bula da Santa Cruzada procession.
  315. 7 May 1829 Madeiran liberal José Maria Martiniano da Fonseca and nine others were hanged in Praça Nova, Porto (one entry gives 9 May).
  316. 12 May 1829 The Misericórdia buried Fonseca's head in its chapel.
  317. 22 June 1829 João da Câmara Leme Homem de Vasconcelos, later Count of Canavial, was born in Funchal.
  318. 27 June 1829 Francisco Joaquim de Sá Camelo Lampreia was born in Funchal.
  319. 30 June 1829–13 July 1829 Fonseca left Funchal on an American ship as emissary to the Porto junta, arriving in Porto on 13 July (dates as given, apparently inconsistent).
  320. July 1829 The 13th Infantry Regiment in Madeira mutinied after an outside officer was appointed acting commander.
  321. 11 August 1829 Nicolau Anastácio de Bettencourt fought in the liberal victory at Praia, Terceira.
  322. October 1829–November 1829 Soldiers rioted in Funchal after poisonings in the 13th regiment.
  323. 9 October 1829 Two more liberals were executed in Porto, later counted among the Twelve Martyrs.
  324. 6 November 1829–7 November 1829 The church of Estreito de Câmara de Lobos was broken into and robbed of sacred vessels and silver and gold objects, a sacrilege later punished by seven executions.
  325. 26 December 1829 Dr João Francisco de Oliveira died in Lisbon.
  326. 182? The unfinished new church of São Roque began serving as the parish church.
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  1. c. 1830 Outdoor Way of the Cross processions in Ponta do Sol ceased around this time.
  2. 1830 Captain António Jacinto de Faria Andrade de Bettencourt asked the government for ownership of the Rabaçal waters.
  3. 1830 The Sociedade da Nova Levada do Furado was organised as a joint-stock company.
  4. 1830 The first volume of Joaquim José Ferreira de Freitas's Bibliotheca Histórica, Política e Diplomatica appeared in London.
  5. 1830 Inácio Correia Drumond died.
  6. 1830–1840 Ayrshire dairy cows were introduced to Madeira between 1830 and 1840.
  7. 1830 The ruined chapel of Nossa Senhora da Nazaré at Paredes, Arco da Calheta, was entirely rebuilt by António João Barbosa de Matos e Câmara.
  8. 1830 Frederico Holl's list of Madeiran plants appeared in Flora oder Botanische Zeitung.
  9. 1830 A Madeiran physician (cited in the entries on António de Luz Pita and Cândido Joaquim da Silva) received his doctorate in medicine at Montpellier.
  10. 1830 The tower of the parish church of Arco da Calheta was built.
  11. 1830–1835 Joaquim de Oliveira Alvares lived in London.
  12. 1830 The Junta da Justiça was still functioning in Madeira.
  13. 1830 The first Azorean periodical appeared on Terceira, by which time eight had already been published in Funchal.
  14. 1830 D. João Henriques Moniz was deported from Lisbon to Cape Verde.
  15. 1830 The Reading Rooms library was established at the English Club in Funchal.
  16. 1830 The second edition of James Clarke's book on climate and chronic disease was published in London.
  17. January 1830 Sir W. Jardin published his article on the birds of Madeira.
  18. 4 January 1830 Dr Carlos Heineken died in Funchal.
  19. 12 January 1830 The council treasurer was authorised to import two moios of pine seed.
  20. 6 March 1830 The Relação of Lisbon sentenced the robbers of the Estreito de Câmara de Lobos church, six to death by garrotte and two to perpetual exile in Africa.
  21. 1 April 1830 D. Álvaro da Costa de Sousa Macedo took office as the last listed governor and captain-general of Madeira, ending José Maria Monteiro's governorship; Monteiro left the island at the end of April.
  22. 3 August 1830 Francisco Ferreira de Abreu was sentenced to three years' banishment from Madeira for liberalism.
  23. 1 December 1830 Antero Drumond de Meneses was born in Funchal.
  24. 1831 Padre João Manuel de Freitas Branco died in Rio de Janeiro.
  25. 1831 António Augusto Larica was born in Funchal.
  26. 1831 Frei José de Jesus was appointed preacher to the Funchal Municipal Council.
  27. 1831 José Anselmo Correia Henriques died in Lisbon.
  28. 1831–1833 A diocesan minor seminary operated in the São Bernardino convent buildings at Câmara de Lobos.
  29. 1831 Dr António de Luz Pita received the doctorate in surgery in Paris.
  30. 28 January 1831 Liberal constitutional principles were officially proclaimed in Funchal, according to the Elucidário's date.
  31. 11 June 1831 João de Nóbrega Soares was born in Funchal.
  32. 20 July 1831 Joaquim José Ferreira de Freitas died in London.
  33. 9 September 1831 Governor D. Álvaro da Costa de Sousa Macedo wrote to the Count of Basto reporting that the Royalist Volunteers corps in Madeira had only one company.
  34. 6 October 1831 The 2nd Count of Carvalhal was born in Funchal.
  35. 8 October 1831 José Gonçalves de Aguiar was born in Câmara de Lobos.
  36. 1 December 1831 Princess D. Maria Amélia, daughter of D. Pedro IV, was born in Paris.
  37. 1832 José Luiz Brandão was appointed the last alcaide of Funchal.
  38. 1832 The municipalities of Santana, Câmara de Lobos and Porto Moniz were created; Câmara de Lobos was not installed at the time.
  39. 1832 Jacinto Augusto Camacho was promoted to ensign.
  40. 1832 Robert Reid Kalley completed his medical degree.
  41. 1832 Domingos António de Sousa Coutinho, Marquis of Funchal, died in London.
  42. 1832–1833 Governor Álvaro de Sousa de Macedo ordered the demolition of Funchal's Teatro Grande, which was pulled down in 1833.
  43. 1832 F. de Assis Sousa Vaz's treatise on Madeira's climate and phthisis was published in Paris.
  44. 1832 D. Júlia da Cunha died of cholera in Lisbon.
  45. 1832 English committees ceased administering the pilgrims' house at Santo António da Serra.
  46. 19 February 1832 Manuel Caetano Pimenta de Aguiar died of apoplexy in Lisbon.
  47. March 1832 A liberal expedition sent by D. Pedro IV under Mousinho de Albuquerque to take Madeira from the Miguelists failed to attack and turned to Porto Santo instead.
  48. 4 April 1832–25 May 1832 A constitutional force of 60 artillerymen from Terceira occupied Porto Santo and proclaimed D. Maria II, joined on 7 April by Admiral Sartorius and Mousinho de Albuquerque; it left for the Azores with 104 Madeiran volunteers in May.
  49. May 1832 During the blockade of Madeira, José António de Almada fled to the Queen's naval division.
  50. 6 May 1832 A decree created the prefecture council.
  51. 16 May 1832 Mouzinho de Albuquerque was named prefect, the first constitutional administrative authority of the archipelago.
  52. 16 May 1832 A national judicial reform abolishing the corregedores was decreed, applied in Madeira only in 1835.
  53. 16 May 1832 A decree created provincial general councils, which never functioned in Madeira.
  54. 29 May 1832 A Miguelist party from Madeira proclaimed D. Miguel on Porto Santo and returned the same night.
  55. 8 July 1832 D. Pedro's liberal army of 7,500 men, including Madeirans such as D. Jorge da Câmara Leme, landed at Mindelo.
  56. 14 July 1832–20 July 1832 Decrees definitively abolished the militias and ordenanças, ending the office of capitão-mor in Madeira.
  57. 13 August 1832 A decree abolished the alcaidarias-mores of Funchal and Machico.
  58. 5 October 1832 João Joaquim de Freitas was born in Machico.
  59. 1833 The section of Rua da Ponte Nova towards Rua dos Ferreiros was opened in Funchal.
  60. 1833 José António de Almada was promoted to sergeant.
  61. 1833 The Fortaleza do Pico was renamed Forte de S. Miguel under the Miguelist government.
  62. 1833 Dr António de Luz Pita tried to return home but stopped at Gibraltar because of the civil war.
  63. 12 April 1833 António J. de Santa Marta Andaluz was born.
  64. 26 June 1833 João Augusto de Ornelas was born in Estreito de Câmara de Lobos.
  65. 25 July 1833 Henrique João Fernandes, one of the Madeiran Bravos do Mindelo, died in action at the Porto lines.
  66. 5 September 1833 Cristovão Lomelino de Carvalho died at the Lisbon lines.
  67. 29 September 1833–4 October 1833 At the request of the juiz do povo, Funchal council had all Constitutional government documents publicly burned in the Largo da Sé on 4 October.
  68. 1834 Constitutional (liberal) government was established in Madeira, bringing the island under mainland law, ending the old council arrangements, the militia and the white city flag.
  69. 1834 Madeira became an administrative district like those of the mainland, no longer an overseas province, with civil and military government separated and Mousinho de Albuquerque as first prefect.
  70. 1834 The prefect created police commissioners, parish commissioners and constables under the new liberal administration.
  71. 1834 João António Pedroso introduced the tamarisk to Porto Santo.
  72. 1834 The bálsamo (Mesembrianthemum edule) was introduced to Porto Santo.
  73. 1834 Canon Jerónimo Álvares da Silva Pinheiro's exile in Brazil ended.
  74. 1834 Juvenal Honório de Ornelas published his Paris medical thesis on post-partum haemorrhage.
  75. 1834–1848 Richard Thomas Lowe served as chaplain of the British church in Funchal.
  76. 1834 J. A. Mason visited Madeira to treat a lung disease.
  77. 1834 District heads began addressing councils and officials as senhoria.
  78. 1834 Acúrsio Garcia Ramos was born on Terceira.
  79. 1834–1836 The Conde de Tojal served as deputy for Madeira.
  80. 1834 Metal founding probably began in Madeira.
  81. 1834 John Driver wrote his letters from Madeira.
  82. 1834 A Flor do Oceano mentioned Manuel Carlos de Vasconcelos's lost manuscript.
  83. 1834 The office of juiz do povo came to an end.
  84. 1834 M. Raynold Brucker's article on the Chapel of Skulls appeared in the Musée des Familles.
  85. 1834 Luís Monteiro was entrusted with a mission to the Portuguese legation in London.
  86. 1834 The Sociedade Patriótica Madeirense existed in Funchal and published a pamphlet with a member's motion.
  87. 1834 Ernst Haeckel was born.
  88. 1834–1835 The winter of 1834–35 in Funchal had more rainy days than usual, with fine persistent rain.
  89. 1834 With the end of the civil wars, A Flor do Oceano, organ of the Madeiran Cartists, appeared.
  90. 1834 Dr João António Monteiro died in Paris aged 65.
  91. 1834–1856 Lourenço José Moniz represented Madeira in parliament through successive legislatures, except 1842–45.
  92. 1834 A popular uprising in Calheta spread to Arco da Calheta.
  93. 1834 The Visconde de Atouguia was elected deputy for Madeira.
  94. 1834 The Aljube prison in Funchal was still in existence.
  95. 1834 All nine collegiate chapters of the diocese had been abolished shortly before 1834.
  96. 1834 The Fortaleza do Pico regained its old name after the fall of the Miguelists.
  97. 1834 At the end of 1834 the first Count of Carvalhal returned from exile to Madeira and ordered major repairs to the theatre.
  98. 1834–1840 Mousinho de Albuquerque served as deputy for Madeira.
  99. 1834 The Bocage family returned to Madeira from Brazil.
  100. 1834 João Agostinho Pereira de Agrela returned to Madeira.
  101. 1 February 1834 The future Visconde de Atouguia was made full lecturer of the Naval Academy.
  102. 29 March 1834 A decree set out who was to serve in the National Guard.
  103. May 1834 Bishop Francisco José Rodrigues de Andrade left Madeira for exile in Italy, accompanied by António Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade and António Alexandrino de Vasconcelos.
  104. 7 May 1834 A decree abolished the Casa dos Vinte e Quatro and the guild representation.
  105. 16 May 1834 José António de Almada was wounded at the battle of Asseiceira.
  106. 26 May 1834 The Convention of Évora Monte ended the Portuguese civil war.
  107. 28 May 1834 A decree abolished the religious orders and convents; the Franciscan convent in Funchal was abandoned.
  108. 28 May 1834 The liberal frigate D. Pedro began blockading Madeira, and the Miguelist governor refused to receive its envoy.
  109. June 1834 With the establishment of constitutional government in Madeira, Marceliano Ribeiro de Mendonça ended six years in hiding.
  110. 3 June 1834 The schooner Amélia arrived at Madeira with news of the Convention of Évora-Monte.
  111. 5 June 1834 The constitutional (liberal) government and Constitutional Charter were proclaimed in Funchal, peacefully in the town though with violence in some parishes, establishing liberal institutions in Madeira.
  112. 6 June 1834 The Charter was sworn and D. Maria II acclaimed queen at the town hall of Funchal.
  113. 7 June 1834 D. Maria II was again proclaimed queen on Porto Santo.
  114. 12 June 1834 Bishop D. Francisco José Rodrigues de Andrade entrusted the diocese to the cathedral chapter and left for Italy the next day.
  115. 14 June 1834 The last juiz de fora of Funchal, Manuel Cirilo Esperança Freire, ceased to serve, ending the office.
  116. 21 June 1834 Januário Cardoso de Melo was appointed by decree provedor do concelho of Funchal.
  117. 23 June 1834 Legislation of 23 June 1834 placed the Funchal customs on the mainland footing, imposed taxes criticised as harmful to Madeira, blamed estufas for discrediting Madeira wine, and abolished the Junta da Real Fazenda in favour of an interim treasury commission.
  118. 30 June 1834 Luiz da Silva Mousinho de Albuquerque was appointed prefect of Madeira by decree.
  119. 5 July 1834 The Constitutional Municipal Commission of Funchal was elected to replace councillors appointed under the usurpation.
  120. 10 July 1834 A riot against the new constitutional government broke out in Calheta and was put down by troops and marines.
  121. 13 July 1834 Governor D. Álvaro da Costa de Sousa Macedo left Madeira for Lisbon, replaced by an interim government.
  122. 14 July 1834 José Ferreira Pestana was appointed professor of mathematics at Coimbra.
  123. 16 July 1834 An administrative commission was appointed for the Machico council after the constitutional restoration.
  124. 21 July 1834 Infantry Regiment no. 5 was organised by decree for the defence of Madeira.
  125. August 1834 António Gil Gomes returned to Madeira after representative government was established.
  126. 6 August 1834–September 1835 Mousinho de Albuquerque arrived and took office as prefect and military governor of Madeira on 6 August 1834, governing until September 1835.
  127. 6 August 1834 The Junta da Real Fazenda of Madeira ceased functioning.
  128. 9 August 1834 Porto Santo was made a provedoria, with João de Santana e Vasconcelos Moniz de Bettencourt as its first provedor.
  129. 16 August 1834 Januário Cardoso de Melo took office as first provedor of the municipality of Funchal.
  130. September 1834 After the civil war Madeira elected four deputies to the Cortes, among them José Liberato Freire de Carvalho for the 1834–36 session.
  131. 1 September 1834 The prefect and military governor appointed a commission to enrol men in the National Guard in Madeira.
  132. 8 September 1834 Queen D. Maria II made José António de Almada a knight of the Order of the Tower and Sword.
  133. 13 October 1834 Governor Mousinho de Albuquerque appointed a new juiz de fora and corregedor in Madeira.
  134. 20 October 1834 The first constitutional council of Machico was elected.
  135. 20 October 1834 The Constitutional Municipal Commission of Funchal ended its functions.
  136. 5 November 1834 The council agreed to pay the Misericórdia once for treating prostitutes with venereal disease.
  137. 7 November 1834 António Alfredo was appointed temporal governor of the diocese of Funchal.
  138. 8 November 1834 Prefect Mousinho de Albuquerque placed the Santa Casa da Misericórdia under a municipal administrative commission and approved a new regulation for it.
  139. 9 November 1834–29 October 1840 The second A Flor do Oceano, the first Madeiran newspaper after the constitutional government, was published from 1834 to 1840.
  140. 12 November 1834 Mousinho de Albuquerque gave the Auxiliary Artillery corps a regulation of fifteen companies.
  141. December 1834 The orphan asylum (Asilo da Infância) opened in the São Lourenço palace in mid-December 1834.
  142. 11 December 1834–13 December 1834 Illuminations were held in Madeira for the marriage of D. Maria II, with national mourning suspended.
  143. 1835 Construction of the Rabaçal levada began under Luís Mousinho de Albuquerque.
  144. 1835 A new administrative organisation gave Madeira ten municipalities, creating among others Câmara de Lobos, Santana (including Porto da Cruz, over Machico's protests), Porto Moniz, São Vicente, Calheta and a reorganised Ponta do Sol; Funchal's limits were fixed at the end of the year and the district head became Civil Governor.
  145. 1835 Provedores do concelho were renamed administradores do concelho and the first municipal administrators were appointed.
  146. 1835 Manuel de la Quadra was born in Spain.
  147. 1835 Mousinho de Albuquerque conceived the monumental bridge and road as a memorial to D. Pedro IV.
  148. 1835 After the Funchal council sought leave on 12 June to demolish the remains of the Calhau church, the União market was built on its ruins.
  149. 1835 James Wild made a survey of Madeira.
  150. 1835 Manuel Júlio Tôrres Mangas was born in Funchal.
  151. 1835–1836 The Conde de Vargas de Bédmar made geological observations in Madeira, Porto Santo and the Azores.
  152. 1835 Starting year of the list of juízes de direito in the Funchal comarcas.
  153. 1835 The council requisitioned a bell from the dissolved São Francisco convent for the town clock.
  154. 1835 Joaquim de Oliveira Alvares died in Paris aged 59.
  155. 1835 Marceliano Ribeiro de Mendonça published his elements of Latin grammar.
  156. 1835 D. João Henriques Moniz was appointed governor of the bishopric of Cape Verde.
  157. 1835–1855 About 40,000 people emigrated from Madeira, only half with passports.
  158. 14 January 1835 D. Ana Mascarenhas e Ataíde presented a flag to the Funchal National Guard.
  159. 20 January 1835 By prefect's decree Funchal lost its share of Ponta do Sol parish.
  160. 24 January 1835 A prefect's alvará incorporated the Lombada dos Esmeraldos into Ponta do Sol.
  161. February 1835 João Agostinho Pereira de Agrela died.
  162. 20 February 1835 A decree substantially modified the 1834 doctrine on wine estufas.
  163. 19 March 1835 A portaria ordered the formation of a National Guard caçadores battalion in Madeira.
  164. 29 March 1835 O Liberal, co-edited by Nicolau Caetano Bettencourt Pita, began publication in Angra.
  165. 24 April 1835 A law gave parish juntas the apportionment of the quinto tax.
  166. 24 April 1835 The Câmara began supplying food directly to the São Lázaro hospital.
  167. 30 April 1835 A law abolished the ordinary judges.
  168. 4 May 1835 The prefect dissolved the liquidating commission of the Santa Casa da Misericórdia.
  169. 2 June 1835–3 June 1835 Diocesan governor António Alfredo de Santa Catarina Braga had the statue of Frei Pedro da Guarda publicly burnt at São Bernardino and next day published a provision forbidding his cult.
  170. 13 June 1835 After the abolition of the Machico Misericórdia brotherhood, the civil governor appointed an administrative commission.
  171. 30 June 1835–1 July 1835 The Junta da Fazenda ceased handling Madeira's public funds, which passed to a receiver-general, first Francisco Correia Herédia.
  172. 7 July 1835 Governor Mousinho de Albuquerque appointed a commission, including João Shortridge, to organise the Associação Comercial of Funchal.
  173. 16 July 1835 A law established the district general councils (juntas gerais).
  174. 18 July 1835 A decree replaced the prefect with a civil governor.
  175. 18 July 1835 A decree created parish councils in the Madeira archipelago.
  176. 25 July 1835 The Visconde de Atouguia became minister of the navy.
  177. 10 August 1835 The prefect's order arranged municipal elections, including in the new councils.
  178. 5 September 1835 João José Xavier de Carvalhal was created Count of Carvalhal.
  179. 13 September 1835 The Count of Carvalhal was appointed civil governor of Madeira by royal letter.
  180. 28 September 1835 Alexandre Luiz da Cunha was appointed professor of French and English in Funchal.
  181. 30 September 1835–8 November 1835 Mousinho de Albuquerque left the civil government of Madeira, remaining only military governor until 8 November 1835.
  182. 2 October 1835 The first municipal elections under the liberal regime were held peacefully across the archipelago.
  183. 4 October 1835 Municipal elections were held throughout the Madeiran archipelago.
  184. 4 October 1835 Alberto de Oliveira was appointed the first administrator of the municipality of Machico.
  185. 11 October 1835 The first thirteen members of the Junta Geral were elected in the town hall.
  186. 15 October 1835 The 1832 judicial reform took effect in Madeira, ending the old regime of corregedores and installing two julgados with juízes de direito in Funchal.
  187. 16 October 1835 The municipality of Câmara de Lobos was definitively installed.
  188. 31 October 1835 The municipality of Porto Moniz, created in 1835, was formally installed.
  189. 3 November 1835 Felisberto de Betencourt Miranda was appointed clerk of the municipal secretariat.
  190. 3 November 1835 The Funchal council ordered the pillory demolished as an emblem of feudal times.
  191. 11 November 1835 Luiz da Silva Mousinho de Albuquerque left Madeira for Lisbon to take up a ministerial post.
  192. 14 November 1835 The office of district receiver replaced that of receiver-general.
  193. 25 November 1835 Under the 1835 administrative reform Porto Santo became a concelho, with João José de Alencastre as its first administrator.
  194. December 1835 The Funchal council demolished the remaining ruins of the Calhau church and built the Mercado União on the site.
  195. 7 December 1835 António de Gamboa e Liz was appointed civil governor of Funchal district by decree.
  196. 7 December 1835 D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto was born.
  197. 9 December 1835 José Carlos de Faria e Castro was born in Santa Maria Maior, Funchal.
  198. 9 December 1835 The Funchal council asked the municipal administrator to watch for and remove prostitutes from the central streets.
  199. 1836 The São Roque cemetery, Funchal's oldest Catholic cemetery, was built and work began on the Angústias cemetery.
  200. 1836 The Administrative Code created the district council and abolished the prefecture council.
  201. 1836 E. Maurice's article on the discovery of Madeira appeared in volume IV of the Musée des Familles.
  202. 1836 The Administrator General ordered the Marquês de Castelo Melhor to be assessed for the redízima.
  203. 1836 In early 1836 part of the churchyard of São João Evangelista was demolished to create the Largo do Colégio in Funchal.
  204. 1836 Prisoners were returned from the São Francisco convent to the prison house in the Largo da Sé.
  205. 1836 The Visconde de Atouguia was appointed civil governor of Porto.
  206. 1836 The Liceu do Funchal was founded, with Marceliano Ribeiro de Mendonça on its teaching staff.
  207. 1836 Justino António de Freitas completed his law degree at Coimbra.
  208. 1836 The Funchal municipal council demolished the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade in the Largo da Igrejinha.
  209. 1836 D. Luís da Câmara Leme enlisted in the army.
  210. 1836 The 9th Military Division was created in Madeira.
  211. 1836 The Junta Geral apparently held its only extraordinary meeting.
  212. 1836–1839 Of the eleven city gates remaining in Funchal in 1836, several were demolished between 1836 and 1839.
  213. January 1836 The Calheta rioters were tried; seven were sentenced to perpetual exile in Angola and a priest to Mozambique.
  214. 10 January 1836 The officers of the National Guard battalion were elected at a meeting in the Praça da Constituição, Funchal.
  215. 13 January 1836 An order granted a house in the Campo da Barca to the Asilo da Infância.
  216. 20 January 1836 The Funchal Commercial Association was formally installed and its first board elected.
  217. 26 January 1836 António Policarpo dos Passos Sousa was born at Madalena do Mar.
  218. 5 February 1836 Funchal council ordered the demolition of the chapel of Santo António in Rua da Laranjeira.
  219. 6 February 1836 The victims' remains were exhumed and reburied in an urn in the Misericórdia church.
  220. 8 March 1836 The government granted 1:000$000 réis to the Funchal Misericórdia for treating venereal disease.
  221. 10 March 1836 The Clube União, one of Funchal's first recreational clubs, was founded.
  222. 12 March 1836 A royal letter approved the first statutes of the Funchal Commercial Association.
  223. 14 March 1836 Agostinho de Ornelas de Vasconcelos was born in Funchal.
  224. 17 March 1836 Pedro Maria Gonçalves de Freitas, later Visconde de Gonçalves de Freitas, was born in Madeira.
  225. 14 May 1836 António de Gamboa e Liz took office as civil governor in Funchal.
  226. 18 May 1836 Father Armando Augusto de Pontes was born in Funchal.
  227. 13 June 1836 The parish of Água de Pena was suppressed and annexed to Santo da Serra, forming the parish of Santo da Serra e Água de Pena.
  228. 8 July 1836 João da Câmara de Carvalhal offered land to enlarge the Angústias cemetery.
  229. 7 August 1836 Manuel José Vieira was born in Funchal.
  230. 26 August 1836 The Câmara ordered the first bridge over the Ribeira de Santa Luzia near the fish market.
  231. 9 September 1836 Following the political events of September 1836, the head of the archipelago's government took the title of Administrador Geral, held by Luís da Silva Mousinho de Albuquerque.
  232. 10 September 1836 The September Revolution in Portugal overturned the Constitutional Charter and the queen swore the restored Constitution of 1820, so the newly elected Cortes never met; in Madeira it passed without notable hostilities.
  233. 25 September 1836 The restored Constitution of 1820 was solemnly sworn in Madeira.
  234. 28 September 1836 The governor of the bishopric separated Jardim do Mar from its dependence on Paul do Mar.
  235. 26 October 1836 A decree established mortgage registers in municipal administrations.
  236. 17 November 1836 A decree created a lyceum in each district capital.
  237. 18 November 1836 Boaventura was raised to an independent parish, separated from Ponta Delgada.
  238. 23 December 1836 Issue 108 ended the continuous numbering of the second A Flor do Oceano; later numbering was annual.
  239. 29 December 1836 A decree created medical-surgical schools in overseas district capitals, including Funchal.
  240. 1836–1837 The boganga (Cucurbita melanosperma) was introduced to Madeira from Tenerife.
  241. 1837 An administrative reform renamed district governors administradores gerais.
  242. 1837–1848 Period covered by the published minutes of the Funchal District General Council.
  243. 1837 Dr José Manuel da Veiga published his Código Penal da Nação Portuguesa.
  244. 1837 By this year one cane in Funchal's arms had been replaced by a vine branch.
  245. 1837 João Joaquim Figueira graduated in medicine at Montpellier.
  246. 1837 The Canary pine was introduced to Madeira from Tenerife.
  247. 1837 A memoir on the geology of Madeira, Porto Santo and the Desertas was published in Lisbon.
  248. 1837 Funchal council began a municipal fire service, buying a pump from London for 460$000 réis.
  249. 1837 Funchal municipal revenue was estimated at 35.678$00.
  250. 1837 The Judicial Reform of 1837 created elected parish judges and restored ordinary judges.
  251. 1837 Funchal council left its Largo da Sé building because of the stench of the prisons, which held 180 prisoners.
  252. 1837 The wooden building known as the Vapor was built over the Santa Luzia stream.
  253. 1837 The Funchal academy staged a performance celebrating Queen Maria II's marriage, whose proceeds built the Praça Académica.
  254. 1837 An edition of John Atkins's voyage was published in London.
  255. 1837 The government ceded a house in Campo da Barca to the Sociedade das Escolas Infantis.
  256. 1837–1838 Gregório Nazianzeno Medina e Vasconcelos served as deputy for Madeira.
  257. 1837 Funchal council supplied copies of Oudinot's Instructions to the parish councils.
  258. 1837 The Gabinete Português de Leitura was founded in Rio de Janeiro by the Portuguese community.
  259. 1837 The English botanist Carlos Lemann arrived in Madeira.
  260. 1837 Queen Adelaide was widowed on the death of William IV.
  261. 3 January 1837 A further decree regulated mortgage and other registers.
  262. 4 January 1837 A decree assigned the São Francisco convent grounds in Funchal as a nursery, apparently without result.
  263. 17 January 1837 The council again showed interest in afforesting the serras and commons.
  264. 30 January 1837–12 September 1838 António de Pádua da Costa commanded the 9th Military Division.
  265. 18 February 1837 Jaime Moniz was born in Funchal.
  266. 21 March 1837 César Augusto Mourão Pita was born in Lisbon.
  267. April 1837 Justino António de Freitas took his doctorate in law.
  268. 19 April 1837 Pedro de Castelo Branco was born in Funchal.
  269. 2 May 1837 The Medical-Surgical School of Funchal was installed on 2 May 1837 at the Santa Isabel hospital, replacing the former British Infirmary; it operated until 1910.
  270. 27 May 1837 An ordinance barred north-coast wines of Madeira from passing to the southern parishes.
  271. 24 June 1837 João Baptista de Freitas Leal was born in Funchal.
  272. 30 June 1837 Januário Justiniano de Nóbrega was appointed amanuensis of the municipal administration.
  273. 15 July 1837–25 August 1837 The Junta Geral of the Funchal district held its first ordinary session, opening on 15 July and closing on 25 August 1837 after eighteen meetings.
  274. 8 August 1837 Funchal council began building the Casa das Angústias, intended as a municipal beggars' asylum.
  275. 18 September 1837 Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos was born in Funchal.
  276. 10 October 1837 The Funchal lyceum was created and solemnly opened on 10 October 1837, installed in the former Jesuit college buildings (Aulas do Pátio); seminarians attended its classes.
  277. 11 November 1837 The 1st Count of Carvalhal died at the Quinta do Palheiro.
  278. 30 November 1837 José Dias Ferreira was born.
  279. 27 December 1837 Alípio Augusto Ferreira was born in Santa Cruz.
  280. 1838 The Angústias cemetery in Funchal and the Porto Santo cemetery were completed.
  281. 1838 The Porto Santo cemetery beside the chapel of Santa Catarina was opened on Corpus Christi day.
  282. 1838–1840 Domingos Olavo Correia de Azevedo served as substitute deputy and senator for Madeira in the 1838–1840 legislative session.
  283. 1838–1840 The Marquis of Saldanha sat as senator for Madeira in the 1838–1840 legislative session.
  284. 1838 Jacob Ruffy and Diogo Taylor established the first coal depot in Funchal.
  285. 1838 The Funchal council petitioned the government against the poor administration of António de Gamboa e Liz.
  286. 1838 Padre Drumond e Vasconcelos began spelling the parish name Tábua instead of Atabua.
  287. 1838 John Driver's 'Letters from Madeira in 1834' was published in London.
  288. 1838 José de Freitas Teixeira Spinola de Castelo Branco published Noções de calculo differencial.
  289. 1838–1840 The Barão de Lordelo, as civil governor, tried to continue the works on the monumental road and bridge.
  290. 1838 The German botanist Dr Lippold botanised in Madeira, studying among others the plants of the Quinta do Vale.
  291. 1838 Royal Mail steamers were already calling at Madeira.
  292. 1838 William Hinton came to Madeira for health reasons.
  293. 1838 The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Penha de França returned to the possession of the bishops.
  294. 1838 Dr Patrício Moniz published the verse collection Meditações Nocturnas.
  295. 1838 The Funchal council requested the old fountain's basins from the Administrador Geral for the fountain of the Largo de São Sebastião.
  296. 1838 The Sociedade Harmonia existed in Funchal, promoting musical gatherings.
  297. 1838 The last known performance took place at the Teatro de Bom Gosto.
  298. 1838 Rafael Coelho Machado left Madeira for Brazil.
  299. 1838 The office of parish regedor was introduced in Madeira.
  300. 12 January 1838 A government order authorised the Funchal council to demolish the city gate at Saúde and widen the street.
  301. 12 January 1838 The Funchal council resolved, on the initiative of Sérvulo Drumond de Meneses, to create the Municipal Library.
  302. 17 January 1838 Júlio Augusto Henriques was born at Cabeceiras de Basto.
  303. 22 February 1838 A law created municipal guards in district capitals, which A Chronica wanted extended to Madeira.
  304. 3 March 1838 The first issue of the newspaper A Chronica appeared.
  305. 4 March 1838 Félix de Brito Capelo was born in Peniche.
  306. 23 March 1838 Francisco de Andrade was appointed interim teacher at the Funchal lyceum.
  307. 24 March 1838 A Chronica stated that Madeirans had remained united and law-abiding.
  308. 4 April 1838 João Gualberto de Oliveira was created Baron of Tojal.
  309. 18 April 1838 A new decree enforced the 1805 annexation of the posts.
  310. 28 April 1838–14 September 1838 José da Fonseca e Gouveia was appointed Administrator General of the Funchal district by decree of 28 April 1838 and took office on 14 September.
  311. May 1838 Construction of the new municipal cemetery of the Angústias was completed.
  312. 2 May 1838 D. Francisco José Rodrigues de Andrade died in exile at Promontorio, Genoa.
  313. 6 May 1838 The Constitution of 1838 was solemnly sworn in Madeira.
  314. 7 May 1838 The two julgados were converted into the eastern and western comarcas, both seated in Funchal.
  315. 19 May 1838 Dr Carlos Lemann left Madeira for London.
  316. 27 May 1838 The juízes ordinários of the newly created julgados were elected.
  317. 7 June 1838 The central government praised the Funchal council's plan for a children's asylum.
  318. 23 June 1838 Francisco Ferreira de Abreu was appointed mortgage-registry notary of the western comarca.
  319. 8 July 1838 The Angústias cemetery in Funchal was solemnly blessed.
  320. September 1838 The American geologist J. D. Dana visited Madeira.
  321. 4 September 1838 Francisco de Andrade was appointed permanent professor of Portuguese and Latin grammar at the Funchal lyceum.
  322. 4 September 1838 Alexandre Luiz da Cunha was appointed by decree to a professorship at the Funchal lyceum.
  323. 8 September 1838 A decree made the first staff appointments of the Funchal Medical-Surgical School definitive.
  324. 16 September 1838–25 September 1838 Wilkes's American Exploring Expedition visited Madeira and its officers measured Pico Ruivo at 1,901 m.
  325. October 1838 Lippold published a note on Dr Renton's Madeira gardens in Gardner's Magazine.
  326. 2 October 1838–1846 Robert Reid Kalley arrived in Funchal on 2 October 1838, beginning a Protestant proselytising campaign in Madeira that lasted until 1846.
  327. 10 October 1838 José da Fonseca e Gouveia was created Baron of Lordelo.
  328. 27 October 1838 The administrative commission of the Misericórdia was discharged and an interim one appointed.
  329. 16 November 1838 The Funchal municipal council sent the municipal administrator its nominations for the parish regedores.
  330. 8 December 1838 The Municipal Library of Funchal opened to the public.
  331. 31 December 1838 The British Factory in Madeira was dissolved.
  332. 1839 Several sections and gates of the Funchal city wall were demolished.
  333. 1839 José Joaquim de Abreu Rego graduated in mathematics at Coimbra with the highest marks.
  334. 1839 Paulo Perestrelo da Câmara published Descripção Geral de Lisboa.
  335. 1839–1847 A signalling telegraph operated at Garajau from 1839 to 1847.
  336. 1839 The União market was enclosed with an iron gallery with three gates.
  337. 1839 José Maria Smith Barruncho was born in Funchal.
  338. 1839 William Hinton married Mary Wallas.
  339. 1839 Dr Patrício Moniz published Composições poéticas, dedicated to his father.
  340. 1839 Luís Alexandre Ribeiro Mendonça, later Baron of Úzel, was born in Funchal.
  341. 1839 The Praça da Rainha was built on land formerly used by the Trem Militar for boats and anchors.
  342. 1839 D. Filomena, later 1st Countess of Torre Bela, was born in Berlin.
  343. 1839 José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage enrolled at the University of Coimbra.
  344. 1839–1840 Dr James Macaulay spent part of 1839 and 1840 in Madeira.
  345. 1839 The parish cemetery of Santo António was built.
  346. 29 January 1839 Francisco António Rodrigues da Silva was appointed keeper of the Angústias cemetery.
  347. 8 February 1839–1839 The Funchal council put the Entrada da Cidade works out to tender on 8 February 1839 and awarded the contract on 22 February; the Porto da Saúde gate was demolished to build the street.
  348. 8 February 1839–17 August 1839 The works for the Praça de São Pedro (fish market) were put out to tender on 8 February 1839, contracted on 22 February, and alterations contracted on 17 August.
  349. April 1839 Daniel de Ornelas was elected senator for Madeira to fill a vacancy.
  350. 25 April 1839 Azevedo and Soulier de Sauve measured a magnetic inclination of 59° 30' in the Praça Académica, Funchal.
  351. 25 May 1839 João Maneio Teixeira was born in Madeira.
  352. 19 July 1839 The Funchal council resolved to establish annual and weekly fairs, a decision never carried out.
  353. 2 August 1839 A law imposed a third on municipal levies, later waived for cereals during the famine.
  354. 20 September 1839 The council again discussed afforestation of the serras and commons.
  355. October 1839 Sir James Clark Ross's expedition with HMS Erebus and Terror visited Madeira and its officers measured Pico Ruivo at 1,858 and 1,860 m.
  356. 8 November 1839 The Junta Geral was ordered to draw up regulations for the levadas.
  357. 3 December 1839 The Clube Funchalense was installed in Funchal.
  358. 16 December 1839 João Gomes do Espírito Santo died in Porto aged about eighty.
  359. 28 December 1839 The last issue (no. 96) of the newspaper A Chronica appeared.
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  1. c. 1840 The abundância (Eupatorium adenophorum) was introduced to Madeira as an ornamental plant shortly before 1840.
  2. c. 1840 Henrique Félix Freitas Vale was born in Funchal.
  3. c. 1840 The geologist James Smith visited Madeira.
  4. c. 1840 Large-scale Madeiran emigration to Demerara and the British West Indies began.
  5. c. 1842 Maurício José de Castelo Branco was born in Funchal.
  6. c. 1842 The Concórdia society built a small theatre in Rua do Monteiro, Funchal.
  7. c. 1843 João da Silveira Caldeira's Nova nomenclatura was printed in Rio de Janeiro.
  8. c. 1848 Francisco João Moniz died around this year, according to a family member.
  9. 1840 The Santa Luzia cemetery was established in Funchal.
  10. 1840–1841 James Clark Ross led the Erebus and Terror expedition in Antarctic seas.
  11. 1840 The Instituição Filosófica e Mecânica, a society for the scientific study of Madeira, was founded in Funchal.
  12. 1840–1848 A concert society directed by António Maria Frutuoso da Silva existed in Funchal.
  13. 1840 William White Cooper's 'The Invalid's Guide to Madeira' was published in London.
  14. 1840 Over twenty British commercial houses existed in Funchal.
  15. 1840–1842 Luís Vicente de Afonseca was first elected deputy for Madeira, beginning a 34-year parliamentary career.
  16. 1840–1841 James Smith's paper on Madeiran geology appeared in the Proceedings of the Geological Society.
  17. 1840 Madeiran stamped paper began to carry a Funchal government overprint.
  18. 1840 José Joaquim de Sena Freitas was born on São Miguel.
  19. 1840–1842 D. João Henriques Moniz was elected substitute senator for Madeira.
  20. 1840 Justino António de Freitas joined the Coimbra law faculty as substitute lecturer.
  21. 1840 The first doctors graduated from the Funchal Medical-Surgical School.
  22. January 1840 The only issue of The Stranger, an English-language newspaper, was published in Funchal.
  23. 4 January 1840 The first issue of the newspaper O Defensor appeared in Funchal.
  24. 11 January 1840 Michael Grabham was born.
  25. 25 February 1840 A decree relieved António Alfredo of the government of the Funchal diocese.
  26. 26 February 1840 Januário Vicente Camacho was appointed governor of the diocese of Funchal by decree.
  27. 17 March 1840 Eduardo Ernesto de Castelo Branco was born in Funchal.
  28. 21 March 1840 The statutes of the Sociedade da Nova Levada do Furado were approved.
  29. 27 March 1840 Januário Vicente Camacho was elected capitular vicar of Funchal.
  30. 14 April 1840 António Alfredo left Madeira for Lisbon.
  31. 14 April 1840–20 June 1846 The first newspaper O Imparcial was published in Funchal, issuing 300 numbers until June 1846.
  32. 21 May 1840 Sebastião Xavier Botelho died.
  33. 22 May 1840 Alfredo César de Oliveira was born in Santa Cruz.
  34. 29 June 1840 The Praça de São Pedro fish market in Funchal was formally opened.
  35. 24 July 1840–27 July 1840 The French frigates La Belle Poule and La Favorite, carrying the Prince of Joinville's mission to recover Napoleon's remains from Saint Helena, stayed at Funchal.
  36. October 1840 James Macaulay's notes on Madeira appeared in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal.
  37. 3 October 1840 Mary Jane Wilson was born in Madras.
  38. 31 October 1840 The first issue of the newspaper Chronica appeared.
  39. 7 November 1840–12 December 1840 A Chronica Official was published, producing six issues.
  40. 14 November 1840 José da Fonseca e Gouveia, barão de Lordelo, was dismissed at his own request by decree.
  41. 27 November 1840–9 January 1841 The poet António Feliciano de Castilho arrived in Funchal with his sick brother aboard the brig-schooner Funchal and lived in the Penha house until January 1841.
  42. 20 December 1840 The Prazer Regenerado theatre opened in the former São Francisco convent in Funchal.
  43. 24 December 1840 Joaquim Pestana was born in Câmara de Lobos.
  44. 30 December 1840–31 December 1840 Canon Augusto Frederico de Castilho, brother of the poet, died of tuberculosis in Funchal.
  45. 1840–1849 The hermitage of Sant'Ana at Fajã do Penedo, Boaventura, was demolished shortly after 1840.
  46. 1841 The São Gonçalo cemetery was established.
  47. 1841 Paulo Perestrelo da Câmara sailed for Brazil and published Breve Noticia sobre a Ilha da Madeira in Lisbon.
  48. 1841 Manuel de Arriaga was born in Horta.
  49. 1841 Diogo d'Ornelas Frazão issued tokens for his sugar mill at Calheta.
  50. 1841 Arthur Bertrand published his book in Paris.
  51. 1841 The present fountain at the Fontes de João Diniz was built.
  52. 1841 Azurara's Crónica da Guiné was first published in Paris by the Visconde de Santarém.
  53. 1841 The Santana municipal council printed its by-laws as a pamphlet.
  54. 1841 William Hinton settled permanently in Madeira.
  55. 1841 Dr. Lourenço José Moniz served as vice-president (later president) of the Chamber of Deputies.
  56. 1841–1842 Dr. Kampfer stayed in Madeira.
  57. 1841 The Tribunal Secreto apparently first appeared.
  58. 1841 Agostinho Martins was born.
  59. 1841 D. João Henriques Moniz was nominated bishop of Cape Verde.
  60. 9 January 1841 António Feliciano de Castilho left Madeira.
  61. 26 March 1841–2 April 1841 Domingos Olavo Correia de Azevedo was appointed Administrador Geral (civil governor) of Madeira by decree of 26 March 1841 and took office on 2 April.
  62. 14 May 1841 Funchal council created boys' schools in São Roque, São Martinho and São Gonçalo.
  63. 11 June 1841 Francisco Ferreira de Abreu was appointed clerk of the Funchal municipal administration.
  64. July 1841 Ships of a commercial expedition to West Africa, with Dr. George Tams, called at Porto Santo.
  65. July 1841–February 1842 Served as Minister of the Navy.
  66. 2 July 1841 Funchal council resolved to move the prison to the Angústias house, but the Government refused.
  67. 8 August 1841 The British brig Savage entered Funchal bay demanding the return of the seized vessel Bernarda, which the authorities refused.
  68. 27 September 1841 José Leite Monteiro was born in Porto.
  69. 12 November 1841 A law declared Madeira's special legislation on levada waters and woodland to remain in force.
  70. 21 December 1841 João Bettencourt Araújo Carvalhal Esmeraldo, future Count of Ribeiro Real, was born in Funchal.
  71. 1842 Francisco Ferreira de Abreu died in Cabo Verde.
  72. 1842–1845 Bartolomeu dos Mártires Dias e Sousa served as deputy for Madeira.
  73. 1842–1845 João da Câmara Carvalhal Esmeraldo was elected deputy for Madeira.
  74. 1842–1845 Francisco Correia Herédia served as deputy for the Funchal district.
  75. 1842 Indirect election of deputies was restored.
  76. 1842–1843 Captain A. T. E. Vidal aboard HMS Styx, with António Pedro de Azevedo, surveyed Madeira, Porto Santo and the Desertas.
  77. 1842 The Calheta municipal council printed its by-laws as a pamphlet.
  78. 1842 The American John A. Dix stayed in Madeira and described the palanquin.
  79. 1842–1852 The Madeiran copper coinage Pecunia Madeirensis, bearing two vine branches, was first issued in 1842, with further issues in 1850 and 1852.
  80. 1842 The Scottish church opened in a house in Travessa do Surdo, Funchal.
  81. 1842 The British government began paying emigrants' passages to its colonies.
  82. 1842 João de Freitas da Silva was born in Lisbon.
  83. 1842 Andrew Picken's 'Madeira illustrated' was published in London.
  84. 1842 The Asilo dos Inválidos was established in the Misericórdia building in Funchal.
  85. 1842 Rafael Coelho Machado published his music method and Diccionario musical in Rio de Janeiro.
  86. 10 February 1842 The 1826 Constitutional Charter was restored, ending the Constitution of 1838; in Madeira the title of civil governor was reinstated.
  87. 7 April 1842–29 September 1842 The newspaper O Beija Flôr ran from its first to its last issue.
  88. 18 May 1842 Patrício Malheiro de Melo died in Caniço.
  89. 20 July 1842 A treaty abolished the British right to a conservator judge, providing mixed juries instead.
  90. 20 September 1842 João José de Freitas Aragão died in Lisbon.
  91. 24 October 1842–28 October 1842 A terrible flood struck Funchal, damaging the council house on the Largo do Pelourinho, followed by a harbour storm wrecking boats; it led to the Central Relief Committee and to part of the Machico wall.
  92. 14 November 1842 Magnetic variation on Porto Santo was recorded as 24°38'12".
  93. 1842–1843 The dwarf banana began to be cultivated in Madeira.
  94. 1843 Manuel António Rodrigues Leitão, Visconde de Cacongo, was born at Ponte da Barca.
  95. 1843 The Conde de Tojal took his seat as a peer of the realm.
  96. 1843 José de Freitas Teixeira Spínola de Castelo Branco published Elementos de algebra superior.
  97. 1843 Matias Figueira da Silva was born in Funchal.
  98. 1843 The first instituted vicar of Boaventura parish was appointed.
  99. 1843 Captain Vidal's charts were published, including a chart of Madeira, Porto Santo and the Desertas and 'Funchal Bay' with a plan of the city.
  100. 1843 The course of the Funchal Medical-Surgical School was extended to four years.
  101. 1843 Arsénio Pompílio Pompeu do Carpo published the poetry collection Dedo de Pigmeu in Lisbon.
  102. 2 January 1843 Feliciano João Teixeira was born in Ponta do Sol.
  103. 13 February 1843 A new regulation for the Misericórdias was provisionally approved.
  104. 16 February 1843 A storm felled the largest recorded Madeiran dragon tree, at Pontinha de Cima in Machico.
  105. 21 February 1843 Luís de Ornelas Pinto Coelho was born in São Pedro parish, Funchal.
  106. 7 March 1843 José António de Almada was born in Machico.
  107. 15 March 1843 Henrique de Lima e Cunha was born in Barreiro.
  108. 23 April 1843–6 May 1843 Funchal council resolved to build a stone quay at the Entrada da Cidade and the District Council authorised the expenditure; construction began but was never finished.
  109. 8 May 1843 José Júlio Rodrigues was born in Funchal.
  110. 29 May 1843 A law authorised the government to alter municipal boundaries, leading to parts of Água de Pena and Santo António da Serra passing to Santa Cruz.
  111. 14 June 1843 D. José Xavier de Cerveira e Sousa was confirmed as bishop of Funchal.
  112. 1844 Work on the Rabaçal levada was interrupted.
  113. 1844 The frigate Diana, commanded by Francisco Maria Bordalo, brought several political deportees to Madeira.
  114. 1844–1845 According to Duncan Maclaren, 250 foreigners, including invalids with their companions and servants, visited Madeira in the 1844–45 season.
  115. 1844 Dean António Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade was recalled to Madeira by Bishop Cerveira e Sousa.
  116. 1844 The second edition of John Osborne's guide was published in London.
  117. 1844 The bell tower of the parish church of Machico was demolished as it threatened ruin.
  118. 1844 The hospital regulation first provided secure rooms for the insane.
  119. 1844 Captain Vidal and engineer António Pedro de Azevedo measured the height of Pico Ruivo.
  120. 1844 The clandestine anti-Cabralist paper Tribunal Secreto appeared in Funchal; its twelve known issues date from this year.
  121. 1844 Francisco de Andrade's Princípios de Gramática Portuguesa was published in Funchal.
  122. 1844–15 December 1844 The chapel of the Angústias cemetery in Funchal was built and was blessed by Bishop Cerveira e Sousa on 15 December 1844.
  123. 1844 D. João Henriques Moniz received episcopal consecration in Lisbon.
  124. 1844 Public disorder and arrests in Santo António da Serra were linked to Robert Reid Kalley's Protestant preaching.
  125. 1844 Luís da Costa Pereira graduated in mathematics at Coimbra.
  126. 26 January 1844–4 March 1844 The Count de Montalembert stayed in Madeira for his wife's health.
  127. 4 February 1844 A revolt broke out at Torres Vedras against the Costa Cabral government, leading to deportations to Madeira.
  128. 6 March 1844 Funchal council rejected a proposed commission to direct the quay works.
  129. 22 March 1844 The civil governor appointed a commission to propose an asylum for beggars in Funchal, which was never realised.
  130. April 1844 João da Câmara Carvalhal Esmeraldo died.
  131. 19 April 1844 José Bettencourt da Câmara was born at the Quinta do Descanso.
  132. 20 April 1844–28 April 1844 Political prisoners from the Torres Vedras revolt reached Funchal aboard the brig Douro on 20 April and the cutter Andorinha on 28 April.
  133. 30 April 1844 The Rev. J. M. Neale's paper on the ecclesiology and Gothic churches of Madeira was read before the Cambridge Camden Society.
  134. 10 May 1844 Dr Manuel da Assunção was born in Vila Real.
  135. 2 June 1844 D. José Xavier de Cerveira e Sousa received episcopal consecration.
  136. 8 July 1844 The new bishop, D. José Xavier de Cerveira e Sousa, arrived in Madeira, ending a ten-year vacancy of the see.
  137. August 1844 Sérvulo de Paula Medina e Vasconcelos's drama Amor e Pátria was performed at the Teatro Concórdia in Funchal.
  138. 14 August 1844 Platão de Vaksel was born near Petrograd.
  139. 17 September 1844 João Gualberto de Oliveira was created Count of Tojal.
  140. October 1844 A plague of Decticus albifrons locusts devastated crops and foliage on Madeira and Porto Santo.
  141. October 1844–1845 Duncan Maclaren stayed in Madeira from October 1844 until the summer of 1845.
  142. 10 October 1844 João José Vieira was born in Funchal.
  143. 31 October 1844 A military reorganisation made the Madeira archipelago an autonomous Command under a colonel.
  144. 7 November 1844 A decree ceded the land and building of the São Francisco convent in Funchal to the council, for law courts; the site later became the Municipal Garden.
  145. 1 December 1844 Nicolau Anastácio de Bettencourt became civil governor of Angra do Heroísmo.
  146. 17 December 1844 The government approved Nathaniel Lister's donation condition for the Medical School library in Funchal.
  147. 1844–1845 William Reid arrived in Madeira and established a hotel in Funchal.
  148. 1845 George Tams published his account of the expedition in Hamburg.
  149. 1845 The English poet T. M. Hughes visited Madeira, and his poem The Ocean Flower was published in London.
  150. 1845 Dr Schmeller published in Munich a memoir on the manuscripts collected by Valentim Fernandes.
  151. 1845 Daniel Ferreira Pestana accompanied his uncle to India as aide-de-camp.
  152. 1845 The post of municipal librarian was created in Funchal.
  153. 1845 Father Júlio César Pereira da Silva was born in Madeira.
  154. 1845 Jane Wallas Penfold's botanical book on Madeira was published in London.
  155. 1845 A small landing stage was built on the rocky spit in Santa Cruz bay.
  156. 1845 There were 293 British residents in Funchal.
  157. 1845–1855 British visitors to Madeira averaged 342 a year between 1845 and 1855.
  158. 1845 M. Knowler visited Madeira and gave six lectures on dramatic poetry in Funchal.
  159. 1845 Carlos Stuart, Count of Machico, died.
  160. 1845 Powdery mildew of the vine was first recorded in a garden in England.
  161. 1845 Sérvulo de Paula Medina e Vasconcelos published Amor e Pátria and left for Cape Verde as a civil servant.
  162. 1845 Manuel José Júlio Guerra Júnior was born in Funchal.
  163. 1845 The entire-leaved (cordifolia) sweet potato was first cultivated in Madeira, from Demerara stock.
  164. 6 February 1845 A second resolution to move Funchal's prison to the Angústias house was passed but not carried out.
  165. 18 May 1845 Ernesto João Schmitz was born in Rheydt.
  166. June 1845–September 1845 Dr Robert Reid Kalley visited England and met leaders of Bible societies.
  167. 15 July 1845 Father Carlos Acciaioly was born in Santana.
  168. 17 July 1845 Maurício Augusto de Sequeira was born in Funchal.
  169. 18 July 1845 Dr Luiz Henriques died by suicide in Funchal from an opium overdose.
  170. 25 July 1845 João Augusto Teixeira was born at Ponta do Sol.
  171. 12 August 1845 Daniel de Ornelas e Vasconcelos was created Baron of São Pedro.
  172. 3 September 1845 Joaquim Pedro Cardoso Casado Giraldes died in Genoa, where he was Portuguese consul.
  173. 2 October 1845 João da Silva Carvalho founded his first school in Funchal.
  174. 1846 Bartolomeu dos Mártires Dias e Sousa again sat as deputy for Madeira.
  175. 1846–1852 Under civil governor José Silvestre Ribeiro the planting of maritime pine in Madeira greatly increased.
  176. 1846 António Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade was appointed vicar-general.
  177. 1846 João Nepomuceno de Oliveira died.
  178. 1846 Tito Omboni's Viaggi nell'Africa Occidentale was published in Milan.
  179. 1846 The title of Governador Civil was restored.
  180. 1846 The Maria da Fonte popular revolt broke out in the Minho, sparking a revolutionary movement in Portugal; Justino António de Freitas joined its provisional government and António Alves da Silva interrupted his Coimbra studies.
  181. 1846 Civil governor José Silvestre Ribeiro visited Curral das Freiras and found only the priest and the regedor literate.
  182. 1846 Luiz da Silva Mousinho de Albuquerque died of a wound received at Torres Vedras.
  183. 1846 Arsénio Pompílio Pompeu do Carpo was brought prisoner to São Jorge castle in Lisbon on serious charges but freed himself.
  184. 26 February 1846 Francisco Clementino de Sousa was born in Funchal.
  185. 4 April 1846 The Funchal market was reopened.
  186. 20 April 1846 Alexandre Alberto da Rocha Serpa Pinto was born.
  187. 25 May 1846–30 May 1846 Prince Frederick Charles Christian of Denmark stayed in Funchal and gave a gala dinner aboard his frigate.
  188. 25 June 1846 The Funchal municipal council was dissolved following the Maria da Fonte revolution.
  189. 27 June 1846–23 January 1847 The newspaper O Echo da Revolução appeared in Funchal after the Patuleia insurrection, publishing 31 issues.
  190. 9 August 1846 Popular riots against Robert Reid Kalley's Protestant propaganda culminated in a crowd sacking his house in Funchal, forcing his hurried flight from Madeira.
  191. 20 August 1846–15 May 1847 The first newspaper O Independente ran in Funchal, issuing 36 numbers.
  192. 5 September 1846 António José de Ávila was appointed by decree royal commissioner with discretionary powers for Madeira.
  193. 9 September 1846–12 September 1846 Royal commissioner António José de Ávila left Lisbon with José Silvestre Ribeiro, the new civil governor, arriving in Madeira on 12 September.
  194. 12 September 1846–28 November 1846 A decree replaced the office of district receiver with that of contador de fazenda, taking effect in Madeira on 28 November.
  195. 21 September 1846 Ávila suspended the interim civil governor and the administrator of Funchal municipality.
  196. October 1846–April 1847 Madeira suffered the 'year of hunger', a famine caused by potato disease amid agricultural and commercial crisis, killing a large part of the population; João Howard March helped organise relief subscriptions.
  197. 3 October 1846 José Silvestre Ribeiro ordered an inventory of the silver of the São Lourenço chapel, weighing 36 pounds.
  198. 7 October 1846–1852 José Silvestre Ribeiro took office as civil governor of the Funchal district on 7 October 1846, serving until 1852 and reviving projects such as the Ribeiro Seco bridge.
  199. 7 October 1846 A law dissolved the national guards.
  200. 10 October 1846 Ávila left Madeira for Lisbon.
  201. 15 October 1846 A meeting of authorities approved advancing 1,500$000 réis for clearing ribeiras to employ the poor during the famine.
  202. 23 October 1846 José Silvestre Ribeiro ordered the first public lamps placed in central Funchal.
  203. 18 November 1846 The council resolved to build a shelter for travellers and beasts beside Monte church.
  204. 9 December 1846 Luís Maria dos Reis was born.
  205. 20 December 1846 A. P. de Azevedo and officers of the Rattermaker measured a magnetic inclination of 60° 40' at the Colégio in Funchal.
  206. 1846–1847 The loquat was introduced to Madeira.
  207. 1847–1852 Levada works advanced notably under the governorship of José Silvestre Ribeiro.
  208. 1847 Madeira suffered a severe famine, peaking in February 1847, with high mortality from digestive illness; it also reached Porto Santo. The governor José Silvestre Ribeiro took relief measures, merchants raised funds for food and charity performances were held in Funchal.
  209. 1847 Laureano da Câmara Falcão developed maize cultivation in Santana and São Jorge using Azorean farmers.
  210. 1847 The Fonte Vermelha drinking fountain was built.
  211. 1847 Maria Helena Jervis de Atouguia e Almeida was born in Funchal.
  212. 1847 José de Freitas Teixeira Spinola de Castelo Branco published Applicação da algebra à geometria.
  213. 1847 William Hooker's Notes on Madeira Plants appeared in the Journal of Botany.
  214. 1847 The first cane-brandy distillery was set up in Câmara de Lobos.
  215. 1847–1848 Walls were built along the Santa Luzia and João Gomes streams in Funchal.
  216. 1847 Dr Kampfer published notes on Madeira in the Zeitschrift für die gesammte Medizin.
  217. 1847 A Portuguese warship was stationed off Madeira to curb clandestine emigration.
  218. 1847 José Silvestre Ribeiro, as governor, had the ruined church of São João Evangelista restored to worship.
  219. 10 January 1847 A government decree authorised ceding land from the former Jesuit college enclosure to widen Rua do Castanheiro.
  220. 30 January 1847 The first issue of the newspaper O Madeirense appeared.
  221. 10 March 1847–8 December 1847 The Funchal Beggars' Asylum was founded in a state warehouse; about 400 inmates moved in procession to the former São Francisco convent on 27 March, and it was definitively installed in the Casa das Angústias on 8 December.
  222. 31 March 1847 José Silvestre Ribeiro proposed moving the prison to the former São Francisco convent.
  223. 29 April 1847–14 July 1847 Linked to the Maria da Fonte movement, Infantry no. 11 and Artillery no. 4 with the Funchal council pronounced for the Junta do Porto and installed a Junta Governativa da Madeira, with António Correia Herédia as secretary, which ruled until 14 July 1847.
  224. 3 May 1847–27 June 1847 O Boletim Official was published, without issue numbers.
  225. 18 May 1847 The last issue of O Defensor appeared.
  226. 26 May 1847 Bishop D. Manuel Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade died.
  227. 23 June 1847–26 July 1847 The British frigate Thetis arrived at Funchal demanding the junta's dissolution; the junta dissolved itself on 14 July and British and French commanders restored José Silvestre Ribeiro as civil governor on 26 July.
  228. 1 July 1847 D. João Henriques Moniz died of fever in Cape Verde, months after arriving there in February 1847.
  229. 2 July 1847–21 July 1847 Only three issues of the first O Funchalense appeared.
  230. 22 July 1847 Dr José Joaquim de Abreu Rego died in Funchal aged little over 30.
  231. 11 August 1847 The warship D. Luiz brought the Caçadores no. 6 battalion to Funchal.
  232. 23 September 1847 António de Pádua da Costa resumed command of the 9th Military Division.
  233. October 1847 The Duke of Palmela returned to Madeira with his wife, who was seriously ill with lung disease.
  234. October 1847 T. Vernon Wollaston made his first visit to the Madeira archipelago.
  235. 4 October 1847 A. T. E. Vidal's survey of the islands was published in London.
  236. 7 October 1847 Jacinto Pinto Coelho was born in Funchal.
  237. 2 November 1847–11 April 1848 HMS Howe brought Queen Adelaide of England to Funchal, where she resided at Quinta Lambert until 11 April 1848.
  238. 20 November 1847 Prince Alexander of the Netherlands arrived in Madeira on the frigate Príncipe de Orange.
  239. 30 December 1847 A large theft of silver took place from the church of Ponta Delgada.
  240. 31 December 1847 Dr Nuno Silvestre Teixeira was born at Ponta do Sol.
  241. 1848–1850 English treasure hunters searched the Selvagens in successive years, spending £2,500.
  242. 1848 Frederico Carlos succeeded his father as King Frederick VII of Denmark.
  243. 1848 Controversy over the Rev. T. K. Brown's Anglican chaplaincy in Madeira produced publications, including Lowe's protest, 'The Madeira Chaplaincy' in London and a pamphlet on the English Church in Funchal.
  244. 1848 After religious disputes among British residents, a second Anglican church opened in Rua dos Aranhas, Funchal.
  245. 1848–1849 Frank Dillon made his views of Madeira.
  246. 1848 Sérvulo Drumond de Meneses published document collections on the mendicity asylum, the famine and the building of the Ribeiro Seco bridge.
  247. 1848 Padre Manuel Nunes was born at Paul do Mar.
  248. 1848 Daniel Ferreira Pestana's grammar was published in Nova Goa.
  249. 1848 A lazaretto was established at the Quinta do Gorgulho.
  250. 1848 Joaquim Nunes de Aguiar completed his civil engineering course in Paris.
  251. 1848 Vicente Gomes da Silva made the first photographic experiments in Portuguese territory, in Madeira.
  252. 1848–1855 João Maria Moniz assembled his herbarium.
  253. 1848 José Caetano Peixoto was appointed the last governor of Porto Santo, the office ending that year.
  254. 1848 Dr António da Luz Pita performed an excision of the cervix in Lisbon.
  255. 1848 A memoir by Padre Caetano Alberto Soares read at the Instituto dos Advogados was published.
  256. 1848 António Joaquim Gonçalves de Freitas graduated in law at Coimbra.
  257. 1848–1851 José Silvestre Ribeiro represented Madeira in parliament, doing so again in 1853–56 and 1857–58.
  258. 1848–1851 Januário Vicente Camacho represented Madeira in the Cortes.
  259. 1848 João de Sant'Ana e Vasconcelos compiled the Porto Santo municipal annals.
  260. 1848–1849 José António Monteiro Teixeira published the two volumes of Obras Poéticas.
  261. 1848 A letter describing the Arco de São Jorge landslide was found in Lisbon.
  262. 3 January 1848–8 November 1848 José Silvestre Ribeiro issued a circular on keeping municipal annals on 3 January 1848, followed by a decree of 8 November requiring councils to keep annual Anais do Município.
  263. 27 January 1848 The Duke of Palmela was still in Madeira, shortly before leaving for Lisbon with his ailing wife.
  264. February 1848 The Correio da Madeira published an account of the Funchal capstan.
  265. 20 February 1848–3 April 1848 Prince Alexander of the Netherlands died at Tomaz Burnett's quinta in Santa Luzia on 20 February 1848; his body was taken aboard the Dutch steamer Phoenix on 3 April.
  266. 6 March 1848 Paid for by the surplus of the famine relief fund and contracted on 27 February for 5.799$000 réis, construction of the Ribeiro Seco bridge began under José Silvestre Ribeiro on 6 March 1848, being nearly finished by year end.
  267. 11 April 1848 Queen Adelaide left Madeira after a five-month stay.
  268. 18 April 1848 A decree transferred Bishop D. José Xavier de Cerveira e Sousa to the diocese of Beja.
  269. 8 May 1848–1850 The Ponta do Sol municipal council ordered and built the town's landing quay, work beginning on 8 May 1848 and lasting to 1850.
  270. 5 June 1848 Work began on the masonry bridge over the Ribeira dos Socorridos.
  271. 24 June 1848 A royal letter raised Jardim do Mar to a full parish.
  272. 17 July 1848–24 July 1849 Sérvulo Drumond de Meneses served as interim civil governor of Funchal during José Silvestre Ribeiro's absence.
  273. 24 July 1848 By royal letter of 24 July 1848 Quinta Grande was separated from Campanário as an autonomous parish of the Câmara de Lobos municipality, taking over the Vera Cruz chapel.
  274. 24 July 1848 A law of 24 July 1848 separated São Roque do Faial from Faial as an autonomous parish with its own priest.
  275. 24 July 1848 Achadas da Cruz became an independent parish by law.
  276. 24 July 1848 A law restored the parish of Água de Pena and made Santo da Serra an autonomous parish.
  277. 17 November 1848–20 November 1848 Floods caused heavy losses in Santana.
  278. December 1848–May 1849 Carlos Mac Euen made meteorological observations at Quinta Hollway.
  279. 29 December 1848 Dr António Alves da Silva received his doctorate in Paris free of charge in recognition of his talent.
  280. 1849 José Silvestre Ribeiro obtained an annual subsidy of six contos for the levada works in Madeira.
  281. 1849 A commission drew up a list of the weights and measures standards in use in Madeira.
  282. 1849 The first volume of António Alfredo's posthumous Miscellanea was published.
  283. 1849–1851 The Conde de Tojal served as Portuguese minister of foreign affairs.
  284. 1849–1852 The three volumes of Uma Época Administrativa da Madeira e Porto Santo, recording José Silvestre Ribeiro's administration, were published in 1849, 1850 and 1852.
  285. 1849 A regimento of eight articles was drawn up for the Recolhimento das Órfãs but never put into effect.
  286. 1849–1850 Joaquim Nunes de Aguiar served as engineer to the Funchal municipal council.
  287. 1849–1879 Francisco de Andrade's primary-school Portuguese grammar went through five editions.
  288. 1849 João Maria Moniz entered the Funchal revenue office as a trainee.
  289. 1849 Álvaro Rodrigues de Azevedo completed his law degree.
  290. 1849 Gerardo José de Nóbrega published 'The Cultivation of Cochineal'.
  291. 1849 Queen Adelaide of England sent José Silvestre Ribeiro an engraved silver piece in gratitude.
  292. 1849 A diarrhoeal epidemic struck Arco de São Jorge, and the civil governor José Silvestre Ribeiro brought doctors.
  293. 30 January 1849 The 87th and last issue of the first O Madeirense newspaper appeared.
  294. February 1849–5 December 1849 The Ribeiro Seco bridge was completed, and engineer Tibério Augusto Blanc officially reported it finished to the civil governor on 5 December.
  295. 3 February 1849 The first issue of the newspaper O Correio da Madeira appeared.
  296. 14 February 1849 An order authorised moving the Military Hospital to a house in the Rua da Rochinha de Baixo, Funchal.
  297. 17 February 1849 During a leste, Carlos Mac Euen measured a relative humidity of 18 per cent at Quinta Holloway.
  298. 17 February 1849 The Barão de São Pedro presented a bill to abolish all Madeiran entails, which was not approved.
  299. 18 April 1849 D. Manuel Martins Manso was presented as bishop of Funchal.
  300. 11 July 1849 The government was authorised to complete the Levada do Rabaçal.
  301. 22 August 1849 José Silvestre Ribeiro reported that Funchal was lit by 70 public lamps.
  302. 23 August 1849–23 April 1850 The Duke of Leuchtenberg arrived at Funchal aboard the Russian frigate Kamtchatka, landed after quarantine on 27 August, was received by José Silvestre Ribeiro, and resided at Quinta Lambert until April 1850.
  303. 7 November 1849 A decree abolished the municipality of Porto Moniz, whose parishes passed to Calheta; it was restored a few years later.
  304. 8 November 1849 An official letter defined the manilha as an orifice one palm in circumference.
  305. 21 November 1849 The Sociedade Agrícola Madeirense was solemnly inaugurated in the presence of the Duke of Leuchtenberg.
  306. 20 December 1849 A decree abolished the 9th Military Division, leaving Madeira a simple Military Command.
  307. 23 December 1849 Students held the first meeting to organise the Sociedade Filantrópica Académica in Coimbra.
  308. 1849–1850 The Monte toboggan cars appeared in their present form.
  309. 184? The American Isabella vine was introduced to Madeira shortly after 1840.
1850s 360
  1. c. 1850 The orchil trade and export from Madeira ended around the mid-19th century.
  2. c. 1850 João José Rodrigues Leitão settled in Funchal.
  3. c. 1850 The Praça do Ribeiro Seco was built shortly after 1850.
  4. c. 1850 The wickerwork industry apparently began in Camacha parish.
  5. c. 1850 The Virtudes chapel in São Martinho was rebuilt.
  6. c. 1850 James Yate Johnson came to Madeira seeking relief for lung disease.
  7. c. 1857 The image of St George ceased to appear in the Corpus Christi procession in Funchal.
  8. 1850 Dr J. A. Mason's work on Madeira's climate was published, with John Driver's guide appended.
  9. 1850 Paulo Perestrelo da Câmara's Diccionario geographico, historico, politico was published in Rio de Janeiro.
  10. 1850 Civil governor José Silvestre Ribeiro proposed a mutual-aid society for artisans.
  11. 1850–1851 Dr Osvaldo Heer stayed in Madeira from winter 1850 to spring 1851, making phenological observations.
  12. 1850 Civil governor José Silvestre Ribeiro intervened against Wilkinson's Protestant proselytising in Machico.
  13. 1850 The boys' primary school of Ponta do Pargo was created.
  14. 1850 Porto Santo's population was recorded as 1,799 people.
  15. 1850 John A. Dix's 'A Winter in Madeira' was published in New York, and Harcourt's 'A Sketch of Madeira' in London.
  16. 1850 Francisco Álvares de Nóbrega's Rimas were reprinted in Funchal by Januário Justiniano de Nóbrega.
  17. 1850 Francisco Justino Gonçalves de Andrade graduated in juridical and social sciences at São Paulo.
  18. 1850–1851 Roberto White made meteorological observations in Funchal and Machico.
  19. 1850 José Pereira Sanches de Castro published his observations on the colonia contract.
  20. 1850 The Ponta do Sol quay was apparently completed.
  21. 1850 The musician Cazella visited Madeira and gave concerts.
  22. 1850 José Silvestre Ribeiro ordered the Poiso refuge house built, according to one account.
  23. 1850 Famine struck Porto Santo; Governor José Silvestre Ribeiro funded 75 moios of cereals for the islanders.
  24. 1850 The Lancasterian school building was repaired at State expense.
  25. 1850 After 1850 the effectiveness of sulphur against the Oidium vine parasite became known.
  26. 1850 The Duke of Leuchtenberg visited Porto Santo aboard the frigate Palas.
  27. 22 January 1850 José Silvestre Ribeiro issued a further circular urging municipal annals.
  28. 26 January 1850–27 April 1854 The newspaper O Amigo do Povo was published, issuing 178 numbers.
  29. 15 February 1850 Daniel de Ornelas de Vasconcelos presented a bill in parliament to abolish all morgados, vínculos and capelas in Madeira.
  30. 16 February 1850 Maximiliano Eugénio de Azevedo was born in Funchal.
  31. 18 February 1850 The Filarmónica dos Artistas Funchalenses was founded.
  32. 23 February 1850 Roberto White recorded 25° in the shade during the leste wind.
  33. 11 March 1850 Dr António Alves da Silva was appointed professor at the Escola Médico-Cirúrgica do Funchal by decree.
  34. 16 March 1850 João Nunes Diabinho was born in Funchal.
  35. 1 April 1850–4 April 1850 An exhibition of Madeiran industry, including embroideries, was held in the Civil Government palace in Funchal, with 17 silver medals awarded.
  36. 4 April 1850 Organisation of the natural history cabinet began in the Palácio de São Lourenço.
  37. 12 April 1850 The Duke of Palmela died at his house at Rato, Lisbon.
  38. 23 April 1850 The Duke of Leuchtenberg left Madeira for Russia.
  39. 15 May 1850 Ramon Masferrer y Arquimbau was born in Vich.
  40. 28 May 1850 The Holy See confirmed D. Manuel Martins Manso as bishop of Funchal.
  41. 29 June 1850–30 June 1850 A great fair organised by José Silvestre Ribeiro was held in the Praça Académica, Funchal, visited by some fifteen thousand people.
  42. 27 July 1850 Civil Governor José Silvestre Ribeiro recommended building a viewpoint at Macelas, Machico, which was built soon after.
  43. 7 August 1850–6 March 1851 The poet Bulhão Pato stayed in Madeira.
  44. 19 August 1850–26 October 1850 José Silvestre Ribeiro recommended that the municipal councils build cemeteries.
  45. 30 August 1850 The statutes of the Sociedade Agrícola Madeirense were approved by royal charter.
  46. October 1850 Dr P. Garnier visited Madeira.
  47. October 1850–June 1851 The German naturalist Albers stayed in Madeira.
  48. 8 October 1850 D. Manuel Martins Manso received episcopal consecration.
  49. 5 November 1850 The boring of the Estrebarias levada tunnel was completed.
  50. 16 November 1850–13 June 1858 D. Manuel Martins Manso governed the diocese of Funchal as its 24th bishop.
  51. 5 December 1850 A boat to Porto Santo was wrecked while landing, killing 15 of the 27 aboard and prompting regulation of the crossing.
  52. 7 December 1850 The first issue of the newspaper O Archivista was published.
  53. 1850–1851 The wooden passenger stair at the Pontinha quay was replaced by one cut in the rock.
  54. 1850–1860 Around the mid-nineteenth century vine diseases wiped out Madeira's viticulture almost completely.
  55. 1851 The municipal butchers' stalls and slaughterhouse were built beside the fish market in Funchal.
  56. 1851 The Jewish cemetery of Funchal received an entrance inscription dated 5611 of the Hebrew calendar, corresponding to 1851.
  57. 1851 José Ferreira Pestana became Minister of the Kingdom.
  58. 1851 Major repairs were made to the parish church of Ponta do Pargo.
  59. 1851–1893 Livestock censuses of Funchal district were taken in 1851, 1873 and 1893.
  60. 1851 Funchal's lazaretto moved to houses at the mouth of the Ribeira de Gonçalo Aires.
  61. 1851 Saldanha's revolt took place, supported at Coimbra by the future Viscount das Nogueiras.
  62. 1851–1852 No snow fell in Madeira's mountains in the winter of 1851–1852.
  63. 1851 Under the Regeneration, which sought to reconcile parties, Madeira still elected two Cabralist deputies.
  64. 1851 Francisco Justino Gonçalves de Andrade defended his theses and received his doctorate.
  65. 1851 Dr Heer studied Madeiran phenology.
  66. 1851 Robert White wrote 'Madeira, its climate and scenery'.
  67. 1851–1852 Dr António da Luz Pita represented Madeira in parliament.
  68. 1851 The refuge house at Poiso was built.
  69. 1851–1852 José Silvestre Ribeiro tried unsuccessfully to establish a theatre in Funchal.
  70. 1851 Entrance works at the Lancasterian School were carried out on Governor José Silvestre Ribeiro's orders.
  71. 1851 Januário Vicente Camacho was raised to the peerage.
  72. 1851 Rafael Coelho Machado published his Breve tratado de Harmonia.
  73. 1851 The government rebuilt the chancel and part of the parish house of Santo António da Serra.
  74. 1851 Luís da Costa Pereira was appointed teacher at the Funchal Lyceum.
  75. 27 January 1851 Nuno Ferreira Jardim was born in Funchal.
  76. February 1851 A French visitor sold vine plants in Funchal, possibly introducing the vine fungus.
  77. 4 March 1851 João Joaquim Pinto, later dean, was born in Porto Moniz.
  78. 26 March 1851–29 December 1851 The newspaper O Agricultor Madeirense was published in nine issues.
  79. 28 May 1851 Frederico Pinto Coelho was born in Funchal.
  80. 12 July 1851–10 June 1853 The periodical O Estudo was published in Funchal.
  81. 25 July 1851 Civil governor José Silvestre Ribeiro reported favourably on Dr Robert Kalley's claim.
  82. 9 August 1851 The 132nd and last issue of O Correio da Madeira appeared.
  83. 28 August 1851 O Progressista, organ of the liberal party, began publication in Funchal.
  84. 6 October 1851 José Silvestre Ribeiro asked Funchal council to agree with Santana council on funding a resident keeper at Poiso.
  85. 15 October 1851 António Manuel de Noronha was created Viscount of Santa Cruz.
  86. 27 December 1851 The 56th and last issue of O Archivista was published.
  87. 1851–1852 Oidium appeared in Madeira and almost wholly destroyed the island's vineyards.
  88. 1852 A District Public Works Directorate was created in Funchal to direct and administer public works, following the creation of the Ministry of Public Works.
  89. 1852 The vine disease (oidium, or mangra) spread across Madeira and destroyed most of the vineyards, causing a severe economic crisis, misery and emigration.
  90. 1852 Works for a new church at Ribeira da Janela were contracted for 6.100$000 réis but were never begun.
  91. 1852 Correia de Azevedo Júnior defended his medical theses in Rio de Janeiro and published them there.
  92. 1852 Luiz de Freitas Branco graduated in law at Coimbra.
  93. 1852 António Jacinto de Freitas published the third volume of Uma Epocha Administrativa.
  94. 1852 Pedro Júlio Vieira completed his medical course at Montpellier and published his thesis on Madeira's climate.
  95. 1852 Dr Heer studied the plants of the Quinta do Vale.
  96. 1852 Joaquim Nunes de Aguiar was called to work on the northern railway.
  97. 1852–1853 In the winter of 1852–1853 unusually heavy snow fell and night temperatures in Funchal dropped to 45°F.
  98. 1852 António Manuel de Noronha was granted the title of Viscount of Santa Cruz.
  99. 1852 The British cemetery in Funchal was enlarged.
  100. 1852–1854 Dr Carlos Mittermaier stayed in Funchal making meteorological observations.
  101. 1852 Frederico Welwitsch proposed to the government the creation of acclimatisation gardens in Luanda and Funchal (dated variously 23 August or 23 September 1852).
  102. 1852 The shelter house at Poiso was completed in early 1852.
  103. 1852–1857 Agostinho de Ornelas de Vasconcelos studied law at Coimbra.
  104. 1852–1860 António Joaquim Gonçalves de Freitas practised law, politics and journalism in Funchal.
  105. 1852 The future Count of Canavial graduated bachelor of science at Montpellier.
  106. 5 January 1852 The first issue of the newspaper A Ordem appeared.
  107. 9 February 1852 The Count of Tojal died in Lisbon.
  108. 22 March 1852 Father João Maurício Henriques was born in Funchal.
  109. 2 April 1852 Francisco Correia Heredia, later Viscount of Ribeira Brava, was born at Ribeira Brava.
  110. 26 April 1852 António Augusto Larica defended his medical thesis at Montpellier.
  111. 26 May 1852 The government approved the statutes of the Sociedade Filantrópica Académica de Coimbra.
  112. 5 July 1852 The Additional Act made the election of deputies permanently direct.
  113. 5 July 1852 Prince Ferdinand Maximilian, later Emperor of Mexico, arrived in Madeira for the first time.
  114. 17 July 1852–9 October 1852 The newspaper O Baratíssimo published 13 issues before being suspended for abuse of press freedom.
  115. 30 July 1852–31 July 1852 On the night of 30 to 31 July 1852 soldiers of the 6th Caçadores Battalion mutinied at the Colégio barracks in Funchal and murdered Lieutenant Lapierre; the battalion was sent to Lisbon.
  116. 28 August 1852 Empress Amélia of Brazil and Princess Maria Amélia, who travelled on medical advice, arrived in Funchal aboard the frigate D. Fernando, accompanied by Dr Barral; the council named a street after the princess.
  117. 28 August 1852 Empress Amélia of Brazil took up residence at the Quinta Lambert in Funchal.
  118. September 1852 In September 1852 the shade temperature in Funchal reached 83°F, and 85°F in some places.
  119. 5 October 1852 José de Azevedo Castelo Branco was born in Vila Real.
  120. 14 October 1852 Alexandre Luiz da Cunha died at the Hospital Civil in Funchal, aged 49.
  121. 19 October 1852 A decree transferred the parish of Porto da Cruz from Santana to the municipality of Machico and moved some Machico localities to Santa Cruz.
  122. 27 October 1852 The postal service passed to direct state administration and postage stamps were introduced.
  123. 4 November 1852 Dr Justino António de Freitas was promoted to full professor by decree.
  124. 13 November 1852 The Viscount of Fornos de Algodres, João Maria de Abreu Castelo Branco Cardoso e Melo, was appointed civil governor of the Funchal district.
  125. 22 November 1852 The civil governor appointed a commission to raise relief funds abroad for the victims of the vine disease crisis.
  126. 27 November 1852 Civil governor José Silvestre Ribeiro left Madeira at the end of his governorship, after which the old natural history cabinet's collections were lost or stolen.
  127. 13 December 1852 The metric system was decreed in Portugal.
  128. 1853 Paulo Perestrelo da Câmara returned briefly from Brazil to Europe.
  129. 1853 The mangra vine disease invaded Madeira and largely destroyed its vineyards.
  130. 1853 Charles Bunbury studied the Madeiran flora and the fossil plants of São Jorge.
  131. 1853 António Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade became dean and escorted the remains of Princess Maria Amélia to Lisbon.
  132. 1853 The bell tower of the parish church of Machico was rebuilt.
  133. 1853 An official document described the weights standard of Ponta do Sol as a valuable archaeological piece.
  134. 1853–1854 Georg Hartung visited the Madeira archipelago in the winter of 1853–1854.
  135. 1853 Nicolau Anastácio de Bettencourt was elected deputy for Horta but declined.
  136. 1853 Friedrich Welwitsch made a short visit to Madeira and collected a few plants.
  137. 1853 D. Manuel de Portugal e Castro came to Madeira as Queen Maria II's envoy after the death of Princess Maria Amélia.
  138. 1853–1858 Dr António da Luz Pita again served as deputy for Madeira.
  139. 1853 Sérvulo Drumond de Meneses first proposed building the D. Pedro V market in Funchal.
  140. 1853–1854 Charles Lyell spent two months exploring Madeira's geology in the winter of 1853–1854.
  141. 1853 Dr Barral wrote his description of the Hospital de São Lázaro.
  142. 4 February 1853 Princess D. Maria Amélia, daughter of Empress Amélia, died of pulmonary tuberculosis at the Quinta das Angústias in Funchal.
  143. 15 March 1853 António Aluísio Jervis de Atouguia was created Viscount of Atouguia.
  144. 13 April 1853 Empress Amélia wrote to Queen Maria II proposing the founding of a hospice in Funchal.
  145. 6 May 1853 The coffin of Princess Maria Amélia was embarked at the Pontinha quay and the Empress left Madeira with it for Lisbon.
  146. 13 June 1853 The Santo António oratory at Lombo das Adegas, Ponta do Sol, was enlarged into a public chapel, which was blessed.
  147. 20 June 1853 The Visconde de Atouguia signed the report on paying compensation to Dr Robert Kalley.
  148. 10 July 1853 The Hospício da Princesa D. Maria Amélia opened provisionally in a building in the Rua do Castanheiro, Funchal.
  149. 19 July 1853 A charter law authorised the foundation of the Hospício da Princesa D. Maria Amélia with special privileges.
  150. 22 July 1853 A law exempted locally grown maize from tithes to encourage its cultivation.
  151. 29 July 1853–September 1853 João de Andrade Corvo arrived in Funchal and stayed until mid-September studying the vine disease.
  152. 21 October 1853 Augusto de Arzila Fonseca was born in Funchal.
  153. 1854–1856 Between 1854 and 1856 embroidery began to be produced on a large scale in Madeira for the English market.
  154. 1854 António Evaristo de Ornelas took his doctorate in medicine at Paris.
  155. 1854 The 2nd Count of Carvalhal married Matilde Montúfar Infante.
  156. 1854 According to Dr Azevedo, the modern export of Madeiran sugar began.
  157. 1854 Robert McAndrew published his study on the distribution of North Atlantic molluscs.
  158. 1854 William Hadfield's book, including notes on Madeira, was published in London.
  159. 1854 Medical inspection of prostitutes probably began in Madeira.
  160. 1854 Dr Francisco António Barral published in Lisbon his study of Funchal's climate and pulmonary phthisis.
  161. 1854 F. S. Dyster's 'Madeira as residence for invalids' was published in London.
  162. 1854 Lady Wortley observed that Maria Clementina still showed signs of her former beauty.
  163. 1854 Famine again struck Porto Santo.
  164. 1854 Owing to vine blight, Madeiran wine production fell to only 600 hectolitres.
  165. 1854 Andrade Corvo published his report on the vine disease.
  166. 1854 Princess Maria Amélia died, on which occasion Francisco António de Freitas e Abreu rendered public services.
  167. 1854 Dr G. Lund published The climate of the Island of Madeira in London.
  168. 1854 T. Vernon Wollaston's Insecta Maderensia was published in London.
  169. 1854 Albers published the Malacographia maderensis in Berlin.
  170. 1854 The first edition of Alexander D'Orsey's Colloquial Portuguese was published.
  171. 19 January 1854 Dr António Alves da Silva died in Funchal aged 31.
  172. 26 January 1854 Funeral rites for Queen Maria II were held in Funchal.
  173. 4 February 1854 Paulo Perestrelo da Câmara died in Rio de Janeiro.
  174. 15 March 1854 He received the title of Viscount of Atouguia.
  175. 17 April 1854 João Catanho de Meneses was born in Faial.
  176. 29 April 1854 An agricultural exhibition promoted by João Maria Moniz was held at the São Lourenço palace in Funchal.
  177. 15 May 1854 The last issue, no. 142, of the newspaper O Progressista appeared.
  178. 22 May 1854 The first issue of the newspaper O Clamor Publico appeared.
  179. 4 June 1854 The French writer Charles Perreymond died in Funchal.
  180. 14 June 1854–25 June 1854 José Gerardo Ferreira Passos was appointed civil governor of the Funchal district on 14 June and took office on 25 June 1854, also serving as military commander.
  181. 18 June 1854 The yacht Experiência sailed for Rio de Janeiro with 188 emigrant colonists.
  182. 4 July 1854 Baron Charles Van Beneden was born in Belgium.
  183. 13 July 1854 D. Manuel de Portugal e Castro died.
  184. 5 August 1854 João de Freitas Branco was born in Funchal.
  185. 15 September 1854 Canon António Aires Pacheco was born.
  186. 25 October 1854 The British steamer Forerunner was wrecked on the Badajeira shoal off Ponta de São Lourenço, killing three passengers and eleven crew.
  187. 10 November 1854 Canon Dr António Vicente Varela was born in Ponta do Sol.
  188. 1855 Construction of the Bom Sucesso levada was begun.
  189. 1855 The water of the Levada dos Moinhos was allotted to cleaning the city by day and to irrigation among 153 heréus by night.
  190. 1855 James Mackenzie Bloxam's 'The Climate of the Island Madeira' was published in London.
  191. 1855 The municipality of Porto Moniz was restored, and the parish of Ponta do Pargo, among others, rejoined it.
  192. 1855 D. Maria de Bettencourt's novel 'O Cura de São Lourenço' was published in Lisbon.
  193. 1855 Following vine disease, Madeiran wine production fell to only 38 pipes.
  194. 1855 The students' annual feast of Our Lady of Light apparently lapsed.
  195. 1855 João de Nóbrega Soares returned to Madeira and settled there.
  196. 1855 S. Fischer published, with the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences, a work describing eight Madeiran entomostracans.
  197. 1855 A pamphlet describing the Funchal festivities for the acclamation of Pedro V was published.
  198. 1855 Osvaldo Heer published a study of the fossil plants of São Jorge.
  199. 1855 There were 280 British residents in Funchal.
  200. 1855 Carlos Mittermaier's book on Madeira as a health resort was published in Heidelberg.
  201. 1855 The Portuguese government commissioned the Barão de Castelo de Paiva to study Madeira's agriculture and economy.
  202. 1855 Famine again struck Porto Santo.
  203. 1855 Manuel Joaquim Fernandes was sentenced to death, possibly the last Madeiran so condemned.
  204. 1855–1856 G. Lund made meteorological observations in Funchal.
  205. 1855 The Sociedade Agrícola Madeirense was re-established on new bases.
  206. 1855 In the summer T. Vernon Wollaston made his last visit to the archipelago.
  207. 14 January 1855 John Blandy died.
  208. 8 February 1855 The first issue of the newspaper A Discussão appeared.
  209. 9 March 1855 Dr Domingos Olavo Correia de Azevedo died in Lisbon.
  210. 24 May 1855 Duarte Joaquim dos Santos died in Funchal.
  211. June 1855 The plant Monizia edulis was discovered on Deserta Grande.
  212. 3 August 1855 João Barbeito da Silva was born in Funchal.
  213. 7 September 1855 D. Pedro V was acclaimed king in Funchal.
  214. 11 September 1855 Fortunado Joaquim Figueira was created Baron of Conceição.
  215. 16 September 1855 Rabaçal water first crossed the Estrebarias tunnel from the north to the south of the island.
  216. 3 October 1855 Vicente Cândido Machado was born in Funchal.
  217. 1856 Sorghum was introduced to Madeira.
  218. 1856 Bunbury published Remarks on the Botany of Madeira and Teneriffe.
  219. 1856 A brewery existed in Funchal.
  220. 1856 The vestments of the São Lourenço chapel were given to the church of Achadas da Cruz.
  221. 1856 Antero Drumond de Meneses received his medical doctorate at Montpellier.
  222. 1856 D. Joana de Albuquerque e França rebuilt the chapel of Nossa Senhora das Preces and its house.
  223. 1856 An English full-rigged ship was wrecked at Fajã do Manuel; 15 of the 21 aboard died.
  224. 1856 Several sugar factories opened in Funchal and São Martinho, including the Ponte Nova and Torreão factories.
  225. 1856 The Machico municipal council printed its by-laws as a pamphlet.
  226. 1856 Lowe named the genus Monizia after João Maria Moniz.
  227. 1856 Severiano Alberto de Freitas Ferraz's sugar factory was greatly improved.
  228. 1856 Statutes of the Clube Económico were drawn up.
  229. 1856 The Concórdia theatre building in Funchal was demolished to open a new street.
  230. 1856 A pamphlet to the Archbishop of Canterbury on the old Church of England congregation in Madeira was published in London.
  231. 1856 Rua do Phelps was opened at José Phelps's expense.
  232. 1856 J. M. Ziegler published his Physical Map of the Island of Madeira.
  233. 5 January 1856–6 January 1856 Floods damaged Funchal and western parishes; afterwards Rua dos Medinas declined socially and prostitutes settled there and in Rua do Ribeirinho de Baixo.
  234. 2 February 1856 Manuel Alexandre de Sousa was born in Funchal.
  235. 4 February 1856 The foundation stone of the new building of the Hospício da Princesa D. Maria Amélia was laid.
  236. 13 March 1856 José Maria de Gouveia was born in Funchal.
  237. 16 March 1856 Ciríaco de Brito e Nóbrega was born in Funchal.
  238. April 1856 A considerable landslide at Machico destroyed the huts built on it.
  239. 7 May 1856 A decree created boys' and girls' primary schools in many Madeiran parishes.
  240. 1 June 1856 António Rogério Gromicho Couceiro took office as civil governor of the Funchal district.
  241. 14 June 1856 The civil governor reorganised the police under a military chief.
  242. 23 June 1856 Joana de Castelo Branco was born in Faial.
  243. 28 June 1856 Infantry Regiment No. 1 landed at Funchal from cholera-stricken Lisbon.
  244. July 1856–October 1856 A cholera epidemic, brought by Infantry Regiment No. 1, ravaged Madeira from July to October 1856, killing about ten thousand people by tradition and leaving many orphans. Álvaro Rodrigues de Azevedo, Luiz Albino Gonçalves and others served during it.
  245. 2 July 1856 The first cholera cases appeared among soldiers quartered at the Colégio in Funchal.
  246. 31 July 1856 The cholera epidemic peaked, killing 162 people in Funchal in 24 hours.
  247. 24 August 1856 Severiano Alberto de Freitas Ferraz died in Funchal aged 64.
  248. 5 September 1856–6 September 1856 Dr Archibald Colquhoun Ross, back from England, fell ill with cholera in Funchal and died the next day.
  249. 17 September 1856 Alexandre José Sarsfield was born in São Pedro parish, Funchal.
  250. 31 October 1856–14 November 1856 The newspaper O Meteóro appeared, running to only two issues.
  251. 6 November 1856 João Severo da Cunha was born in Funchal.
  252. 3 December 1856 A new inventory of the São Lourenço chapel recorded 65 pounds of silver.
  253. 7 December 1856 Jacinto do Carmo Sá Penela was born in Funchal.
  254. 17 December 1856 The short-lived Sociedade de Beneficência do Funchal was installed.
  255. 1857 The police were housed in the former São Francisco convent in Funchal.
  256. 1857 James Mackenzie Bloxam's 'The Church of England in Madeira' was published in London.
  257. 1857 Nathaniel Haslope Mason visited Madeira and assembled natural-history collections.
  258. 1857–1862 Jaime Constantino de Freitas Moniz studied law at Coimbra, graduating in 1862.
  259. 1857 Eduardo Ernesto de Castelo Branco enlisted in the army.
  260. 1857–1858 Sebastião Frederico Rodrigues Leal represented Madeira in the Portuguese parliament.
  261. 1857 Governor António Rogério Gromicho Couceiro had the organ of Machico parish church repaired.
  262. 1857 Fire destroyed part of the lazaretto at Gonçalo Aires.
  263. 1857 The eared woollen cap was already in use in Madeira.
  264. 1857 A second edition of the Conde de Vargas de Bédmar's work was published on São Miguel.
  265. 1857 James Yate Johnson edited and published the second edition of Robert White's 'Madeira, its climate and scenery'.
  266. 1857–1868 António Correia Herédia represented Madeira in parliament across several sessions between 1857 and 1868.
  267. 1857–1878 D. Luís da Câmara Leme was continuously elected deputy for various constituencies from 1857 to 1878.
  268. 1857 José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage published a note on shells of Madeira and Porto Santo.
  269. 1857 The future Conde de Canavial obtained his medical doctorate at Montpellier.
  270. 1857 José Pereira Sanches de Castro published his observations on the colonia contract.
  271. 1857 Hector Clairouin came to Funchal.
  272. 8 January 1857 Januário Justiniano de Nóbrega became third clerk of the municipal administration.
  273. 2 April 1857–30 January 1858 The first newspaper titled 'A Madeira' published forty-three issues.
  274. 21 April 1857 Alfredo Bettencourt da Câmara was born in Funchal.
  275. 25 April 1857 A law abolished the soap monopoly.
  276. 20 May 1857 Nicolau Caetano de Bettencourt Pita died on Terceira.
  277. 26 May 1857 João Augusto Pereira was born in Ribeira Brava.
  278. 8 June 1857–17 June 1857 During its 1857–1859 circumnavigation, the Austrian frigate Novara under Commodore Wuellerstorf-Urbair, with geologist Ferdinand von Hochstetter aboard, stayed at Madeira and Funchal from 8 to 17 June 1857.
  279. 15 June 1857 Joaquim Pedro de Castelo Branco was granted a coat of arms, the latest such grant listed.
  280. 7 August 1857 Henrique Veitch died in Madeira.
  281. 23 August 1857 The new parish church of Santo António da Serra was solemnly blessed.
  282. 1 September 1857 D. Marta Celina Sauvayre da Câmara was born in Funchal.
  283. 3 September 1857 Governor António Rogério Gromicho Couceiro left Madeira at the end of his governorship.
  284. 12 September 1857 A royal charter granted the Misericórdia a lottery that ran for several years.
  285. 21 October 1857 The first issue of the first newspaper 'O Direito' appeared.
  286. 18 November 1857 Agostinho de Ornelas de Vasconcelos was appointed second attaché in Washington.
  287. 4 December 1857 Dr Lourenço José Moniz died poor in Lisbon; his epitaph gives 6 December.
  288. 1858 Dr P. Garnier's French translation of Barral's work on the climate of Madeira was published in Paris.
  289. 1858–1884 Luiz de Freitas Branco served as deputy for Madeira in several parliamentary sessions between 1858 and 1884.
  290. 1858–1861 George Busk published his papers on Madeiran polyzoa.
  291. 1858 The Latin inscription of the gate of the Varadouros chapel was published in issue no. 5 of A Justiça.
  292. 1858 The second edition of Colvocoress's account of the Wilkes exploring expedition, which touched at Madeira, was published in New York.
  293. 1858 The British steamer Barão de Catters made regular voyages solely between Lisbon and Madeira.
  294. 1858 The Sociedade Tália, a dramatic society, was founded in Funchal and installed at the Largo do Pelourinho.
  295. 1858 The oldest known printed ecclesiastical almanac of the diocese of Funchal dates from this year.
  296. 1858 The newspaper A Reforma claimed that individualist politics were losing ground in Madeira.
  297. 1858 D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto graduated in theology at Coimbra.
  298. 1858–1869 João Barbosa de Matos e Câmara represented Madeira in the Portuguese parliament.
  299. 1858 Ricardo Carlos Smith published in Funchal his instructions on growing Holcus saccharatus.
  300. 1858–1859 António Rogério Gromicho Couceiro represented Madeira in parliament.
  301. 1858 Charles Thomas Stanford was born.
  302. 1858 The future Count of Canavial won fourth prize in an international competition with a memoir on diet and respiration.
  303. 1858 The Sociedade Agrícola Madeirense ceased to function regularly.
  304. 20 January 1858 The last issue (no. 170) of the Funchal newspaper O Clamor Publico appeared.
  305. 23 February 1858 Luiz António Gonçalves de Freitas was born.
  306. 9 March 1858–26 April 1858 José Maria Baldy was appointed civil governor and military commander of Madeira on 9 March and took office on 26 April.
  307. 27 March 1858 The newspaper A Justiça began publication in Funchal.
  308. 12 April 1858 Padre António João de Lessa died in Rio de Janeiro.
  309. 14 April 1858 The Real Sociedade Humanitária do Porto commended Madeiran rescuers of shipwrecks.
  310. 23 April 1858 Canon Gregório Nazianzeno Medina e Vasconcelos died in Funchal.
  311. 5 June 1858 The Sociedade Humanitária do Distrito do Funchal was founded.
  312. 7 June 1858 António Jardim de Oliveira was born in São Vicente.
  313. July 1858 Bishop D. Manuel Martins Manso left Funchal for the diocese of Guarda.
  314. 1 July 1858 The last soap monopoly contract expired, freeing soap making and trade in Madeira.
  315. 6 July 1858 Jacinto António de Sousa took his doctorate in the Faculty of Philosophy at Coimbra.
  316. 14 July 1858 The Funchal council deliberated, without result, on introducing gas lighting.
  317. 28 August 1858 The last issue, the 77th, of the newspaper A Discussão appeared.
  318. 10 September 1858–26 September 1858 António Maria de Fontes Pereira de Melo stayed in Madeira, arriving aboard the brigantine Mariana and leaving in her for Cape Verde.
  319. 11 September 1858 The chapel of Nossa Senhora do Livramento at Estreito da Calheta was founded by deed of 11 September 1858.
  320. 8 October 1858–9 October 1858 Infante D. Luís arrived at Funchal in the corvette Bartolomeu Dias, the first royal visit to Madeira, landing next day at the Pontinha quay with a grand reception; he was received at the Palheiro by the Count of Carvalhal and ordered inlaid tables for King Pedro V and Queen Estefânia.
  321. 14 October 1858 The first issue of the Funchal newspaper A Reforma was published.
  322. 19 October 1858 A meeting at the Palácio de São Lourenço, attended by Infante D. Luís, laid the foundations of the Sociedade Auxiliadora da Instrução Primária.
  323. 25 October 1858 Infante D. Luís, landing at Lugar de Baixo because rough seas prevented landing at Ponta do Sol, visited Ponta do Sol on his way to Rabaçal.
  324. 27 October 1858 Infante D. Luís left Madeira for Lisbon, ending his visit.
  325. 14 November 1858 The galera Defensor arrived at Madeira sinking, and six people drowned trying to land.
  326. December 1858 The Sociedade Esperança was constituted in Funchal with 18 members to stage plays and build a small theatre.
  327. 4 December 1858 The newspaper O Direito reported on the statutes and founders of the Sociedade Esperança.
  328. 23 December 1858 Sergeants of Infantry Regiment 16 gave a performance in the Sociedade Tália's theatre.
  329. 29 December 1858 The Associação dos Artistas Madeirenses was installed.
  330. 1859 The government sent officers to Madeira to introduce the metric system.
  331. 1859 Carlos J. F. Bunbury published On Some Vegetable Remains from Madeira.
  332. 1859–1860 James Yate Johnson collected polyzoa at Madeira for George Busk.
  333. 1859 The building of the Hospício da Princesa D. Maria Amélia was completed.
  334. 1859 César Augusto Mourão Pita published his Montpellier thesis Du Climat de Madère.
  335. 1859 The Portuguese steamer Visconde de Atoguia began the regular Lisbon–Madeira service.
  336. 1859 Dr João Joaquim Figueira died in or shortly after 1859.
  337. 1859 Dr Hochstetter measured Pico Ruivo at 1,876 m.
  338. 1859 Canon Vicente Nery da Silva published his main polemical pamphlets in Funchal.
  339. 1859 António Rogério Gromicho Couceiro served as minister of war.
  340. 1859 The future Conde de Canavial revalidated his medical degree at the Lisbon Medical School.
  341. 1859–1864 José Leite Monteiro studied law at Coimbra, graduating in 1864.
  342. 1859 Hermann Schacht published Madeira und Teneriffe and a pamphlet on Visnea mocanera in Berlin.
  343. 3 January 1859 A royal letter confirmed João de Santana e Vasconcelos as clerk of the Funchal council.
  344. 1 March 1859 Dr José de Barros e Sousa was born in Câmara de Lobos.
  345. 10 March 1859 The Teatro Esperança in Funchal was formally opened with the plays o Judeu and o Conde de Paragará.
  346. 17 April 1859–13 June 1861 The second O Funchalense, edited by Sebastião Frederico Rodrigues Leal, was published in Funchal, running to 103 issues.
  347. 20 April 1859–18 September 1859 Pius IX confirmed D. Patrício Xavier de Moura's transfer from Cabo Verde to Funchal; he took possession by proxy on 28 May, arrived on 26 August and made his solemn entry into Funchal cathedral on 18 September 1859.
  348. 22 April 1859 José Júlio de França e Vasconcelos died in Funchal.
  349. 5 June 1859 A postal convention with England regularised mail services and cut rates.
  350. 20 June 1859 A decree ordered the implementation of the metric system.
  351. 31 July 1859 Francisco João de Freitas Ferraz died of tuberculosis in Lisbon.
  352. 7 August 1859 The last issue (no. 93) of the first O Direito appeared.
  353. 28 August 1859 Francisco de Paula de Campos e Oliveira sent his report on Madeira's weights and measures to Lisbon.
  354. 26 September 1859 Dr José Manuel da Veiga died in Lisbon.
  355. October 1859 Dr P. Garnier published 'Itinéraire de Paris à Madère'.
  356. 2 November 1859 The first issue of João Augusto de Ornelas's O Direito appeared.
  357. 25 November 1859 Clemente de Freitas da Silva was born in Santa Cruz.
  358. 6 December 1859 Archduke Maximilian and Carlota arrived in Madeira aboard the Austrian warship Elisabeth for a winter stay.
  359. 19 December 1859 The Flying Foame was wrecked at Fajã do Manuel, Porto Moniz, with 15 dead.
  360. 22 December 1859 Maximilian left Madeira on a study voyage to South America.
1860s 328
  1. c. 1860 A man of good family leapt to his death from the Ribeiro Seco bridge after being rejected by a civil governor's wife.
  2. c. 1860 A Calvinist church was established in Funchal.
  3. c. 1862 The Misericórdia hospital of Machico was closed.
  4. c. 1863 Around 1863 Amélia Augusta de Azevedo produced much-admired photographs in Madeira.
  5. c. 1864 João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreia was born in Funchal.
  6. c. 1865 The image of Nossa Senhora do Monte was carried in what was believed to be Funchal's last rigorous penitential procession, held to pray for rain during a drought.
  7. c. 1865 António de Sousa built salt works at Paul do Mar.
  8. c. 1866 José Cupertino de Faria was born in Funchal around this year.
  9. c. 1866 The Count of Lambert died around this year.
  10. c. 1867 Manuel Gonçalves was born in Funchal.
  11. c. 1867 The Clube Aliança was founded in Funchal.
  12. c. 1869 José Joaquim de Sá, the last archdeacon of the Funchal chapter, died.
  13. 1860 The old Rabaçal levada was completed.
  14. 1860–1904 The Fajã dos Vinháticos levada was built; it was abandoned in 1904 and replaced by the São Jorge levada.
  15. 1860–1865 New Year's Eve fireworks were introduced to Madeira, reportedly by João José Rodrigues Leitão.
  16. 1860 Dr Jacinto António de Sousa represented Portugal at the observation of the solar eclipse in Spain.
  17. 1860 Dr Afonseca outpolled the Count of Carvalhal in a celebrated election.
  18. 1860 Alberto A. Girard was born.
  19. 1860 Manuel José Vieira graduated in law and won the lyceum teaching post.
  20. 1860 João Maria Moniz was appointed aspirante in the revenue office.
  21. 1860 Leopoldo Kny botanised in Madeira.
  22. 1860 A pamphlet on the Count of Bonfim was published.
  23. 1860 The first part of the poetry volume Flores Agrestes, containing poems by João Fortunato de Oliveira, was published in Funchal.
  24. 1860–1865 António Gonçalves de Freitas served as deputy for Madeira in three legislatures.
  25. 1860 Captain Francisco N. Norman collected plants in Madeira.
  26. 1860 António da Luz Pita, later Count of Canavial, was appointed anatomy demonstrator at the Funchal Medical School.
  27. 1860–1864 The Sociedade Agrícola Madeirense interrupted its sessions in 1860 and functioned afterwards until 1864.
  28. 1860 D. Inácia Betencourt Perestrelo built the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Livramento at Lombo dos Reis.
  29. 5 January 1860 Mrs Minet wrote a letter confirming the coins placed under the Anglican church.
  30. 1 February 1860–29 February 1860 Joaquim Pedro Quintela, Count of Farrobo, was appointed civil governor of Funchal on 1 February and took office on 29 February 1860.
  31. 4 February 1860 An exceptional hailfall covered the hills and valleys of Porto Santo, and townspeople made sorbet from the hail.
  32. 15 February 1860–10 May 1860 The Sociedade Esperança approved its statutes, which were confirmed by government decree on 10 May 1860.
  33. 1 March 1860 The metric system took effect in the islands.
  34. 5 March 1860 Archduke Maximilian returned to Madeira from South America.
  35. 12 March 1860 Maximilian and Princess Maria Carlota left Madeira for Austria.
  36. 3 April 1860 Canon Vicente Nery da Silva died in Funchal.
  37. 17 April 1860 Canonical inspection of the chapel of Nossa Senhora do Livramento at Estreito da Calheta.
  38. 17 May 1860–15 October 1877 The weekly A Voz do Povo was published, running for 1344 issues.
  39. 29 July 1860 D. Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos received his doctorate in theology at Coimbra.
  40. 1 September 1860–31 August 1867 A third newspaper A Flor do Oceano was published, ending with issue 353.
  41. 1 September 1860 The last issue of the newspaper A Ordem appeared.
  42. 16 September 1860 Armando Augusto de Pontes was ordained priest.
  43. 29 November 1860 Empress Elisabeth of Austria arrived in Funchal aboard the Victoria & Albert.
  44. 7 December 1860 The Count of Linhares arrived on the corvette Sagres to greet the Empress of Austria on behalf of King Pedro V.
  45. 24 December 1860 The Dutch galliot Alfa was wrecked in a storm on the Rocha do Navio islet off Santana; its crew of seven survived.
  46. 1861 The state began studies for the Levada da Serra.
  47. 1861 José Júlio do Amaral was military commander of the archipelago.
  48. 1861 Francisco Maria Bordalo stayed in Madeira for his health and died in Lisbon shortly after returning.
  49. 1861 James Yate Johnson published notes on the sea anemones of Madeira.
  50. 1861 Madeira's sugar production reached 275,802 kg.
  51. 1861 Ferdinand von Hochstetter's pamphlet Madeira was published in Vienna.
  52. 1861 Dr O. Hagen published his note on exceptional air dryness in Madeira.
  53. 1861 The musician José Fradesso Belo died.
  54. 1861 J. Gray Smith measured Pico Ruivo at 1,849 m.
  55. 1861 The account of the Novara voyage under Commodore Wuellerstorf-Urbair, including its call at Madeira, was published in Vienna.
  56. 1861 James Yate Johnson described a new Cancer species from Madeira.
  57. 1861 Segor van Siver's travel account of Madeira and the Americas was published in Leipzig.
  58. 1861 Francisco Travassos Valdez's Six years of a traveller's life in Western Africa was published in London.
  59. 1861 The wine firm adopted the name Cossart, Gordon & Co.
  60. 1861 Hector Clairouin's Methodo Michaelense was published in Funchal.
  61. 1861 José António Monteiro Teixeira published Oeuvres Poétiques.
  62. February 1861–1868 The Military Division in Madeira was re-established, lasting until 1868.
  63. 2 April 1861 Father Alfredo de Paula Sardinha was born in Funchal.
  64. 17 April 1861 Infante D. Luís arrived at Funchal on behalf of King Pedro V to visit Empress Elisabeth of Austria and escort her on departure.
  65. 20 April 1861–23 April 1861 The first exhibition of the Sociedade Agrícola da Madeira, the most brilliant held in Funchal, took place at the São Lourenço palace.
  66. 28 April 1861 Empress Elisabeth of Austria left Madeira for Gibraltar.
  67. 15 May 1861 The musician João Fradesso Bello died in Funchal.
  68. 17 May 1861 The Viscount of Atouguia died in Lisbon.
  69. 25 May 1861 The Sociedade Agrícola distributed the prizes of the 1861 exhibition at a meeting chaired by the civil governor.
  70. 29 May 1861 Manuel Luís Viana de Freitas died in Funchal.
  71. 2 June 1861–10 June 1862 The periodical A Revista Semanal was published in 52 issues.
  72. 16 June 1861 Fidelio de Freitas Branco was born in Funchal.
  73. 25 June 1861 Madeira's deputies presented a bill for lighthouses at Ponta de São Lourenço and the Pontinha islet, which failed.
  74. 26 June 1861 The newspaper A Justiça ceased publication with issue no. 166.
  75. July 1861 The rebuilt Santa Luzia chapel was blessed.
  76. 4 July 1861 Canon Jerónimo Álvares da Silva Pinheiro died in Funchal.
  77. 11 July 1861–25 January 1862 The first newspaper A Lei ran for 27 issues in Funchal.
  78. 16 July 1861 The 80th and last issue of A Reforma was published.
  79. 31 August 1861 The poet known as Manuel Ribeiro was born in Lisbon.
  80. 31 August 1861–13 January 1862 The periodical O Campo Neutro published its 18 issues.
  81. 11 September 1861 A law abolished the tithes, décima, quinto, subsídio literário and finto in Madeira.
  82. 2 October 1861 Augusto José Vieira was born in Funchal.
  83. November 1861 Platão de Vaksel arrived in Madeira accompanying his sister, ill with tuberculosis.
  84. November 1861 The French warship Alecton found a giant cephalopod of the genus Architeuthis between Madeira and Tenerife.
  85. 3 November 1861 The writer António Pedro Lopes de Mendonça arrived in Madeira for a stay.
  86. 1862 The Castelo Melhor family sued and registered their ownership of the Convent of Santa Clara.
  87. 1862 São Jorge and Arco de São Jorge still lacked cemeteries.
  88. 1862 All metric measures were to be in force nationwide, including Madeira.
  89. 1862 Madeira had 1,029 embroiderers with sales of about 100 contos.
  90. 1862 Luiz de Freitas Branco was appointed director-general of ecclesiastical affairs.
  91. 1862 The first edition of João de Nóbrega Soares's Chorographia da Madeira was published.
  92. 1862 Dr Jacinto António de Sousa published his report on visits to scientific establishments abroad.
  93. 1862 The annotated edition of António Cordeiro's Historia Insulana was published.
  94. 1862 The steamer Lisboa entered service and African-line steamers began calling regularly at Funchal.
  95. 1862 Volume 1 of the Corpo Diplomatico Portuguez, containing the bull founding the diocese of Funchal, was published.
  96. 1862 Dr Liebetruth collected marine algae in Madeira.
  97. 1862 Agostinho Teodoro Pita became the first canonically instituted parish priest of Quinta Grande.
  98. 1862 A boys' school was created in Camacha.
  99. 1862–1863 Alphons Stuebel stayed in Madeira studying its geology and built a relief geological map.
  100. 1862 The beggars' and orphans' asylums of Funchal were merged.
  101. 1862 Ludwig Storch published Madeira in Leipzig.
  102. 1862 The Viscondessa das Nogueiras published Diálogos entre uma avó e suas netas.
  103. 5 January 1862–30 March 1862 The newspaper A Aurora do Domingo published its twelve numbers.
  104. 8 January 1862–18 January 1862 João de Santana e Vasconcelos Moniz de Bettencourt served as interim civil governor of Funchal district.
  105. 13 January 1862 A decree approved the statutes of the Sociedade Humanitária do Distrito do Funchal.
  106. 15 January 1862–19 January 1862 Januário Correia de Almeida was appointed civil governor of Madeira by decree of 15 January and took office on 19 January.
  107. 19 January 1862 Funeral rites for King Pedro V were held in Funchal Cathedral.
  108. 20 January 1862 Luís I was acclaimed king in Funchal.
  109. 4 February 1862 The Hospício da Princesa D. Maria Amélia in Funchal began operating, admitting its first twelve patients.
  110. 1 March 1862–19 December 1863 The Boletim Official do Distrito Administrativo do Funchal was published, 79 issues in all.
  111. 15 March 1862 D. José Xavier de Cerveira e Sousa died at Mogofores.
  112. 2 April 1862–2 July 1862 The newspaper A Pátria ran from 2 April to 2 July 1862, issuing thirteen numbers.
  113. 22 June 1862 António Rogério Gromicho Couceiro died in Lisbon as a field marshal.
  114. July 1862–2 August 1862 The Hospício da Princesa D. Maria Amélia closed in mid-July after the Sisters of Charity were ordered to leave; they left Funchal on 2 August.
  115. July 1862 Nicolau Anastácio de Bettencourt retired from administrative service.
  116. 24 July 1862–29 November 1863 The newspaper A Imprensa was published, issuing 37 numbers.
  117. 27 July 1862 António João de França Bettencourt received the doctorate in Theology at Coimbra.
  118. August 1862 The Convent of the Incarnação was valued at 10,320$000 réis for disentailment.
  119. 2 August 1862 Funchal council rented the Rua do Esmeraldo building for its premises.
  120. 4 September 1862 The Associação de Beneficência do Funchal, later named 4 de Setembro de 1862, was founded; it became the model of mutualism in Madeira.
  121. 5 September 1862 Manuel Pereira da Silva was born in Madeira.
  122. 11 September 1862 A meeting at Santo da Serra definitively settled the municipal and parish boundaries between Machico and Santa Cruz, ending long disputes.
  123. 2 October 1862 Nicásio de Azevedo Ramos was born in Tondela.
  124. 22 October 1862 The first issue of the newspaper O Noticioso appeared.
  125. 13 November 1862 Adriano Augusto Trigo was born in Moncorvo.
  126. 30 December 1862 José Ferreira Pestana was made a peer of the realm.
  127. 1863–1877 The tunnel of the new Rabaçal levada was begun in 1863 and completed in 1877.
  128. 1863 Jaime Moniz competed for the chair of philosophy and universal history at the Curso Superior de Letras.
  129. 1863 The steamer Maria Pia joined the Lisbon–Madeira service.
  130. 1863 The library received 3,050 volumes from the deposit of the extinct convents.
  131. 1863 Vicente Gomes da Silva travelled to France and England to study new techniques.
  132. 1863 João Fortunato de Oliveira was appointed teacher of French and English at the Funchal lyceum.
  133. 1863 The Baron of Castelo de Paiva donated his Madeiran herbarium of 515 species to the Lisbon Academy of Sciences.
  134. 1863 João de Freitas da Silva received his doctorate in medicine from Montpellier.
  135. 1863 José Phelps died in England some time after 1863.
  136. 1863 The Count of Lambert, staying in Madeira, visited Lisbon and London and returned in September.
  137. 1863–1864 Two poorly attended livestock exhibitions were held in Funchal in 1863 and 1864.
  138. 1863 José Leite Monteiro published the pamphlet O Ultramontanismo na Instrução Pública em Portugal.
  139. 1863 New cotton seeds were brought to Madeira, though few farmers took up the crop.
  140. 1863 Carlos Lôbo de Ávila was born.
  141. 1 January 1863 Mainland property, industrial and personal tax laws began to apply in Madeira.
  142. 5 January 1863 The first statutes of the Associação de Socorros Mútuos 4 de Setembro de 1862 were approved by royal charter.
  143. 30 January 1863 Death of José da Fonseca e Gouveia, Baron of Lordelo.
  144. 13 March 1863 Hector Léveillé was born.
  145. 15 April 1863–2 November 1863 The periodical O Archivo Literario was published in Funchal from 15 April to 2 November 1863.
  146. 1 May 1863–13 July 1864 The students' paper O Recreio published 25 issues.
  147. 11 May 1863 A law abolished entails throughout Portugal, leading to the break-up of Madeira's great landed houses.
  148. 1 July 1863–17 July 1863 Jacinto António Perdigão was appointed civil governor of Funchal by decree of 1 July 1863 and took office on 17 July.
  149. 1 July 1863 A law created the land registry offices.
  150. 26 August 1863 Carlos Azevedo de Meneses was born in Funchal.
  151. 30 August 1863 Alfredo César de Oliveira was ordained priest.
  152. 5 October 1863 An alvará fixed new city limits of Funchal, and the civil governor approved the street map fixing the limits of Santa Luzia parish.
  153. 28 October 1863 Luiz da Câmara Pestana was born in Funchal.
  154. 15 December 1863 The civil governor approved the alphabetical map of Funchal streets defining the limits of the Sé and Santa Maria Maior parishes.
  155. 29 December 1863 Vitorino José dos Santos was born in Funchal.
  156. 1864 Dr Rudolf Schultze's book 'Die Insel Madeira' was published in Stuttgart.
  157. 1864 The Funchal council opened a design competition for a new town hall and courts on the site of the São Francisco convent.
  158. 1864–1874 Roberto Boog Watson studied Madeira's marine shells.
  159. 1864 The population density of the archipelago stood at 135.9 inhabitants per km².
  160. 1864 A census counted 363 households and 1,425 inhabitants on Porto Santo.
  161. 1864 Georg Hartung published his geological description 'Madeira & Porto Santo' in Leipzig.
  162. 1864 João Francisco Camacho opened Madeira's second photographic studio.
  163. 1864–1868 Manuel José Vieira served his first term as president of the Funchal council.
  164. 1864 D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto was appointed canon at Lamego (1866 according to Fortunato de Almeida).
  165. 1864 A biography of Frei Pedro da Guarda was published in Funchal.
  166. 1864 João Baptista de Freitas Leal completed his law degree at Coimbra.
  167. 1864 Josefina Neuville's memoir was published in Lisbon, causing a scandal.
  168. 1864 Gastão da Câmara Coutinho, 12th lord of the Desertas, sold the islands to Alexandre Fernandes Camacho.
  169. 1864 Francisco Travassos Valdez's 'Africa Occidental' was published in Lisbon.
  170. 1864 Governor Jacinto António Perdigão created a permanent fund of five contos for the Funchal Asilo de Mendicidade.
  171. 1864 Governor Perdigão presented a notable report to the Junta Geral.
  172. 1864 José Leite Monteiro published 'Estudos de Patologia Social'.
  173. 16 January 1864–5 August 1865 The first newspaper titled O Districto do Funchal was published in Funchal, running to 66 issues.
  174. 12 April 1864 Francisco Gomes de Gouveia Júnior was born in Santo António.
  175. 28 April 1864 The new Emperor Maximilian and Empress Carlota of Mexico called at Madeira aboard the frigate Novara en route to Mexico.
  176. 13 May 1864 A law made tobacco cultivation free in the adjacent islands, including Madeira.
  177. 14 May 1864 Father Manuel Fernandes de Sant'Ana was born in São Gonçalo.
  178. 23 May 1864 Daniel Telo Simões Soares was born on Porto Santo.
  179. July 1864 The Caçadores n.º 12 battalion was formed to be quartered in Funchal.
  180. 5 July 1864 César Atanásio da Silva Pereira was born in Funchal.
  181. 3 August 1864 Pedro de Alcântara Góis was appointed director of the Funchal police.
  182. 9 September 1864–8 February 1866 The newspaper O Raio da Madeira was published, running to 73 issues.
  183. 24 September 1864–21 December 1864 The newspaper A Tribuna was published in Funchal, its twelfth and last issue appearing on 21 December.
  184. 25 September 1864 Ernesto João Schmitz entered the Congregation of the Mission.
  185. 1 October 1864 José Agostinho Rodrigues was born in Funchal.
  186. 19 November 1864 Pedro José Lomelino was born on Porto Santo.
  187. 10 December 1864 José de Castilho died of tuberculosis in Madeira.
  188. 1865 Harry Hinton brought the first football to Madeira, and indeed to Portugal.
  189. 1865 The 4th Viscount of Fonte Arcada visited his Madeiran properties.
  190. 1865 Eduardo Dias Grande counted 25,338 cattle in the Madeira archipelago.
  191. 1865 Phylloxera was probably already present in Madeira's vineyards by this year.
  192. 1865–1866 The French botanist G. Mandon explored Madeira and Porto Santo collecting plants.
  193. 1865 Alfredo César Franco de Castro's Julia ou Recordações da Ilha da Madeira was published in Lisbon.
  194. 1865 The Historical and Regenerator parties fused into the Fusionist party.
  195. 1865 Eduardo Grande's report on Madeiran agriculture was published.
  196. 1865 Augusto Nobre was born in Porto.
  197. 1865 In Funchal the Carreira gate was built and the Pico gate demolished.
  198. 1865 Francisco Joaquim de Sá Camelo Lampreia sat as deputy for Madeira in the legislative session.
  199. 1865 João da Câmara Leme was born in Funchal.
  200. 1865 Kerhallet's Description Nautique des Açores was published in Paris.
  201. January 1865 The Funchal meteorological post began operating in the São Lourenço fortress.
  202. 5 January 1865–30 July 1866 The newspaper O Paiz was published.
  203. 15 February 1865–31 July 1865 The literary newspaper O Crepusculo was published in Funchal, issuing 12 numbers.
  204. 26 April 1865 Agostinho de Ornelas de Vasconcelos was appointed legation secretary in Vienna.
  205. May 1865 A lottery was held with 2,400 tickets and 488 prizes.
  206. 2 May 1865 Bones and the founder's tombstone from the demolished São Francisco convent in Funchal were transferred to the Angústias cemetery.
  207. 27 July 1865 The first issue of the Revista Judicial appeared.
  208. 8 August 1865 Alfredo Rodrigues Gaspar was born in Funchal.
  209. 20 September 1865 Manuel Bettencourt Sardinha was born in Funchal.
  210. 29 October 1865 Aníbal Augusto Trigo was born in Moncorvo.
  211. 10 November 1865 Quirino Avelino de Jesus was born in Funchal.
  212. 28 November 1865 Dr Justino António de Freitas died in Lisbon.
  213. 1866 The Santa Luzia stream was recorded as flowing 185 litres per second.
  214. 1866 João Maneio Teixeira completed the medical-surgical course at the Porto Medical School with a thesis on pseudarthroses.
  215. 1866 Alberto Allen Pereira de Sequeira Bramão was born.
  216. 1866 The naturalist Ernst Haeckel visited Madeira, without studying the Porto Santo rabbit.
  217. 1866–1868 Two articles by Platão de Vaksel on music in Portugal appeared in the Gazeta da Madeira.
  218. 1866 A second edition of António Cordeiro's Historia Insulana was published with notes on Madeira; its annotator referred accurately to Constantino's book.
  219. 1866 J.W.J. Quintos published 'Het Eiland Madera'.
  220. 1866 A second edition of José Manuel da Veiga's treatise on clerical celibacy was published posthumously.
  221. 1866 A pamphlet accusing Judge Sebastião Leal of abuses of authority was published on Graciosa.
  222. 1866 Gaspar Frutuoso's remains were moved to a mausoleum in Ribeira Grande municipal cemetery.
  223. 1866 Charity concerts featuring Júlia de França Neto were held at the São Lourenço palace in Funchal.
  224. 1866 A revolution in Spain failed early in 1866 and many revolutionaries fled to Portugal.
  225. 1866–1870 Ricardo Júlio Ferraz directed the Ponta Delgada harbour works.
  226. 1866 The official report on the 1856 cholera epidemic in Madeira was published.
  227. January 1866 J. Juratzka's paper on new moss species appeared in the Botanische Zeitung.
  228. 22 January 1866 The last issue, the 152nd, of the newspaper O Noticioso appeared.
  229. 1 February 1866–27 February 1869 The newspaper A Gazeta da Madeira was published, totalling 101 issues.
  230. 28 February 1866 António Romão dos Passos was born in Ribeira Brava.
  231. 3 March 1866 Agostinho de Sousa Coutinho, later marquês do Funchal, was born.
  232. 5 March 1866 Aires de Ornelas was born at Camacha.
  233. 11 March 1866 The foundation stone of a new Funchal town hall was laid on the site of the São Francisco convent, but the building never rose above its foundations.
  234. 24 March 1866 The first statutes of the Asilo de Mendicidade do Funchal were approved.
  235. 17 April 1866 The customs director fined the captain of the steamer Lagos, and Blandy & Co. appealed the decision.
  236. 22 April 1866–1874 Construction of the present lazaretto buildings began and was finished in 1874; the Lazareto quay was probably built during these works.
  237. 27 April 1866 António Pereira Reis was born in Funchal.
  238. 18 May 1866 A small fixed red harbour light on the Ilhéu at Funchal began operating.
  239. 27 June 1866 The foundations of the Companhia Fabril de Açucar Madeirense were laid.
  240. 1 July 1866 Seventy Spanish émigrés, 46 officers and 24 soldiers, arrived in Madeira.
  241. 23 July 1866 Jordão Apolinário de Freitas was born in Funchal.
  242. 26 July 1866 The first issue of the periodical As Novidades appeared in Funchal.
  243. 29 July 1866 Januário Justiniano de Nóbrega died after a fall from a seaside cliff (one source gives 28 July).
  244. 5 August 1866 Marceliano Ribeiro de Mendonça died in Funchal aged 61.
  245. 22 August 1866 The steamer Tornado was captured in Madeiran waters by the Spanish frigate Gerona and taken to Cádiz.
  246. 15 November 1866 The newspaper O Commercio do Funchal began publication.
  247. 1867 Januário Justiniano de Nóbrega's account of the visit of the Empress of Brazil and of the hospice was published posthumously in Funchal, edited by João da Silva Carvalho.
  248. 1867 Joaquim Ricardo da Trindade e Vasconcelos published a draft law regulating the colonia contract in Madeira.
  249. 1867 Pedro Ivo visited Madeira.
  250. 1867 A photographic studio of Jacinto A. de Freitas and Aluísio Betencourt operated beside the São João market in Funchal.
  251. 1867 The final project and budget for the São Lourenço lighthouse were drawn up.
  252. 1867 Leopoldo Kny published 'Ueber die Flora Oceanischer Inseln'.
  253. 1867 The first Madeiran almanac, the Almanak para a Ilha da Madeira for 1868, was published in Funchal.
  254. 1867 Twenty red cinchona plants were introduced to Madeira.
  255. 1867 D. Luís da Câmara Leme reported on the military exhibits at the Paris Universal Exhibition.
  256. 1867 The Baron of Castelo de Paiva's Monographia Molluscorum on Madeiran land and freshwater molluscs was published in Lisbon.
  257. 1867 The future Count of Canavial became full professor at the Funchal Medical School.
  258. 1867 José Leite Monteiro was appointed philosophy teacher at the Funchal lyceum.
  259. 1867 The Sociedade Agrícola Madeirense held a session to advise the government on introducing Portuguese mainland wine into Madeira.
  260. 13 January 1867 Adolfo de Sousa Rodrigues was born in Funchal.
  261. 13 January 1867 Servulo Drumond de Meneses died in Funchal.
  262. 16 January 1867 Jacinto de Santana e Vasconcelos was created Viscount of Nogueiras.
  263. 23 January 1867 D. Amália Cândida Teixeira, first regent of the Hospício da Princesa D. Maria Amélia, died at the hospice.
  264. 9 February 1867 The newspaper O Commercio do Funchal suspended publication.
  265. 13 February 1867–1 April 1867 A decree of 13 February ordered municipal land registries, which were installed in each municipality on 1 April 1867.
  266. 15 February 1867 Alfredo César de Oliveira was presented to a canonry of Funchal Cathedral.
  267. 28 February 1867 Father Caetano Alberto Soares died in Rio de Janeiro.
  268. 1 March 1867 Manuel Augusto Martins was born in Funchal.
  269. 10 April 1867 A decree approved the statutes of the Companhia Fabril de Açúcar Madeirense and authorised its factory.
  270. 15 May 1867 Dr. João da Câmara Leme delivered the opening address at the Escola Médico-Cirúrgica do Funchal.
  271. 16 May 1867 Maria Clementina died in the Convent of Santa Clara, aged over 60.
  272. 5 June 1867–10 January 1868 The first newspaper titled Correio do Funchal was published, issuing 25 numbers.
  273. 10 June 1867 A law created the consumption tax that sparked the Janeirinha disturbances.
  274. 19 June 1867 Maximilian, Emperor of Mexico, was executed by firing squad in Mexico.
  275. 1 July 1867 The law approving the Civil Code ended the old special water regime, casting doubt on levada rights and prompting disputes.
  276. 2 July 1867 A law created the post of civil police commissioner of Funchal.
  277. 31 August 1867 João Prim Garibaldi e Costa was born in Porto Moniz.
  278. 11 September 1867 The first issue of the newspaper A Razão appeared.
  279. 3 October 1867 The islet of Bugio is recorded as belonging to the Marquis of Castelo Melhor.
  280. 28 November 1867 James Yate Johnson described the new penaeid genus Funchalia from Madeira in the Proceedings of the Zoological Society.
  281. 10 December 1867 A short-lived decree abolished the municipalities of Câmara de Lobos, Santa Cruz, Porto Moniz and Santana, merging Porto Moniz's parishes into São Vicente; they were soon restored.
  282. 1868 The Civil Code ended official confirmation of levada judges, and the heréus (water-share holders) thereafter elected annual committees.
  283. 1868 The corvette Bartolomeu Dias made an observation voyage to Madeira.
  284. 1868 Lowe published A Manual Flora of Madeira.
  285. 1868 Richard Henry Major published The Life of Prince Henry of Portugal, presenting the Machim legend as fact.
  286. 1868 Official tables of almude equivalents for each Madeiran municipality were published.
  287. 1868–1869 Caetano Velosa Castelo-Branco sat as deputy for Madeira.
  288. 1868 The Janeirinha movement gave rise to the Popular party.
  289. 1868–1870 The keeper's house and outbuildings of the São Lourenço lighthouse were constructed.
  290. 1868 Richard Greeff published Reise nach den Canarischen Inseln in Bonn.
  291. 1868 Kerhallet's work on Madeira, the Selvagens and the Canaries was published in Paris.
  292. 1868 Francisco Clementino de Sousa completed the course of the Funchal Medical-Surgical School and published an anonymous pamphlet defending his father.
  293. 1868 After the revolution that dethroned Isabel II triumphed, the Spanish émigrés left Madeira secretly.
  294. 1868–1874 Agostinho de Ornelas de Vasconcelos sat as deputy for Madeira.
  295. 1868 The Funchal council rented the palace of the Conde de Carvalhal as its town hall.
  296. 1868 Madeira saw intense political struggles, with Álvaro Rodrigues de Azevedo taking part as a reformist and José Leite Monteiro as a fusionist.
  297. January 1868 A lottery was held with 1,800 tickets, 600 of them winning.
  298. 16 January 1868 Dean António Joaquim Gonçalves de Andrade died in Lisbon.
  299. 21 January 1868–July 1868 The newspaper A Fusão was published in Funchal, running to 24 issues until mid-July.
  300. 23 January 1868 Funchal recorded its lowest ever pressure, 737.61 mm, during a gale that destroyed the celebrated giant dragon tree of Orotava, Tenerife.
  301. 25 January 1868–10 February 1868 João Frederico da Câmara Leme was appointed civil governor of Madeira and took office on 10 February.
  302. 3 February 1868 The auxiliary artillery corps was abolished by Portaria.
  303. 8 March 1868 The Pedrada riot, stirred by the Popular party on the Funchal beach, prevented the candidate Jacinto de Sant'Ana e Vasconcelos from landing and cost several lives.
  304. 22 March 1868 The Portuguese Civil Code came into force in Madeira.
  305. 25 April 1868 Gomes Leal wrote from Madeira to Albano Coutinho about Madeiran matters.
  306. 3 July 1868 António Gil Gomes died in Funchal.
  307. 19 August 1868 João Francisco de Sousa was born.
  308. 29 August 1868–24 December 1870 The newspaper A Imprensa Livre was published, issuing 91 numbers.
  309. 9 September 1868–September 1869 The Marquis of Cezimbra was appointed civil governor of Madeira, took office on 18 October 1868 and left the post in September 1869.
  310. 1869 Platão de Vaksel published 'Alguns dados da historia da Musica na Madeira' in the Gazeta da Madeira.
  311. 1869 A Chinese version of Padre Manuel Alvares's grammar was published in Shanghai.
  312. 1869 In the bishop's absence the Diocese of Funchal was governed by a board of three clerics.
  313. 5 January 1869 João dos Reis Gomes was born in São Pedro parish, Funchal.
  314. 22 January 1869 José Vicente de Freitas was born in Calheta.
  315. 8 February 1869–March 1869 Júlio Dinis arrived in Funchal for the first time and in March began writing Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca there.
  316. 19 February 1869–12 September 1869 The first newspaper O Popular was published, ceasing after 29 issues.
  317. 29 March 1869 João António Pedroso died in Porto Santo aged 68.
  318. 5 April 1869 Júlio Dinis wrote a letter describing Francisco Luiz Gomes in Funchal.
  319. 24 June 1869 Henrique Augusto Vieira de Castro was born in Porto.
  320. 9 July 1869 The project for the first quay at Machico was approved.
  321. 12 August 1869 Romano de Santa Clara Gomes was born in Funchal.
  322. 4 September 1869–18 September 1869 António J. de Santa Marta Andaluz was appointed civil governor of Madeira and took office on 18 September.
  323. October 1869 Francisco Luiz Gomes died of tuberculosis on the voyage to India.
  324. 1 November 1869 Frederico dos Santos Martins was born in Funchal.
  325. 15 December 1869 The old Misericórdia confraternity held its last meeting.
  326. 17 December 1869 António Homem de Gouveia was born at Ponta do Pargo.
  327. 17 December 1869 A decree abolished municipal land registries and created registries in every judicial district.
  328. 186? The French translation of Francisco Alcoforado's account was reprinted in Paris, wrongly dated 1671.
1870s 330
  1. c. 1870 The Frasão, the first steamship built in Madeira, was launched.
  2. c. 1874 The first quay at Machico was completed.
  3. c. 1874 The Pontinha road in Funchal, later the Avenida do Doutor José António de Almada, was built, requiring coastal rocks to be destroyed.
  4. c. 1875 A new, more active Protestant proselytising campaign began in Madeira.
  5. c. 1877 D. Olímpia Pio Fernandes wrote the drama 'Aldo ou a Filha do Mar', staged in Funchal to great applause.
  6. c. 1878 The Paul do Mar salt works passed to Filipe António Gonçalves.
  7. c. 1879 A boys' state school was created in Estreito da Calheta.
  8. 1870–1874 Jaime Constantino de Freitas Moniz sat as deputy for Castelo Branco.
  9. 1870 Madeiran butter was already rivalling imported butter.
  10. 1870 Vasco de Almeida's silkworm manual was published in Funchal.
  11. 1870 A book on the Teatro do Príncipe Real affair against João Radich, featuring Mourão Pita, was published in Lisbon.
  12. 1870 Funnel-shaped carapuças remained in use in some Madeiran parishes until about this year.
  13. 1870 Bishop Patrício Xavier de Moura requested a coadjutor and successor.
  14. 1870 Frederic du Cane Godman published Natural History of the Azores in London.
  15. 1870 Public Works had a quay built at Santa Cruz, improving its landing stage.
  16. 1870 Michael Grabham published The Climate and Resources of Madeira in London.
  17. 1870 A quay was built on the Ilhéu de Fora for the lighthouse staff.
  18. 1870 Álvaro Rodrigues de Azevedo wrote his annotations to Frutuoso's Saudades da Terra.
  19. 1870–1873 A quay and a connecting road to the town were built at Machico using a natural spit.
  20. 1870 D. Luís da Câmara Leme served as minister of the navy and public works.
  21. 1870 Álvaro Rodrigues de Azevedo refused the post of district secretary-general and the commandery of the Conceição.
  22. 1870 A pamphlet criticising the governing board of the diocese's circular was published in Lisbon.
  23. 1870 Oil street lighting in Funchal ended, soon replaced by petroleum lamps.
  24. 26 January 1870 The Junta Governativa do Bispado issued a circular to parish priests condemning various pious practices, causing scandal and drawing criticism from the Holy See.
  25. 23 February 1870 Dr António de Luz Pita died in Funchal.
  26. 24 February 1870 Issue no. 283 of the Revista Judicial appeared.
  27. 24 February 1870 Remígio António Gil Spínola Barreto was born in Santa Cruz.
  28. 12 March 1870–12 April 1870 The first newspaper A Liberdade published four issues.
  29. 26 March 1870 António de Gamboa e Liz died.
  30. 11 April 1870 Júlio Dinis completed Os Fidalgos da Casa Mourisca in Funchal.
  31. 12 April 1870 José Gerardo Ferreira Passos died in Lisbon.
  32. 28 April 1870 The Land Registry Regulation established the Eastern and Western land registries in Madeira.
  33. May 1870 Saldanha's military sedition brought a new government, supported by the Popular party, and led to the dismissal of civil governor Afonso de Castro.
  34. 1 May 1870 During elections won by the opposition, troops fired on rioters in Machico parish church, killing several, and anarchy followed in Madeira.
  35. 14 May 1870–19 May 1870 Afonso de Castro was appointed civil governor of Madeira by decree on 14 May and took office on 19 May, serving only eight days.
  36. 21 May 1870–27 May 1870 D. João Frederico da Câmara Leme was appointed civil governor of Madeira for the second time on 21 May and took office on 27 May.
  37. 23 May 1870 Jorge Perestrelo Velosa Camacho was born in Funchal.
  38. June 1870 Platão de Vaksel left Madeira for Russia.
  39. 9 June 1870 António Feliciano Rodrigues was born in Funchal.
  40. 22 June 1870 A decree allowed graduates of the Funchal Medical-Surgical School to compete for municipal medical posts.
  41. 20 July 1870 Câmara Leme left Madeira to contract machinery for the Companhia Fabril de Açúcar Madeirense factory.
  42. 2 August 1870 Two companies of the 5th Caçadores Battalion in Madeira mutinied after a weapons inspection, and the battalion was withdrawn.
  43. 4 September 1870 Dr José Maria Baldy died in Coimbra.
  44. 28 September 1870 Francisco Luís Pereira de Sousa was born in Funchal.
  45. 30 September 1870 The São Lourenço lighthouse on the Ilhéu de Fora was lit for the first time.
  46. October 1870–May 1871 Júlio Dinis made his last stay in Madeira.
  47. 19 October 1870–13 February 1876 The weekly Revista Jurídica, edited by José António de Almada, appeared in Funchal from October 1870 until February 1876.
  48. 7 November 1870 Laura Veridiana de Castro e Almeida Soares was born in Funchal.
  49. 25 November 1870 Francisco António Ferreira was born in Funchal.
  50. 1871 Work on the Levada da Serra gathered pace.
  51. 1871 A Fontes Pereira de Melo ministry took office late in 1871, with Jaime Moniz as Minister of the Navy and Overseas; a campaign of night bombings in Funchal followed.
  52. 1871 Hann published his article on the climate of the Azores and Madeira, and Júlio Augusto Leiria published a map of Madeira.
  53. 1871 The São Paulo chapel was almost completely rebuilt.
  54. 1871 João Augusto de Ornelas published the novel A Arrependida in Funchal.
  55. 1871 Lino Cassiano Jardim published his Rio de Janeiro dissertation on bilious fever.
  56. 1871–1872 The two volumes of the anthology Flores da Madeira were published.
  57. 1871 The first report of the directors of the Companhia Fabril de Açúcar Madeirense was published.
  58. 1871 José António Monteiro Teixeira published Nouveau Récueil de poésies en français.
  59. 4 January 1871–6 April 1871 The newspaper A Regeneração was published, running to 12 issues.
  60. 19 January 1871 Alexandre Magno de Castilho died in Funchal.
  61. 25 February 1871 Diogo d'Ornelas Frazão was created Viscount of Calçada.
  62. 3 March 1871 Diogo Berenguer de França was created Viscount of São João, a title named after Lombo de São João.
  63. 6 March 1871 Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos was named and confirmed titular bishop of Gerasa and coadjutor with succession to the see of Funchal.
  64. 4 May 1871 Francisco Correia Herédia was created Viscount of Ribeira Brava by decree.
  65. 2 June 1871 João Cirilo Moniz died in Niterói, Brazil.
  66. 26 June 1871 A law definitively transferred the parish of Ponta do Pargo from the municipality of Porto Moniz to Calheta.
  67. September 1871 José Cardoso Vieira de Castro passed through Funchal aboard the steamer D. Antónia bound for Luanda.
  68. 12 September 1871–15 December 1871 The periodical A Onda was published, running to twelve issues.
  69. 12 September 1871 Júlio Dinis died in Porto aged 31.
  70. 17 October 1871 João da Câmara Pestana was born in Funchal.
  71. 30 October 1871 The president of Calheta council reported the municipal archive destroyed by the sea.
  72. November 1871 The Hospício da Princesa D. Maria Amélia reopened under the Sisters of Charity.
  73. 1871–1881 A harvest pilgrimage to Santo António da Serra on the first Sunday of October was still held, later abandoned.
  74. 1872–1883 Phylloxera, officially verified in Madeira in 1872, devastated the vineyards, which were later replanted with grafted resistant stock.
  75. 1872 Funchal council began addressing judges as excelência.
  76. 1872 Acúrsio Garcia Ramos became interim professor at the Funchal Medical-Surgical School and physician of the Misericórdia hospital.
  77. 1872 The Visconde de Sanches de Baena published his Archivo Heraldico Genealogico.
  78. 1872–1881 D. Mariana Xavier da Silva lived in Madeira, according to dates in her book.
  79. 1872 Simões de Carvalho published his history of Coimbra's faculty of philosophy, praising João António Monteiro.
  80. 1872 Richard Greeff published Madeira und die Canarischen Inseln in Marburg.
  81. 1872 António João de França Bettencourt won first place in the competition for the Theology chair at Coimbra.
  82. 1872 The Companhia Fabril de Açúcar Madeirense set cane prices of 550–650 réis per 30 kg.
  83. 1872 The first part of Manuel José Júlio Guerra Júnior's Diccionario Topographico was published.
  84. 7 January 1872 Bartolomeu dos Mártires Dias e Sousa died.
  85. 4 February 1872 Officers of HMS Challenger measured magnetic inclination (56° 14' N) and declination (18°25' W) at Funchal.
  86. 3 March 1872 Manuel dos Passos Freitas was born in Calheta.
  87. 11 March 1872 The Masonic lodge Liberdade was installed in Funchal.
  88. 24 July 1872–26 November 1872 The first newspaper titled A Madeira Liberal was published, issuing sixteen numbers.
  89. 1 September 1872 The steamer Valente, the first steam vessel in Madeira's coastal service, arrived in Funchal from England.
  90. 19 September 1872 Bishop D. Patrício Xavier de Moura died in Lisbon.
  91. October 1872–1874 Smallpox brought to Funchal by a passenger of the Maria Pia from Lisbon spread until late 1873 or early 1874, killing 1,007 people.
  92. 27 October 1872 D. Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos began governing the diocese of Funchal definitively.
  93. 12 November 1872 The Portuguese government signed the contract with Jules Despecher for the submarine cable linking Funchal.
  94. 21 November 1872 Cónego Alfredo César de Oliveira founded the periodical A Lâmpada in Funchal, which reprinted Teófilo Braga's review of Flores da Madeira.
  95. 22 December 1872 Januário Vicente Camacho died in Lisbon.
  96. 1873 Álvaro Rodrigues de Azevedo published in Funchal his annotated edition of Gaspar Frutuoso's Saudades da Terra (Book II), made from Agrela's copy, with extensive notes including a list of governors.
  97. 1873 Rodrigo José de Lima Felner published his memoir on the true name of João Fernandes Vieira.
  98. 1873 The Santa Catarina almshouse was reportedly still maintained, owned by the Conde de Castelo Melhor.
  99. 1873 An Englishman treated diseased vines with resin and turpentine, effectively but at too great a cost.
  100. 1873 Azevedo first proposed that the cession of Madeira to England had once been considered.
  101. 1873 The Misericórdia resolved to found an agricultural and industrial credit bank, which never materialised.
  102. 1873 The Almanach para os Açores e Madeira for 1874 was published in Angra do Heroísmo.
  103. 26 January 1873 The Empress Amélia died in Lisbon without having seen the hospice she founded in Funchal.
  104. 8 February 1873–10 June 1873 The Masonic newspaper Oriente do Funchal ran for sixteen issues.
  105. 10 February 1873 Fernando Tolentino da Costa was born in Porto Moniz.
  106. 7 March 1873 José Dias Ferreira arrived in Funchal for a stay of several months.
  107. 23 March 1873 The São João sugar factory of the Companhia Fabril de Açúcar Madeirense was solemnly inaugurated under the bishop's presidency.
  108. 16 April 1873 The Masonic lodge Trabalho was installed in Funchal.
  109. 21 April 1873 Alfredo de Fraga Gomes was born in Funchal.
  110. 31 May 1873–10 September 1873 João Felix Pereira's translation of the Madeira chapter of Wuellerstorf-Urbair's account appeared in A Lampada.
  111. 17 July 1873 Officers of HMS Challenger took soundings in Funchal Bay and measured magnetic inclination (55° 12' 5 N) and declination (20°33' W) at Funchal.
  112. September 1873 Inhabitants of Gaula prevented sailors from the quarantined US corvette Supply from landing at Porto Novo.
  113. 9 September 1873 Adolfo César de Noronha was born in Funchal.
  114. 30 September 1873 Contractual deadline for the submarine cable to Funchal to begin operating.
  115. 15 October 1873–6 December 1876 The newspaper A Vergasta ran from its first issue to issue 60.
  116. 20 October 1873 Juvenal Honório de Ornelas died in Madeira aged 67.
  117. 6 December 1873–20 June 1877 The second newspaper A Lei ran for 130 issues.
  118. 23 December 1873 Father Luís Alves Martins was born at Cardigos.
  119. 1873–1874 Major alterations to the civil governors' residence in the Palácio de São Lourenço were completed.
  120. 1874 The chapel at Ribeira da Janela was converted into the chancel of a larger parish church, the works being completed.
  121. 1874 Acúrsio Garcia Ramos published a pamphlet on the hygiene of the Santa Isabel hospital in Funchal, which drew replies from Júlio Augusto Leiria and Francisco Clementino de Sousa.
  122. 1874 Platão de Vaksel received his doctorate from Leipzig.
  123. 1874 António José de Sousa Almada died at Benfica.
  124. 1874 João Augusto de Ornelas published A Mão de Sangue in Lisbon with an introduction by Camilo Castelo Branco.
  125. 1874 Nuno Ferreira Jardim graduated in law at Coimbra.
  126. 1874 D. António da Costa's book on José de Castilho was published in Lisbon.
  127. 1874–1875 The Revista Judicial was published again.
  128. 1874–1879 João Catanho de Meneses studied law at Coimbra.
  129. 1874 The Conde do Canavial publicly urged the development of the silk industry in Madeira.
  130. 1874 A second edition of Hector Clairouin's grammar appeared in Lisbon.
  131. 1 January 1874 The first issue of the Estrella Literaria was published.
  132. 3 January 1874 The 51st issue of A Lâmpada was published.
  133. 7 February 1874 The first issue of O Paquete was published.
  134. 7 March 1874 Nicolau Anastácio de Bettencourt died in Angra do Heroísmo.
  135. 16 March 1874–1877 The first issue of the second periodical titled O Popular appeared; it was published until 1877.
  136. 19 March 1874 José Varela was born in Ponta do Sol.
  137. 19 March 1874 Father José Pereira da Silva was born in Porto.
  138. 11 April 1874 The naturalist Richard Thomas Lowe sailed from Liverpool on the Liberia, which sank in the Bay of Biscay, killing him and his wife.
  139. 16 April 1874 A law abolished the elected parish judges.
  140. 19 April 1874–8 December 1874 Acúrsio Garcia Ramos was arrested on accusations of subverting the 12th Caçadores battalion and of a masonic plot, and was freed in December when the charges were found groundless.
  141. 16 May 1874 Agostinho de Ornelas de Vasconcelos was appointed peer of the realm.
  142. 23 May 1874 António Balbino do Rego was born.
  143. 12 June 1874 Caetano Velosa Carvalhal Esmeraldo Castelo-Branco died.
  144. 24 June 1874 Sir William Thomson married Frances Anne Blandy at the British consulate in Funchal.
  145. 16 July 1874 Francisco Bento de Gouveia was born at Ponta Delgada.
  146. 18 July 1874 Madeiran parliamentary elections were held for the first time on the same day as on the mainland.
  147. 23 July 1874 D. Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos was presented as archbishop of Goa by royal letter.
  148. 10 August 1874–21 August 1874 The statutes of the Associação Católica do Funchal were approved by the district head and then by the diocesan authority.
  149. 20 August 1874 The general assembly approved the statutes of the Clube União in Funchal.
  150. 22 August 1874–3 September 1874 The English steamer Seine left Lisbon to lay the submarine cable and reached Funchal after the cable broke about 100 miles from Madeira.
  151. 24 September 1874 The first private telegrams were exchanged between Funchal and Lisbon.
  152. 26 September 1874 Public telegraph service between Madeira and mainland Portugal opened by submarine cable laid by the Brazilian Telegraph Company, with Sir William Thomson present; the inauguration was celebrated in Funchal with illuminations.
  153. 21 December 1874 Augusto César de Freitas died abandoned in a hospital bed.
  154. 1875 Ciríaco de Brito e Nóbrega published his translation of the novel Jorge.
  155. 1875 The statutes of the Banco Comercial da Madeira were printed in Porto.
  156. 1875 The 2nd Viscount of Torre Bela died.
  157. 1875 Finance minister Serpa Pimentel presented the proposal to unify Madeira's currency with that of Portugal.
  158. 1875 Dr José Júlio Rodrigues signed and promoted the Paris agreement on international exchanges.
  159. 1875 A mausoleum for the Twelve Martyrs was erected in the Prado do Repouso cemetery.
  160. 1875 E. A. Bettencourt published in Porto a pamphlet on the discovery of Porto Santo and Madeira.
  161. 1875 William Longman published Impressions of Madeira, with a map.
  162. 1875 Luciano Cordeiro's memoir recounting the Afonso Sanches tradition appeared in the proceedings of the International Congress of Americanists.
  163. 1875 Maximiliano Eugénio de Azevedo completed the artillery course.
  164. 1875 Serpa Pinto was in Funchal serving as a captain in the 12th Rifle Battalion.
  165. 10 January 1875 The first Saint Vincent de Paul conference in Madeira was founded in São Pedro, Funchal.
  166. 23 January 1875 The first issue of the Catholic Funchal newspaper A Verdade appeared.
  167. 25 January 1875 Bishop D. Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos left Madeira amid an unprecedented farewell.
  168. 10 March 1875–14 April 1875 The Associação de Protecção e Instrução do Sexo Feminino Funchalense was established in Funchal; its statutes were approved by the district authority on 14 April.
  169. 2 April 1875 A second Aurora Literária issued the first of its six numbers.
  170. 29 April 1875 The statutes of the Sociedade Cooperativa de Consumo e Crédito do Funchal were approved.
  171. 26 May 1875 António Policarpo dos Passos Sousa died at Ponta do Sol.
  172. 1 June 1875 The Banco Commercial da Madeira was established in Funchal.
  173. 2 July 1875 The title of 2nd Viscount of Nogueiras was conferred.
  174. 14 July 1875 Conselheiro António Gonçalves de Freitas died in Lisbon.
  175. 19 October 1875 José Bettencourt da Câmara died at Câmara de Lobos.
  176. 12 November 1875 A decree reorganised Madeira's judicial administration into four comarcas: Funchal, Ponta do Sol, Santa Cruz and São Vicente, making São Vicente the seat of a judicial district.
  177. 25 November 1875 The first number of A Aurora Liberal appeared.
  178. 10 December 1875 The first issue of the Estrella Académica was published.
  179. 23 December 1875 The first issue of the first newspaper titled O Liberal appeared.
  180. 1875–1899 João Blandy bought and restored the chapel of Nossa Senhora das Neves.
  181. 1876 The Funchal customs house issued brass tokens.
  182. 1876 The Associação de Protecção e Instrução do Sexo Feminino Funchalense opened a model school with classes and workshops.
  183. 1876 Government works began on the landing quay at Câmara de Lobos.
  184. 1876–16 August 1876 Manuel José Vieira restored the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Ajuda, which was blessed on 16 August 1876.
  185. 1876–1878 The Cais da Pontinha was built in Funchal.
  186. January 1876 The Associação das Damas de Caridade was founded in Funchal.
  187. 1 January 1876 Floods damaged Madalena do Mar.
  188. 23 January 1876 Azevedo reported selling a manuscript copy of Saudades da Terra to a lord for Edinburgh.
  189. 4 February 1876 A law exempted Madeiran sugar from duties in Portugal and the Azores for five years.
  190. 12 February 1876 The eighth number of A Aurora Liberal appeared.
  191. March 1876 D. João Frederico da Câmara Leme left the governorship of Madeira.
  192. 28 April 1876 The comarca of Ponta do Sol was installed.
  193. 1 May 1876–10 June 1876 Francisco Albuquerque de Mesquita e Castro was appointed civil governor of Madeira by decree and took office on 10 June.
  194. 13 May 1876–11 November 1876 Two great storms drove many ships ashore in Funchal bay.
  195. 31 May 1876 José António Monteiro Teixeira died in Funchal.
  196. 5 June 1876 Queen Josefina ordered by will that the Hospício da Princesa D. Maria Amélia become a perpetual foundation.
  197. 8 June 1876–26 December 1876 D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto was presented as bishop of Funchal, confirmed by the Holy See on 29 September and took possession of the diocese by proxy on 26 December.
  198. 14 June 1876 The 84th issue of O Paquete was published.
  199. 17 June 1876 The comarca of Santa Cruz was installed.
  200. July 1876 Construction of the Mercado de D. Pedro V in Funchal began.
  201. 30 August 1876 A government order praised Dr Câmara Leme for founding the Associação de Protecção e Instrução do Sexo Feminino Funchalense.
  202. 7 September 1876 The modern Progressive party was organised in Lisbon.
  203. 11 October 1876 Canon Alfredo César de Oliveira founded the Diário de Notícias in Funchal, Madeira's first daily newspaper, whose first issue appeared on 11 October 1876.
  204. 11 November 1876 The steamer Valente was driven ashore by a violent southerly storm below the Quinta Lambert, Funchal, and destroyed.
  205. 16 November 1876 Judicial reorganisation: the comarca of São Vicente was installed and the single comarca of Funchal, divided into nine julgados, replaced the western and eastern comarcas.
  206. 29 November 1876 The Sociedade Agrícola Madeirense was reorganised, though it did no effective work thereafter.
  207. 11 December 1876 Birth of Marck Athias.
  208. 17 December 1876 Francisco Joaquim de Sá Camelo Lampreia died in Lisbon while deputy for Moura.
  209. 18 December 1876 The general assembly approved the statutes of the Clube Funchalense.
  210. 21 December 1876 The Funchal police were reorganised.
  211. 1877 Pedro de Alcântara Góis was appointed the first civil police commissioner of Funchal.
  212. 1877–1886 António Pedro de Azevedo published geo-hydrographic charts of Porto Santo (1877), Madeira and the Desertas, issued in 1877, 1879 and 1886.
  213. 1877 Francisco de Sousa's treatise was first published in Ponta Delgada.
  214. 1877 Richard Henry Major published The Discoveries of Prince Henry the Navigator and their results in London.
  215. 1877 A Spanish friar's description relating to the discovery of the archipelago was published by the Madrid Geographical Society.
  216. 1877–1882 Between 1877 and 1882 tobacco was planted in Madeira, mainly in São Gonçalo and Santo António.
  217. 1877 King Oscar of Sweden established the perpetual foundation of the Hospício da Princesa D. Maria Amélia, with a council and a fund of one million francs.
  218. 1877 Canon António Aires Pacheco came to Madeira with Bishop D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto.
  219. 1877 The astronomer Green observed Mars from Madeira.
  220. 1877 Home delivery of mail began in Funchal.
  221. 1877 The Associação Madeirense promotora do Bem Público e do Auxílio Mútuo was founded.
  222. 1877 João Maurício Henriques was ordained priest.
  223. 1877 A pamphlet, Companhia de Seguros Madeirense, recorded an unsuccessful attempt to found an insurance company in Madeira.
  224. 1877 Nuno Silvestre Teixeira was a fifth-year medical student at Coimbra, regarded as the faculty's best student.
  225. 4 February 1877–2 March 1877 D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto was consecrated Bishop of Funchal at the Estrela basilica in Lisbon, arrived in Funchal on 22 February, entered the cathedral on 25 February and issued his first pastoral on 2 March.
  226. 16 February 1877 The civil governor approved the statutes of the Clube Funchalense.
  227. 4 March 1877–16 March 1877 After a suicide in Funchal was refused church burial but buried in the Angústias cemetery, Bishop Barreto placed the cemetery under interdict; Cassiano das Neves published a pamphlet on the affair in Porto.
  228. May 1877 Funchal council granted the Praça da Rainha to the Conde do Canavial for a white-mulberry nursery and silkworm-rearing trials.
  229. 1 May 1877–31 August 1877 The periodical A Penumbra Literária published eight issues.
  230. 8 May 1877 Jacinto Augusto Camacho was promoted brigadier general.
  231. 20 May 1877 A contract signed in Paris entrusted the internal running of the Hospício da Princesa D. Maria Amélia to the Sisters of Charity.
  232. 24 May 1877–24 April 1878 A second newspaper titled O Districto do Funchal was published, running to 23 issues.
  233. 23 June 1877 A permanent artillery battery was established in Madeira.
  234. 29 August 1877 Vasco Gonçalves Marques was born in Funchal.
  235. 14 September 1877 António da Cruz Rodrigues dos Santos was born in Funchal.
  236. 24 September 1877 The first issue of Echo de Santa Cruz appeared, the first Madeiran newspaper published outside Funchal.
  237. October 1877 Under Bishop Barreto a full preparatory course was introduced at the reformed Funchal seminary.
  238. October 1877 The Visconde de Monte Belo founded a tobacco factory in Madeira.
  239. 1 October 1877 The municipal drawing course in Funchal was inaugurated.
  240. 31 October 1877 The statutes of the Levada do Pico do Arvoredo were published in the Diário do Governo.
  241. November 1877 Rodrigo José de Lima Felner died in Lisbon.
  242. 5 November 1877 The Diário do Funchal began publication.
  243. 14 November 1877 Joaquim Nunes de Aguiar died in Funchal from overwork.
  244. 22 November 1877 The first issue of the Boletim Judicial was published.
  245. 24 November 1877–24 December 1877 Afonso de Castro was appointed civil governor of Funchal for a second time and took office on 24 December.
  246. 14 December 1877 The first issue of O Athleta appeared.
  247. 1878 Charles Ridpath Blandy died.
  248. 1878 The administrative code of 1878 raised the membership of the Junta Geral to 21 and replaced indirect election with direct election.
  249. 1878 The Caixa Económica of the Associação de Socorros Mútuos 4 de Setembro de 1862, Madeira's first savings bank, began operating.
  250. 1878 Father Ernesto João Schmitz settled in Madeira.
  251. 1878 António da Costa published the pamphlet 'Instituição de Ouro' describing the Associação de Protecção e Instrução do Sexo Feminino Funchalense.
  252. 1878 Tallow candle making in Madeira began to decline under cheap English stearin imports.
  253. 1878 José de Azevedo Castelo Branco graduated in medicine.
  254. 1878–1894 Ernesto do Canto published the Archivo dos Açores, twelve volumes appearing between 1878 and 1894.
  255. 1878 The administrative code of 1878 abolished municipal councils.
  256. 1878–2 September 1878 João José Rodrigues Leitão, agent of the Banco de Portugal, went bankrupt; director Henrique de Barros Gomes stayed in Funchal from 8 July to 2 September, and the agency passed to Tomás António Gomes on 15 July.
  257. 1878 In spring 1878 eight monk seals were killed on the Deserta Grande.
  258. 1878 A better landing quay was completed at the Pontinha in Funchal.
  259. 1878 Madeiran emigration to Hawaii began.
  260. 1878 The Circo Funchalense was built within the market enclosure in Funchal.
  261. 1878 On 21 February the Funchal council appointed a committee to lay out gardens on the São Francisco convent grounds, and the small garden was built that year.
  262. January 1878 Júlio Augusto Leiria died in Coimbra.
  263. 7 January 1878 João Maria de Abreu Castelo Branco Cardoso e Melo, 1st Count of Fornos de Algodres, died.
  264. 12 January 1878 Pedro José de Ornelas, president of the Funchal council, died.
  265. 20 January 1878 Captain Henrique de Lima e Cunha ended his term as first commander of the Madeira artillery battery.
  266. 6 February 1878 D. João Frederico da Câmara Leme died at Tomar.
  267. 20 February 1878 Bernardo Francisco Lobato Machado died in Funchal.
  268. 23 February 1878 Daniel de Ornelas de Vasconcelos died in Lisbon.
  269. 30 March 1878 Issue number 14 of the Echo de Santa Cruz appeared.
  270. 6 April 1878 João Fortunato de Oliveira died in Funchal.
  271. 23 April 1878 Francisco Jorge de Abreu was born in Funchal.
  272. May 1878 An orphanage opened beside the Hospício da Princesa D. Maria Amélia with twelve children.
  273. 18 June 1878 The remains of the twelve martyrs of the homeland were moved to a cemetery, and a pamphlet describing the translation was published.
  274. 19 June 1878–7 November 1878 The Funchal council raised two loans of 10 contos each for the Pedro V market.
  275. 7 July 1878 Alberto Artur Sarmento was born in Funchal.
  276. 14 July 1878 The Diário do Funchal ceased publication with issue 200.
  277. 15 July 1878–18 November 1878 The Jornal do Commercio do Funchal was published, producing 105 issues.
  278. August 1878 A fire at Payne's bakery in Rua da Alfândega, Funchal, caused less damage than the glass and crockery thrown during it.
  279. September 1878–November 1878 The single 24-page issue of the monthly review Reflexos appeared, covering September to November 1878.
  280. 1 September 1878 The Civil Police Commissariat of Funchal was installed.
  281. 7 September 1878–3 October 1878 The periodical Ilha da Madeira published its four issues.
  282. 13 October 1878 Canon Alfredo César de Oliveira was elected opposition deputy for Ponta do Sol.
  283. 15 October 1878 D. Ventura de Callejon's notice on Columbus's stay in Madeira and his house in Funchal was published in issue 38 of La Ilustración Española y Americana.
  284. 31 October 1878–31 January 1879 The Jornal do Funchal was published, ending with its 73rd issue.
  285. 10 November 1878–24 December 1878 The Maceta de Santa Cruz published its two issues, the first on 10 November and the last on 24 December 1878.
  286. 20 November 1878–5 February 1879 The second newspaper A Liberdade published 59 issues in Funchal.
  287. December 1878 Dr Luís Vicente de Afonseca died in Lisbon.
  288. 1 December 1878 D. Manuel Martins Manso died in Guarda.
  289. 2 December 1878 D. Luís da Câmara Leme was made a life peer by royal letter.
  290. 1878–1879 Patrício Moniz left the Funchal seminary for mainland Portugal.
  291. 1879–1884 Paul Langerhans published studies of new Madeiran marine worm species in the Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Zoologie.
  292. 1879 D. Maria de Bettencourt's works, including 'Bernardo e a mesa de prata de D. Diniz' and A Antoneida, were published in Funchal.
  293. 1879 A portal inscription recorded the building of the Ribeira da Janela church by the people under Father Manuel da Silva Pombo.
  294. 1879 Prince Albert of Monaco made his first recorded visit to Madeiran seas.
  295. 1879 The geo-hydrographic map of Madeira was published.
  296. 1879 Henrique de Lima e Cunha published in Lisbon his pamphlet 'Plano de melhoramentos para a ilha da Madeira'.
  297. 1879 Camilo Castelo Branco published 'A Lenda de Machim' in Historia e Sentimentalismo.
  298. 1879–12 October 1879 The Jangão chapel of Nossa Senhora da Piedade at Ponta do Sol was restored by Agostinho de Ornelas de Vasconcelos and reblessed by the archbishop of Goa on 12 October 1879.
  299. 1879–1888 João Baptista de Freitas Leal published his travel account Recordações e Impressões de Viagem in seven parts.
  300. 1879–1880 R. Fritze collected plants in Madeira.
  301. 1879 Ricardo Júlio Ferraz represented Madeira in the Cortes.
  302. 1879 The Clube Unido in Funchal was dissolved in early 1879.
  303. 1879 The Conde de Canavial published in Funchal his study of the agricultural crisis.
  304. 1879 Gaston Lemay's 'A bord de la «Junon»', touching on Madeira, was published in Paris.
  305. 1879 João Joaquim Pinto graduated in theology at Coimbra and was ordained priest.
  306. 18 January 1879 António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira was born in Funchal.
  307. 7 February 1879 The civil governor approved the statutes of the Clube União in Funchal.
  308. 8 February 1879 Dr Cândido Joaquim da Silva died of a stroke.
  309. 16 February 1879 D. António Manuel Pereira Ribeiro was born at Friande.
  310. 4 March 1879 The Prince Imperial, Eugène Louis Napoléon, landed at Funchal from the British steamer Danube on his way to the Cape of Good Hope.
  311. 13 March 1879 The statutes of the São Paulo confraternity were approved by alvará of the district authority.
  312. 15 March 1879 The Conde do Ribeiro Real took office as civil governor of Funchal.
  313. 7 April 1879 Manuel José Vieira made his celebrated speech on Madeiran monetary unification in the Chamber of Deputies.
  314. 16 April 1879 Félix de Brito Capelo died.
  315. 23 April 1879 José Jorge Rodrigues dos Santos was born in Funchal.
  316. 27 April 1879 The third newspaper A Lei began publication, reaching 97 issues.
  317. May 1879 O Ocidente published an engraving of the Gothic part of the house associated with Columbus.
  318. May 1879 The Clube Restauração was founded.
  319. 2 May 1879 A law unified Madeira's monetary system with that of mainland Portugal, ending circulation of foreign money on the island except the pound sterling.
  320. 22 May 1879 Agostinho de Ornelas de Vasconcelos returned ill to Madeira and was warmly received.
  321. June 1879 Afonso de Castro left the administration of the Funchal district.
  322. 4 June 1879 António da Costa Paiva, Baron of Castelo de Paiva, died in Funchal.
  323. 24 July 1879 The first issue of the first O Progresso appeared; it ran to 75 issues.
  324. September 1879–October 1879 H. Grey made a voyage to Madeira and the Azores.
  325. 1 September 1879 The Conde do Carvalhal wrote to João de Deus presenting teacher Teodoro João Henriques to learn his reading method.
  326. 17 September 1879 The Government ordered a study for a new quay at Funchal.
  327. 28 September 1879 Ernesto Venceslau de Sousa was born in Funchal.
  328. 19 October 1879 Canon Alfredo César de Oliveira was re-elected deputy for Ponta do Sol.
  329. 15 November 1879–1880 The newspaper Religião e Progresso, founded by João Inocêncio Camacho, was published in Funchal, its first issue appearing on 15 November 1879.
  330. 1879–1880 The Clube Aliança came to an end.
1880s 361
  1. c. 1880 The rodas de caminho fell into disuse in Funchal.
  2. c. 1880 The Junta Agrícola set up an experimental farm at Ribeira Brava.
  3. c. 1881 Eduardo Dias Grande died in Lisbon.
  4. c. 1882 The Funchal press first suggested conceding or selling the state levadas.
  5. c. 1882 The São Luís chapel by the Episcopal Palace was adapted to house a school and the bishop's remains were moved.
  6. c. 1882 The Clube Washington was founded in Funchal.
  7. c. 1886 António Evaristo de Ornelas repeated his examinations at the Porto medical-surgical school.
  8. c. 1887 Around 1887 the sugar-cane borer began to disappear from Madeira owing to the introduced Argentine ant.
  9. c. 1888 The Clube União was founded in Funchal.
  10. 1880–1881 Dennis Embleton spent the winter of 1880–81 in Madeira.
  11. 1880 Canon Alfredo César de Oliveira was transferred to Évora Cathedral.
  12. 1880 Acúrsio Garcia Ramos published 'Ilha da Madeira' in two volumes in Lisbon.
  13. 1880 Madeiran embroidery exports fell to 12:937$000 réis as luxury embroidery went out of fashion in England.
  14. 1880 Henry Vizetelly's 'Facts about Porto and Madeira' was published in London.
  15. 1880 Álvaro Rodrigues de Azevedo published the Romanceiro do Archipelago da Madeira in Funchal.
  16. 1880 Major repairs were made to the parish church of Santo António under civil governor Silvestre Ribeiro.
  17. 1880 Luís António Gonçalves de Freitas completed his law degree at Coimbra.
  18. 1880 An author writing in 1880 described penitent pilgrims carrying chains and crawling on their knees at Monte.
  19. 1880 Father José Gonçalves de Aguiar published O Dogma da Imaculada Conceição de Maria Santíssima in Lisbon.
  20. 1880 Julius Goldschmidt published Madère étudiée comme station d'hiver.
  21. 1880 The cooperative's grocery closed after causing losses, reopening soon after under two merchants.
  22. 1880–1885 British visitors to Madeira averaged about 200 a year between 1880 and 1885.
  23. 1880 Funchal municipal revenue was about 81 contos.
  24. 1880–1883 The Capela de Cristo was rebuilt for the second time and solemnly blessed in 1883.
  25. 1880 Mary Jane Wilson settled in Madeira.
  26. 1880–1881 Manuel Celestino Emídio represented Madeira in the Cortes during the 1880–81 legislative session.
  27. 1880 A project to extend the Ponta do Sol quay was drawn up but never carried out.
  28. 1880 The Sociedade Agrícola Madeirense was definitively dissolved.
  29. 1880 Vicente Cândido Machado graduated in medicine at the Paris faculty.
  30. 8 February 1880 João Gouveia was born in Funchal.
  31. 23 February 1880 José de Almada was born in Funchal.
  32. March 1880 Álvaro Rodrigues de Azevedo wrote to Teófilo Braga offering him his Cancioneiro Popular.
  33. 1 March 1880 An earlier Sociedade Protectora dos Animais Domésticos was installed at the Hotel Miles in Funchal.
  34. 14 March 1880 The first issue of the periodical A Grinalda Madeirense appeared.
  35. 24 March 1880 João de Freitas da Silva was created Viscount of Monte Belo.
  36. 30 March 1880 Empress Eugénie passed Madeira aboard the British steamer German.
  37. May 1880 Dr Spencer Wells's article on Madeira appeared in the British Medical Journal.
  38. 2 May 1880 The statutes of the Associação Protectora dos Pobres were approved by permit, according to the Elucidário, though the date conflicts with its founding year.
  39. 3 May 1880 Vasco Crispiniano da Silva was born in Funchal.
  40. 7 July 1880 Carlos Olavo Correia de Azevedo was born in Funchal.
  41. 7 July 1880 Posts, telegraphs and lighthouses were reorganised jointly.
  42. 9 July 1880 João Augusto de Vasconcelos e Sá was born in Funchal.
  43. 27 July 1880 Francisco Correia Herédia died in Lisbon; A Religião e Progresso reprinted a biographical article on him on 20 August.
  44. August 1880–October 1880 Work began on the Funchal municipal garden in the enclosure of the Convento de São Francisco; in October an inscribed stone dated 1780 was found during the works.
  45. 15 August 1880 Dr Jacinto António de Sousa died.
  46. September 1880 The feast of Nossa Senhora da Luz was held again in the Colégio church after 25 years, without the lyceum pupils.
  47. 30 September 1880 The Funchal land registry office was installed.
  48. 2 October 1880 Dr Vicente Cândido Machado successfully operated on Bishop D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto, earning great renown.
  49. 15 October 1880 Jordão Maurício Henriques was born in Funchal.
  50. 3 November 1880–15 December 1881 The first Diário da Madeira was published, issuing 281 numbers.
  51. 17 November 1880 The last issue, no. 44, of Religião e Progresso was published.
  52. 28 November 1880 D. Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos died in Lisbon.
  53. 19 December 1880 The Mercado de D. Pedro V in Funchal opened to the public.
  54. 24 December 1880 Ricardo Júlio Ferraz died in Funchal.
  55. 1881 Dennis Embleton's 'A visit to Madeira in the winter 1880-81' was published in London.
  56. 1881 William and Alfred Reid published 'Madeira, a guide book of useful and varying information'.
  57. 1881–1893 Madeiran butter exports rose from 129 kg in 1881 to 48,124 kg in 1893.
  58. 1881 J. M. Rendell's Concise Handbook of the Island of Madeira was published in London.
  59. 1881 António Aires Pacheco and António Vicente Varela were ordained priests.
  60. 1881 Pontes Câmara made his only return visit to Madeira.
  61. 1881 Freitas & Macedo, representative of the Banco Commercial de Lisboa in Madeira, went bankrupt.
  62. 1881 The oldest by-law included in Funchal's 1912 code of by-laws dates from this year.
  63. 1881 Manuel Fernandes de Sant'Ana left the diocesan seminary to enter the Society of Jesus.
  64. 1881 R. Fritze published his study of Madeira's fern vegetation.
  65. 1881 Great gales early in the year destroyed nearly all of Madeira's mulberry plantations, ruining sericulture.
  66. 1881 Padre João António Marcial became the first collated vicar of Prazeres.
  67. 1881 Frederico Pinto Coelho published the pamphlet Sudario Negro against Bishop Manuel Agostinho Barreto.
  68. January 1881 Álvaro Rodrigues de Azevedo retired from the Funchal lyceum and moved to Lisbon.
  69. January 1881 The Funchal lyceum moved to a former manor house in Rua dos Ferreiros.
  70. 9 January 1881 Manuel Gomes Jardim was born in Porto Moniz.
  71. 23 February 1881 Francisco de Andrade died in Funchal.
  72. 27 February 1881 The steamer Falcão, ordered by Blandy Brothers & Co., arrived at Funchal to begin regular south-coast services.
  73. 13 March 1881 Jaime Sanches Câmara was born in Funchal.
  74. 12 April 1881 The steamer Newton was wrecked on the Badajeira shoal.
  75. 12 April 1881–23 May 1881 The Viscount of Vila Mendo, António de Gouveia Osório, was appointed civil governor of Funchal on 12 April and took office on 23 May.
  76. 18 May 1881 A law renewed the five-year duty exemption for Madeiran sugar.
  77. 21 May 1881–4 November 1882 The newspaper A Luz published seventy-six issues.
  78. 17 June 1881 Henrique de Lima e Cunha's project for the quay in front of Funchal was approved with modifications.
  79. 22 July 1881–20 August 1881 A second newspaper O Independente published eight numbers.
  80. September 1881–October 1881 Dr Jaccoud stayed in Madeira to study its climate for treating lung disease.
  81. 15 September 1881 Funchal council approved the design of the Municipal Garden.
  82. 27 September 1881 Padre Ernesto João Schmitz became vice-rector of the Funchal Seminary.
  83. 18 November 1881–24 December 1882 A second newspaper As Novidades ran for twenty-six issues.
  84. 16 December 1881 Américo Olavo Correia de Azevedo was born in Funchal.
  85. 17 December 1881–30 December 1882 The Diário da Tarde was published, issuing 305 numbers.
  86. 1882 Phylloxera was still devastating Madeira's vineyards, with wine production at about 4,500 pipes.
  87. 1882 Gardner's 'The Geology of Madeira' was published.
  88. 1882 Father Ernesto Schmitz founded the natural history museum of the Seminary in Funchal.
  89. 1882–1884 Luís António Gonçalves de Freitas represented Madeira as a deputy in the Portuguese parliament.
  90. 1882 Canon António Aires Pacheco published 'O Sudário Negro no banco dos réus', refuting the pamphlet O Sudário Negro.
  91. 1882 Vasco Guedes published in Funchal the pamphlet Apontamentos para a Historia de Angola.
  92. 1882–1886 A fungal disease destroyed Madeira's sugar-cane fields.
  93. 1882 Baron Charles Van Beneden published Au Nord Ouest de l'Afrique in Brussels.
  94. 1882 Several Madeirans joined the Constituent party.
  95. 1882 The Republican party was organised in Madeira following the election of Manuel de Arriaga as deputy.
  96. 1882 Alice Baker's 'A Summer in the Azores With a Glimpse of Madeira' was published in Boston.
  97. 1882–1886 Through Manuel José Vieira's efforts, maize imports to Madeira were exempted from duties.
  98. 1882 Madeiran processional crosses, including those of the Cathedral and Gaula's fifteenth-century silver cross, were shown at the Lisbon Retrospective Exhibition of Ornamental Art.
  99. 1882 Helena Taylor's 'Madeira: its scenery, and how to see it' was published in London.
  100. 1882 Mary Jane Wilson opened St George's High School in the Palácio de São Pedro.
  101. 1882 A boys' school was created in Madalena do Mar.
  102. 1882 C. Piazzi Smyth's 'Madeira Meteorologic' was published in Edinburgh.
  103. 1882 Funchal freemasons founded a second Escola da Infância Desvalida.
  104. 1882 B. Stein published Lichenes Maderenses et Mindanoenses.
  105. 1882–1884 Maximiliano Eugénio de Azevedo was an editor and theatre critic of the Jornal da Noite.
  106. 1882 The fourth and final edition of João de Nóbrega Soares's Chorographia da Madeira appeared.
  107. 1882 Captain Eurico Albertis collected algae on Madeira.
  108. 12 January 1882 Nuno de Freitas Lomelino, last of the Lomelino house, died in Funchal.
  109. 23 March 1882 João Bettencourt de Araújo Carvalhal Esmeraldo was created Viscount of Ribeiro Real by decree.
  110. 2 April 1882 Pontes Câmara died in the wreck of the steamer Douro off Cape Finisterre.
  111. 10 April 1882 Alberto Figueira Jardim was born in Funchal.
  112. 15 June 1882 A law maintained or extended free tobacco cultivation in Madeira.
  113. 8 July 1882–7 December 1882 The newspaper Diário da Manhã ran from its first issue to its 129th and last.
  114. 1 October 1882 The first issue of the newspaper A Primavera appeared.
  115. 4 October 1882 The future Count of Calçada was appointed substitute civil governor of Funchal by decree, taking office on 10 October.
  116. 29 October 1882 Dr António João de França Bettencourt died in Coimbra aged 55.
  117. 5 November 1882 A by-election for Funchal was won by Braamcamp without an absolute majority.
  118. 10 November 1882–16 November 1882 The Viscount of Vila Mendo was appointed civil governor of Funchal a second time and took office on 16 November.
  119. 20 November 1882 Hector Clairouin died in Funchal.
  120. 26 November 1882 A repeated by-election elected the republican Manuel de Arriaga deputy for Funchal.
  121. 5 December 1882–30 December 1882 The newspaper The Comet was published from its first issue on 5 December to its last on 30 December.
  122. 18 December 1882 The first Diário Popular began publication.
  123. 27 December 1882 Vasco Mimoso was born.
  124. 1883 Portugal occupied Cacongo and Massabi after local chiefs requested a protectorate through Rodrigues Leitão.
  125. 1883 João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreia was appointed attaché to the legations in Stockholm and Copenhagen.
  126. 1883 The towers of the parish church of Santo António were completed.
  127. 1883 Dr Osvaldo Heer died in Lausanne.
  128. 1883 The chapel of Santo António at Quinta do Pomar, Quinta Grande, was founded and built.
  129. 1883 R. P. Spice made the travels described in his book.
  130. 1883 António Jardim de Oliveira graduated in law from Coimbra University.
  131. 1883 D. Luís da Câmara Leme was promoted to general of division.
  132. 1883 A Funchal market was demolished to make way for the municipal theatre.
  133. 1883 Famine again struck Porto Santo.
  134. 1883 Augusto de Arzila Fonseca graduated in philosophy and mathematics at Coimbra.
  135. 1883 Funchal council took a loan from the Companhia Geral do Crédito Predial, part of which was used for the municipal garden.
  136. 1 January 1883–4 February 1888 The newspaper O Povo was first published, issuing 260 numbers until 4 February 1888.
  137. February 1883 Carbon disulphide was first applied against phylloxera in Madeiran vineyards.
  138. March 1883–September 1883 Four issues of the periodical As Faiscas were published.
  139. 3 March 1883 Henrique Franco de Sousa was born in Funchal.
  140. 4 March 1883 The first issue of the newspaper A Mulher was published.
  141. 28 April 1883 Alfredo Vital Miguéis was born in Funchal.
  142. June 1883 Inspector Almeida e Brito arrived in Madeira to lead the government campaign against phylloxera.
  143. 8 July 1883 The first stone of the new parish church of São Martinho was blessed.
  144. 4 August 1883 Funchal council bought the palace for its town hall from Freitas & Macedo for 25 contos.
  145. 22 August 1883 João Maria Moniz reached the grade of oficial.
  146. 8 September 1883–15 September 1883 Dr Manuel de Arriaga made his first visit to Madeira, receiving an enthusiastic reception.
  147. 18 October 1883 Manuel da Costa Dias was born in Ponta do Pargo.
  148. 11 November 1883 The first issue of the periodical O Palco was published.
  149. 14 December 1883 Alfredo de França was born in Faial.
  150. 29 December 1883 Tomás Nunes de Serra e Moura was appointed civil governor of Madeira by decree.
  151. 1883–1884 A second submarine telegraph cable linking Madeira to the mainland was laid along the route of the first.
  152. 1884 Paul Langerhans published the Handbuch für Madeira in Berlin.
  153. 1884 The steamer Forerunner sank off Ponta de São Lourenço, with 14 people killed.
  154. 1884 A second edition of a work by Francisco de Sousa appeared in Ponta Delgada.
  155. 1884 The chapel of Santo António at the Quinta do Pombal was built.
  156. 1884 Fidelio de Freitas Branco graduated in law at Coimbra.
  157. 1884 The chapel of Nossa Senhora das Preces at Machico was rebuilt by António Tiago da Silva.
  158. 1884–1887 Henrique de Santana e Vasconcelos represented Madeira in parliament.
  159. 1884–1887 The Visconde de Gonçalves de Freitas (Vila Mendo) represented Madeira in parliament in the legislatures of 1884 and 1887.
  160. 1884 D. Mariana Xavier da Silva published 'Na Madeira – Offerendas' in Lisbon.
  161. 1884 Luiz da Câmara Pestana enrolled at the Lisbon Medical-Surgical School.
  162. 1884 Julius Goldschmidt published 'Madère étudiée comme station d'hiver et d'été'.
  163. 1884–1885 Prince Nicolau Frederico Augusto of Oldenburg lived in Madeira for about two years.
  164. 1884 Mary Jane Wilson founded the Franciscan Sisters of Our Lady of Victories.
  165. 1884 The works of Bishop Aires de Ornelas, with a biography of Agostinho de Ornelas de Vasconcelos, were published in Porto.
  166. 1884 232 people emigrated from Madeira to Africa, 210 of them contracted for Moçâmedes.
  167. 1884 Augusto de Arzila Fonseca received his doctorate in mathematics at Coimbra.
  168. 1884 The Álbum Madeirense, an anthology of Madeiran poets compiled by Francisco Vieira, was published in Funchal.
  169. 1884 A. Piccone's account of the 'Corsaro' cruise, studying algae collected in Madeira by Captain Eurico Albertis, was published in Genoa.
  170. 1884 Vicente Cândido Machado published a pamphlet replying to Dr João da Câmara Leme in a polemic with the Conde de Canavial.
  171. 4 January 1884 Funchal council contracted Eduardo Augusto Kopke for gas lighting, though it was never executed.
  172. 9 January 1884 Tomás Nunes de Serra e Moura took office as civil governor of Madeira.
  173. 22 January 1884 João Francisco de Sousa enlisted in the army.
  174. 1 February 1884 Padre Fernando Carlos de Meneses Vaz was born in Santana.
  175. 12 February 1884 D. Joana de Albuquerque e França died at the Preces house.
  176. 6 March 1884 A water law, later extended to Madeira, was enacted.
  177. 27 March 1884 João Vicente de Oliveira was granted the title of Viscount of Tojal.
  178. 5 April 1884 Ramon Masferrer y Arquimbau died in the Philippines.
  179. 21 April 1884 Manuel de Sousa Brasão was born in São Vicente.
  180. June 1884 D. Luiz da Câmara Leme retired from the army.
  181. 29 June 1884 During election riots on the São Pedro festival day, troops fired on the people at Ribeira Brava, killing and wounding several; republicans, including José de Castro, were later prosecuted.
  182. 1 August 1884 Rodrigues Leitão was created Visconde de Cacongo by royal letter.
  183. 11 August 1884–24 October 1884 The periodical A Monarchia was published, running to ten issues.
  184. 12 August 1884 D. Maria do Monte de Sant'Ana e Vasconcelos Moniz de Bettencourt died in Funchal.
  185. 14 August 1884 Vasco Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses was appointed civil governor of the Funchal district by decree.
  186. 18 August 1884 Vasco Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses took office as civil governor of Madeira.
  187. 31 August 1884 The newspaper O Correio da Manhã began publication.
  188. 8 October 1884–2 June 1885 José de Castro stayed in Madeira.
  189. 13 October 1884 The first 222 Madeiran colonists left Funchal for Angola aboard the warship Índia.
  190. 24 October 1884 The foundation stone of the Funchal municipal theatre (later Teatro Manuel de Arriaga) was laid.
  191. 31 October 1884 A military reorganisation changed Madeira's status, previously a subdivision of the 1st Division based in Lisbon.
  192. November 1884 Conselheiro Luiz de Freitas Branco died in Lisbon.
  193. 18 November 1884 The first Madeiran colonists arrived at Moçâmedes, Angola.
  194. 24 November 1884–2 December 1884 The English barque Tybumia entered Funchal harbour and on 2 December fled by night to avoid customs, fired upon by the Ilhéu fortress.
  195. 1 December 1884–22 December 1887 The student periodical O Académico was published, reaching 75 issues.
  196. 1 December 1884 The Associação Académica do Funchal was inaugurated.
  197. 11 December 1884 Padre João Vieira Caetano was born in Santa Cruz.
  198. 18 December 1884 Jacinto Pinto Coelho was appointed temporary aspirant at the Funchal customs house.
  199. 25 December 1884 The first group of Madeiran settlers in Angola reached Barracões.
  200. 1885 Alfredo de Paula Sardinha was ordained priest.
  201. 1885 The Swedish botanist Dr Carlos Lindman visited Madeira and collected algae, later studied by O. Borge.
  202. 1885 Daniel Telo Simões Soares was commissioned ensign for overseas service.
  203. 1885 Afonso de Castro died in Leiria.
  204. 1885 A municipal choral singing school opened in Funchal, taught by Francisco de Vila y Dalmau.
  205. 1885 José António de Almada became local chief of the Progressive Party in Madeira.
  206. 1885 There were 200 British residents in Funchal.
  207. 1885 James Yate Johnson published the third edition of 'Madeira its climate and scenery'.
  208. 1885 Dr João Augusto Teixeira was elected deputy for Madeira.
  209. 1885 Dr José Júlio Rodrigues travelled to São Tomé to study the quinine industry.
  210. 1885 Coelho Mendes published Flores Agrestes in Funchal.
  211. 1885 Augusto de Arzila Fonseca was appointed substitute lecturer at the University of Coimbra.
  212. 1885 A consulate of the Hawaiian Islands existed in Madeira.
  213. 1885 The Álbum Literário, a 200-page collection of prose and verse, was published in Funchal.
  214. 7 January 1885 João Augusto Pereira was commissioned second lieutenant of artillery.
  215. 19 January 1885 The Huíla colony of Madeiran settlers in Angola was officially established.
  216. 23 January 1885 Nicásio de Azevedo Ramos arrived in Madeira.
  217. February 1885 The first issue of the fortnightly O Domingo Catholico was published.
  218. 2 March 1885 Padre João Maurício Henriques was appointed military chaplain by decree.
  219. April 1885 28 republicans were tried at Ponta do Sol over the Ribeira Brava events; 22 were acquitted and 6 convicted.
  220. 5 April 1885–8 May 1885 D. João de Alarcão was appointed civil governor of Madeira by decree of 5 April 1885 and took office on 8 May.
  221. 2 May 1885 José António de Almada died in Funchal.
  222. 7 June 1885 Jacinto Augusto Camacho died in Porto.
  223. 12 June 1885 José Ferreira Pestana died in Lisbon aged 90.
  224. 30 June 1885–1889 The contract for the Pontinha breakwater at Funchal was awarded to French engineers on 30 June 1885, and construction continued until 1889.
  225. July 1885 The last burial took place in the original British cemetery in Funchal.
  226. 24 July 1885 A law was enacted under which the Funchal electoral college elected two peers of the realm.
  227. 12 September 1885–14 September 1885 The explorers Capelo and Ivens landed in Funchal on 12 September 1885 to a solemn reception, leaving for Lisbon on 14 September.
  228. 17 September 1885 The Funchal council named streets after the explorers Hermenegildo Capelo and Roberto Ivens following their passage through Madeira.
  229. 1 October 1885 The Funchal garden was named Jardim Municipal.
  230. 8 October 1885 A decree confirmed the free-cultivation regime for tobacco in Madeira.
  231. 9 October 1885 The sculptor Francisco Franco de Sousa Júnior was born in Funchal.
  232. 2 December 1885 The first election of elective peers for the Funchal district took place.
  233. 10 December 1885 Joaquim Plácido Pereira was born in Seixal.
  234. 1886 A. Geheeb published his bryological notes on Madeiran mosses in the journal Flora.
  235. 1886 Robert Collet published a paper on a new pediculate fish from the sea of Madeira.
  236. 1886 Padre Armando Augusto de Pontes published Um monumento Histórico.
  237. 1886 A map of the Desertas was published.
  238. 1886 The Conde do Canavial advised the creation of an industrial bank in Madeira.
  239. 1886 António Vicente Varela completed his theology degree at the University of Coimbra.
  240. January 1886 The Prince of Oldenburg died in Geneva.
  241. 16 January 1886 The Santana council created a boys' school in the parish of Arco de São Jorge.
  242. 14 March 1886 The newspaper O Correio da Manhã ceased publication after 502 issues.
  243. 22 March 1886 A law granted Madeiran sugar a three-year exemption from duties.
  244. 31 March 1886–23 August 1886 The Jornal de Notícias was published, producing 108 issues.
  245. 12 April 1886 Joaquim José de Faria Santos died in Funchal.
  246. 11 July 1886 João Augusto de Ornelas died in Funchal.
  247. 17 July 1886 The Administrative Code of 1886 maintained and expanded parish councils, created the Tribunais Administrativos and abolished the district council, prompting attempts to install parish councils in Madeira.
  248. 29 July 1886 A decree definitively abolished the juízes ordinários (ordinary judges).
  249. 16 August 1886 Manuel Gregório Pestana Júnior was born on Porto Santo.
  250. 1 September 1886–26 October 1886 A third newspaper titled O Funchalense published nine issues.
  251. 6 September 1886–30 September 1886 The first newspaper A Epocha ran in Funchal for eight issues.
  252. 30 September 1886 Agostinho de Ornelas de Vasconcelos was made director of political affairs at the Foreign Ministry.
  253. 14 October 1886 Feliciano Soares was born in Aveiro.
  254. 14 October 1886 António Evaristo de Ornelas was created Baron of Ornelas.
  255. 14 October 1886 João Sabino da Costa was born in Funchal.
  256. 1 December 1886 Prince Nicholas Maximilian, Duke of Leuchtenberg, arrived at Funchal.
  257. 1886–1887 The Argentine ant Iridomyrmex humilis was introduced to Madeira from Demerara.
  258. 1887 The naturalist I. C. Thompson visited Madeira in the spring of 1887.
  259. 1887–1888 The 'Parreca' riots against the parish councils (juntas de paróquia) spread terror across Madeira in 1887–1888, and troops were sent to restore order. At Arco da Calheta armed force was used, and on 22 November 1887 rioters occupied Caniço church, where troops fired and killed four people and a soldier also died.
  260. 1887–1897 Dr Fidelio de Freitas Branco represented Madeira in parliament in four legislatures.
  261. 1887–1892 Quirino Avelino de Jesus studied law at Coimbra from 1887, graduating in 1892.
  262. 1887–1889 Tomás Nunes de Serra e Moura represented Madeira in parliament as a peer, and Canon Feliciano João Teixeira again represented Madeira in parliament.
  263. 1887–1888 Felisberto de Betencourt Miranda compiled his genealogical notes on Madeiran families.
  264. 1887 Pedro José Lomelino completed the course of the Funchal Medical School.
  265. 1887 The Banco Commercial da Madeira was dissolved, with losses to its shareholders.
  266. 1887 After the death of Fontes Pereira de Melo, the Madeiran Regenerators followed António de Serpa Pimentel.
  267. 1887 Henrique Félix Freitas Vale published 'A Crise Agrícola da Madeira', and Francisco Vieira published 'Petalas'.
  268. 1887 I. C. Thompson published a study of the copepods of Madeira and the Canaries.
  269. 1887 Demolition began of the hovels of the Beco do Cemitério and adjoining lanes in Funchal.
  270. 1887 Padre João Maurício Henriques began serving in Funchal with the 12th Caçadores regiment.
  271. 1887 E. Stizenberger published 'Lichenes insulae Maderae'.
  272. 1887 João da Câmara Leme published his poetry volume 'Amor e Pátria' in Funchal.
  273. 1887 The Teatro Esperança was bought by the Conde de Canavial and renamed after him.
  274. 1887–1889 The Visconde de Gonçalves de Freitas sat as elective peer of the realm for Madeira.
  275. 6 February 1887–22 August 1887 The newspaper Jornal da Manhã was published in 1887, producing 128 issues.
  276. 17 February 1887 Funchal council accepted António Joaquim Marques's proposal for a rack railway from Funchal to Monte.
  277. 6 March 1887–1889 Canon Alfredo César de Oliveira was elected deputy for Madeira on 6 March 1887 but withdrew in favour of Henrique de Sant'Ana e Vasconcelos, who filled the seat until 1889.
  278. 13 May 1887 Padre Jaime de Gouveia Barreto was born in Porto Moniz.
  279. 13 June 1887 Padre António da Silva Figueira was born.
  280. 16 June 1887 Prince Nicholas of Leuchtenberg left Madeira for Europe.
  281. 8 July 1887 José Marciano da Silveira died in Funchal.
  282. 27 July 1887 The artists formally handed over the completed Funchal theatre (later Teatro Manuel de Arriaga) to the council.
  283. 3 August 1887 Dr Arsénio Teixeira Jardim was born in Funchal.
  284. 30 September 1887 Gabriel Rocha de Gouveia was born at Arco da Calheta.
  285. 23 November 1887 Padre Eduardo Clemente Nunes Pereira was born in Câmara de Lobos.
  286. 24 November 1887 José da Cruz Batista Santos was born.
  287. 5 December 1887 The revised project for the quay in front of the entrance to Funchal was approved by ministerial order.
  288. 10 December 1887 A contract made the Banco de Portugal agency in Funchal the cashier of the state treasury from early 1888.
  289. 29 December 1887 A decree divided Portugal into three customs districts, making Funchal a delegation of Ponta Delgada, to general displeasure in Funchal.
  290. 31 December 1887 A decree created the Valadas commission of inquiry to study Madeira's economic crisis.
  291. 1888 Many cases of hookworm anaemia occurred in Porto da Cruz.
  292. 1888–1890 João Tierno claimed to have made meteorological observations in this period, though no record of them exists.
  293. 1888 The Madeira Cricket Club was founded, beginning organised competitive cricket; its first match, bachelors against married men, was played at the Achada da Camacha on 20 March 1888.
  294. 1888 The Viscondessa das Nogueiras's French translation of Herculano's Eurico o Presbítero was published in Paris.
  295. 1888 João Joaquim Pinto and António Aires Pacheco were presented to canonries of Funchal Cathedral.
  296. 1888 L. Manchon's 'A travers Madère, onze jours en hamac' was published in Paris.
  297. 1888 Padre José Gonçalves de Aguiar published the Tratado da Penitência in Lisbon.
  298. 1888 Dr Charles Omnès published Stations sanitaires de l'Atlantique occidental in Montpellier.
  299. 1888 Madeiran emigration to Angola resumed, with ten more colonists settling in Huíla.
  300. 1888 Henrique Félix Freitas Vale published A Revolta da Madeira e a comissão de inquérito.
  301. 1888 Uruguay and Argentina had consular representation in Funchal.
  302. 11 January 1888 Colonel Valadas arrived in Funchal with 250 infantrymen.
  303. 17 January 1888 Dr Robert Reid Kalley died in Edinburgh.
  304. 22 January 1888–10 January 1890 The Jornal do Povo was published, producing 117 issues.
  305. 24 January 1888 The Visconde das Nogueiras died in Washington.
  306. 4 February 1888 The 2nd Count of Carvalhal died in Funchal.
  307. 11 February 1888–1 July 1894 The first newspaper called A Lucta was published, reaching issue 319.
  308. March 1888 Prince Albert I of Monaco visited the Deserta Grande.
  309. 10 March 1888 The Count of Canavial's regulation for the Misericórdia was approved but lasted only eleven days.
  310. 11 March 1888 The Teatro D. Maria Pia (later Teatro Manuel de Arriaga) was solemnly inaugurated in Funchal with the zarzuela Las Dos Princesas.
  311. 11 May 1888 A royal charter approved the revised statutes of the Associação Comercial do Funchal, adopted in December 1887, which were printed that year.
  312. 17 May 1888 The council obtained use of the Fortaleza do Pico as a prison for ten years.
  313. 26 July 1888 A law gave legal personality to the associations of levada heréus in Madeira, allowing them to own property.
  314. August 1888 The old British cemetery in Funchal was ceded to the municipal council and demolished, its site becoming a square.
  315. 17 August 1888 A telegraph station was created in Porto da Cruz by decree.
  316. 29 August 1888 The council bought glass panes for the Municipal Garden's greenhouse.
  317. 24 September 1888 The Funchal municipal council organised the fire company.
  318. 3 November 1888 Francisco Luís Pereira de Sousa enlisted in the army.
  319. 25 November 1888 The first Diário Popular suspended publication after 282 issues.
  320. 23 December 1888 The Viscondessa das Nogueiras died aged 83.
  321. 1888–1889 The cooperative's grocery was closed on the liquidation of the society.
  322. 1889 The statutes of the Misericórdia of Santa Cruz were approved by the Civil Government of Funchal.
  323. 1889 Dr. Fr. Christmann published his book on the climate of Funchal at Zabern.
  324. 1889–1892 The present quay at the entrance of Funchal was built, the works having been awarded on 18 January 1889 to French contractors for 87 contos.
  325. 1889 César Atanásio da Silva Pereira returned to Africa (year as printed, probably an error).
  326. 1889 Dr. César Augusto Mourão Pita published 'Madère, Station Médicale fixe' in Paris.
  327. 1889 A. Samler Brown's guide first appeared as 'Madeira and Canary Islands'.
  328. 1889 The Conde do Canavial founded an establishment with an improved wine-heating (estufa) system.
  329. 1889–1890 Madeiran emigration to Angola and Lourenço Marques continued, with 1,338 departures; a further 704 settlers reached Moçâmedes, bringing Madeirans there to 1,281.
  330. 1889 José Teixeira Júnior's pamphlet 'Em Lisboa' is dated 1889 in the Elucidário, the year of his birth, probably an error.
  331. 1889 Conselheiro Manuel José Vieira was elected peer for Vila Real but never took his seat.
  332. 1889 The chapel of São Roque in São Roque do Faial was substantially enlarged.
  333. 1889 The British cemetery in Funchal was enlarged again.
  334. 1889 João Barbeito da Silva published two pamphlets on the Practical School of Infantry and Cavalry in Lisbon.
  335. 1889 The Pontinha breakwater at Funchal was completed, linking the outer islet to the coast.
  336. 1889 The Associação Protectora dos Pobres was founded.
  337. 1889 A storm toppled the marble cross at Santa Cruz commemorating Zarco's cross; it was rebuilt the following year.
  338. 1889 Aires de Ornelas was commissioned ensign in the general staff.
  339. 1889 D. Marta Celina Sauvayre da Câmara's 'De Napoles a Jerusalem' was published in Funchal.
  340. 10 January 1889–September 1889 A decree of 10 January 1889 founded the Josefa de Óbidos industrial drawing school in Funchal, which opened in Rua de Santa Maria in September with 260 pupils.
  341. 30 January 1889 Felisberto de Betencourt Miranda died, retired and over 70.
  342. 5 March 1889 The single issue of the newspaper El Caballero di Gracia was published.
  343. 17 March 1889 José Teixeira Júnior was born in Funchal.
  344. 4 April 1889–11 April 1889 The Companhia de Bombeiros Voluntários do Funchal was created; the council approved its regulations on 4 April and appointed its personnel on 11 April, greatly improving fire-fighting.
  345. 10 April 1889 The municipal medical post in Funchal began operating.
  346. 14 April 1889–13 June 1889 The newspaper O Monóculo published its nine issues.
  347. 12 June 1889–8 March 1891 The newspaper O Látego was published, running to 164 issues.
  348. 8 July 1889 D. Jorge da Câmara Leme died as a retired lieutenant.
  349. 8 July 1889–21 November 1889 A second newspaper O Imparcial issued 40 numbers.
  350. 8 July 1889 The historian Damião Peres was born in Lisbon.
  351. 24 July 1889 Dr. Luiz da Câmara Pestana completed his medical studies.
  352. 10 August 1889 António Pedro de Azevedo died in Lisbon as a retired divisional general.
  353. 12 August 1889 The civil governor approved the statutes of the Clube Restauração.
  354. 14 September 1889 A decree extended the 1884 water law to Madeira.
  355. 3 October 1889 Miguel de Ornelas died in Funchal.
  356. 13 November 1889 Francisco Vieira died in Funchal.
  357. 21 November 1889–9 June 1891 The newspaper O Reclame was published from its first to its last issue.
  358. 22 November 1889 José Pais de Vasconcelos took office as head of the Funchal customs delegation.
  359. 29 November 1889 Funeral rites for King Luís I were held in Funchal, with the last shield-breaking ceremony and the last bando proclaimed; councillors wore old ceremonial dress.
  360. December 1889 The Associação de Socorros Mútuos 4 de Setembro de 1862 bought its building in Rua de João Tavira.
  361. 28 December 1889 Carlos I was acclaimed king in Funchal.
1890s 388
  1. c. 1890 Filipe José Nunes died in Funchal around 1890.
  2. c. 1891 A stud stallion was sent to Madeira to improve the local horses, without result.
  3. c. 1891 The Quinta do Palheiro do Ferreiro passed into the possession of John Blandy.
  4. c. 1892 Mary Jane Wilson closed her school and turned to restoring the Santa Cruz hospital.
  5. c. 1893 Captain Manuel Alexandre de Sousa sought a broad concession of the island's unused waters.
  6. c. 1893 A further cooperative was set up in Madeira, lasting only two or three years.
  7. c. 1895 Phylloxera was first recorded on Porto Santo.
  8. c. 1896 The Ash Wednesday procession in Funchal ceased around this time.
  9. c. 1897 Yuba sugar cane was imported into Madeira from Natal.
  10. 1890 The new Rabaçal levada was finished and the works declared complete.
  11. 1890 The first studies for Funchal's drinking-water supply were made.
  12. 1890 The Civil Government moved out of the customs building in Funchal.
  13. 1890 João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreia went to Rome as embassy secretary.
  14. 1890 Around 1890 the first German embroidery export houses were established in Funchal.
  15. 1890–1892 Luís Adriano de Magalhães Meneses e Lencastre served as elected peer of the realm for Madeira.
  16. 1890 Dr Quirino Avelino de Jesus was appointed head of service at the Caixa Geral dos Depósitos.
  17. 1890 Robert Collet published a paper on fishes brought from Madeira by the Prince of Monaco.
  18. 1890 Luiz Bandeira Coelho was elected deputy for Madeira.
  19. 1890 Funchal council published Canon António Aires Pacheco's funeral oration for King Luís I, and he left Madeira.
  20. 1890 The Pontinha breakwater, permanently joining the islet to the shore at Funchal, was completed; an ordinance of 16 August 1890 authorised its provisional acceptance.
  21. 1890 Canon Feliciano João Teixeira advocated in parliament the construction of the Ribeira do Porco levada.
  22. 1890–1892 The Visconde de Vila Mendo again represented Madeira as elected peer.
  23. 1890 The Porto do Moniz municipal council printed its by-laws as a pamphlet.
  24. 1890–1892 José Maria Greenfield de Melo served as deputy for Madeira.
  25. 1890 Augusto de Nóbrega Noronha began producing much salt at Serra de Fora, Porto Santo.
  26. 1890 António Jardim de Oliveira was appointed secretary-general of the Funchal civil government.
  27. 1890–1906 Dr João Catanho de Meneses represented Madeira in parliament in several legislatures between 1890 and 1906.
  28. 1890 The present bridge over the Ribeira de Santa Luzia in Funchal was built.
  29. 1890–1891 Julius Goldschmidt tried Koch's tuberculin on patients at the São Lázaro hospital without success.
  30. 1890 José Agostinho Rodrigues published his medical thesis on laparotomy in traumatic gastro-intestinal perforations.
  31. 1890 Carlos Lôbo de Ávila represented Madeira in the Cortes during the 1890 session.
  32. 1 January 1890 Alfredo de Castro de Freitas Branco was born in Funchal.
  33. 14 January 1890–16 October 1890 The Funchal newspaper O Combate ran from 14 January to 16 October 1890.
  34. 24 January 1890–30 January 1890 José de Azevedo Castelo Branco was appointed civil governor of Funchal district by decree of 24 January 1890 and took office on the 30th.
  35. 2 February 1890–2 March 1890 The newspaper O Estudante published its three issues.
  36. 14 February 1890 The single-issue newspaper Patriota was published.
  37. 30 March 1890 António Jardim de Oliveira was elected deputy for Madeira for the 1890–1892 session.
  38. 20 April 1890 The last nun of the Convent of the Incarnação, Vicência Violante do Céu, died.
  39. 12 June 1890–25 June 1890 D. Manuel Saldanha da Gama was appointed Civil Governor of Madeira on 12 June 1890 and took office on 25 June.
  40. 19 June 1890 Funchal council resolved to name future new streets after illustrious Madeirans.
  41. 24 July 1890 Funchal council allowed transfer of the Monte railway concession to Manuel Alexandre de Sousa.
  42. 22 September 1890 João de Nóbrega Soares died in Funchal.
  43. November 1890 Maria Amália do Patrocínio, the last nun of the Convent of Santa Clara, died.
  44. 4 December 1890 Dr Luiz da Câmara Pestana was appointed permanent emergency surgeon at São José hospital.
  45. 6 December 1890–8 December 1890 Mariano de Carvalho visited Funchal.
  46. 1890–1899 Francisco da Silva Barradas died in Lisbon in the last decade of the 19th century.
  47. 1891 José de Ascensão Guimarães applied for the concession of the Coquim levada and was refused.
  48. 1891 Daniel Telo Simões Soares took part in military operations in Guinea.
  49. 1891 Canon João Jacinto Gonçalves de Andrade retired from his professorship at São Paulo.
  50. 1891 A marble tombstone funded by Bishop Manuel Agostinho Barreto was placed on the grave of D. Francisco José Rodrigues de Andrade.
  51. 1891 The Madeira vintage of this year was illustrated in the Blandy pamphlet 'Quelques Vues'.
  52. 1891 Pedro de Castelo Branco was appointed minister plenipotentiary in Constantinople.
  53. 1891 Father Armando Augusto de Pontes published 'Excursões na Madeira'.
  54. 1891 Julius Goldschmidt published 'Die Lepra auf Madeira'.
  55. 1891 João Augusto Martins published 'Madeira, Cabo Verde e Guiné' in Lisbon.
  56. 1891 Canon António Vicente Varela published anonymous pamphlets on Bishop Manuel Agostinho Barreto's quarrel with a confraternity and on the suppression of O Latego.
  57. 1891 The Marquis de gli Albizzi's 'Madère, guide pratique pour malades et touristes' was published in Zurich.
  58. 1891 The sixth and last edition of Alexander D'Orsey's 'Colloquial Portuguese' was published.
  59. January 1891 Luís da Câmara Pestana left for Paris to study bacteriology and Koch's tuberculin.
  60. 8 January 1891 César Atanásio da Silva Pereira was commissioned second lieutenant of artillery.
  61. 11 January 1891 The first issue of the newspaper 'Portugal' was published.
  62. 22 January 1891 The council approved the construction project for the Monte railway.
  63. 9 March 1891 Councillor José Silvestre Ribeiro died in Lisbon.
  64. 2 April 1891 The Companhia Aliança Madeirense, the first insurance company successfully organised in Madeira, was founded by deed with a capital of 200 contos.
  65. 26 May 1891 Pedro Góis Pita was born in Funchal.
  66. 5 June 1891 The newspaper A Espora began publication.
  67. 27 June 1891 Luís da Câmara Pestana presented his tetanus research to the Paris Society of Biology.
  68. 18 July 1891 Funeral rites for Elias Garcia were held at the Liberdade lodge, where Nicásio de Azevedo Ramos gave a speech.
  69. 30 September 1891 Statutes were dated for the cooperative of infantry regiment no. 27.
  70. 1 October 1891 The first issue of the Diário do Commercio was published.
  71. 8 October 1891 The industrial school was renamed after António Augusto de Aguiar.
  72. 17 November 1891 Agostinho de Ornelas de Vasconcelos was appointed director-general of political and diplomatic affairs.
  73. 1892 Henrique Franco de Sousa began drawing studies at the Escola Industrial do Funchal.
  74. 1892 The building of the Misericórdia de Santa Cruz underwent major repairs paid for by public charity.
  75. 1892 Luís Maria dos Reis published 'Organização e Historia do Regimento de Caçadores n.º 12' in Funchal.
  76. 1892 Sir William Thomson was given the title Lord Kelvin.
  77. 1892–1893 Augusto Dias Ferreira, António Batista de Sousa, António Vicente Varela, Reis Torgal and Manuel da Assunção served as deputies for Madeira in the 1892–1893 parliament.
  78. 1892 António Nobre's 'Só' was published in Paris.
  79. 1892 A paper on Orthoptera collected on the Prince of Monaco's voyages to Madeira and the Azores was published in the Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France.
  80. 1892–10 December 1892 Júlia de França Neto restored the chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Anjos, which was consecrated for worship on 10 December 1892.
  81. 1892 Agostinho de Ornelas published his memoir on Columbus's residence in Madeira.
  82. 1892 Alberto A. Girard published his study of the cephalopods of the Azores and Madeira.
  83. 1892 An American mission made astronomical observations of latitude and longitude near the Forte de São Tiago in Funchal.
  84. 1892 António Pereira Reis graduated in law at Coimbra.
  85. 1892 Dr José Júlio Rodrigues resigned from the central agricultural market and left for Brazil.
  86. 1892 Works on Rua 5 de Junho in Funchal were completed.
  87. 1892–1895 Guilherme Read Cabral served as director of the Funchal customs house.
  88. 1892 Guilherme Read Cabral published in Funchal a pamphlet with a poem dedicated to Columbus.
  89. January 1892 The cooperative of infantry regiment no. 27 was installed in Funchal.
  90. 22 February 1892 The newspaper A Espora ceased publication after 72 issues.
  91. 28 February 1892 Storms destroyed a large part of the Pontinha breakwater at Funchal.
  92. 19 March 1892–19 July 1892 The newspaper O Clamor Popular was published.
  93. 21 April 1892 A decree raised the Funchal customs delegation to an autonomous full customs house.
  94. 21 April 1892 A decree abolished the administrative tribunals, including that of Funchal.
  95. 27 April 1892 The quay in front of the Entrada da Cidade in Funchal was completed and provisionally received.
  96. May 1892–8 October 1892 Rabies appeared in Madeira in 1892, probably brought by a foreigner's dog landed at Funchal in May, killing many dogs and seven people. The veterinarian António Roque da Silveira arrived in Funchal on 8 October to study the outbreak.
  97. May 1892 Henrique Read Cabral took office as director of the Funchal customs.
  98. 5 May 1892–15 April 1893 The periodical Atalaia published 88 issues.
  99. 13 May 1892 The statutes of the Associação Filantrópica dos Estudantes do Funchal were approved by the district's chief authority.
  100. 9 June 1892–22 June 1892 Luís do Canto e Castro Merens de Távora was appointed civil governor of Funchal by decree of 9 June 1892 and took office on 22 June.
  101. 6 August 1892 A decree abolished the district General Juntas, including Funchal's, replacing them with District Commissions.
  102. 12 August 1892–22 October 1893 A second newspaper titled A Madeira Liberal appeared, issuing 116 numbers.
  103. 1 September 1892 The Funchal municipal council abolished its drawing course.
  104. 8 September 1892 Eduardo Antonino Pestana was born in Câmara de Lobos.
  105. 14 September 1892 Acúrsio Garcia Ramos died in Lisbon.
  106. 2 October 1892 Augusto Elmano Vieira was born in Funchal.
  107. 21 October 1892 Dr Luiz da Câmara Pestana was charged with analysing Lisbon's water.
  108. 21 November 1892 Juvenal Henriques de Araújo was born in Funchal.
  109. 1 December 1892 A decree created the hydraulic regime for mainland Portugal, which could be extended to the islands.
  110. 28 December 1892 Padre Manuel Nunes died at São Gonçalo.
  111. 29 December 1892 The Lisbon Bacteriological Institute was created with Luiz da Câmara Pestana as director.
  112. 29 December 1892 João dos Reis Gomes was commissioned as second lieutenant.
  113. 1893 A typhoid epidemic killed many people in Porto Moniz.
  114. 1893 The Visconde da Ribeira Brava was in Argentina administering the Casa Armstrong properties.
  115. 1893 Dr Quirino Avelino de Jesus published As Ordens Religiosas e as Missões Ultramarinas.
  116. 1893 António Homem de Gouveia was ordained priest.
  117. 1893 Henrique Augusto Vieira de Castro settled in Funchal at the end of 1893 as director of the Bank of Portugal agency.
  118. 1893 Myoporum was introduced to Porto Santo by João Maria Moniz.
  119. 1893 W. Hartwig published an addition to the list of the birds of the Madeira archipelago.
  120. 1893 António Augusto de Sousa e Silva's report on the public works of 1891 was published in Lisbon.
  121. 1893 Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos founded the Revista do Exército e da Armada.
  122. 1893 Dr António Feliciano Rodrigues published the poem A Escola in Coimbra.
  123. 1893 The water of the Fontinha fountain in Porto Santo was chemically analysed at the École Nationale des Mines in Paris.
  124. 1 January 1893 The Excelsior Madeira Cricket Club was founded.
  125. 18 January 1893 Luís da Costa Pereira died in poverty in Lisbon.
  126. 16 March 1893 Dr Américo Ciríaco Correia da Silva was born in Funchal.
  127. 23 March 1893 Dr Manuel da Assunção died while serving as deputy for Madeira.
  128. 2 April 1893 The Funchal council opened a 60-day tender for surveying the city plan.
  129. 6 April 1893–23 April 1893 D. Manuel Saldanha da Gama was appointed Civil Governor of Madeira a second time on 6 April 1893 and took office on 23 April.
  130. 7 April 1893–15 May 1893 The general assembly of the Aliança Madeirense resolved to raise the company's capital, which was raised to 300 contos by deed on 15 May 1893.
  131. 29 April 1893 Dr José Júlio Rodrigues died in Lisbon.
  132. 25 May 1893–22 June 1904 The newspaper O Districto was published, running to 346 issues.
  133. 16 July 1893 The first section of the Monte Railway, from Pombal to the Levada de Santa Luzia, was inaugurated.
  134. 27 July 1893 A law authorised the government to subsidise steam navigation between Lisbon and the Adjacent Islands and between the islands of each archipelago.
  135. 29 August 1893 Manuel Alexandre de Sousa's services to the Monte Railway were dispensed with.
  136. 5 October 1893 The António Augusto de Aguiar school was raised to an industrial school and workshops were created.
  137. 30 November 1893 A provisional contract with Bensaúde & C.ª established regular sailings between Madeira and Porto Santo by the steamer Falcão.
  138. 1894 Padre Alfredo de Paula Sardinha published a speech delivered at the Associação Católica do Funchal.
  139. 1894 Lord Walsingham's catalogue of Madeiran moths was published.
  140. 1894 During the Henrician centenary General Brito Rebelo found and published records of a mariner named Machico, bearing on the origin of the place-name.
  141. 1894–1895 José Bandeira Coelho de Melo and António Batista de Sousa sat as elective peers for Madeira.
  142. 1894–1895 Alexandre José Sarsfield, as captain, took part in the expedition to Mozambique, including Coolela and Manjacaze.
  143. 1894 Guilherme Teles de Meneses returned to Madeira.
  144. 1894 Protestant propaganda in Madeira intensified under the ministers Angus and Buchanan.
  145. 1894–1895 Guilherme Teles de Meneses made meteorological observations, including of winds, at Poiso and Pico do Areeiro.
  146. 1894 A great coastal rockfall on Deserta Grande caused sea surges along Madeira's south coast.
  147. 1894 João Baptista de Freitas Leal published the Devocionario das Almas do Purgatório in Funchal.
  148. 1894 The Associação Protectora de Estudantes Pobres was constituted.
  149. 1894 C. A. Gordon's book on Madeira was published in London.
  150. 1894–1895 The Visconde de Gonçalves de Freitas again served as deputy for Madeira.
  151. 1894 Rev. P. Murray collected plants in Madeira.
  152. 1894 Dean João Joaquim Pinto published two volumes of documents on Portuguese ecclesiastical civil law.
  153. 1894–1895 D. João de Alarcão served as deputy for Madeira in the legislative session.
  154. January 1894 The first issue of the Boletim Mensal da Obra Diocesana de São Francisco de Salles appeared.
  155. 19 January 1894 Urbano Canuto Soares was born in Funchal.
  156. 1 April 1894 Manuel Pestana dos Reis was born in Madeira.
  157. 19 April 1894 The Excelsior sports ground at Engenho Velho, São Martinho, later Campo do Brás, was opened.
  158. 26 April 1894–17 May 1894 António Augusto de Sousa e Silva was appointed civil governor of Funchal on 26 April and took office on 17 May.
  159. 22 May 1894 Crowds in Funchal rioted to prevent passengers from cholera-stricken Lisbon landing from the steamer Funchal.
  160. 16 June 1894–22 September 1894 A second newspaper titled 'A Madeira' published twenty-three issues.
  161. 18 June 1894 Luís de Ornelas Nóbrega de Quintal was born in Madeira.
  162. 2 August 1894 The Funchal council resolved to build the Leite Monteiro park at Monte, begun that year.
  163. 5 August 1894 The Monte Railway opened services between Pombal and Atalhinho amid festivities in Monte.
  164. 6 September 1894 Agostinho de Ornelas de Vasconcelos was appointed minister plenipotentiary to Russia.
  165. 25 October 1894 Francisco Luís Pereira de Sousa was commissioned ensign of engineers.
  166. 15 November 1894 José Agostinho Rodrigues was appointed army lieutenant-surgeon.
  167. 24 November 1894 Carlos Cossart and Henrique Hinton bought the three Desertas at public auction of Alexandre Fernandes Camacho's estate.
  168. December 1894 Velosa took the first poor man into his own house, origin of the Casa dos Pobres Desamparados.
  169. 1 December 1894 Carlos Elói Mota Freitas was born in Funchal.
  170. 7 December 1894 A regulation fixed the Funchal police at 50 guards in two stations.
  171. 1894–1895 The first organised football match in Madeira was played on the Campo D. Carlos.
  172. 1895 Dr Latzel published his study of Madeiran myriapods in Hamburg.
  173. 1895 Adolfo de Sousa Rodrigues won the third medal at the Grémio Artístico exhibition in Lisbon.
  174. 1895 The pamphlet 'No Laboratório. Psychologia e Pathologia Cerebral', signed J. Regniard, was published in Funchal and caused a sensation.
  175. 1895 An administrative code created the posts of administrative auditor.
  176. 1895 The mutual-aid society adopted the name Associação 4 de Setembro de 1862.
  177. 1895 'A Handy Guide to Madeira' by Eugene F. G. Jones was published.
  178. 1895 Adolfo Burnay set up a dairy factory at Santo António da Serra, making Madeira's first cheeses.
  179. 1895 José Maria de Gouveia published the manual Serviço de Campanha in Funchal.
  180. 1895 António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira presented a memoir on Portuguese cranial capacity to the Anthropological Society of Paris.
  181. 1895 Padre Armando Augusto de Pontes published O Domingo, a Fé.
  182. 1895 The central government built wooden houses for a meteorological station near Pico do Areeiro at a cost of about five contos, but the post was never equipped, staffed or operated.
  183. 1895–1897 Luciano Afonso da Silva Monteiro served as deputy for Madeira in the 1895–1897 legislative session.
  184. 1895–1897 Romano de Santa Clara Gomes sat as deputy for Madeira in parliament.
  185. 1895 The municipal plan of Funchal was completed at a cost of about 9 contos de réis, with final payment made on 16 May.
  186. 1895 Edmond Falgairolle published Une expédition française à l'île de Madère en 1566 in Paris.
  187. 1895 The Casa dos Pobres Desamparados began as the Albergue Nocturno, for men only.
  188. 1895 Winds were observed at Areeiro from June to October.
  189. 1895–1922 Period covered by tables of Treasury revenue and expenditure in the district of Funchal.
  190. 1895 The Estrada da Pontinha was declared complete and reconstruction of the Pontinha breakwater was finished.
  191. 1895 Read Cabral published 'Um Novo Mundo' and the novel 'Angela Santa Clara' in Funchal.
  192. 1895 Moisés Gonçalves published «Os Dentes Humanos», a 198-page volume.
  193. 1895 Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos went to East Africa and fought in the campaign against Gungunhana.
  194. 1895 José Leite Monteiro began publishing Elementos de Direito Civil Português, of which only one fascicle appeared.
  195. January 1895 An article on the medals and tokens of Madeira appeared in the German journal Berliner Münzblätter.
  196. 14 January 1895–21 February 1895 A second newspaper titled A Epocha published six issues.
  197. 2 March 1895 A decree allowed the Azorean districts to adopt administrative autonomy.
  198. 27 April 1895 Definitive reception of the quay at the city entrance of Funchal took place.
  199. May 1895 Dr Luís da Câmara Pestana became an extraordinary surgeon of São José hospital.
  200. 5 May 1895 The Funchal Shoemakers' Mutual-Aid Association was founded.
  201. 22 May 1895 A contract for electric public lighting was signed with Kopke.
  202. 30 May 1895 The municipal council granted a concession for pavilions in the Praça da Rainha for a permanent bazaar and horticultural exhibition.
  203. June 1895 Roma e Maia and Trigo proposed to complete and run the state levadas.
  204. June 1895 The former Convento da Incarnação building was lent to an Oficina de São José.
  205. 27 June 1895 João Maria Moniz retired.
  206. 22 August 1895 The park was named Parque Leite Monteiro after Dr José Leite Monteiro.
  207. 9 September 1895 Carlos Lôbo de Ávila died.
  208. 30 September 1895 A decree set a duty of 30 réis per kilogram on imported foreign molasses.
  209. October 1895 Paul Henry visited Madeira aboard the Iphigénie.
  210. 2 October 1895–3 October 1895 A flood on 2 and 3 October damaged north-coast parishes of Madeira.
  211. 24 October 1895 Funchal council named a street after the poet Manuel Caetano Pimenta de Aguiar.
  212. November 1895 A temperature of −2 °C was recorded at Areeiro.
  213. 18 November 1895 A decree suppressed the Porto Moniz municipality for a second time, annexing its parishes to Calheta and São Vicente; it was restored in 1898.
  214. 25 December 1895 João Paulo da Veiga Pestana was born in Funchal.
  215. 30 December 1895 A decree began the sugar protectionist regime, creating optional registration of sugar and alcohol factories and fixing minimum cane prices of 40–45 centavos per 30 kg for registered factories.
  216. 1896 A. Fauvel collected arachnids on Madeira, which were later described.
  217. 1896 Pinto Coelho published his verse collection Harpa Madeirense.
  218. 1896 João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreia moved to Rio de Janeiro as first secretary.
  219. 1896 A further administrative code confirmed the office of administrative auditors.
  220. 1896 Funchal council enlarged the Largo da Fonte at Monte, burying the apparition stone.
  221. 1896 César Atanásio da Silva Pereira was requisitioned for overseas service.
  222. 1896 Manuel dos Passos Freitas graduated in law at Coimbra.
  223. 1896 Guilherme Teles de Meneses published 'A Madeira e o dr. Douglas'.
  224. 1896 Ferreira da Silva published 'Sur les vins de Madère'.
  225. 1896 W. Hartwig published 'Die Vögel Madeira's'.
  226. 1896 W. R. O. Grant published a paper on the birds of the Salvage Islands in The Ibis.
  227. 1896 The first edition of Biddle's The Madeira Island was published in Philadelphia.
  228. 1896 The municipality of Porto Moniz was suppressed again.
  229. 1896 A partial Portuguese translation of John A. Dix's work, 'Um inverno na Madeira', was published in California.
  230. 1896 Adriano Augusto Trigo published his report on the levadas of Madeira.
  231. 1896 Laying of the tramway rails in Funchal began.
  232. 1896 Tristão Vaz Teixeira Bettencourt da Câmara was created barão do Jardim do Mar.
  233. 1896 The old Fonte da Senhora at Monte was destroyed by the fall of a large chestnut tree.
  234. January 1896 The cruiser Blonde called at Funchal carrying the body of Prince Henry of Battenberg.
  235. 5 January 1896–28 June 1896 The second newspaper named A Lucta ran in Funchal, producing 26 issues.
  236. 19 January 1896–27 October 1910 A Funchal road bore the name Caminho de Luís Miranda.
  237. 20 January 1896–6 September 1896 The newspaper A Voz Pública was published, reaching 36 issues.
  238. 13 February 1896 A deed divided water equally between the Piornais and Nova do Curral levadas.
  239. 27 February 1896 Funchal council petitioned the government for cession of the Forte de São Filipe, granted only much later.
  240. March 1896 Father Schmitz's article on Madeiran ants was reproduced in the Diário de Notícias of Funchal.
  241. 7 March 1896 Guilherme Teles de Meneses, administrator of Funchal, declared the water of the João Dinis springs suspect and forbade the public from drawing it.
  242. 12 March 1896 The Convent of Santa Clara was ceded to the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary for a missionary institute and girls' school.
  243. April 1896 Carlos de Melo's article on Machico appeared in The Scottish Geographical Magazine.
  244. 6 April 1896 Grabham's tower clock at Camacha was set going.
  245. 9 April 1896–23 May 1896 José Ribeiro da Cunha was appointed civil governor of Madeira for the first time on 9 April and took office on 23 May.
  246. 20 April 1896 Kopke transferred the public lighting concession to The Madeira Electric Lighting Company Limited.
  247. 2 May 1896 Canon Feliciano João Teixeira died in Évora.
  248. 21 May 1896 A law confirmed the levadas' right to their waters and authorised the government to contract out levada construction by public tender.
  249. 4 July 1896 Charles Lepierre signed his report on the São Roque spring water of Machico in Coimbra.
  250. 16 July 1896 The statutes of the Shoemakers' Mutual-Aid Association in Funchal were approved by alvará.
  251. 24 July 1896 Francisco Clementino de Sousa died in Funchal.
  252. 22 August 1896 The statutes of the Clube Internacional do Funchal were dated.
  253. 8 September 1896 The last issue of the Diário do Commercio was published.
  254. 9 September 1896 The first issue of O Diário do Commercio appeared.
  255. 26 September 1896 The levada concession was awarded to Captain Manuel Alexandre de Sousa.
  256. October 1896 Paul Henry visited Madeira aboard the Melpomène.
  257. October 1896 Hector Léveillé published 'Les Onotheracées de Madère' in Le Monde des Plantes.
  258. 21 November 1896 The first issue of Echo Académico appeared.
  259. 17 December 1896 The newspaper O Commercio da Madeira began publication.
  260. 1897 The Boletim Mensal da Obra Diocesana de São Francisco de Salles ceased publication.
  261. 1897–1903 D. Manuel de la Quadra taught as a contracted teacher at the Escola Industrial in Funchal.
  262. 1897 E. Simon published his study of Madeiran arachnids.
  263. 1897–1899 The Visconde da Ribeira Brava represented Madeira as deputy in the legislative session.
  264. 1897 João Tierno published his Relatório do Veterinário do Funchal.
  265. 1897 The pamphlet Origem da Ilha da Madeira was published in Funchal.
  266. 1897 As deputy, Dr Quirino Avelino de Jesus gave a noted speech on the overseas question.
  267. 1897 Roberto Boog Watson published 'On the Marine Mollusca of Madeira'.
  268. 1897 The elementary commercial course (Escola Elementar do Comércio) began operating.
  269. 1897 Forestry services in Madeira were placed under a department headed by a forestry officer.
  270. 1897 Vasco Gonçalves Marques completed the medical-surgical course in Funchal.
  271. 1897 At the end of 1897 the Blandy firm began a coastal steamer service from Funchal to ports on Madeira's south and north coasts.
  272. 1897 The São Vicente municipal council printed its by-laws as a pamphlet.
  273. 1897 J. Cardot published his paper on Madeiran mosses.
  274. 1897 The newspaper Empire proposed the cession or sale of Madeira to Britain.
  275. 1897 The Casa dos Pobres Desamparados, an asylum for the poor of both sexes, existed from this year.
  276. 1897 Funchal council resolved to rename the Campo da Barca after José Luciano de Castro, a change the public ignored.
  277. 1897–1899 Augusto José da Cunha served as deputy for Madeira.
  278. 1897 Construction of the pavilions on the Praça da Rainha began.
  279. 1897 Alphons Stuebel's 'Ueber das Wesen des Vulkanismus' was published in Berlin.
  280. 1897 Alberto Fauvel's three works on the beetles and arachnids of Madeira were published.
  281. 1897 The naturalist Alfred Merle Norman visited Madeira.
  282. 1897 Fernando Tolentino da Costa completed his medical course at the Funchal Medical-Surgical School.
  283. 1897 António Feliciano Rodrigues graduated from Coimbra and opened a law practice in Funchal.
  284. 1897 Rev. P. Murray published notes on Lotus and Pedrosia in the Journal of Botany.
  285. 2 January 1897 The second newspaper titled Correio do Funchal began publication.
  286. 6 January 1897–6 May 1897 The Sociedade Protectora dos Animais Domésticos was founded on 6 January 1897 and legalised by alvará on 6 May.
  287. 15 January 1897 César Atanásio da Silva Pereira arrived at Lourenço Marques.
  288. 24 January 1897 The first number of the newspaper A Aurora appeared.
  289. 4 February 1897–16 December 1897 The newspaper Tribuna Académica published its 44 issues.
  290. 15 February 1897–1898 José António de Almada was appointed civil governor of the Funchal district by decree of 15 February 1897 and took office on the 18th; his governorship to 1898 created the forest police and demolished the city curtain wall.
  291. 21 February 1897 The statutes of the Clube Restauração were reformed.
  292. 22 March 1897 The poet João Cabral do Nascimento was born in Funchal.
  293. 22 March 1897 An order tasked the district public works with studying Funchal's water supply and sewers.
  294. 26 April 1897 The civil governor approved the statutes of the Associação Protectora de Estudantes Pobres.
  295. 30 April 1897–13 December 1899 A third newspaper named A Madeira published 259 issues before suspending.
  296. 11 May 1897 The statutes of the Clube dos Estrangeiros were dated.
  297. 19 May 1897 Electric public lighting was inaugurated in Funchal.
  298. 23 May 1897 Father Alfredo de Paula Sardinha died at Arco da Calheta.
  299. June 1897 Paul Henry again visited Madeira aboard the Melpomène.
  300. 1 July 1897 A second newspaper named Diário Popular began publication.
  301. 20 July 1897 O Commercio da Madeira suspended publication.
  302. 12 August 1897 Works on the new fountain in the Parque Leite Monteiro were contracted out.
  303. 24 August 1897–30 August 1897 The general assembly of the Clube Recreio e Instrução approved its statutes.
  304. 3 September 1897 Armando Eduardo Pinto Correia was born at Estreito de Câmara de Lobos.
  305. 4 September 1897 A deed was signed between the War Ministry and Funchal council concerning the Campo de D. Carlos.
  306. 6 September 1897 A request was made to name the square after King Carlos (Campo de D. Carlos).
  307. 6 September 1897 Funchal council resolved to buy a reduction of the city plan by C. Roma e Maia for 700$000 réis.
  308. 6 September 1897 Funchal's municipal garden was renamed Jardim D. Amélia.
  309. 13 September 1897 A law transferred the northern part of the Campo da Barca to the municipality of Funchal.
  310. 16 September 1897 A law authorised government aid for Funchal's sanitation works.
  311. 17 September 1897–19 September 1897 King Leopold of Belgium visited Funchal, leaving for the Canaries on 19 September.
  312. 19 September 1897–10 July 1898 A second paper called O Recreio published 43 issues.
  313. 20 September 1897 Demolition of the Forte de São Pedro in Funchal began on 20 September 1897, as authorised by the Ministry of War.
  314. 20 September 1897 The Associação de Classe dos Industriais Madeirenses was founded.
  315. October 1897 Hector Léveillé published 'A propos de deux plantes de Madère'.
  316. 4 October 1897 Dr. Vasco Gonçalves Marques enlisted in the reserve corps of army medical officers.
  317. 7 October 1897 Funchal council approved a book recording its major works, which was never carried out.
  318. 16 October 1897 Agostinho de Ornelas published an article on the Esmeraldo entail lawsuits in A Verdade.
  319. 28 October 1897 Dr. Pedro Júlio Vieira died in Funchal aged 70.
  320. November 1897 Death of José Bandeira Coelho de Melo.
  321. November 1897–March 1898 The Correio do Funchal published a Portuguese translation of the papal bull founding the diocese of Funchal (dated November 1897 and March 1898 in different entries).
  322. 3 November 1897 Padre Armando Augusto de Pontes died in Machico.
  323. 6 November 1897 Civil Governor José de Almada asked for the 1892 hydraulic decree to be applied to Madeira.
  324. 7 December 1897–12 December 1897 Mousinho de Albuquerque arrived in Funchal from Mozambique to a brilliant reception and left for Lisbon on 12 December.
  325. 1898 Alfredo Rodrigues Gaspar became professor at the Naval School.
  326. 1898 A. W. Waters listed eight Madeiran membraniporid species.
  327. 1898 Ciríaco de Brito e Nóbrega's Um Marinheiro do Século XV was published.
  328. 1898–1899 António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira published 'Cranios Portugueses'.
  329. 1898 The Diário Popular gave away a map of Madeira as a free gift.
  330. 1898–1901 The Campo de D. Carlos was constructed in Funchal.
  331. 1898 António Francisco da Silva Ramos completed his medical course and published his dissertation.
  332. 1898 José Ramos Coelho published the poem A ilha da Madeira.
  333. 1898–1903 José Carlos de Faria e Castro revisited Madeira in 1898 and 1903.
  334. 1898 In summer the Brest–Cape Cod telegraph cable broke, and its recovery brought up lava fragments from the Atlantic floor.
  335. 1898 Joannes Böhm published his paper on fossils of the Selvagens.
  336. 1898 Padre José Pereira da Silva was ordained and came to Madeira.
  337. 1898 The water mills of the marquesses of Castelo Melhor near the Largo do Marquês in Funchal were demolished.
  338. 1898 Agostinho de Ornelas de Vasconcelos served as delegate to the Hague conference (dated 1900 elsewhere in the entry).
  339. 1898 Death of Manuel Celestino Emídio.
  340. 1898 The ruinous Vapor building in Funchal was demolished.
  341. 1898–1899 Gabriel Pereira's translation of Diogo Gomes's narrative appeared in the Boletim da Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa.
  342. 1898–April 1898 Engineer Adolfo Loureiro came to Madeira to study its water regime, returning to Lisbon in April 1898.
  343. 6 January 1898 Dr. Álvaro Rodrigues de Azevedo died in Lisbon.
  344. 9 January 1898–22 February 1898 The seven issues of the Funchal periodical Trip-Trap appeared.
  345. 13 January 1898–13 February 1898 A decree of 13 January 1898 restored the municipality of Porto Moniz, which was reinstalled on 13 February.
  346. 16 January 1898 Canon Dr. João Jacinto Gonçalves de Andrade died in São Paulo.
  347. 27 January 1898 The Funchal council president proposed discussing a municipal tribute to Álvaro Rodrigues de Azevedo.
  348. February 1898 Hector Léveillé published 'Les Renonculacées, Geraniacées et Haloragées de Madère'.
  349. 3 February 1898–24 April 1899 The poet António Nobre resided in Funchal seeking a cure for tuberculosis, writing there the sonnet 'Sestança' dated 29 July 1898.
  350. 28 February 1898 Dr. Patrício Moniz died in Lisbon.
  351. March 1898 The Bataria das Fontes was handed to the municipal council and ordered demolished.
  352. 3 March 1898 The Câmara licensed enlargement of the Santa Luzia churchyard.
  353. 29 April 1898 The Visconde da Ribeira Brava presented a bill to sell the state levadas.
  354. 9 May 1898 The Brazilian engineer André Rebouças was found dead near Reid's Hotel in Funchal.
  355. 10 May 1898 Luís Vieira de Castro was born in Funchal.
  356. 12 May 1898 Dr. Luiz da Câmara Pestana was appointed substitute professor at the Lisbon Medical School.
  357. 10 July 1898 João Maria Moniz died in Funchal.
  358. 26 July 1898 José Maria Smith Barruncho died in Lisbon as a general.
  359. 10 September 1898 Empress Elisabeth of Austria, a former visitor to Madeira, was assassinated by Lucheni.
  360. 8 December 1898 The Ateneu Comercial do Funchal was installed.
  361. 19 December 1898 A deed divided the Piornais water into sevenths with the Levada Nova de Câmara de Lobos.
  362. 28 December 1898 The 500 lamps and 8 arc lights contracted for Funchal's public lighting were in operation.
  363. 1899 Dr Roland Krohn published 'Die Hygiene auf Funchal in Madeira'.
  364. 1899 V. Kulczynski published in Cracow his study of the spiders and arachnids of the Madeira archipelago and the Selvagens.
  365. 1899 Luís de Ornelas Pinto Coelho published his verse collection Folhas Dispersas.
  366. 1899 The first athletics and cycling events in Madeira were held at a Madeira Cricket Club festival.
  367. 1899 Padre Ernesto Schmitz's Die Vögel Madeira's summarised knowledge of Madeiran ornithology.
  368. 1899 A. W. Waters published 'Bryozoa of Madeira'.
  369. 1899–1908 Manuel José Vieira served his second term as president of the Funchal municipal council.
  370. 1899 The municipal council installed a clock in the Porto Santo church tower.
  371. 1899 Alfred Merle Norman published The Land Isopoda of Madeira.
  372. 1899 Manuel Esteves Fazenda was appointed canon of Funchal Cathedral.
  373. 1899 Dr Nuno Silvestre Teixeira published his 240-page book O Alcoolismo.
  374. 2 January 1899 The second Correio do Funchal suspended publication after 587 issues.
  375. 5 January 1899 The Funchal council approved raising the number of public lamps from 500 to 701.
  376. 8 March 1899 Wind toppled the spire of the south tower of the church of Santo António parish.
  377. 2 April 1899–8 December 1900 The newspaper A Voz do Operário ran from its first issue to its 88th and last.
  378. 4 June 1899 The carpenters' trade association was founded.
  379. 22 June 1899 The levadas concession was rescinded and the levadas returned to the district Public Works directorate.
  380. 23 June 1899 António Correia Herédia died in Lisbon.
  381. 14 July 1899 A law preceding the establishment of Madeira's cereal regime was passed.
  382. 26 July 1899 A decree approved regulations for the trade in wheat and its flour products in Madeira.
  383. 9 October 1899 The Madeira garrison battalion Caçadores n.º 12 became Infantry Regiment n.º 27.
  384. 15 November 1899 Dr Luís da Câmara Pestana died of bubonic plague at Arroios hospital in Lisbon.
  385. 30 November 1899 António Homem de Gouveia was appointed canon of Funchal Cathedral by royal letter.
  386. December 1899 The last issue of O Domingo Catholico was published.
  387. 23 December 1899–25 June 1900 Agostinho de Sousa Coutinho, marquês do Funchal, served his first term as civil governor of the Funchal district.
  388. 23 December 1899 A decree established the Madeiran cereal regime, regulating the wheat and flour trade.
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  1. c. 1900 The Clube Recreativo Musical dissolved in or shortly after 1900.
  2. 1900–1901 The botanist P. Bornmüller botanised in Madeira and the Canaries, collecting lichens later studied by J. Steiner.
  3. 1900–1902 Adolfo César de Noronha made meteorological observations on Porto Santo.
  4. 1900 Alfredo de Fraga Gomes's pamphlet on sugar-cane disease in Madeira was published in Lisbon.
  5. 1900 The Prince of Joinville died.
  6. 1900 João Gouveia published the verse volume Breviário in Funchal.
  7. 1900–1910 The Normal School operated in Funchal.
  8. 1900 Madeira imported about 2,000 puncheons of molasses for alcohol production.
  9. 1900 The Ponta do Sol municipal council printed its by-laws as a pamphlet.
  10. 1900 Padre Manuel Fernandes de Sant'Ana published his two-volume Questões de Biologia.
  11. 1900 A lighthouse was installed on the Ilhéu de Cima off Porto Santo.
  12. 1900 The second edition of Anthony J. Drexel Biddle's The Madeira Island was published.
  13. 1900 António Balbino do Rego completed his medical course in Porto.
  14. 1900 The Monte-Pio Marítimo Funchalense mutual-aid association was founded in Funchal.
  15. 1900 Adriano Augusto Trigo published a sewerage project for Funchal.
  16. 1900 The Real Associação Vinícola da Madeira was founded.
  17. 1900 An edition of Frutuoso published the 1502 charter of Calheta.
  18. 1900 João Augusto Pereira presented the first bill seeking administrative autonomy for Madeira, which fell with the government.
  19. 1900–1910 João Augusto Pereira represented Madeira in successive legislatures.
  20. 1900 The Barbary partridge was introduced to Porto Santo.
  21. 1900 José António de Almada served as deputy for Madeira.
  22. 17 January 1900 Octávio Santos was born in Funchal.
  23. 23 January 1900 The Montepio Madeirense was founded and its first statutes approved.
  24. 3 February 1900 The naturalist James Yate Johnson died in Funchal, aged about 80.
  25. 24 February 1900 The statutes of the Turf Club were approved.
  26. 15 March 1900 João Francisco de Sousa was commissioned ensign of infantry.
  27. 29 March 1900 António Vicente Varela was appointed canon of Funchal Cathedral by royal letter.
  28. 10 May 1900 A decree established the district school for training primary teachers (Escola Normal) in Funchal, with Pedro José Lomelino as its first director.
  29. 22 May 1900 Luís da Rocha Machado offered to build Funchal's water and sewer works for 359 contos.
  30. 4 June 1900 Charles Lepierre analysed the waters of the Jamboto iron spring; the analysis, ordered by Funchal Municipal Council, was published as a pamphlet.
  31. 6 July 1900–23 July 1900 D. Tomás de Almeida Manuel de Vilhena was appointed civil governor of Madeira by decree on 6 July 1900 and took office on 23 July.
  32. 30 July 1900 Paul Henry was killed in Peking during the allied entry into the city.
  33. August 1900 The Little Sisters of the Poor arrived in Madeira and founded the Asilo dos Velhinhos, an asylum for the elderly, in Funchal.
  34. 20 August 1900 Manuel Bettencourt Sardinha bought the original Funchal tramway company's stock at auction.
  35. September 1900 The Tornos springs were measured in the dry season at 17 litres per second.
  36. 8 September 1900 João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreia was appointed envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary in Brazil.
  37. 23 September 1900 The general assembly approved the statutes of the cooperative Construção Predial do Funchal.
  38. 10 October 1900 The Funchal teacher-training school began classes with 37 enrolled students.
  39. 11 October 1900 The municipal council granted the Real Associação Vinícola da Madeira an annual subsidy of 100$000 réis.
  40. 11 October 1900 The municipal council ordered construction of the mortuary at the Angústias cemetery.
  41. 25 October 1900 Alberto Artur Sarmento was commissioned ensign of infantry.
  42. 28 October 1900 The first issue of the periodical A Academia appeared.
  43. 18 November 1900–29 June 1902 The Revista Madeirense was published in 83 issues.
  44. 25 November 1900 Dr Quirino Avelino de Jesus was elected deputy for Madeira.
  45. 26 December 1900 Lord Roberts received a brilliant reception in Madeira on his return from South Africa.
  46. 28 December 1900 The explorer Serpa Pinto died.
  47. 1900–1925 Joana de Eça's tomb was found in the ruins of the Esperança convent church.

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  1. c. 1901 The ruined chapel of São João de Latrão was completely demolished.
  2. c. 1902 The Ilhéu de Cima quay at Porto da Cruz was built.
  3. c. 1903 New salt pans owned by António Luís Pimenta were set up at Serra de Fora, Porto Santo.
  4. c. 1904 Colonel Joaquim Maria Alves obtained a three-conto subsidy from the Junta Geral for a rifle range.
  5. c. 1908 Dr Roland Krohn died of pulmonary tuberculosis in a Swiss sanatorium.
  6. c. 1908 A short ramp was built giving access to the small beach at Ponta Delgada to ease the transport of goods.
  7. 1901–1909 Observations at the Funchal station from 1901 to 1909 were used for the climate averages.
  8. 1901 A very wet year, with 1138 mm of rain recorded in Funchal.
  9. 1901 A measurement gave a combined flow of 153 litres per second for the three Santa Luzia levadas.
  10. 1901 Alberto de Sousa Botelho and Alberto Allen Pereira de Sequeira Bramão sat as deputies for Madeira.
  11. 1901 Ciríaco de Brito e Nóbrega published an account of the royal visit and O Perdão do Marido.
  12. 1901–1943 Period covered by the statistics of vessels entering the port of Funchal.
  13. 1901 An archive room was built for the Funchal meteorological post.
  14. 1901 A. Samler Brown began including the Azores in his guide.
  15. 1901 The Porto Santo lighthouse on the Ilhéu de Cima began operating.
  16. 1901 A small maritime disinfection station was established at the Pontinha.
  17. 1901 José Elias da Conceição e Sousa published the first part of his description of Madeira to commemorate the royal visit.
  18. 1901 J. Adams's A Guide to Madeira with an account of the Climate was published in London.
  19. 1901 The local Regenerator party split over the reception of the king and queen, and João Augusto Teixeira withdrew from politics.
  20. 1901 The chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios at Quinta Grande was considerably enlarged.
  21. 1901 Padre Manuel Fernandes de Sant'Ana published the first volume of his Curso de Religião. Apologetica.
  22. 1901 José Cupertino de Faria published 'O Arquipelago da Madeira' in Setúbal.
  23. 1901 The municipal council carried out essential works at the Porto do Moniz landing place.
  24. 1901 Padre Ernesto Schmitz reported in Cosmos that 20,000–22,000 shearwaters were hunted annually on the Selvagens.
  25. 1901 Anthony J. Drexel Biddle's The Island of the Wine was published.
  26. 1901 «O Vintém das Escolas» was founded in Lisbon.
  27. 1901 Michael Grabham published Materia Atlantica, a guide for visitors at the time of the royal visit.
  28. 1901 An enlarged edition of the Devocionario das Almas do Purgatório appeared.
  29. 1901–1909 Wind direction observations were made at Ponta de São Lourenço.
  30. 1901 João Augusto Martins published 'A Madeira e o seu clima' in Lisbon.
  31. 1901–1902 Martin Vahl made his first stay in Madeira.
  32. 1901 Vieira Guimarães published 'A Ordem de Cristo'.
  33. 1901 Schiffner published his contribution on the flora of Madeira and the Canaries.
  34. 1901 Dean João Joaquim Pinto published a work on the Gospel of St Matthew.
  35. 1 January 1901–15 September 1910 The Quinzena Religiosa ran for 230 issues.
  36. 9 January 1901–17 January 1911 The newspaper Correio da Tarde was published, issuing 1,294 numbers.
  37. 21 February 1901–9 May 1901 D. Bernardo da Costa de Sousa Macedo was appointed civil governor of Madeira on 21 February and took office on 9 May.
  38. 12 March 1901 The coaster Brilhante Pargueiro sank off Ponta da Cruz.
  39. 7 April 1901–1 March 1903 The first series of the newspaper O Democrata appeared, running to 98 issues.
  40. 23 April 1901 First issue of O Rebate appeared.
  41. 10 May 1901 The Excelsior cricket team sailed to Las Palmas, the first Madeiran sports team to play abroad.
  42. 27 May 1901 César Atanásio da Silva Pereira died of bilious fever at Macequece.
  43. June 1901 Richard Henry Major died in London.
  44. 2 June 1901 Last issue of A Academia appeared.
  45. 12 June 1901 A law restored police commissioners in special districts.
  46. 13 June 1901 José Ribeiro da Cunha was appointed civil governor of Madeira for the second time, taking office on 15 June.
  47. 22 June 1901–25 June 1901 King Carlos and Queen Amélia visited Madeira, arriving at Funchal on 22 June and leaving for the Azores on 25 June; John Blandy entertained them at Quinta do Palheiro, where the king played tennis, and an exhibition was held in the Praça Académica.
  48. 28 June 1901 The Portuguese monarchs reached the Azores after their Madeira visit.
  49. July 1901 First-year exams were held at the Escola Normal, with 26 students passing.
  50. 21 July 1901 Issue no. 11 of the periodical A Cruz was published.
  51. 7 August 1901 Bishop Manuel Agostinho Barreto blessed the restored chapel at São Jorge and returned it to worship.
  52. 8 August 1901 Following the law of 22 May 1901, a decree of 8 August 1901 extended the Azorean autonomous regime to the district of Funchal, creating a directly elected Junta Geral that took over the district public works; road-building followed.
  53. 15 August 1901–16 August 1901 Robert F. Scott's expedition ship Discovery anchored at Funchal.
  54. 6 September 1901 Agostinho de Ornelas de Vasconcelos died at Niederwalluf, Germany.
  55. 15 September 1901 The women's mutual-aid association '15 de Setembro de 1901' was founded in Funchal.
  56. October 1901 D. António Manuel Pereira Ribeiro was ordained priest after graduating in theology.
  57. 11 October 1901–9 November 1901 The Madeira Magazine, an English-language review, published its five issues.
  58. 8 November 1901–10 November 1901 Heavy rain damaged Funchal streets, with a maximum daily rainfall of 155.1 mm recorded.
  59. 12 December 1901 The cooperative Construção Predial do Funchal was formally constituted by deed.
  60. 12 December 1901 The statutes of The Sports Club were dated.
  61. 16 December 1901 Father João Maurício Henriques died in Lisbon.
  62. 24 December 1901 A decree placed the Funchal district in the southern agronomic region and created the District Council of Agriculture.
  63. 24 December 1901 The Health Regulation turned the Funchal lazaretto into an observation post.
  64. 24 December 1901 A decree converted the district teacher-training schools, including Funchal's, into normal schools with a three-year course.
  65. 24 December 1901 The statutes of the Montepio Marítimo Funchalense were approved.
  66. 1902–1904 Alberto de Sousa Botelho again represented Madeira in parliament.
  67. 1902 Katharina Pommer's 'Madeira die Wald-Insel' was published in Berlin.
  68. 1902–1906 Alexandre José Sarsfield sat as deputy for Madeira in successive legislatures.
  69. 1902 Pedro José Lomelino published the Relatório da Escola Distrital do Funchal.
  70. 1902 António da Cruz Rodrigues dos Santos completed the course of the Lisbon Medical School.
  71. 1902 Jorge Perestrelo Velosa Camacho took part in the Barué operations and commanded the Macequece column.
  72. 1902–1906 Frederico dos Santos Martins represented Madeira in parliament.
  73. 1902 The first and only women, Palmira Conceição de Sousa and Henriqueta Gabriela de Sousa, graduated from the Funchal Medical-Surgical School.
  74. 1902 Under administrative autonomy the Junta Geral began collecting its revenues and undertaking public works.
  75. 1902 The 1744 charter of São Vicente was first published in A Revista Madeirense.
  76. 1 January 1902 Garrison artillery company no. 3 was renamed Bataria n.º 3 de Artilharia de Guarnição.
  77. 2 January 1902–18 June 1902 Franciscan Sisters of Mary served in the Misericórdia hospital until the regulation was suspended.
  78. 17 January 1902 The steamer Lagos ran aground on Deserta Grande in fog.
  79. 23 January 1902 The last issue of A Cruz was published.
  80. 3 February 1902 Maria Leopoldina de Oliveira died in Funchal.
  81. 3 February 1902 José Leite Monteiro was appointed substitute civil governor of Funchal by decree.
  82. 10 February 1902 Francisco Manuel de Sousa, parish priest of Ribeira Brava, died.
  83. 13 February 1902 The Count of Canavial died in Funchal.
  84. 21 March 1902 Electric lighting was inaugurated in Funchal's Municipal Garden.
  85. 22 March 1902 The Count of Ribeiro Real died.
  86. April 1902 Carlos Azevedo de Meneses published an article on Madeiran vines in Portugal Agrícola.
  87. April 1902 The Penha de França battery was definitively ceded to the municipal council by deed.
  88. 3 April 1902–4 July 1902 The Auxílio Maternal charity was founded in Funchal on 3 April 1902 and its statutes were approved by the civil government on 4 July.
  89. 7 April 1902 Funchal council licensed the Monte Railway company to operate the tramway line.
  90. 20 April 1902–11 January 1911 A further series, probably the fourth, of O Direito was published.
  91. 27 April 1902–7 September 1902 A Luz da Madrugada published its seven issues.
  92. 12 June 1902 Funchal council allowed the owner of Quinta das Rosas to gate the Beco do Ribeirinho, provided the levada keeper received a key.
  93. 2 July 1902 The Diário Popular published an article on Madeiran horses.
  94. 25 July 1902 Francisco Justino Gonçalves de Andrade died in São Paulo.
  95. 2 August 1902 A decree approved Funchal council's tender conditions for tramway concessions, leaving the traction system to the concessionaire and allowing electric traction.
  96. 10 August 1902 The Lisbon bacteriological institute was renamed Real Instituto Bacteriológico Câmara Pestana.
  97. 30 August 1902 A decree on tuberculosis prevention was issued.
  98. September 1902–April 1905 Carlos Azevedo de Meneses made his first series of phenological observations in Madeira, later published in a French journal.
  99. 24 October 1902 The last issue of O Rebate appeared.
  100. 11 November 1902–30 November 1902 Four issues of the periodical A Ideia were published.
  101. 16 November 1902 The first issue of O Debate appeared.
  102. 23 November 1902 The first issue of the Revista Literária appeared.
  103. 1903 The remains of Bishop D. Luís de Figueiredo de Lemos were moved from the chapel of São Luís to Funchal Cathedral.
  104. 1903 The Liga das Levadas was founded in Funchal.
  105. 1903 Joaquim da Silva Tavares published the first contribution on Madeiran zoocecidia in Brotéria.
  106. 1903 João Gouveia published Atlante in Lisbon.
  107. 1903 The Junta Geral substantially improved and enlarged the Câmara de Lobos quay.
  108. 1903 Manuel Ribeiro published his verse booklet Flores Agrestes in Funchal.
  109. 1903 José de Almada graduated in law at Coimbra.
  110. 1903 Colonel Eduardo Agostinho Pereira measured Pico Ruivo at 1,950 m.
  111. 1903 The Nationalist party was founded, gaining support among Madeiran clergy.
  112. 1903 Manuel Gonçalves and Francisco de Araújo Figueira tried without success to install fixed fish traps.
  113. 1903 An official school was created in São Roque do Faial.
  114. 1903–1905 The Junta Geral built the Faial quay at Pedra da Pescaria.
  115. 1903–1912 C. A. de Meneses carried out phenological observations in Madeira.
  116. 1903 The Wilson Company quay near the Palace Hotel was built, in 1903 or shortly after.
  117. 1903–1916 The Junta Geral built the Seixal quay.
  118. 1903 The Junta Geral built the Porto da Cruz quay.
  119. 1903 Only a single juniper remained on Porto Santo, on Pico Branco.
  120. 1903 António Feliciano Rodrigues published Versos da Mocidade in Funchal.
  121. 1903 The Santo António parish cemetery was greatly enlarged.
  122. 15 January 1903 The statutes of a women's mutual-aid association in Funchal were approved.
  123. 15 February 1903 The tenth and last issue of the Revista Literária appeared.
  124. 8 March 1903–10 May 1903 A second series of O Democrata was published, with ten issues.
  125. 12 March 1903 The Funchal council ceded land on Campo da Barca to the Junta Geral for a disinfection station.
  126. 13 March 1903 Canon Manuel Esteves Fazenda died in Lisbon aged 58.
  127. 17 March 1903 João Augusto Pereira gave a speech on the anarchic state of the Funchal district, later published in Funchal.
  128. 3 April 1903 The teacher Manuel de la Quadra (Cuadra) died in Funchal.
  129. 12 May 1903 The last issue of O Debate appeared.
  130. 22 May 1903 António Augusto Larica died in Funchal.
  131. 2 June 1903 The Baron of Úzel died.
  132. 9 June 1903 A ministerial order granted Prince Frederico Carlos de Hohenlohe a concession to establish tuberculosis sanatoria in Madeira.
  133. 22 June 1903 Colonel Francisco Afonso de Chaves took magnetic measurements at Funchal, recording a declination of 20°31'30" W and an inclination of 54° 32' 5.
  134. 25 June 1903 The botanist Júlio Augusto Henriques visited Madeira en route to São Tomé.
  135. 9 July 1903 João da Silva Carvalho died in Funchal.
  136. 19 August 1903 Dr Júlio Paulo de Freitas bought the Quinta das Angústias (Quinta Lambert) for 4,000 pounds.
  137. 24 September 1903 A decree modified the 1895 sugar regime, raising minimum cane prices and reducing the duty on foreign molasses to 6 réis per kilogram.
  138. 10 October 1903 Funchal Municipal Council approved the plan of the first houses of the Construção Predial do Funchal cooperative.
  139. 20 October 1903 The Baron of Jardim do Mar died in Funchal.
  140. 21 October 1903 Manuel José Varela enlisted in the army with the rank of ensign.
  141. 30 October 1903 Lencastre signed his report on the Madeira sanatoria mission.
  142. 12 November 1903 Father José Pereira da Silva preached a funeral oration for Leo XIII in Funchal Cathedral.
  143. 17 November 1903 Manuel Alexandre de Sousa died in Lisbon.
  144. 12 December 1903 Canon António Vicente Varela died in Funchal.
  145. 28 December 1903 Alberto de Sousa Botelho died in Funchal.
  146. 30 December 1903 The first motor car arrived in Madeira.
  147. 1904 Adolfo César de Noronha sent fossil corals of the archipelago to the palaeontologist Oppenheim.
  148. 1904 An epidemic of cerebrospinal meningitis occurred in Madeira, with patients treated at the lazaretto.
  149. 1904 Ernesto Venceslau de Sousa's Poema antipuniceo was published in Funchal.
  150. 1904 Jubilee festivities for the 50th anniversary of the Immaculate Conception dogma were held in Madeira, with a procession from the cathedral to Monte.
  151. 1904–1908 The Junta Geral built the quay at Ribeira Brava between 1904 and 1908.
  152. 1904 Carlos Azevedo de Menezes published 'Arvores e Arbustos Madeirenses' in Funchal.
  153. 1904 João Frederico Júdice de Vasconcelos sat as deputy for Madeira in the parliamentary session.
  154. 1904 Vasco Gonçalves Marques was appointed secretary of the emigration police in Funchal.
  155. 1904–1905 In 1904 and 1905 alone, registered factories fully bought the surplus brandy of unregistered ones as required.
  156. 1904 Work began on the bridges of Faial.
  157. 1904 The Selvagens were sold by the morgado's heirs to the banker Luís da Rocha Machado.
  158. 1904 Manuel Gomes Jardim was ordained priest.
  159. 1904–1905 The Junta Geral built the present Machico quay.
  160. 1904–1908 The Junta Geral built the Porto Novo landing stage in 1904, 1905 and 1908.
  161. 1904–1910 The Junta Geral built the São Jorge quay at Ponta Gorda, linked by a footpath to the Santana–São Jorge road.
  162. 1904 The disinfection station at Campo da Barca was built.
  163. 1904 C. Gagel published Ein Ausflug nach Madeira in Berlin.
  164. 1904 James Britten published 'R. Brown's List of Madeira Plants' in the Journal of Botany.
  165. 1904 Martin Vahl published Madeiras Vegetation in Copenhagen.
  166. 1904 The São Lázaro gate of Funchal was demolished.
  167. 1904 J. Steiner published his study of lichens of Madeira.
  168. 27 January 1904 D. Luís da Câmara Leme died in Lisbon aged 86.
  169. 25 February 1904 An absolute minimum temperature of 4.5 °C was recorded in Funchal.
  170. 28 March 1904 The committee bought the Quinta do Rochedo for the asylum.
  171. 28 March 1904 The 'Monte-Pio Madeirense' mutual-aid society was founded by twenty-eight members of various social classes.
  172. 23 April 1904 The Junta Geral resolved to pay the staff of the emigration police.
  173. 10 May 1904 The government confirmed the donation of the asylum to the Junta Geral.
  174. 11 May 1904 A decree created a police force for repressing clandestine emigration in Madeira.
  175. 17 May 1904 A decree created the Laboratory of Bacteriology and Hygiene in Funchal, whose director became António Balbino do Rego.
  176. 23 May 1904 A decree approved the staff establishment of the Campo da Barca disinfection station.
  177. 10 June 1904 Bishop D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto blessed the repaired Santo Espírito chapel.
  178. 15 June 1904 William Hinton died in Funchal.
  179. 16 July 1904 The District Agricultural Council held its inaugural session.
  180. 31 July 1904 The 'Reforma dos Operários Madeirenses' mutual-aid association was organised.
  181. August 1904 The Sanatoria Company received its first building materials from abroad for works at Monte.
  182. 14 August 1904 The newspaper O Heraldo da Madeira began publication.
  183. 22 October 1904 Pedro José Lomelino was appointed substitute civil governor of the district, taking office on 24 October.
  184. 22 October 1904–10 December 1904 The marquês do Funchal was appointed civil governor of the district for a second time on 22 October, taking office on 10 December.
  185. 28 October 1904 Luís António Gonçalves de Freitas died of a cerebral congestion aged 46.
  186. 24 November 1904 A law reinforced and altered Madeira's sugar regime, establishing a sugar and alcohol monopoly for Hinton & Sons and José Júlio de Lemos.
  187. 13 December 1904 Luís Figueiroa de Albuquerque died at Caniço.
  188. 24 December 1904 Regulations were issued for the 1903 sugar decree.
  189. 1905 Joaquim da Silva Tavares published his second contribution.
  190. 1905–1906 José Cabral Correia do Amaral sat as deputy for Madeira in the 1905–06 legislature.
  191. 1905 Bubonic plague appeared in Funchal in late 1905 without becoming epidemic; patients were isolated at the Gonçalo Aires lazaretto, whose strict isolation fed popular fear and unrest.
  192. 1905 Construction of the Marmeleiros sanatorium for the poor began.
  193. 1905 Funchal council approved naming a street after Servulo Drumond de Meneses, but the decision was never recorded.
  194. 1905 Meneses's earlier phenological observations appeared in the Bulletin de l'Académie Internationale de Géographie Botanique du Mans.
  195. 1905–1907 Canon António Homem de Gouveia represented Madeira in the Portuguese Cortes.
  196. 1905 Manuel Ribeiro's Pyrilampos was published in Funchal.
  197. 1905–1916 The Junta Geral built or improved most of Madeira's quays.
  198. 1905 Joaquim Maria Fragoso's description of Madeiran transport refers to this year.
  199. 1905 A new beatification process for Frei Pedro da Guarda was opened in the episcopal curia of Funchal.
  200. 1905 Father Luís Alves Martins came to Madeira as chaplain of Infantry Regiment no. 27.
  201. 1905 K. Friderichsen published Rubi fra Madeira.
  202. 1905 The Abra quay was built near Caniçal.
  203. 1905 A new, larger quay was built at Machico.
  204. 1905 Martin Vahl published Ueber die Vegetation Madeiras in Engler's Botanische Jahrbücher.
  205. 1905 About 250 Madeirans emigrated to Argentina.
  206. 1905 Marck Athias published Anatomia da celula nervosa in Lisbon.
  207. 1905 Joana de Castelo Branco published As Minhas Flores in Lisbon.
  208. 1905 According to a German guidebook, two Russians related to its author climbed the Pico do Gato.
  209. 23 January 1905 The statutes of the Monte-Pio Madeirense mutual-aid society were approved.
  210. 4 February 1905 Eduardo Ernesto de Castelo Branco died in Lisbon.
  211. 12 February 1905 A general election was held in Madeira; Pereira's election was annulled and re-run on 7 May 1905.
  212. 13 February 1905 The musician José Sarmento died in Funchal.
  213. 16 March 1905 The Reforma dos Operários Madeirenses was legalised by alvará.
  214. 21 March 1905 Dr José António de Almada died in Lisbon.
  215. May 1905 A young whale trapped between a sandbank and the shore at Porto Santo was captured by locals, its blubber yielding dozens of gallons of oil.
  216. 20 May 1905 António Romão dos Passos delivered his eulogy of Ferreira Lapa at the Sociedade de Ciências Agronómicas de Portugal.
  217. June 1905 D. António Manuel Pereira Ribeiro took up a canonry at Funchal Cathedral.
  218. 11 July 1905 The site of the Convento da Incarnação was granted to Bishop Manuel Agostinho Barreto for a seminary.
  219. 25 September 1905–27 September 1905 Water first ran along the Levada da Serra, formally inaugurated on 27 September 1905.
  220. October 1905 A telegraph station opened at Ponta Delgada.
  221. 11 October 1905 António Batalha Reis lectured on oenology at the Associação Comercial.
  222. 29 November 1905 The public land disinfection station at Campo da Barca, Funchal, opened.
  223. December 1905 The Duke of Connaught visited Madeira with his wife and daughter.
  224. December 1905–January 1906 A Notícia of the descendants of Zarco was published in the Heraldo da Madeira.
  225. 3 December 1905 Two oaks by the Ribeira de São João in Funchal began budding.
  226. 26 December 1905 The reformed statutes of the women's mutual-aid association were approved by royal alvará.
  227. 1905–1921 The Portuguese translation of Paulo Mantegazza's book was published in Lisbon.
  228. 1906 Roland Krohn published his 'Führer durch Madeira' in Berlin.
  229. 1906 A very dry year, with only 488 mm of rain recorded in Funchal.
  230. 1906 The Rabaçal levadas distributed 2,580 hours of water.
  231. 1906 About 30,000 rural and 2,000 professional embroiderers worked in the district of Funchal.
  232. 1906 Carlos Azevedo de Meneses published Madeira Ferns in Funchal.
  233. 1906–20 September 1906 The original Funchal fire company was dissolved and on 20 September a new company organised by Alfredo Jorge Ferraz was constituted.
  234. 1906 The Chapel-Monument of Our Lady of the Conception was built at Babosas, Monte, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception; the site thereafter became known as Conceição.
  235. 1906 The raised bridge in Rua do Carmo by the Travessa do Rego in Funchal was lowered.
  236. 1906 Publication of the Archivo dos Açores resumed.
  237. 1906–1907 Salvador Manuel Brum do Canto and Francisco Xavier Cabral Moncada sat as deputies for Madeira.
  238. 1906 Johs. Sfenzel published a travel book on Madeira and the Canaries in Berlin, and Gustavo Manz published a Madeira travel article.
  239. 1906 José da Cruz Batista Santos published Horas de inspiração.
  240. 1906 William Mitten's herbarium was acquired by the New York Botanical Garden.
  241. 1906 Death of the historian João Agostinho de Freitas.
  242. 1906 The insurance company Garantia Funchalense was founded in Funchal.
  243. 1906 João Franco appointed Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos minister of the navy and overseas.
  244. 1906 The catalogue of the Gabinete compiled by Francisco Eduardo Alves Viana was published in two volumes.
  245. January 1906–30 January 1906 João Soares Branco was appointed civil governor of Madeira by decree and took office on 30 January.
  246. January 1906–March 1906 The Porto Santo municipal annals were published in full in the Heraldo da Madeira.
  247. 5 January 1906–11 January 1906 The Heraldo da Madeira transcribed Cadamosto's passages on Madeira and Porto Santo.
  248. 7 January 1906 During the bubonic plague episode a popular riot sacked the Funchal Lazaretto at Gonçalo Aires and freed its patients; the disturbances forced the bacteriology laboratory director Balbino do Rego to leave his post.
  249. 10 January 1906 The cruiser Dom Carlos arrived at Funchal to help keep order after the riots.
  250. 8 February 1906 The Confraria da Misericórdia do Funchal was restored, ending 62 years of rule by commissions.
  251. 11 February 1906–20 May 1906 The periodical Alma Académica ran for fourteen issues.
  252. 25 February 1906 Bishop Manuel Agostinho Barreto blessed the rebuilt chapel of Santo António at Lugar de Baixo.
  253. 26 March 1906 José Leite Monteiro was again appointed substitute civil governor by decree.
  254. 27 March 1906 The Nationalist newspaper O Jornal began publication in Funchal.
  255. 4 April 1906 The Manicómio Câmara Pestana was founded and inaugurated in Funchal, and a bust of Câmara Pestana was erected.
  256. 14 April 1906 Joaquim da Trindade e Vasconcelos died in Funchal.
  257. 25 April 1906–26 May 1907 A second newspaper A Pátria appeared, issuing thirty-seven numbers.
  258. 3 May 1906 Demolition of the old chapel at Jardim do Mar began so a new church could be built.
  259. 22 May 1906 César Augusto Mourão Pita died in Funchal.
  260. 22 May 1906 José Ribeiro da Cunha was appointed civil governor for the third time, taking office on 29 May.
  261. 28 May 1906 João Barbosa de Matos e Câmara died in Funchal.
  262. June 1906 João Vieira Caetano was ordained priest.
  263. 4 June 1906 Colonel Francisco Afonso de Chaves measured magnetic declination (20°36'55" W) and inclination at Funchal.
  264. 6 June 1906–23 June 1906 Bernardo da Costa de Sousa Macedo was appointed civil governor of Madeira for a second time, taking office on 23 June.
  265. 6 August 1906–21 October 1906 Twelve issues of A Risota were published.
  266. 31 August 1906 The first issue of the workers' weekly Trabalho e União was published in Funchal.
  267. 18 September 1906 The Conde da Calçada, Diogo d'Ornelas Frazão, last holder of the França entail, died.
  268. 23 September 1906–January 1907 A clandestine paper 'O Garoto' ran for four issues until January 1907.
  269. 10 October 1906 The statutes of the Stranger's Club (Casino Pavão) were dated.
  270. November 1906 Daniel Ferreira Pestana died in Nova Goa.
  271. November 1906 The Machico municipal annals were published in full in the Heraldo da Madeira.
  272. 1 December 1906 The record of the acclamation at the Restoration of Portugal was first published in the Heraldo da Madeira.
  273. 9 December 1906 The first issue of A Chacota appeared.
  274. 14 December 1906 Vicente Gomes da Silva died in Funchal.
  275. 1907 The first annual volume of the 'Ordens da Direcção da Alfândega do Funchal' covers this year.
  276. 1907 The Duke of the Abruzzi visited Madeira in command of the cruiser Etna.
  277. 1907 João da Câmara Pestana published a paper on wet root rot of the chestnut tree.
  278. 1907 Tobacco cultivation was resumed in Madeira, though it did not become widespread.
  279. 1907 Jaime Sanches Câmara published Poema Antigo in Lisbon.
  280. 1907 D. Maria Helena Jervis de Atouguia e Almeida published Mosaicos.
  281. 1907 Canon Henrique Modesto de Betencourt built and founded a chapel to the Sacred Heart of Jesus at Cardais, in Água de Pena parish.
  282. 1907 A plague epidemic in Madeira caused intense public indignation; Dr António Balbino do Rego published two pamphlets on it.
  283. 1907 João Franco's government took power and a Franquist political group formed in Madeira.
  284. 1907 A short smallpox outbreak in Funchal was contained by isolating patients in the Gonçalo Aires lazaretto, where Miss Mary Jane Wilson directed the isolation hospital.
  285. 1907 The new quay at Machico was modified and improved.
  286. 1907 L. A. Dode published 'Un nouveau Sorbus', describing Sorbus maderensis, in the Bulletin de la Société Dendrologique de France.
  287. 1907 Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos accompanied Prince Luís Filipe on a voyage to the African colonies.
  288. 1907–1910 The Faial bridge, about 130 metres long and the longest in Madeira, was built over the Ribeira do Faial.
  289. 1907 Father Alphonse Luisier received a collection of Madeiran mosses and published his first note on them.
  290. 1907 Eduardo de Castro e Almeida published volume I of the inventory of documents on Madeira and Porto Santo in the Arquivo da Marinha e Ultramar.
  291. 6 January 1907 The Garantia Funchalense insurance company was founded in Funchal.
  292. 31 January 1907–30 September 1917 The second newspaper O Povo was published, issuing 1248 numbers until 30 September 1917.
  293. February 1907 A 40-réis Madeiran token was sold in Amsterdam for 6 florins.
  294. 21 March 1907 Dr João Augusto Teixeira died in Funchal.
  295. May 1907 General Louis Botha passed through Funchal on his way to London.
  296. 13 June 1907–3 August 1907 Boaventura Mendes de Almeida was appointed civil governor of Funchal by decree of 13 June 1907 and took office on 3 August.
  297. July 1907 The autograph manuscript of Dr Julião Fernandes da Silva was discovered and bought by the Funchal Municipal Library.
  298. July 1907 A single-issue newspaper celebrating the anniversary of the Associação Protectora dos Estudantes Pobres was published.
  299. August 1907 A suspected disease in Santo António parish killed all 14 people it struck before being contained under Governor Boaventura Mendes de Almeida.
  300. 2 August 1907 José Bettencourt de Abreu died, leaving his fortune to the works of São Martinho church.
  301. 13 August 1907 An east wind (leste) brought an absolute maximum of 37.3 °C in the shade in Funchal.
  302. 17 August 1907–7 October 1907 The newspaper Revolucionário was published in six issues.
  303. 3 September 1907 The last issue of A Chacota appeared.
  304. 7 September 1907 A savings bank attached to the Monte-Pio Madeirense was approved.
  305. 9 September 1907 José Dias Ferreira died at Vidago.
  306. October 1907 Helena M. J. Taylor died in England, aged about 65.
  307. 19 October 1907 Bishop D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto blessed the new Gothic church of Jardim do Mar.
  308. 3 November 1907 José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage died in Lisbon.
  309. 22 November 1907 The first motor car began to circulate in Funchal.
  310. December 1907 The first issue of the seminary students' magazine Esperança appeared.
  311. 1 December 1907–3 May 1908 The newspaper Primeiro de Dezembro was published, issuing twenty numbers.
  312. 19 December 1907 Rui Barbosa visited Madeira and was given a luncheon before sailing for Brazil aboard the Araguaya.
  313. 31 December 1907 Terceira commemorated the centenary of the birth of José Silvestre Ribeiro.
  314. 1908 The building of the Misericórdia de Santa Cruz was repaired by order and at the expense of the State.
  315. 1908 The Monte Medonho levada was diverted to irrigate Ribeira Brava and Tábua instead of São Vicente.
  316. 1908–1909 Eug. Simon published the description of Asphodelus madeirensis.
  317. 1908 Carlos da Silva Carvalho's article Fichas Madeirenses appeared in the Almanach de lembranças Madeirense.
  318. 1908 João da Câmara Pestana published a paper on destroying Lecanium hesperidum with a fungus.
  319. 1908 The Companhia de Tabacos da Madeira was established in Funchal.
  320. 1908–1910 Football grew greatly in Madeira, promoted by Humberto de Passos Freitas.
  321. 1908 Major repairs were made to the Espírito Santo chapel in Câmara de Lobos and its adjoining house.
  322. 1908 The Resenha Cronológica do Jornalismo Madeirense was compiled under João Eleutério Martins and published by the Diário de Notícias.
  323. 1908–1909 The malacologist Ponsonby stayed in Madeira.
  324. 1908–1910 João Soares Branco served as deputy for Madeira.
  325. 1908–1910 José Ribeiro da Cunha represented Madeira in parliament.
  326. 1908–1910 Ernesto Jardim de Vilhena sat as deputy for Madeira in the 1908–1910 parliamentary session.
  327. 1908 Funchal municipal council set terms for using the town hall tower as a telephone exchange.
  328. 1908 Portugal banned the sweetening of Madeira wine with cane sugar.
  329. 1908–1909 The Junta Geral do Distrito built the larger present quay at Santa Cruz.
  330. 1908 Alberto Artur Sarmento published a work on impressions of Funchal.
  331. 1908 Th. Becker published his work on the Diptera of the Canaries and Madeira.
  332. 1908 Funchal customs recorded imports of 2,012:000$00, exports of 750:000$00 and re-exports of 1,215:000$00.
  333. 1908 Padre Luís Alves Martins was appointed royal preacher.
  334. 1908 The Junta Geral built the landing stage at Campanário.
  335. 1908 Alfred Merle Norman visited Madeira again.
  336. 1908 'Notas sobre Portugal', containing João da Mota Prego's article, was shown at the national exhibition in Rio de Janeiro.
  337. 1908 The landing stage at Porto Novo, Gaula, built by order of the Junta Geral, was completed.
  338. 6 January 1908 The Grémio dos Empregados do Comércio Funchalense was founded.
  339. 1 February 1908 King Carlos and Prince Luís Filipe were assassinated in Lisbon, ending João Franco's government; the Madeiran João Sabino da Costa was killed by Lisbon police in the aftermath.
  340. 11 February 1908 João Rodrigues became the first Madeiran examined as a driver.
  341. 22 February 1908 The statutes of the Novo Clube Restauração were dated.
  342. 22 February 1908–9 March 1908 João de Paiva was appointed civil governor of Funchal by decree on 22 February and took office on 9 March 1908.
  343. 9 March 1908 Adolfo de Sousa Rodrigues died in Lisbon.
  344. 31 March 1908 Funeral rites with a eulogy for King Carlos I and Prince Luís Filipe were held in Funchal Cathedral.
  345. 1 April 1908–2 April 1908 Carlos Azevedo de Meneses published his study of Porto Santo's vegetation in the Diario Popular of Funchal.
  346. 5 April 1908 A general election was held for the deputies of Madeira.
  347. 19 April 1908 Canon Alfredo César de Oliveira died in Évora.
  348. May 1908 The single issue of A Pena was published in honour of José Leite Monteiro.
  349. 6 May 1908 Manuel II was acclaimed king in Funchal, without the customary procession.
  350. June 1908–7 July 1908 Padre Ernesto Schmitz ceased directing the Seminary museum, was honoured by the single issue of Preito e Homenagem, and left Madeira on 7 July 1908 to direct the Hospice of St Paul in Jerusalem.
  351. July 1908 The first issue of A Voz da Madeira appeared.
  352. 12 July 1908 Fire completely destroyed the parish church of Ponta Delgada.
  353. 19 July 1908 The Santa Maria Maior conference of St Vincent de Paul was installed.
  354. 20 August 1908 Negotiations for the buyback of the Hohenlohe sanatorium concession were concluded.
  355. 22 August 1908 Funchal council signed a 400-conto loan with the Caixa Geral dos Depósitos for the city water supply works.
  356. 9 September 1908 Parliament enacted a new sugar regime for Madeira that left the sugar monopoly largely unchanged.
  357. 12 September 1908 Jean Charcot's Antarctic expedition aboard the Pourquoi-Pas? arrived at Funchal.
  358. 18 September 1908 Article 31 of a law created the Viticulture Commission of Madeira.
  359. 21 September 1908 A contract was signed for an Eastern Telegraph Company submarine cable.
  360. 1 October 1908 A decree reformed the Viticulture Commission of Madeira.
  361. 24 October 1908 The civil governor approved the statutes of Assistência a Crianças Fracas in Funchal.
  362. 29 October 1908 The Rev. P. Murray died.
  363. November 1908 The last issue of Esperança appeared.
  364. 8 December 1908 Aníbal Álvares da Silva died in Lisbon.
  365. 1909 Ella and Florence du Cane published The Flowers and Gardens of Madeira in London.
  366. 1909 Johannes Richter published in Leipzig his study of the climatic basis of Madeiran agriculture.
  367. 1909 A commission fixed the Várzea site for a rifle range, but local opposition halted progress.
  368. 1909 Madeiran wine production recovered to 11,401 pipes after grafting and planting of Jacquez vines.
  369. 1909 Alfredo Rodrigues Gaspar represented Portugal at the applied chemistry congress in London.
  370. 1909 W. H. Koebel published 'Madeira old and new' in London.
  371. 1909 Grupo Sportivo Internacional, Madeira's oldest sports club, was founded.
  372. 1909 Padre Joaquim Plácido Pereira was ordained priest.
  373. 1909 The second edition of Mosaicos by D. Maria Helena Jervis de Atouguia e Almeida appeared.
  374. 1909 A tuna cannery was founded and inaugurated at Ponta da Cruz, Madeira.
  375. 1909 A grey pearl the size of a pea was found in a fan shell in Madeira.
  376. 1909 The Associação dos Industriais Madeirenses was founded.
  377. 1909 Oak mildew (Oidium quercinum) was first observed in Madeira, on the oaks at Monte.
  378. 1909 A small landing stage was built at the Campanário port.
  379. 1909 The Junta Geral built the quay and landing stage at Ponta da Oliveira, Caniço.
  380. 1909 Adaptation works began on the tower of the Funchal town hall.
  381. 1909 Padre Manuel Fernandes de Sant'Ana published O Evangelho segundo S. Matheus.
  382. 1909 The Junta Geral built an access stairway to the quay at Porto do Moniz.
  383. 1909 João dos Reis Gomes published the novel A Filha de Tristão das Damas in Funchal.
  384. 1909 H. N. Dixon published his contributions to the moss flora of Madeira.
  385. 1909 Only one red cinchona tree survived in Madeira.
  386. 1909 Padre João Maurício Henriques published a brief history of the extinct 12th Caçadores regiment.
  387. 1909 Augusto José Vieira published the Historia do Partido Republicano.
  388. 1909 Alfred Merle Norman published The Polyzoa of Madeira and Neighbouring Islands.
  389. 1909 Eleonora Armitage botanised on Madeira in early 1909.
  390. 1909 Volume II of Eduardo de Castro e Almeida's inventory of the Arquivo da Marinha e Ultramar was published.
  391. 1909–1913 Padre Camilo Torrend's three contributions on Madeiran fungi were published in Broteria.
  392. January 1909–April 1909 A Portuguese translation of Avezac's study of Madeira appeared in nineteen issues of the Diario do Comercio.
  393. 6 February 1909 Joaquim Pestana died in Câmara de Lobos.
  394. 6 March 1909 António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira lectured on the Portuguese people from an anthropological viewpoint at the Lisbon Geographical Society.
  395. 11 March 1909 The first wine regulation for Madeira was issued, limiting alcohol sales for winemaking to 50 litres per 500 litres of wine; Hinton & Sons contested it.
  396. 31 March 1909 The council made its last annual subsidy payment to the Monte Railway company.
  397. 7 April 1909 A German wine law regulated imports of Madeira wine.
  398. 9 April 1909 Agostinho Martins died in Funchal.
  399. 30 April 1909 Prince Albert of Belgium visited Madeira and was greeted by the district authorities.
  400. 22 May 1909 Carlos de Meneses published an article on Madeiran lauraceae in the Diário da Madeira.
  401. 2 June 1909 The first issue of the newspaper Brado d'Oeste appeared at Ponta do Sol.
  402. 12 July 1909 A meeting discussed founding a Madeiran wine company, which was never established.
  403. 28 July 1909–6 August 1909 Princess Elisabeth of Belgium stayed in Madeira, arriving aboard the Araguaya and leaving for the Canaries aboard the Kamerun.
  404. 25 August 1909 Anatole France called at Funchal on his South American voyage, leaving the same day.
  405. 6 September 1909 The Viticulture Commission of Madeira held its inaugural session.
  406. 13 September 1909 The bryologist A. Geheeb died.
  407. October 1909 The new diocesan seminary opened in its new building in the grounds of the Encarnação convent, under Bishop D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto.
  408. 23 October 1909 The Pavilhão Paris was inaugurated in Funchal.
  409. 28 October 1909 A decree modified Madeira's cereal regime.
  410. 3 November 1909 A law authorised the government to rescind Prince Hohenlohe's sanatorium concession in Madeira, buying back its properties with compensation.
  411. 16 November 1909 The American yacht Varuna, which had left Bermuda on 7 November, was wrecked on the coast of Achadas da Cruz with the loss of one sailor.
  412. 18 November 1909 An order empowered the Visconde de Geraz de Lima to accept the buyback of the Hohenlohe sanatorium properties.
  413. 24 November 1909 The São Vicente land registry office was installed.
  414. 12 December 1909 The Funchal newspaper Diário do Commercio published an article on the subject connected with Dr. Julião Fernandes da Silva.
  415. 30 December 1909 A municipal ordinance defined the limits of the urban area of Funchal.
  416. 1909–1910 The expenses of the Recolhimento das Órfãs amounted to 631$42 in the financial year 1909–1910.
  417. 1909–1910 Work on the new parish church of São Martinho resumed around 1909 or 1910.
1910s 606
  1. c. 1910 The cannery owners built the modern part of the Ponta da Cruz quay.
  2. c. 1914 The Junta Agrícola da Madeira established an experimental agricultural field at Bica da Cana.
  3. 1910 Henrique Franco de Sousa first exhibited at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes, winning second- and third-class medals.
  4. 1910 The internal and nursing services of the Santa Cruz Misericórdia hospital were in the charge of the Franciscan hospitaller sisters.
  5. 1910 The restored Misericórdia confraternity was extinguished; it was restored again in 1927.
  6. 1910 A bill to sell Madeira's state levadas was presented in parliament but lapsed in committee.
  7. 1910 The flow of the Ribeiro Frio levada was measured at 40 litres per second.
  8. 1910–1930 Madeiran wine production over this period peaked at nearly 12 million litres in 1930.
  9. 1910 After the Republican revolution the Franciscan sisters were expelled from the Convento de Santa Clara and from the Asilo dos Velhinhos, whose funding passed to the Junta Geral.
  10. 1910–1911 A cholera epidemic struck Madeira, causing about 550 deaths; Dr Carlos França was sent to direct sanitary services, and the lazaretto and a makeshift hospital at the Machico fort treated patients.
  11. 1910 The União dos Viticultores da Madeira was founded early in the year with a capital of 100 contos de réis.
  12. 1910 Birch saplings donated by a foreigner were sent to Porto Santo for planting.
  13. 1910–1913 Padre Longinos Navás published his synopsis of Madeiran lichens in Brotéria.
  14. 1910 Jaime Sanches Câmara published the satire O funeral do Cyriaco in Funchal.
  15. 1910 The Ponta da Cruz cannery exported a record 557,085 kg of tuna.
  16. 1910 Eugène Ackermann's book on Madeira, reporting iron ore at Câmara de Lobos, was published at Rixheim, Alsace.
  17. 1910 The book 'Uma Tragédia na Madeira' was published.
  18. 1910 A girls' primary school was created at Ponta do Pargo.
  19. 1910 An edition of A. Samler Brown's guide with 20 maps and plans was published.
  20. 1910 Manuel Ribeiro's Outomnaes was published in Funchal.
  21. 1910 Rev. Schodduyn identified several Madeiran freshwater algae sent by the Elucidário's author.
  22. 1910 The Republic was proclaimed while the Madeiran Republican party was weak; several civil governors succeeded one another and Rua da Princesa was renamed Rua 31 de Janeiro.
  23. 1910–1912 J. A. Júdice Fialho, with Algarve fishermen, set up an unsuccessful tuna trap in Porto Santo bay, introducing the mujona.
  24. 1910 José Ramos Coelho's Obras Completas were published in Lisbon.
  25. 1910 Reconstruction of the church of Ponta Delgada began.
  26. 1910–1918 A five-volume edition of Garcia de Resende's Cancioneiro Geral was published.
  27. 1910 Francisco Franco won the Valmor Bequest scholarship and went to study in Paris.
  28. 1910 Administration of the Recolhimento do Bom Jesus passed to a commission appointed by the civil governor.
  29. 1910 Eleonora Armitage published papers on Madeiran hepatics and intensive cultivation in Madeira.
  30. 1910 Padre Alphonse Luisier lost his collections during the 1910 revolution.
  31. 1910 Joana de Castelo Branco published Fluctuações in Lisbon.
  32. 1910 Jaime de Gouveia Barreto was ordained priest.
  33. 27 January 1910–24 February 1910 Dr Afonso de Melo Pinto Veloso was appointed civil governor of the Funchal district by decree of 27 January and took office on 24 February.
  34. March 1910 The new cemetery of Fajã da Ovelha was blessed and opened.
  35. March 1910 Club Sports da Madeira was founded.
  36. 30 March 1910–15 September 1910 The two issues of the newspaper O Rebelde appeared.
  37. April 1910 José Carlos de Faria e Castro died at Raudamy castle.
  38. 1 April 1910 João Joaquim de Freitas died in Funchal.
  39. 3 May 1910 Padre Manuel Fernandes de Sant'Ana died in Lisbon.
  40. 15 May 1910 The first issue of the monthly Commercio do Funchal appeared.
  41. 27 May 1910 João de Freitas Branco died in Lisbon aged 55.
  42. June 1910 Meneses published phenology articles in the Diário da Madeira.
  43. 23 June 1910–26 June 1910 Scott's Antarctic expedition ship Terra Nova called at Funchal.
  44. 27 June 1910 José Ribeiro da Cunha was appointed civil governor for the fourth time, taking office on 13 July.
  45. 12 July 1910 The Monte railway company decided to extend the line to Terreiro da Luta.
  46. 14 July 1910 The Heraldo da Madeira published an article about Duarte Joaquim dos Santos.
  47. 31 July 1910 The rebuilt chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição at Tabua was blessed by Bishop Manuel Agostinho Barreto.
  48. August 1910 Emílio A. Santos Gil and José Cabral Correia do Amaral were elected deputies for Madeira, but the Cortes never met.
  49. 1 August 1910 The Conselho Distrital de Agricultura held its last session.
  50. 15 August 1910 The fourth and last issue of the Commercio do Funchal appeared.
  51. 28 August 1910 José L. Ávila e Lima was elected deputy for the Madeira archipelago.
  52. September 1910 Club Sport Marítimo was founded.
  53. 6 September 1910–10 September 1910 Amundsen's ship Fram called at Funchal.
  54. 6 September 1910 Maurício José de Castelo Branco died in Funchal.
  55. 7 September 1910 The Santa Cruz land registry office was installed.
  56. October 1910–February 1911 A cholera epidemic spread through Madeira from October 1910 to February 1911, the first case occurring near the Paiol on 20 October; Dr Carlos França came to Funchal to direct the fight against it, and the epidemic prompted the idea of an orphan asylum.
  57. 5 October 1910 The Portuguese Republic was proclaimed in Lisbon; Madeira adhered at once, the monarchist parties disappeared and the parliament elected in August never met.
  58. 5 October 1910–6 October 1910 Dr Manuel Augusto Martins was appointed civil governor of Madeira by the Republican provisional government and took office on 6 October, when the republican flag was raised at São Lourenço.
  59. 7 October 1910 Infantry Regiment no. 27 left barracks without orders and marched through Funchal in support of the Republic.
  60. 13 October 1910 General councils were restored in the mainland districts.
  61. 15 October 1910 A republican decree abolished noble titles.
  62. 21 October 1910 Padre José Pereira da Silva left Madeira for Hamburg and Paris after the republican revolution.
  63. 22 October 1910 Works capturing the Tornos springs and channelling them to a reservoir at Saltos were completed for Funchal's water supply.
  64. 27 October 1910 The republican municipal commission of Funchal renamed streets and places, creating Avenida João Gonçalves Zarco, restoring the name Jardim Municipal and annulling the name of the Leite Monteiro park.
  65. November 1910 Praça da Rainha was renamed Praça do Marquês de Pombal.
  66. November 1910 The council renamed Teatro D. Maria Pia as Teatro Dr. Manuel de Arriaga.
  67. 10 November 1910 The council resolved to close and demolish the União market.
  68. 11 November 1910 A republican decree abolished the Funchal Medical-Surgical School.
  69. 28 November 1910 The statutes of the first Clube Sports da Madeira were dated.
  70. December 1910 The Funchal council awarded the electric tramway works to the Empresa Madeirense de Automóveis, but the award was not approved by higher authority.
  71. 4 December 1910 The first issue of the student newspaper Academia appeared.
  72. 15 December 1910–October 1913 The second O Povo was published as a daily newspaper.
  73. 27 December 1910 Dr José Alfredo Mendes de Magalhães issued a proclamation promising summary and rigorous punishment of those disturbing public order.
  74. 31 December 1910 O Jornal ceased publication after 1,397 issues.
  75. 1911 Henrique Franco de Sousa completed his history-painting course in Lisbon, and the State bought his painting 'Outros Tempos'.
  76. 1911 An engineer's report measured the flows of the Madeiran state levadas.
  77. 1911 O. Borge published his notes on Madeiran freshwater algae.
  78. 1911 Adolfo César de Noronha published an open letter to the Civil Governor of Funchal.
  79. 1911–1917 The Visconde da Ribeira Brava represented Madeira in the republican parliament in 1911–1915 and 1915–1917.
  80. 1911 Alfredo Rodrigues Gaspar was elected deputy to the Constituent Assembly.
  81. 1911 Jordão de Freitas published 'Quando foi descoberta a Madeira?', examining Constantino's book.
  82. 1911–1915 Manuel Gregório Pestana Júnior represented Madeira in the first Constituent Assembly of the Republic.
  83. 1911 The fountain of Largo do Poço, previously supplied only by pumped groundwater, began receiving Tornos water.
  84. 1911 Navy sailors tore down and broke the statue of São Lourenço over the gate of the fortress of São Lourenço in Funchal.
  85. 1911 The 1911 census recorded parish populations across Madeira and 586 men and 868 women over 80 in the district of Funchal.
  86. 1911 Alberto Artur Sarmento published his study of João Fernandes Vieira's ancestry and change of name.
  87. 1911–1912 The Prince of Monaco's Hirondelle II campaigns collected algae later described by L. Gain.
  88. 1911–1917 Madeira's distilleries produced between about 700,000 and 1.44 million litres of brandy a year.
  89. 1911 Vasco Mimoso published Esperança e Luz in Funchal.
  90. 1911 During the cholera epidemic in Madeira, Caçadores n.º 6 kept order, with troops quartered in the Mercês convent.
  91. 1911 Ferreira da Silva published 'La vinification des vins de Madère et leur composition'.
  92. 1911 Funchal's Praça da Constituição was renamed Praça da República.
  93. 1911 The Areeiro station passed to the newly created Junta Agrícola.
  94. 1911 Padre José Marcelino de Freitas founded the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição at Amoreiras, Arco da Calheta.
  95. 1911 Funchal's first republican council renamed Campo de D. Carlos as Campo do Almirante Reis.
  96. 1911 A plan of Funchal showing improvements up to 1911 was drawn up by Adriano and Aníbal Trigo.
  97. 1911 The Democratic, Evolutionist and Unionist parties were formed in Portugal, led by Afonso Costa, António José de Almeida and Brito Camacho.
  98. 1911 Alfredo Vital Miguéis completed his history-painting course at the Academia Real de Belas Artes.
  99. 1911 R. Kirkpatrick published his paper on the sponge Melia normani in London.
  100. 1911 Campo da Barca in Funchal was officially renamed Campo de Miguel Bombarda.
  101. 1911 About 900 tonnes of wicker were reportedly exported from Madeira.
  102. 1911 A girls' state school was created in Estreito da Calheta.
  103. 1911–1913 Madeira exported between about 494,000 and 620,000 kg of bananas a year.
  104. 1911 The sculptor Francisco Franco de Sousa returned to Funchal.
  105. 1911 C. Gagel published his contribution on Selvagem Grande.
  106. 1911–1914 Madeira exported between about 861,000 and 1,171,000 kg of onions a year.
  107. 1911 Demolition of the Convento das Mercês in Funchal began for a planned prison; the building had housed troops sent during the cholera epidemic.
  108. February 1911–January 1912 The periodical Quinzena Religiosa reappeared for 24 issues.
  109. 25 February 1911 Dr José Alfredo Mendes de Magalhães received the diploma of distinguished citizen of Funchal at the town hall.
  110. 5 March 1911 Funchal council held a solemn session honouring Dr Carlos França.
  111. 9 March 1911–2 June 1915 The newspaper O Radical was published, running to 209 issues.
  112. 11 March 1911 A decree replaced the 1908 sugar law after the Hinton question, establishing a new sugar and alcohol regime valid until 1918, regulating brandy and distilleries, and creating the Junta Agrícola da Madeira and the Estação Agrária.
  113. 16 March 1911 The last issue, no. 8, of the periodical Academia appeared.
  114. 17 March 1911 A ministerial order appointed a commission to collect and publish documents on the history of Madeira and the Azores in an Arquivo Insular.
  115. 23 March 1911 A further cession of the Campo da Barca disinfection station's land to the Junta Geral was made.
  116. April 1911–May 1911 The Varadouros chapel and gate in Funchal, together with the adjoining stretch of city wall, were demolished.
  117. 1 April 1911 Alberto Artur Sarmento published his article on Madeiran stamped paper in the Heraldo da Madeira.
  118. 10 April 1911 The demolition works of the União market were awarded.
  119. 10 April 1911 The statutes of the Clube Republicano da Madeira were dated.
  120. 18 April 1911 Twelve Little Sisters of the Poor left Madeira for Latour, France, after the decree expelling religious orders.
  121. 20 April 1911 A decree abolished the diocesan seminary of Funchal and its building passed to the State, though it continued unofficially in the old house.
  122. 28 April 1911 Dr Manuel de Arriaga was again elected deputy by Madeira.
  123. May 1911 The first elections of deputies under the Republic were held amid irregularities among divided republicans.
  124. 10 May 1911 The general assembly of Clube Sport Marítimo approved its statutes.
  125. 12 May 1911 The last issue, number 4023, of O Diário do Commercio appeared.
  126. 16 May 1911 A decree granted the agricultural station administrative autonomy.
  127. 26 May 1911 A decree with force of law dealt with the country's agricultural organisation.
  128. 28 May 1911 Madeira elected its deputies to the Constituent Assembly of the Republic, among them Carlos Olavo Correia de Azevedo.
  129. June 1911 The War Minister ordered an urgent study for a rifle range, leading to an approved project.
  130. June 1911 Léon Garreta made a scientific exploration of the Selvagens.
  131. 2 June 1911 The Washington convention on the protection of names of origin was signed, bearing on Madeira wine.
  132. 8 June 1911 A tender was opened for the demolition of the União market.
  133. 10 June 1911–26 July 1911 The periodical Aurora published its six numbers.
  134. 26 June 1911 Bishop D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto died at Penha de França, and António Manuel Pereira Ribeiro became capitular vicar.
  135. 30 June 1911 The artillery unit was renamed Bataria n.º 3 de Artilharia de Montanha.
  136. 3 August 1911 The District Commission confirmed the 1909 ordinance setting Funchal's city limits.
  137. 11 August 1911–12 August 1911 Dr L. Gain collected algae on Madeira and Deserta Grande.
  138. 24 August 1911 Manuel de Arriaga, deputy for Madeira, was elected President of the Portuguese Republic.
  139. 24 August 1911 The Funchal council asked the Junta Geral for free and permanent use of national roads for electric tramways.
  140. 3 September 1911 The Teatro Circo was inaugurated in Funchal.
  141. 7 September 1911 Funchal council renamed Rua Nova de Santa Maria as Rua Latino Coelho.
  142. 1 October 1911–10 December 1911 A second paper named A Voz do Povo issued 59 numbers.
  143. 5 October 1911 The Funchal telephone network was inaugurated.
  144. 6 October 1911 The statutes of the second Clube Sports da Madeira in Funchal were dated.
  145. 31 October 1911 Dr Maurício Augusto de Sequeira died in Funchal.
  146. 23 November 1911 Adolfo Loureiro died in Lisbon.
  147. 23 November 1911 Dr Vicente Cândido Machado died in Funchal.
  148. 4 December 1911 Maximiliano Eugénio de Azevedo died in Lisbon as colonel commanding Artillery Regiment no. 1.
  149. 8 December 1911 The Santa Luzia conference of the Society of St Vincent de Paul was founded.
  150. 8 December 1911 A commission was appointed for the improvement of Funchal harbour.
  151. 14 December 1911 Pedro de Castelo Branco died in Lisbon.
  152. 24 December 1911 The second Diário Popular suspended publication after 137 issues.
  153. 27 December 1911 The chapel of Nossa Senhora da Conceição at Amoreiras, Arco da Calheta, was blessed.
  154. 1912 The architect won the Valmor scholarship and went to study in Madrid and later Paris.
  155. 1912 Francisco Jorge de Abreu's two books on the Portuguese revolutions were published in Lisbon.
  156. 1912 Madeira exported 265,919 kg of worked wicker and 255,390 kg of raw osiers.
  157. 1912 Downy mildew began to cause significant losses in Madeiran vineyards.
  158. 1912 The Companhia de Tabacos da Madeira was liquidated.
  159. 1912 Marítimo drew with the team of the German cruiser Pandora.
  160. 1912 A tuna cannery was founded at Paul do Mar.
  161. 1912 The girls' school of Paul do Mar was created.
  162. 1912 Leonhard Lindinger's work on the scale insects of Europe, including Madeira, was published in Stuttgart.
  163. 1912–1913 Dr Vasco Gonçalves Marques served as administrator of the municipality of Funchal.
  164. 1912–1917 Alcohol output of registered factories in Madeira was recorded annually.
  165. 1912 The Funchal municipal council published the Código de Posturas, coordinated by Luís Bettencourt Miranda.
  166. 1912 Dr Manuel Gomes Jardim's Sermon to the Blessed Sacrament was published.
  167. 1912 João dos Reis Gomes published the drama Guiomar Teixeira in Funchal.
  168. 1912 The head of industrial technical services in Funchal reported great progress in Madeiran wickerwork.
  169. 1912 The government contracted the Marconi Company for wireless stations including one in Madeira, but failed to meet its obligations.
  170. 1912–1914 The Câmara had repairs made to the Escola Lancasteriana.
  171. 1912 Alfredo Bettencourt da Câmara's Gramática Portuguesa was published in Funchal.
  172. 1912 Alberto Artur Sarmento published his Corografia Elementar do Arquipélago da Madeira.
  173. 1912 Hermann Winter collected mosses in Madeira in the early months of the year.
  174. 1 January 1912 A second Diário da Madeira began publication in Funchal.
  175. 9 January 1912 Monsenhor Hipólito da Purificação das Angústias e Costa died in Funchal.
  176. 12 January 1912 João Octávio da Costa Cabedo was attacked with an axe during a strike at Moita.
  177. 12 January 1912 After Manuel de Arriaga declined the honour, the Funchal council renamed the theatre Teatro Funchalense.
  178. 2 February 1912–10 July 1912 The newspaper A Boa Nova ran from its first issue to its last, no. 171.
  179. 2 February 1912–7 February 1912 The Heraldo da Madeira published an account of an excursion to Pico Ruivo.
  180. 4 February 1912 Cabedo died of his wounds at São José hospital, Lisbon, aged 26.
  181. 17 February 1912–4 April 1912 João Maria de Santiago Presado was appointed civil governor of Madeira by decree and took office on 4 April.
  182. 17 February 1912 Dr Augusto de Arzila Fonseca died.
  183. March 1912 The first issue of the Boletim Eclesiástico da Madeira appeared.
  184. 20 March 1912 João António de Nóbrega died in Georgetown, British Guiana.
  185. 19 April 1912 Padre Júlio César Pereira da Silva died in Lisbon.
  186. 29 April 1912 The harbour commission issued its report on works needed at the port of Funchal.
  187. 1 May 1912–15 October 1912 The periodical A Escola was published fortnightly, running to 12 issues.
  188. 1 May 1912–5 June 1912 A second O Defensor published six issues in Funchal.
  189. 9 May 1912–22 May 1912 Several Roma families landed in Funchal and settled at Campo da Barca for about two months.
  190. 15 May 1912 The regulation of the 1911 decree altered the Junta Agrícola's aims and composition, adding forestry and tourism duties.
  191. 5 June 1912 The Câmara closed the São Lázaro hospital, freeing its site for the new prison.
  192. 12 June 1912 Conselheiro Manuel José Vieira died in Funchal.
  193. 16 June 1912 A third A Epocha, the third newspaper of Ponta do Sol, first appeared.
  194. 24 June 1912 The Monte railway extension to Terreiro da Luta and its restaurant were inaugurated.
  195. 3 July 1912 The Funchal Câmara reached an agreement with the Levada de Santa Luzia over the Tornos springs, gaining the right to 18 litres per second.
  196. 12 July 1912 A decree authorised the Junta Geral to borrow for road construction.
  197. 17 August 1912 A decree dealt with the country's agricultural organisation.
  198. 22 August 1912 The Junta Agrícola was installed and began its sessions.
  199. October 1912 The War Ministry authorised the start of works on the rifle range.
  200. 5 October 1912 The single issue of A Vida was published.
  201. 24 October 1912 Francisco António Ferreira died in Funchal.
  202. 26 October 1912–17 December 1914 Decrees granted the Santa Clara convent to the municipality, the Misericórdia (for a hospital) and the Auxílio Maternal; part of it was demolished.
  203. 28 October 1912 The single issue of the clandestine O Garoto appeared.
  204. November 1912 António da Silva Figueira was ordained priest in Portalegre.
  205. 21 November 1912 The Funchal council passed a resolution on the city improvement plan by Ventura Terra.
  206. December 1912 By the end of 1912 Madeira had 494 registered industrial establishments employing 3,547 people.
  207. 7 December 1912 João Blandy of the Blandy family died.
  208. 14 December 1912 A further decree was issued on the autonomous administration of the agricultural station.
  209. 24 December 1912 Native rebels in Timor stormed the Manufai post and killed its commander, the Madeiran Lieutenant Luís Álvares da Silva.
  210. 28 December 1912 Three decrees approved the Junta Agrícola's internal regulation and rules on the expropriation of distilleries and the tax on aguardente.
  211. 1913 The Misericórdia de Santa Cruz had an income of 1.034$68, spent 400$ on chapel repairs and treated 14 patients.
  212. 1913 Armando Eduardo Pinto Correia was director of the Vida Academica.
  213. 1913 Dr Carlos França published his study of the Porto Santo rabbit.
  214. 1913 Manuel Pestana dos Reis published the verse collection Canções de Tristes.
  215. 1913 The Misericórdia de Machico recorded revenue of 842$76.
  216. 1913 Eduardo Clemente Nunes Pereira was ordained priest and published the speech 'Delenda est Carthago'.
  217. 1913 João Paulo da Veiga Pestana completed preparatory studies at the Funchal lyceum.
  218. 1913 William and Alfredo Reid donated 9,863 volumes to the Funchal library.
  219. 1913 A terrace was built over the Funchal meteorological post.
  220. 1913–1916 The Conferences of St Vincent de Paul spread to suburban and rural parishes.
  221. 1913 A second pavilion was built at the asylum.
  222. 1913 The Recolhimento das Órfãs housed 2 orphans and 24 women, with expenses of 716$67.
  223. 1913 Manuel Ribeiro's Poentes was published in Funchal.
  224. 1913 The statutes of the Associação de Classe dos Chauffeurs da Madeira were printed.
  225. 1913–1914 Natural-history specimens were acquired for the lyceum museum through Alberto Artur Sarmento's efforts.
  226. 1913 During a long stay in Funchal the Visconde de Meireles advocated rebuilding Columbus's house.
  227. 1913 José da Cruz Batista Santos published Rosas e Jasmins.
  228. 1913 Vicente Ferrer published a pamphlet in Lisbon on the lawsuit over Monsignor Hipólito Costa's will.
  229. 1913 José Simão da Costa published books on coconut cultivation and the Amazon region.
  230. February 1913 The Democratic Party took over Madeira's district administrative bodies.
  231. 1 February 1913 A decree approved instructions for the Junta Agrícola on promoting Madeiran produce.
  232. 3 February 1913 Funchal council passed a further resolution on Ventura Terra's improvement plan.
  233. 12 February 1913 The Junta Geral resolved to establish the Escola de Utilidades e Belas Artes.
  234. 13 February 1913 The Parque Leite Monteiro's original name was restored.
  235. 8 March 1913 A decree approved the regulation of the rural and forestry service, under which the Junta Agrícola created a rural and forest police corps.
  236. 20 March 1913–27 March 1913 Alfredo Ernesto de Sá Cardoso was appointed civil governor of Madeira by decree on 20 March and took office on 27 March.
  237. 21 March 1913 The Missão Marquês de Pombal was founded.
  238. 22 March 1913–3 April 1913 The Coimbra University tuna visited Funchal, arriving on 22 March and leaving for Lisbon on 3 April.
  239. 15 April 1913–23 September 1913 The newspaper A Democracia was published, issuing 46 numbers.
  240. 19 April 1913–13 August 1913 A ministerial order of 19 April authorised handing the Areeiro building to the Junta Agrícola da Madeira, which received it on 13 August.
  241. 1 May 1913–10 May 1913 Remígio António Gil Spínola Barreto was appointed substitute civil governor of Funchal district on 1 May and took office on 10 May.
  242. 1 May 1913–7 December 1913 The second newspaper O Liberal was published in Funchal, producing 176 issues.
  243. 29 May 1913–30 August 1914 O Athenista published thirty fortnightly issues.
  244. 29 May 1913 The council declared definitive the cession of the Casa das Angústias to the Funchal Asilo de Mendicidade.
  245. 31 May 1913 Reformed statutes of the Montepio Madeirense were approved.
  246. 5 July 1913–6 August 1913 Decrees of 5 July and 6 August regulated the use of the old episcopal palace.
  247. 9 July 1913 The agricultural law (no. 26) of 9 July 1913 created the Regional Chamber of Agriculture, abolished the District Council of Agriculture and set up agricultural and forestry sections, Funchal forming no. 25.
  248. 23 July 1913 The 'grazing law' decree regulated livestock grazing and charcoal-making in the Madeiran mountains, restricting pigs and goats to fenced owners' land; it was never fully enforced.
  249. 26 July 1913 Luiz da Rocha Machado & C.ª won the contract for Funchal's full water-supply and sewer works.
  250. 7 August 1913 The administrative law of 7 August 1913 set municipal council sizes, fixed the Junta Geral's composition with a three-member executive committee, gave executive commissions oversight of brotherhoods' accounts and left administrative tribunal powers unchanged.
  251. 13 August 1913 The Junta Autónoma das Obras do Porto do Funchal was created by decree.
  252. September 1913 The fungus Menezesia setulosa was found by C. Torrend on decaying ivy at Monte.
  253. 22 September 1913 A further decree ceded part of the Convent of Santa Clara to the Auxílio Maternal.
  254. 4 October 1913–12 October 1913 Nautical festivals in Funchal marked the third anniversary of the Republic.
  255. 26 October 1913 The Associação dos Chauffeurs da Madeira was installed.
  256. 26 October 1913 The Juventude Católica do Funchal published the single-issue newspaper "Homenagem de Desagravo ao Redemptor do Mundo".
  257. 8 November 1913 A decree regulated the production of and trade in Madeira wine.
  258. 13 November 1913 João da Câmara Pestana was elected deputy for Madeira.
  259. 15 November 1913 Madeiran doctors unveiled a plaque on the Funchal house where Dr Luís da Câmara Pestana was born, and the street was renamed after him.
  260. 17 November 1913 Conselheiro Francisco António de Freitas e Abreu died in Funchal.
  261. 29 November 1913 Prisoners were transferred to the new prison at the former São Lázaro hospital, and demolition of the old prison building in Largo da Sé, Funchal, began.
  262. 1 December 1913 The first issue of the newspaper Alma Nova was published.
  263. 22 December 1913 Canon José Joaquim de Sena Freitas died in Rio de Janeiro.
  264. 25 December 1913 Ernesto Venceslau de Sousa died at the Hospício da Princesa D. Maria Amélia in Funchal.
  265. 29 December 1913 The Britannic Lodge, a Masonic lodge in Madeira, was founded.
  266. 1914 Henrique Franco de Sousa returned to Madeira.
  267. 1914 Joaquim da Silva Tavares published his third contribution.
  268. 1914–1915 Alfredo Rodrigues Gaspar served as minister of the colonies.
  269. 1914 Carlos Azevedo de Meneses's Flora do Archipelago da Madeira was published in Funchal by the Junta Agrícola, on the proposal of Fernando Tolentino da Costa.
  270. 1914 Funchal council sold the Casa da Saúde at public auction to Luiz da Rocha Machado & Cª and W. Winton for 22,800$000 réis.
  271. 1914 Alberto Figueira Jardim's book on Madeira was published in Lisbon with an introduction by Jacinto Inácio de Brito Rebelo; Jaime Sanches Câmara published O Rufo in Lisbon.
  272. 1914–1918 The Great War began in Europe and lasted four years, causing a marked fall in shipping calling at Funchal.
  273. 1914 Padre Eduardo Clemente Nunes Pereira published the poetry collection Golpes.
  274. 1914 Construction began on a road across the Paul da Serra from Encumeada to Porto Moniz, though little was completed.
  275. 1914 D. António Manuel Pereira Ribeiro became the 27th bishop of Funchal.
  276. 1914 The Praça da Constituição and the Jardim Pequeno in Funchal disappeared when construction of the Avenida Oeste began.
  277. 1914 Padre António da Silva Figueira published Columbario.
  278. 1914–1921 Taking pre-war 1914 prices and wages as a baseline, the cost of living in Funchal rose sharply up to 1921, with prices increasing seven to fifty times and firewood sixfold.
  279. 1914 The Direcção dos Trabalhos Geodésicos e Topográficos, under Colonel Alfredo Durão, established a triangulation of Madeira and fixed Pico Ruivo's height at 1,861 m.
  280. 1914 537 boats and 1,648 fishermen were registered for fishing in the archipelago.
  281. 1914 A. Kickton and R. Murdfield analysed Madeira wines in Hamburg.
  282. 1914 The Junta Agrícola commissioned Lieutenant Francisco de Aragão e Melo to make hydrographic studies of Porto do Moniz harbour.
  283. 1914 The Piloting School in Funchal began operating.
  284. 1914–1915 Manuel de Sousa Brasão served in southern Angola.
  285. 1914 A mixed official school was created in the parish of Jardim do Mar.
  286. 1914 The pamphlet Um Ponto de Historia Pátria, on the donation of Madeira to the Infanta D. Catarina, was published in Funchal.
  287. 1914 Juvenal Henriques de Araújo graduated in law at Coimbra.
  288. 1914 Damião Peres published A Madeira sob os donatarios in Funchal.
  289. 1914 Hermann Winter's study of the mosses of Madeira and Tenerife was published in Hedwigia.
  290. January 1914 Under the Separation law the Funchal lyceum was installed in the former bishop's palace.
  291. January 1914 Dr L. Gain's report on algae, including those of the Selvagens and Desertas, was published.
  292. 6 January 1914 The first issue of A Vida Académica was published.
  293. 24 January 1914 The Finance Ministry issued a call for tenders to lease the former sanatoria properties of Madeira.
  294. February 1914 The Escola de Utilidades e Belas Artes began classes.
  295. 1 February 1914 The second and last issue of A Vida Académica was published.
  296. 4 February 1914 The first issue of a new fortnightly A Regeneração appeared.
  297. 15 February 1914 The sixth and last issue of Alma Nova was published.
  298. 16 February 1914 The Regional Chamber of Agriculture held its inaugural session.
  299. 7 March 1914–8 June 1914 Eleven issues of the newspaper A Esperança were published.
  300. 8 March 1914 The first issue of the fortnightly parish review Parochia de Santo Antonio do Funchal appeared.
  301. 16 March 1914 The Sociedade Protectora dos Animais Domésticos was declared of public utility by decree.
  302. 29 March 1914 The first Arbour Day in Funchal was held, with tree planting at Campo da Barca.
  303. April 1914 An official school was created in the parish of Quinta Grande.
  304. 4 April 1914–27 April 1914 Vasco Borges was appointed civil governor of Madeira on 4 April and took office on 27 April.
  305. 20 April 1914 A law recognised the levadas' rights acquired before the Civil Code, including rights over springs on others' land.
  306. 22 April 1914 Funchal council resolved to cede the Mercês convent grounds to the Auxílio Maternal in exchange for part of Santa Clara convent.
  307. May 1914 João da Câmara Pestana resigned his seat as deputy for Funchal, having been elected senator for another constituency.
  308. 6 May 1914 A decree created the municipality of Ribeira Brava. Campanário was transferred to it from Câmara de Lobos and Tábua from Ponta do Sol.
  309. 2 August 1914 The new municipality of Ribeira Brava was formally installed, taking in parishes including Serra de Água, Tábua and Campanário.
  310. 3 August 1914 Dr Michael C. Grabham offered a new Cathedral clock to the Funchal municipal council.
  311. 12 August 1914 A girls' school was created by decree in the parish of Camacha.
  312. 15 August 1914 A law on the sugar regime was enacted whose base 23 provoked a nationwide controversy known as the Hinton question.
  313. 16 August 1914 The municipality of Ribeira Brava was created by decree.
  314. 21 August 1914–25 August 1914 Shackleton's ship Endurance visited Madeira and the Desertas.
  315. 2 September 1914 Alberto A. Girard died.
  316. 2 October 1914 The Holy See appointed D. António Manuel Pereira Ribeiro bishop of Funchal.
  317. 14 November 1914 The organising committee of the Funchal delegation of the Red Cross held its first meeting.
  318. 20 November 1914 Amélia Augusta de Azevedo died at Idanha, aged 70.
  319. 11 December 1914 Adolfo César de Noronha was appointed librarian of the Funchal Municipal Library.
  320. 30 December 1914 Sebastião de Herédia was appointed civil governor of Madeira by decree.
  321. 1914–1918 Léon Garreta died on the battlefields of France.
  322. 1915 The new bishop of Funchal arrived and occupied a house provided by Catholics.
  323. 1915 Officers of the British ship Argonaut under Captain B. T. Somerville charted the Selvagens Islands.
  324. 1915 The review Paróquia de Santo António do Funchal published an account of the Água de Mel entail and its administrators.
  325. 1915 A new wine regulation project met public opposition and was not approved.
  326. 1915–1917 Manuel Gregório Pestana Júnior sat as deputy for Madeira in the 1915–17 legislative session.
  327. 1915 Urbano Canuto Soares published 'Linguagem e tradições populares do arquipélago da Madeira' in the Revista Lusitana.
  328. 1915 Feliciano Soares published 'Crucificadas' in Funchal.
  329. 1915 Emanuel Ribeiro and Feliciano Soares published the pamphlet 'Terra! Terra!' on the discovery of Madeira.
  330. 1915 João Soares Branco published A Nova Questão Hinton in Lisbon.
  331. 1915 A third pavilion was built at the Madeira asylum.
  332. 1915 The geodetic commission completed its survey of Madeira, including the chorographic map of the island.
  333. 1915 A chapel of São José was built at Vale da Bica, Calheta.
  334. 1915 Alberto Figueira Jardim published the poetry book 'Amostras'.
  335. 1915 Manuel Gomes Jardim's funeral oration for Pius X was published in Lisbon.
  336. 1915 By 1915 about 5,000$00 had been spent on the installations of the Funchal cold store.
  337. 1915 The rails of Funchal's horse tramway were removed, services having ceased earlier.
  338. 1915 The Montepio Madeirense acquired its own building.
  339. 1915–1917 Manuel da Costa Dias represented Madeira in Parliament.
  340. 1915 João Catanho de Meneses became Minister of Justice in the government of José de Castro.
  341. 1915 Augusto Elmano Vieira began law studies and wrote A Ultima Bênção.
  342. 1915 The Visconde de Meireles died.
  343. 1915 Alfredo Bettencourt da Câmara's verb-conjugation exercises were published in two parts in Funchal.
  344. 1915 The bell tower of the parish church of Gaula was built.
  345. 8 January 1915 Sebastião de Herédia took office as civil governor of Madeira.
  346. 26 January 1915 The Funchal council authorised moving objects to the Santa Clara convent to found an archaeological museum.
  347. 7 February 1915 D. António Manuel Pereira Ribeiro was consecrated bishop at Viana do Castelo.
  348. 9 February 1915 José Vicente de Freitas was appointed civil governor of the Funchal district by decree.
  349. 22 February 1915–15 May 1915 José Vicente de Freitas served as civil governor of Funchal.
  350. 27 February 1915 An order appointed Judge Vieira de Castro to inquire into the Junta Agrícola.
  351. 4 March 1915 The council's executive committee told the Government it would not use the Mercês convent for the prison.
  352. 14 March 1915 Bishop D. António Manuel Pereira Ribeiro took possession of the see and made his solemn entry into Funchal Cathedral.
  353. April 1915 Vasco Guedes died.
  354. 27 April 1915 The Heraldo da Madeira published an article on Francis Masson's stay and work in Madeira.
  355. 1 May 1915–3 November 1919 A second periodical named A Verdade ran in Funchal until its 216th issue.
  356. 1 May 1915–16 May 1915 Three issues of the newspaper O Realista appeared.
  357. 14 May 1915 José Ribeiro da Cunha died in Lisbon, a victim of the revolution that broke out that day.
  358. 24 May 1915 Sebastião de Herédia was appointed civil governor for a second time.
  359. 13 June 1915 A general election of deputies and senators was held for Madeira; Carlos Olavo was re-elected deputy and Vasco Gonçalves Marques and Daniel Simões Soares were elected senators.
  360. 22 June 1915 João Augusto Pereira, a retired artillery major, died in Funchal.
  361. 6 July 1915 The Visconde de Gonçalves de Freitas died in Funchal aged 79.
  362. 13 July 1915 Remígio Spínola Barreto was elected senator for Madeira.
  363. 22 July 1915 The Funchal Municipal Council resolved to furnish the anthropometric post.
  364. 22 July 1915 Sebastião de Herédia took office for his second term as civil governor.
  365. 3 August 1915 Alípio Augusto Ferreira died in a New York hospital.
  366. 6 August 1915 The council petitioned the government to extend the telephone network to the whole island.
  367. 14 August 1915 O Heraldo da Madeira ceased publication after 3,218 issues.
  368. 19 August 1915 João Francisco de Sousa was killed at the cacimbas of Mangua, Angola.
  369. 19 August 1915 A third, short-lived O Independente issued its first number.
  370. 28 August 1915 The Teatro Esperança was sold to contractor João Pinto Correia, who soon demolished it.
  371. 31 August 1915 A decree created a primary-school district seated at Ribeira Brava.
  372. 31 August 1915 A law transferred the state levadas to the Junta Agrícola and extended the Junta indefinitely.
  373. 2 September 1915 A decree authorised the Junta Agrícola a 100,000-escudo loan for tourist roads and hotels.
  374. 14 September 1915 D. Júlia Esmeraldo, last named owner of the Santo Amaro chapel, died.
  375. 8 October 1915 The periodical Paróquia de Santo António do Funchal published a fuller account of the episode of Blessed Inácio de Azevedo.
  376. 17 October 1915 Henrique de Lima e Cunha died in São Pedro de Sintra.
  377. 24 October 1915 The Liga das Artes Gráficas do Funchal was founded.
  378. 3 November 1915 The last of 28 issues of the fortnightly A Regeneração appeared.
  379. 4 November 1915 Francisco Antunes de Mendonça's inquiry report on the Junta Agrícola was completed, clearing its members.
  380. 19 November 1915 Funchal council received Ventura Terra's improvement plan for the city.
  381. 19 November 1915 Rua dos Ferreiros in Funchal was renamed Rua do Comércio.
  382. 27 November 1915 The internal regulations of the Junta Autónoma das Obras do Porto do Funchal were approved.
  383. 1916 João da Rocha published Lenda Infantista, on the discovery of the archipelago.
  384. 1916–1918 Period of Funchal's maritime defence during the First World War, later commemorated by a medal.
  385. 1916 The Associação de Foot-ball do Funchal was founded.
  386. 1916–1917 The first Madeira Football Championship was held and won by Marítimo.
  387. 1916–1918 Thousands of trees in Madeira were felled to fuel coastal steamers because wartime coal prices had soared.
  388. 1916 João Paulo da Veiga Pestana was called up after Portugal entered the Great War.
  389. 1916 Madeiran sugar production reached 4,943,675 kg.
  390. 1916 The Quinta Vigia battery was built in Funchal as a defence against submarines.
  391. 1916 The bishop placed the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Ajuda under interdict after his visit was refused; it was lifted months later.
  392. 1916 Publications in Lisbon: António Feliciano Rodrigues's thesis on chronic tetanus and Arsénio Teixeira Jardim's Sonetos.
  393. 1916 The Junta Geral built quays at Porto do Moniz and the Pesqueiro landing stage.
  394. 1916 Jacinto do Carmo Sá Penela published O Incendio da Escola Naval.
  395. 1916 A compilation of press articles on three bills, including the colonia contract, was published.
  396. 1916 The 'Pedro Álvares Cabral' mutual-aid association was established in Funchal.
  397. 1916–1917 Manuel de Sousa Brasão served in Mozambique.
  398. 1916 The road from Câmara de Lobos via Ribeira Brava to the Encumeada de São Vicente opened, making it reachable by car.
  399. 1916–1917 The Assembleia dos Unicos do Funchal charity spent 1:090$220 réis in the financial year.
  400. 1916 The first edition of Vitorino José dos Santos's verse book Lágrimas was published in Funchal.
  401. 1916 Berlese and Paoli published their description of Prospaltella in Redia, vol. XI.
  402. 1916 The last Manueline ruins of the Machico customs house were demolished.
  403. January 1916 Funchal council petitioned the government for Santa Clara convent's historic articles for the museum.
  404. 2 January 1916 Frederico Pinto Coelho died in Funchal.
  405. 22 January 1916 The last issue of Parochia de Santo Antonio do Funchal was published.
  406. 11 February 1916 Madeiran deputies presented bills to sell the levadas and reform the colonia contract; debated in the Funchal press, they were defeated by opposition in Madeira.
  407. 11 February 1916 A bill granting autonomy to the Junta Agrícola was presented to Parliament but not approved.
  408. 24 February 1916 A decree authorised the seizure of enemy ships in Portuguese ports.
  409. March 1916–May 1916 António Pereira Reis served as Minister of the Interior after Germany declared war on Portugal.
  410. 2 March 1916 Portuguese authorities occupied four German steamers in Funchal bay.
  411. April 1916 The Funchal schooner Senhora da Conceição was sunk off France.
  412. 23 June 1916 A law reduced municipal councils to 24, 16 and 12 councillors, leaving administrative tribunal powers unchanged.
  413. 18 August 1916 Comendador Manuel Gonçalves died in Monte parish.
  414. 27 August 1916 The only issue of the newspaper O Chicote was published.
  415. 2 September 1916 The Brado d'Oeste published an extensive article on the Reis Magos chapel at Lombo dos Reis, Estreito da Calheta, and its entail.
  416. 15 September 1916 The Diário da Madeira reprinted Mario de Almeida's account of Princess Maria Amélia's last days.
  417. 30 September 1916 Antero Drumond de Meneses died in Lisbon.
  418. 18 October 1916 Miss Mary Jane Wilson died in Câmara de Lobos.
  419. 29 November 1916 Funchal council rescinded the water-supply works contract because war had raised material costs.
  420. 3 December 1916 The German submarine U-38 torpedoed three ships in Funchal harbour, including the French gunboat Surprise (33 crew and 7 Portuguese killed), and shelled the city, causing widespread panic. The victims were later commemorated by a monument made by Francisco Franco.
  421. 3 December 1916 A third newspaper called O Imparcial appeared, lasting only a few numbers.
  422. 30 December 1916 Decree no. 2922 established official time.
  423. 31 December 1916 A second newspaper called O Progresso began publication.
  424. 1917 Madeira's wine production fell to about 2.8 million litres, the lowest of the period.
  425. 1917 The Funchal district recorded 3,631 deaths, 890 of them from diarrhoea and enteritis.
  426. 1917 The Club Naval Madeirense was founded, its statutes being dated 20 July 1917.
  427. 1917 Table tennis was introduced to Madeira.
  428. 1917 Poetisas Portuguesas, including poems by D. Maria Helena Jervis de Atouguia e Almeida, was published.
  429. 1917–1918 Seventeen students enrolled in the first academic year of the Funchal navigation school, four passing to the second year.
  430. 1917 The Montanha battery was built to defend Funchal against submarines.
  431. 1917 The São Jorge lignite, long buried by landslides, was exposed again.
  432. 1917 Alfredo Vital Miguéis was transferred to the Escola Industrial do Funchal.
  433. 1917 The road to Pico dos Barcelos was built.
  434. 1917 Early in 1917 the Red Cross first-aid post opened in the Rua dos Netos, Funchal.
  435. 1917–1918 The interior of the parish church of Curral das Freiras was substantially repaired.
  436. 1917 Augusto Elmano Vieira's A Ultima Bênção was published in Funchal.
  437. 1917 Juvenal Henriques de Araújo published his pamphlet on the expropriation of the Montado do Barreiro.
  438. 1917 The salient of the north bastion of the Fortaleza de São Lourenço was cut to align the Avenida Dr. Manuel de Arriaga.
  439. 1917 Carlos Elói Mota Freitas completed the Naval School course.
  440. 13 January 1917 The 'Pedro Álvares Cabral' mutual aid association was legalised by alvará.
  441. 17 January 1917 The current statutes of the Montepio Madeirense were approved.
  442. 31 January 1917 The Sé clock in Funchal was advanced one hour at the military authority's request.
  443. March 1917 Construction of the São Martinho rifle range began.
  444. 5 March 1917 Manuel de Arriaga died in Lisbon.
  445. 8 March 1917 Rua da Mouraria in Funchal was renamed Rua do Dr. Sequeira.
  446. 16 March 1917 Clemente de Freitas da Silva died in Ponta do Sol.
  447. 26 March 1917 Tomás Nunes de Serra e Moura died in Lisbon.
  448. 1 May 1917 João Paulo da Veiga Pestana was posted as officer cadet to Infantry Regiment 30.
  449. June 1917 The funds of the Asilo de Artes e Ofícios reached 22,000$000 réis and their income was ceded to the Asilo da Mendicidade e Órfãos in Funchal.
  450. June 1917 A newspaper advertisement invited subscriptions for an electric tramway company in Funchal, but nobody responded.
  451. 16 June 1917 The Regional Chamber of Agriculture held its last session.
  452. August 1917 Urbano Canuto Soares came to Funchal to research Padre Manuel Alvares for the Ministry of Public Instruction.
  453. August 1917–9 August 1917 As acting head of the district, António Jardim de Oliveira ordered maize unloaded from a Portuguese ship to avert famine; the act was disapproved and he was replaced by Colonel Sousa Rosa, prompting large demonstrations of support in Funchal on 7 and 9 August.
  454. 3 August 1917–28 September 1917 José de Sousa Rosa was appointed civil governor of Funchal by decree on 3 August 1917, took office on the 7th and served until 28 September.
  455. 1 September 1917 The periodical Trabalho e União published a long article on mutualism.
  456. 5 September 1917 João Paulo da Veiga Pestana was promoted to second lieutenant.
  457. 11 September 1917 João Paulo da Veiga Pestana left for France with the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps.
  458. 16 September 1917 Jaime Constantino de Freitas Moniz died in Lisbon.
  459. 22 September 1917 A further forestry and grazing decree was issued for Madeira, but it was judged ineffective and never fully enforced.
  460. 28 September 1917 Daniel Telo Simões Soares took office as civil governor of Funchal for the first time.
  461. 13 October 1917 Gabriel Rocha de Gouveia was killed by shell fragments in the trenches in France.
  462. 14 November 1917 A decree created the navigation school in Funchal.
  463. 3 December 1917 The monument to the victims of the 1916 German bombardment of Funchal was inaugurated in the Angústias cemetery.
  464. 12 December 1917 A German submarine bombarded Funchal for the second time, killing five people in the city and badly damaging Santa Clara church.
  465. 15 December 1917 The bombardment victims' monument in the Angústias cemetery was handed over to the Funchal municipal council.
  466. 18 December 1917 Carlos José Baeta Pinto Feio was appointed civil governor of the Funchal district by decree.
  467. 1918 The Sindicato Agrícola Estreitense was founded in Estreito de Câmara de Lobos.
  468. 1918 The 1 May procession followed its old route for the only time after the Republic, accompanied by two council members.
  469. 1918 Funchal had 34 embroidery export houses after the wartime crisis.
  470. 1918 He published Junia in Lisbon.
  471. 1918 The Junta Geral commissioned the maquette of Zargo's statue.
  472. 1918 The Associação dos Industriais de Destilação da Madeira was founded.
  473. 1918 He published the pamphlet Rosario de Lágrimas.
  474. 1918–March 1919 A position artillery company defended Funchal against German attack.
  475. 1918 Only 113 vessels entered Funchal, the lowest figure of the First World War period.
  476. 1918 Construction of the chapel at Fajã do Penedo began.
  477. 1918 A mainland Portuguese cultivator successfully trialled rice growing in São Vicente parish.
  478. 1918 He died in Portugal.
  479. 1918 Four central schools were created in Funchal.
  480. 1918 He served as deputy for Madeira.
  481. 1918 He graduated in letters at the University of Lisbon.
  482. 1918 Armitage published a paper on the habitats of Madeiran bryophytes in the Journal of Ecology.
  483. 1918 Second edition of 'Lágrimas' published in Coimbra.
  484. 1918 An inlaid table was offered to President Sidónio Pais.
  485. 24 January 1918 Last issue, no. 858.
  486. 30 January 1918 Funchal steamer Neptuno torpedoed en route from Lisbon.
  487. 31 January 1918 First issue of the newspaper A União of Ponta do Sol.
  488. 5 February 1918 Feio arrived and took office as civil governor.
  489. 6 February 1918 A second newspaper named A Luz began publication.
  490. 12 March 1918 Feio left for Lisbon, soon resigning.
  491. 9 April 1918 He was taken prisoner by the Germans in the great battle of that day.
  492. 9 April 1918 Battle of the Lys, in which many Madeirans were killed or captured.
  493. 9 April 1918 Ensign Veiga Pestana died in combat in France.
  494. 17 April 1918 The first issue of O Desporto was published.
  495. 25 April 1918 Funchal Municipal Council sold its small property at Fajãzinha de Bento with government authorisation.
  496. 27 April 1918 A decree created district general commissioners, probably not applied in Funchal.
  497. 27 April 1918 The first issue of the second newspaper titled O Madeirense appeared.
  498. 28 April 1918 Duarte de Melo Ponces de Carvalho was elected deputy for Madeira.
  499. May 1918 The Chamber was abolished when agricultural services were reorganised.
  500. May 1918 The office was installed in the new bishop's palace at Ribeiro Real.
  501. 8 May 1918 A decree created eleven agricultural regions, making Madeira the ninth, with its seat in Funchal.
  502. 8 May 1918 A decree established eight forestry districts and eighteen forestry regencies, with Funchal as regency no. 18.
  503. 17 May 1918 The constitution of the Clube Naval Madeirense was notified to the authorities.
  504. 23 May 1918 Barreto left for France as chaplain of the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps.
  505. 25 May 1918 He was appointed civil governor of the district by decree.
  506. June 1918 Rosa ceased to be military commander of the archipelago.
  507. 3 June 1918 The first issue of the newspaper O Seringa was published.
  508. 7 June 1918 He took office as civil governor.
  509. 24 June 1918 The new parish church of São Martinho was consecrated.
  510. 8 July 1918 Decree no. 4560 created customs clearance posts in Porto Santo, Câmara de Lobos and Machico, though not yet implemented.
  511. 21 August 1918 The twelfth issue of O Seringa appeared, believed to be the last.
  512. 23 August 1918 The Junta Agrícola resolved to hand the street built for the cold store to the municipal council.
  513. 9 September 1918–25 November 1918 O Atlantico published its twelve issues.
  514. 13 September 1918 D. João de Alarcão died.
  515. 22 September 1918 Colonel Eduardo Agostinho Pereira died.
  516. 1 October 1918 Founding date given for the Empresa Madeirense de Tabacos, Lda.
  517. 14 October 1918 The minesweeper Augusto Castilho was sunk by a German submarine while escorting the steamer São Miguel, killing Mota Freitas and its commander.
  518. 15 October 1918 The minesweeper Augusto de Castilho was sunk by a German submarine near the Azores; the San Miguel escaped with passengers from Madeira.
  519. 15 October 1918 Minesweeper Augusto de Castilho fought a German submarine; Mota Freitas was killed.
  520. 16 October 1918 The viscount was shot dead in Lisbon with six other political prisoners while being escorted to a fortress.
  521. 21 October 1918 João Pestana Júnior died while studying law at Coimbra.
  522. 29 October 1918 He died in Sintra.
  523. 1 November 1918 The first issue of the periodical O Nacional appeared.
  524. 3 November 1918 Brum do Canto died in Lisbon aged 33.
  525. 6 November 1918 The transport Lake Forest arrived in Madeira with American Red Cross food aid and Harrison Dibblee.
  526. 9 November 1918 A dinner at the Palácio de São Lourenço and popular demonstrations honoured Dibblee and the American consul.
  527. 11 November 1918 Public street lighting was restored in Funchal on news of the Armistice ending the First World War.
  528. 17 November 1918 Harrison Dibblee left Madeira for Norfolk, Virginia.
  529. 25 November 1918 Hector Léveillé died at Le Mans.
  530. 1 December 1918 A law reformed the industrial schools and the curriculum of the Funchal industrial school, creating an inlay workshop.
  531. 8 December 1918 The first issue of the Funchal newspaper O Vigilante was published.
  532. 20 December 1918 The statutes of the Sindicato Agrícola Estreitense were published in the Diário do Governo.
  533. 27 December 1918 Augusto José Vieira died in Lisbon.
  534. 1919 A Republican Guard force arrived in Madeira.
  535. 1919 Spanish flu and pneumonic influenza struck Madeira.
  536. 1919 The first three students of the Escola de Pilotagem completed the course and qualified for the pilot's certificate.
  537. 1919 Madeira imported 4,511 tonnes of wheat and 690 tonnes of flour.
  538. 1919 Maria dos Anjos Ribeiro had a chapel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary built at Fajã do Penedo, Boaventura.
  539. 1919 Luís de Ornelas Nóbrega de Quintal was elected deputy for India and appointed head of a department of the Colonial Ministry.
  540. 1919 During the monarchist uprising Jorge Perestrelo Velosa Camacho was arrested in Beja.
  541. 1919 Carlos Olavo Correia de Azevedo's book on captivity in Germany was published in Lisbon.
  542. 1919 The rebuilt church of Ponta Delgada was consecrated.
  543. 1919 The Asilo da Mendicidade issued small-change notes.
  544. 1919–1921 Dr Pedro Góis Pita represented Madeira as deputy in Parliament.
  545. 1919 António Jardim de Oliveira retired from the civil government.
  546. 1919 Augusto Elmano Vieira was a leader of the academic strike.
  547. 1919 Eduardo Antonino Pestana completed the course of the Escola Normal Superior.
  548. 3 January 1919 Decree no. 5086 created the commemorative medal of the Portuguese Army's campaigns.
  549. 8 January 1919 The typographers published the single issue of O Gráfico.
  550. 8 January 1919 The first issue of the periodical O Germinal appeared.
  551. 23 January 1919 The last issue, no. 77, of the second O Madeirense appeared.
  552. 26 January 1919 The last issue, no. 23, of O Nacional appeared.
  553. February 1919 The last issue of the Boletim Eclesiástico da Madeira appeared.
  554. 7 February 1919 Jorge Perestrelo Velosa Camacho was murdered by a civilian while crossing the Terreiro do Paço under escort.
  555. 10 February 1919 A branch of the Banco Nacional Ultramarino opened in Funchal.
  556. 11 February 1919 Dean João Joaquim Pinto died in Funchal.
  557. 17 February 1919 Dr Manuel Augusto Martins was again appointed civil governor of Funchal, taking office on 19 February and leaving in May on election as deputy.
  558. 22 February 1919 The newspaper Trabalho e União reported the formation of the Madeiran Labour party.
  559. March 1919 Raising of the chancel floor of Santa Clara church in Funchal uncovered the tombstones of the second, third and fifth captains-donatary, but not Zarco's.
  560. 2 March 1919 The Sindicato Agrícola Estreitense elected its governing bodies.
  561. 2 March 1919 Francisco Franco's maquette of the Zarco statue was exhibited in the municipal theatre of Funchal.
  562. 6 March 1919 The statutes of the Cooperativa Popular were approved.
  563. 17 March 1919 A radio-telegraph station was inaugurated on Porto Santo, ending the island's isolation.
  564. 31 March 1919 Hinton's lease of the José Júlio de Lemos sugar factory ended.
  565. April 1919 The outgoing commission of the Recolhimento do Bom Jesus handed over 437$15 to its successor.
  566. 2 April 1919 The British wartime wireless post at Quinta Santana ceased operating.
  567. 10 April 1919 Funchal council renamed Rua das Hortas as Rua do Alferes Veiga Pestana.
  568. 12 April 1919–2 May 1919 Decrees, including Decree 5492 of 2 May, ended the sugar monopoly and declared sugar manufacture free from 1 January 1920.
  569. 24 April 1919 At the request of the Associação do Registo Civil, the Travessa do Surdo was renamed after Augusto José Vieira.
  570. May 1919 José Mendes dos Reis was elected deputy for Madeira.
  571. 2 May 1919 A decree modifying the sugar regime abolished the Junta Agrícola; its Areeiro station passed to the Junta Geral and the Estação Agrária took over forestry matters.
  572. 2 May 1919 Decree 5492 fixed at 55 litres the alcohol allowed to treat a 500-litre pipe of wine.
  573. 2 May 1919 A decree authorised brandy and melado taxes and assigned them to the Junta Geral to fund the Ninth Agricultural Region's station.
  574. 8 May 1919 Some 289 political prisoners from the monarchist revolt, among them Salema Vaz, landed in Funchal from the steamer Africa and were interned in the Gonçalo Aires lazaretto.
  575. 8 May 1919 Funchal council renamed Rua do Aljube after Carvalho de Araújo.
  576. 8 May 1919 Funchal council renamed the Travessa da Sacristia after cadet Carlos Elói Mota e Freitas.
  577. 10 May 1919 A decree abolished most normal schools, transforming Funchal's Escola Normal into the Escola Primária Superior.
  578. 10 May 1919 Decree-law 5.787 introduced a new water regime that endangered levada rights.
  579. 10 May 1919 A decree created independent company no. 1 of the Republican Guard in Funchal.
  580. 11 May 1919 In the parliamentary elections Américo Olavo Correia de Azevedo and José Miguel Lamartine Prazeres da Costa were elected deputies and Heitor Passos senator for Madeira.
  581. 13 May 1919 Seven political deportees held in Madeira were freed by telegram from the minister of war.
  582. June 1919 The last known issue of the second newspaper O Progresso appeared.
  583. June 1919 Augusto José da Cunha died.
  584. June 1919 Alfredo Ernesto de Sá Cardoso became president of the ministry.
  585. June 1919–August 1919 The remaining political deportees in Madeira were shipped to Lisbon between June and August.
  586. June 1919 Padre Jaime de Gouveia Barreto returned to Portugal from France.
  587. 3 June 1919 The escape of eight political deportees, including the Conde de Sucena, from Madeira to Las Palmas was discovered.
  588. 12 June 1919 A decree transferred the staff of the Junta Agrícola to the 9th agricultural region under the Junta Geral.
  589. 21 June 1919 Daniel Telo Simões Soares took office as civil governor of Funchal for the second time.
  590. 28 June 1919 The Treaty of Versailles was signed, including articles protecting wine designations such as Madeira.
  591. 10 July 1919 A law created a municipal tax on tobacco cleared through customs.
  592. 10 August 1919 The naturalist Ernst Haeckel, a visitor to Madeira, died.
  593. 12 August 1919 The former Seminary of the Incarnation in Funchal was ceded to the Junta Geral (for 7,500 escudos, or 9 contos by another account).
  594. 21 August 1919–29 August 1919 During a long leste wind, which brought Funchal's highest recorded shade temperature (38.4°), fires set criminally, reportedly by angry herders, destroyed much of Madeira's forest, including pine woods at Monte and São Roque, until rain put them out, causing over 2,000 contos of damage.
  595. 23 August 1919 The chapel of the Immaculate Heart of Mary at Boaventura was solemnly blessed by Bishop António Manuel Pereira Ribeiro.
  596. 24 August 1919 The Diário da Madeira published two unpublished letters written by Júlio Dinis in Madeira.
  597. September 1919 The seat of the western school district moved from Ribeira Brava to Funchal.
  598. 10 September 1919 A locomotive boiler explosion on the Monte railway killed four people and injured many.
  599. 13 September 1919 The Junta Geral abolished the Escola de Utilidades e Belas Artes and installed its offices in the former Incarnation convent/seminary building.
  600. October 1919 The Escola Primária Superior of Funchal began operating.
  601. 2 October 1919 Funchal council ordered the two current municipal flags.
  602. 15 October 1919 The first issue of Gente Nova appeared.
  603. 15 October 1919 A bill allowing Madeira wines the same alcohol quantities as port was sought in Parliament but not approved.
  604. 3 November 1919 J. Cruz Baptista Santos became administrator of the Campo da Barca disinfection post, replacing the retiring Manuel Sardinha.
  605. December 1919 J. C. Berkeley Cotter died.
  606. 3 December 1919 The first Republican Guard contingent arrived in Funchal aboard the Quelimane.
1920s 386
  1. c. 1925 The Ponta do Sol council ordered the chapel of the Souls demolished to widen a street.
  2. c. 1926 Cricket ceased to be played in Madeira.
  3. 1920–1921 Professor Cockerell surveyed the archipelago's coccids, recording over thirty species.
  4. 1920 The 1920 census gave Madeira 179,000 inhabitants.
  5. 1920 Madeira had 22 dairy factories and over 30 skimming stations.
  6. 1920 Jaime Sanches Câmara published the verse tragedy 'Galateia'; Alberto Figueira Jardim published 'Fructos'.
  7. 1920 The yacht Gonçalves Zargo was built at Cabrestante.
  8. 1920 José Nunes da Mata visited Madeira.
  9. 1920 Dr Vasco Gonçalves Marques joined the Republican Party of National Reconstitution.
  10. 1920 The brandy resale tax yielded 82:434$87, mostly shared among the municipal councils.
  11. 1920 Only 50 to 60 British people lived permanently in Funchal.
  12. 1920 Pestana Júnior published 'O Reconhecimento da Madeira', proposing a new date for the island's discovery.
  13. 1920 Funchal municipal revenue included 101.700$00 from the deposit for the city's sanitation works.
  14. 1920 The census recorded 1,093 inhabitants in Madalena do Mar parish.
  15. 1920 The 1920 census recorded 6,190 inhabitants in Ponta do Sol parish and 24,284 in the city of Funchal.
  16. 1920–1921 Martin Vahl made his second stay in Madeira and also visited Porto Santo.
  17. 1920 Augusto Elmano Vieira completed his law degree at Lisbon.
  18. 1920 Eduardo Antonino Pestana graduated in law at the University of Lisbon.
  19. 1920 At the height of the embroidery industry Funchal had 60 export houses and over 35,000 embroiderers worked in Madeira and Porto Santo.
  20. 1920 Joana de Castelo Branco died in Lisbon.
  21. 22 January 1920 The first issue of Ecos da Madeira appeared.
  22. 31 January 1920 The first issue of O Operário appeared.
  23. February 1920 João Maria de Santiago Presado was proclaimed deputy for Madeira unopposed.
  24. February 1920 Three descendants of the female line of the Phelps family visited Funchal.
  25. 1 February 1920 Service on the Monte railway resumed after the explosion.
  26. 1 February 1920 The last issue, number 61, of O Vigilante was published.
  27. 25 February 1920–26 February 1920 A violent storm with great gales struck Madeira, leaving over 500 homeless and bringing down the Areeiro instrument tower.
  28. March 1920 Demolition began in Funchal for the Avenida António José de Almeida.
  29. March 1920 A man aged 101 died in Madeira.
  30. 10 March 1920 Conselheiro José Leite Monteiro died.
  31. 17 March 1920 Luís de Ornelas Pinto Coelho died in Funchal.
  32. 20 March 1920 The tenth and last issue of the first series of Gente Nova appeared.
  33. 24 March 1920 Law no. 960 freed trade in national wheat and set rules for imported wheat and bread prices.
  34. 30 March 1920 Conselheiro João Baptista de Freitas Leal died in Funchal aged 82.
  35. 8 April 1920 The Cooperativa Popular opened its establishments.
  36. 9 April 1920 Decree 6521 modified the 1919 sugar decree.
  37. 12 April 1920 A decree on the sugar question left unrepealed provisions considered harmful to cane growers; it remained in force when the Elucidário was written.
  38. 29 April 1920–1 October 1920 Vasco Crispiniano da Silva was appointed civil governor of the Funchal district and was relieved at his own request on 1 October 1920.
  39. 1 May 1920–November 1920 Os Novos published its first issue; its tenth and probably last appeared in November 1920.
  40. 25 May 1920 Regulations for the brandy resale tax were issued.
  41. 30 May 1920 Most Madeiran Democrats decided to join the Reconstituição Nacional party.
  42. 10 June 1920 A plaque to Corporal João de Andrade was unveiled at the Colégio barracks.
  43. 23 June 1920 The Banco da Madeira opened in Funchal.
  44. 8 July 1920 The Madeiran Evolutionists resolved to stay united as a group.
  45. September 1920 A man aged 106 died in Madeira.
  46. 27 September 1920 Leacock & C.ª admitted Diogo Martinho de Freitas as partner.
  47. October 1920 A meeting was held in Funchal to plan a monument to the Conde de Canavial.
  48. 1 October 1920–15 October 1920 A Esperança published an artistic description of the Capela do Santo Espírito.
  49. 14 October 1920–30 May 1921 António da Cruz Rodrigues dos Santos served as civil governor of the Funchal district.
  50. 18 October 1920 Brito Pais and Sarmento Beires took off from Amadora to fly to Madeira but ditched in the sea.
  51. November 1920 The Ministry of the Interior classified Madeira's municipalities into three orders.
  52. 1 November 1920 Father César Martinho Fernandes died at Jardim do Mar.
  53. 15 November 1920 The first issue of the Revista de Direito appeared.
  54. December 1920 A woman aged 103 died in Madeira.
  55. 6 December 1920 Luís Maria dos Reis died as a retired general.
  56. 23 December 1920 Funchal municipal council voted 200 escudos to install an oceanographic museum and 50 escudos a month for its upkeep.
  57. 1921 Alberto Artur Sarmento was a provisional teacher at the Funchal lyceum.
  58. 1921 The Calheta Misericórdia building had recently been restored.
  59. 1921 The portrait of D. Josefina de Castelo Branco Ribeiro da Cunha hung in the sessions room of the Misericórdia do Funchal's administrative commission.
  60. 1921 Pterygium was reported still to occur widely in Madeira.
  61. 1921 Madeira had about 30,000 hectares of uncultivated land, some 10,000 of which yielded only grazing.
  62. 1921 England was the chief importer of Madeiran wickerwork and raw osiers.
  63. 1921 Armando Eduardo Pinto Correia published the pamphlet Um Poeta em frangalhos.
  64. 1921 José Maria Malheiro represented the Malheiro family in Funchal.
  65. 1921 The 1921 census recorded parish populations across Madeira, including 4,083 in the Sé, 3,107 in Santana and 7,061 in São Pedro.
  66. 1921 Madeiran maize output stood at about 6,000 hectolitres, most consumption being imported.
  67. 1921 The first volume of the Elucidário Madeirense was published.
  68. 1921 Dr José Varela was elected senator for Madeira.
  69. 1921 Jaime Sanches Câmara published Carta em prosa.
  70. 1921 Salema Vaz published Pão do Exílio in Lisbon.
  71. 1921 Feliciano Soares and Emanuel Vitorino Ribeiro published the pamphlet 'Terra! Terra!' on the discovery of Madeira.
  72. 1921 José Nunes da Mata published a pamphlet on air navigation between Portugal and Madeira.
  73. 1921 There was much talk of establishing an oceanographic museum in Funchal.
  74. 1921 The name tubarão for Carcharias microps was known only to Caniçal fishermen.
  75. 1921 Emanuel Ribeiro was teacher and director of an industrial school in Porto.
  76. 1921 Madeira had about 169,000 inhabitants, only about a hundred of them Protestants.
  77. 1921 João Prim Garibaldi e Costa's lecture Conferencia was published in Funchal.
  78. 1921 Sixteen women lived in the Recolhimento das Órfãs with a regente, porteira and servente, supported by Misericórdia subsidies.
  79. 1921 Luís de Ornelas Nóbrega de Quintal left to govern the Cuanza Sul district.
  80. 1921 Adolfo de Noronha was preparing a publication on the shells of Porto Santo's raised beach.
  81. 1921 Membership dues of the Sociedade Protectora dos Animais Domésticos were 50 centavos.
  82. 1921 The Ponta do Pargo lighthouse buildings were complete but awaited a lantern delayed by the European war.
  83. 1921 An orfeão was formed in Funchal under Dr Manuel Passos de Freitas.
  84. 1921 Angélique de Beer Lomelino ended her post as piano professor at the Lisbon Conservatory.
  85. 1921 The author urged the Funchal municipality to acquire Zarco's sword.
  86. 1921 Madeira produced about 25 million kg of potatoes a year, about 10,000 kg per hectare.
  87. 1921 A sharp post-war rise in Madeira's cost of living drove some wages 20 to 30 times above pre-war levels and firewood prices up sixfold, hardening life for formerly comfortable classes.
  88. 1921 Maritime pine covered at least about 2,000 hectares in Madeira, while stone pine was almost abandoned.
  89. 1921 Jacinto do Carmo Sá Penela published a chronological note on the Academy of Midshipmen and Naval School.
  90. 1921 Dr Manuel Gomes Jardim was appointed canon of Funchal Cathedral.
  91. 1921 About 250 British people were in Funchal to spend the winter.
  92. 1921 The Missão Marquês de Pombal school in Funchal had 40 pupils.
  93. 1921 Dr António Balbino do Rego served as physician in Lisbon's civil hospitals and director of the police anthropometric post.
  94. 1921 José de Barros e Sousa's Preceitos de Moral da Infância was published.
  95. 1921 Manuel Pereira da Silva addressed recruits of infantry regiments 12 and 34 at a flag presentation.
  96. 1921 The Madeiran wickerwork industry was reported to be in decline.
  97. 1921 Francisco Franco made a bronze aviators' monument for the Funchal Municipal Garden.
  98. 1921 Dr Pedro Góis Pita published 'Pratica d'Advocacia' in Coimbra.
  99. 1921–1922 Treasury revenue in the Funchal district reached 3,080,248$18 in 1921–1922, the highest in the series.
  100. 1921 The chapel of São Cândido in Câmara de Lobos was recorded as in ruins.
  101. 1921 Stables remained in Rua da Queimada de Cima despite press campaigns for their removal.
  102. 1921 After Manuel de Arriaga's death the Funchal theatre was again named Teatro Dr. Manuel de Arriaga.
  103. 1921 António Jardim de Oliveira returned to Funchal and resumed practising law.
  104. 1921 Augusto César de Gouveia successfully grew tea at Fajã da Ovelha.
  105. 1921 The Poiso refuge house came under Caminata's superintendence.
  106. 1921 Augusto Elmano Vieira was a member of the Funchal municipal council.
  107. 1921 The Fort of São José on Porto Santo was ceded to the fiscal guard.
  108. 1921 João Cabral do Nascimento was an editor of the Coimbra newspaper Restauração.
  109. 1921 The Madeiran partridge was considered rare.
  110. 1921 Manuel Teixeira Gomes was Portugal's representative in England.
  111. 1921 James Yate Johnson's herbarium was recorded as being in good condition at the Seminary Museum in Funchal.
  112. 1921 The Fortress of São Tiago served as barracks for Mountain Artillery Battery no. 3.
  113. 4 January 1921 The price of milk was fixed at 10 centavos for butter-making and 14 for cheese-making.
  114. 7 January 1921 A decree authorised the definitive constitution of the Banco da Madeira.
  115. 24 January 1921 General João Alfredo de Faria died shortly after his promotion to general.
  116. 26 January 1921 Alfredo Bettencourt da Câmara died in Funchal.
  117. February 1921 The periodical Gente Nova resumed publication.
  118. 4 March 1921 Law no. 1123 granted a campaign medal to soldiers who served in the defence of Funchal during the Great War.
  119. 5 March 1921–6 March 1921 Floods struck Machico and Ribeira Brava, killing four children.
  120. 22 March 1921 Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral made the first flight from Lisbon to Funchal in the seaplane F-3.
  121. 26 March 1921 The programme of national honours to the Unknown Soldiers was published in the Diário do Governo.
  122. 28 March 1921 The foundation stone of the monument to the first Lisbon–Madeira aviators was laid in the Jardim Municipal of Funchal.
  123. 31 March 1921–3 April 1921 The urn of the Unknown Soldier of Africa arrived at Funchal on the Briton, lay in state at the town hall and was embarked on the cruiser República for Lisbon; General Norton de Matos joined the procession.
  124. 6 April 1921 The aviators' seaplane caught fire at Porto Santo while taking off for Lisbon.
  125. 7 April 1921–10 April 1921 Funchal flew flags at half-mast and rang bells while the Unknown Soldiers lay in state in Lisbon.
  126. 19 April 1921 Urbano Canuto Soares delivered a Latin oration when Porto conferred honorary doctorates on Joffre, Diaz and Smith-Dorrien.
  127. 7 May 1921 Engineer Sá Viana arrived in Madeira to organise the Ninth Agricultural Region.
  128. 11 May 1921 The monument to the aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral was inaugurated in the Jardim Municipal.
  129. 15 May 1921 The last issue of the Revista de Direito appeared.
  130. 7 June 1921 General Smuts called at Madeira on the Arundel Castle, was received by the authorities and left the same day for England.
  131. 9 June 1921 António Augusto da Silva Pires was appointed civil governor of Funchal.
  132. 19 June 1921 Silva Pires took office as civil governor of Funchal.
  133. July 1921 Dr Manuel Augusto Martins was elected senator for Madeira.
  134. July 1921 Captain Manuel da Costa Dias visited Madeira to reorganise the Democratic party.
  135. 3 July 1921 The first issue of Vida Diocesana appeared.
  136. 7 July 1921–8 July 1921 The Orfeão Madeirense gave its first public performances at the Teatro Dr. Manuel de Arriaga.
  137. 10 July 1921 Parliamentary elections were held in Madeira: Vasco Gonçalves Marques was re-elected senator, Manuel de Sousa Brasão elected deputy, and the Catholic party's candidate failed.
  138. 11 July 1921 Election riots at Câmara de Lobos injured Américo Olavo and Manuel Augusto Martins.
  139. 18 July 1921 Civil governor Silva Pires left for Lisbon.
  140. 29 July 1921 The Countess of Ribeiro Real, benefactor of the Funchal Asylum, died in Funchal.
  141. 1 August 1921–3 August 1921 Shops closed and riots broke out in Funchal against a proposed rise in the price of bread.
  142. October 1921 Rodrigo Rodrigues's name first appeared on the payroll of the Funchal finance office.
  143. October 1921 Vergílio Saque was appointed civil governor of Funchal district but never took office.
  144. October 1921 The Montepio Madeirense had 1,134 members.
  145. October 1921 A committee was formed to raise a monument to Mota Freitas, whose War Cross insignia were exhibited.
  146. 13 October 1921 The Diário da Madeira published an article advocating a silk industry in Madeira.
  147. 16 October 1921–19 October 1921 Shackleton's Quest, bound for the Antarctic, and Schmidt's Dana called at Funchal.
  148. 17 October 1921–18 October 1921 French minister Albert Sarraut visited Funchal aboard the cruiser Gueydon, which left for Brest the next day.
  149. 8 November 1921 The new clock for Funchal Cathedral arrived aboard the Walmer Castle.
  150. 14 November 1921–23 November 1921 Acácio Augusto Correia Pinto was appointed civil governor of Funchal by decree and took office on 23 November.
  151. 19 November 1921 Ex-Emperor Charles and ex-Empress Zita of Austria arrived in exile at Funchal aboard HMS Cardiff.
  152. 22 November 1921 António da Cruz Rodrigues dos Santos was reappointed civil governor of Funchal but declined.
  153. 26 November 1921–28 November 1921 General Mangin visited Funchal aboard the cruiser Jules Michelet, which left for France with the remains of the Surprise sailors after a procession from the Angústias cemetery.
  154. 30 November 1921 A decree amended the cereal regime so that Funchal flour and bread prices were fixed by central government.
  155. December 1921 Independent republicans and Liberals in Madeira joined the Democratic group.
  156. December 1921 The Government withdrew the licence of the Companhia Atlântica de Pescarias.
  157. 1 December 1921 The foundation stone of the monument to the Conde de Canavial was laid in Funchal.
  158. 3 December 1921 The Madeiran victims of the sinking of the Surprise were laid to rest in a tomb-monument at the Angústias cemetery.
  159. 4 December 1921 The Diário de Notícias published a memoir on the Piornais levada.
  160. 6 December 1921 The old clock of Funchal Cathedral was taken down.
  161. 12 December 1921 The Ministry of Finance authorised a radiotelegraph post at Quinta Santana, although it was never built.
  162. 22 December 1921 The Junta Geral discussed enlarging the civil police force.
  163. 1922 Major repairs were made to the parish church of Ribeira da Janela.
  164. 1922 A Madeiran scientific expedition visited the Selvagens islands.
  165. 1922 The Liga Madeirense de Sports Náuticos was founded and held the first water-polo championship.
  166. 1922–1923 Madeira began competing in the Championship of Portugal in the 1922–23 season.
  167. 1922 Artur Lamas published the pamphlet A Rua da Junqueira, discussing the abduction.
  168. 1922 The Agricultural Station of the Ninth Region was definitively installed in Madeira.
  169. 1922 The first edition of the Elucidário remarked that roads remained as in the donataries' time.
  170. 1922–1928 Improvements costing over 300 contos were made to the Santo António parish church by public subscription.
  171. 1922 A Ponta Delgada commission marked Gaspar Frutuoso's centenary by publishing books of the Saudades da Terra.
  172. 1922 The council acquired an X-ray apparatus for the municipal medical post.
  173. 1922 Cut-off date of the information in the entry on Cabrestante.
  174. 1922 The First Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture was held in Funchal, with Alfredo Miguéis among the exhibitors.
  175. 1922 The Santo Amaro chapel in Santa Cruz was rebuilt.
  176. 1922 The cathedral tower clock was replaced by one donated by a foreigner.
  177. 1922 The Higher Primary School was operating in the former normal school building.
  178. 1922 The São Martinho church clock was inaugurated.
  179. 1922 Funchal municipal revenue reached 557.471$00 and expenditure 462.007$00.
  180. 1922 Jordão Maurício Henriques published the book Da Pátria e da Escola.
  181. 1922 Congress authorised the government to contract Marconi for a radiotelegraph network including Madeira.
  182. 1922 João Cabral do Nascimento completed his law degree at the University of Coimbra.
  183. 1922 The Prazeres parish church was enlarged and given a tower and two sacristies.
  184. 1922 The Ponta do Pargo lighthouse began lighting Madeira's west coast.
  185. January 1922 Henrique Vieira de Castro became president of the Misericórdia commission and opened a public subscription.
  186. January 1922 Integralismo Lusitano elected a regional committee in Madeira.
  187. January 1922 Pedro Góis Pita was re-elected deputy for Madeira.
  188. January 1922 Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos was elected deputy for a mainland constituency.
  189. January 1922 Ex-Empress Zita left Madeira to fetch her children from Switzerland.
  190. 5 January 1922 Ernest Shackleton died aboard his ship off South Georgia.
  191. 29 January 1922 Madeira's deputies and senators were elected; Juvenal Henriques de Araújo was first elected deputy, for the Madeiran Catholic party.
  192. 29 January 1922 Vasco Crispiniano da Silva was elected senator for the Madeira archipelago.
  193. 29 January 1922 Dr Vasco Gonçalves Marques was elected senator for Madeira for a fourth time.
  194. February 1922 The British flour mill obtained a temporary rise in the bread price to 1 escudo.
  195. February 1922 The Comércio da Madeira published the 80-page booklet Bosquejos by Mademoiselle Loup.
  196. 2 February 1922 Zita returned to Funchal with four of the imperial children.
  197. 13 February 1922 Álvaro Nobre da Veiga was appointed civil governor of Funchal by decree.
  198. 17 February 1922 The Viscount of Monte Belo died in Funchal.
  199. 18 February 1922 The Austrian imperial family moved into Luís da Rocha Machado's Quinta do Monte.
  200. 20 February 1922 Acácio Correia Pinto left Madeira for Lisbon, ending his governorship.
  201. 23 February 1922 The bishop blessed the new clock in the presence of Emperor Charles of Austria.
  202. 2 March 1922 The bronze bust of the Count of Canavial was unveiled near Funchal cathedral.
  203. 6 March 1922–17 March 1922 Guido Paoli stayed in Funchal to study and collect a parasite of the citrus scale insect for introduction into Italy.
  204. 9 March 1922–24 August 1922 Decrees of 9 March and 24 August regulated the use of the old episcopal palace.
  205. 30 March 1922 Nobre da Veiga took office as civil governor of Funchal.
  206. April 1922–May 1922 The Republican Guard was withdrawn from Madeira to Lisbon aboard the steamer São Miguel.
  207. 1 April 1922 Ex-Emperor Charles of Austria died at the Quinta do Monte, Madeira.
  208. 3 April 1922 Decree no. 8089 defined the duties of the 9th Region Agricultural Station, transferring to it the extinct Junta Agrícola's property, experimental stations, forest policing and the sugar regime.
  209. 5 April 1922 Emperor Charles's body was laid to rest in Monte parish church.
  210. 7 April 1922–22 May 1922 The Duchess of Parma stayed in Madeira visiting her daughter, Empress Zita.
  211. 9 April 1922–13 April 1922 Marítimo twice beat Sport Lisboa e Benfica in Funchal.
  212. 12 April 1922 Princes Xisto, Xavier and Renato left Madeira for Lisbon.
  213. 17 April 1922 Maximilian of Habsburg arrived in Madeira aboard the Kenilworth Castle.
  214. 26 April 1922 Maximilian of Habsburg left Madeira for Lisbon aboard the Arcoma.
  215. 27 April 1922 Solemn exequies for the former Emperor Charles of Austria were held in Funchal Cathedral.
  216. 30 April 1922 Decree no. 8089 reorganised Madeira's agricultural services into three groups.
  217. May 1922 The Orfeão Madeirense and many Madeirans visited the Canary Islands, performing and being warmly received in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
  218. May 1922 An attempt to revive sugar protectionism in Madeira failed.
  219. May 1922 Republican Guard forces quartered at the Quinta Vigia remained in Madeira until this month.
  220. 7 May 1922 The Sindicato Agrícola da Madeira was reported as newly installed in Funchal.
  221. 8 May 1922 The first issue of the newspaper A Terra appeared.
  222. 18 May 1922–28 May 1922 Eduardo da Rocha Sarsfield was appointed civil governor of the district of Funchal by decree on 18 May and took office on 28 May.
  223. 19 May 1922 Empress Zita left Madeira with her children for Cádiz aboard the Infanta Isabel de Bourbon.
  224. June 1922–15 July 1922 Dr António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira stayed in Funchal on his way to Africa and took his own life in Lourenço Marques shortly after arriving.
  225. June 1922 The Brothers of Saint John of God occupied the Quinta do Trapiche for a mental asylum.
  226. June 1922 The newspaper O Operário suspended publication.
  227. 1 June 1922–2 June 1922 The wireless telegraphy post at the Funchal telegraph station was tested, reaching ships 400 miles away and Las Palmas, and inaugurated on 2 June.
  228. 5 June 1922 The Ponta do Pargo lighthouse was inaugurated and began operating.
  229. 14 June 1922 Padre José Pereira da Silva died in Paris.
  230. 17 June 1922–20 June 1922 Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral completed their Lisbon–Rio de Janeiro flight, and Funchal celebrated their arrival from 17 to 20 June.
  231. 30 June 1922–27 July 1922 The new clock was completed with the fitting of its two hands and was later reported handed over to the municipality.
  232. 6 July 1922 Funchal council renamed streets in honour of the aviators, naming one 'rua 17 de Junho de 1922' and the Pontinha road rua Sacadura Cabral.
  233. 8 July 1922 The first issue of O Proletário was published.
  234. 8 July 1922 The orphanage founded by Padre José Lino da Costa at Lombo da Pereira was inaugurated.
  235. 31 July 1922 Law no. 1294 was passed but did not free Madeira from the millers' dominance.
  236. August 1922 The Juventude Monárquica Conservadora held elections in Funchal.
  237. 26 August 1922 A law fixed the number of municipal councillors by class of municipality.
  238. September 1922 Correio da Madeira published the Faial baptismal record of João Fernandes Vieira.
  239. 21 September 1922 Funchal council renamed the Rua do Carmo after Dr António Aurélio da Costa Ferreira.
  240. 22 September 1922 Correio da Madeira published an article on the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Penha de França at Faial.
  241. 7 October 1922 The first issue of the weekly Tribuna do Povo appeared.
  242. 8 October 1922 Correio da Madeira published the 1803 vow in full.
  243. 9 October 1922 President António José de Almeida visited Funchal for one day on his voyage from Rio de Janeiro to Lisbon.
  244. 14 October 1922 Marítimo beat the Portuguese champions FC Porto 3–1 in Porto.
  245. 21 October 1922–23 October 1922 Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral were received in Funchal and made honorary citizens.
  246. 3 December 1922 Padre Ernesto João Schmitz died in Haifa.
  247. 22 December 1922 The Senate approved the bill for free import of flour into Madeira.
  248. 28 December 1922 A delegation of Tenerife excursionists arrived in Funchal aboard the Viera y Clavijo for the fifth-centenary festivities of the discovery.
  249. 29 December 1922–4 January 1923 The fifth-centenary celebrations of the discovery of Madeira took place in Funchal, with the city illuminated until 3 January.
  250. 29 December 1922 The bishop blessed the first stone of the Zarco monument in Funchal.
  251. 30 December 1922 The centenary fair, agricultural exhibition and bibliographical exhibition were opened.
  252. 31 December 1922 The term ended of the Funchal council that commissioned the new city standard.
  253. 1923 France banned imports of Portuguese fortified wines, affecting the Madeira wine trade.
  254. 1923 Laura Veridiana de Castro e Almeida Soares published 'Em casa da avó – Na Ilha da Madeira' in Lisbon.
  255. 1923 Feliciano Soares published 'O que eu vi e pensei' in Funchal.
  256. 1923 Humberto de Passos Freitas published 'Vinte e um dias em bote', describing a sea trip round Madeira.
  257. 1923 At the end of 1923 Luís Vieira de Castro began publishing the daily Jornal da Madeira in Funchal.
  258. 1923 The school district seated at Ribeira Brava was abolished.
  259. 1923 The Brothers of São João de Deus founded the Casa de Saúde do Trapiche psychiatric hospital, which received its first patients at the end of 1923.
  260. 1923 The Corpo Nacional de Escutas was founded in Braga.
  261. 1923 Retail prices of staple goods in Madeira were recorded for 1923.
  262. 1923 The first Madeiran pilgrimage to European shrines took place.
  263. 1923 The Junta Geral renewed its interest in electric tramways, with an English company apparently willing to undertake the work.
  264. January 1923 The Funchal harbour works contract was awarded to the Fumasil Company Limited.
  265. 1 January 1923 Fireworks near Reid's Palace Hotel marked the New Year during the quincentenary celebrations of Madeira's discovery.
  266. 4 January 1923 A grand historical procession with allegorical floats was held for the quincentenary of the discovery of Madeira.
  267. 4 January 1923 The Tenerife excursionists visiting for the quincentenary returned home.
  268. 13 January 1923 Law no. 1392 ended the cereal monopoly in Madeira.
  269. 21 January 1923 Dr Fortunato Pita published an article on heliotherapy for trachomatous conjunctivitis in Medicina Contemporânea.
  270. February 1923–July 1925 Padre José Maria Antunes served as first chaplain of the Trapiche asylum.
  271. 4 February 1923–4 May 1923 Santa Cruz de Tenerife council approved naming the Praça do Teatro after Madeira, and the naming plaque was unveiled on 4 May.
  272. 29 April 1923 The Madeiran Reconstituintes joined the Nationalist Republican party.
  273. 17 May 1923 Joaquim Maria Fragoso died.
  274. 18 May 1923 The São José fort on Porto Santo was sold at auction for 52:250$00 to the Porto Santo water company.
  275. June 1923 José Simão da Costa died in Brazil.
  276. 21 June 1923 The Correio da Madeira published a letter on the division of Pico Ruivo between Faial, Santana and São Jorge.
  277. 26 June 1923 The remains of D. Manuel Agostinho Barreto were moved to the churchyard of the Penha chapel.
  278. 7 July 1923 The Diário da Madeira published Gomes Leal's 1868 letter.
  279. October 1923–November 1924 Restoration of the Santa Clara organ in Funchal ran from October 1923 to November 1924, reported in the Diário de Notícias on 22 November 1924.
  280. 1 November 1923 The foundation stone of the monument to Our Lady of Peace (Nossa Senhora do Monte) was laid at the Terreiro da Luta, Monte.
  281. 17 November 1923 Daniel Telo Simões Soares took office as civil governor of Funchal for the third time.
  282. December 1923 By late 1923 some 100 embroidery export houses in Funchal were exporting about 70,000 contos' worth, mainly to North America, employing around 70,000 people.
  283. 14 December 1923 The weekly Sport do Funchal published its first issue.
  284. 21 December 1923 The Radical party's Madeira district committee held a meeting.
  285. 21 December 1923 Manuel de Sousa Brasão died at the São Lourenço fortress.
  286. 1924–1925 Damião Peres published two pamphlets disputing the title of Governors General.
  287. 1924 The Madeiran Alfredo Rodrigues Gaspar was prime minister of Portugal.
  288. 1924 A small chapel of São José was built on the Achada of Camacha.
  289. 1924 Julius Goldschmidt died.
  290. 1924 Damião Peres published his pamphlet on João Leitão.
  291. 1924 The first Madeiran chapel to Nossa Senhora do Perpétuo Socorro was built at Queimada, Água de Pena.
  292. 1924–1925 Articles on the first Madeiran pilgrimage appeared in A Esperança.
  293. January 1924 A commission was set up in Funchal to propose revisions to the 1913 wine regulation.
  294. 8 January 1924 Prince Alexander and Princess Alice of Teck called at Funchal aboard the Windsor Castle.
  295. 1 February 1924 Padre Carlos Acciaioly died in Funchal.
  296. May 1924 Sporting Clube de Portugal visited Funchal and won all four matches played.
  297. 11 May 1924 The monument to João Fernandes Vieira was inaugurated on Avenida Manuel de Arriaga, Funchal.
  298. 21 May 1924 Thirty-eight male patients were moved from the Rochedo to the Trapiche, leaving the Câmara Pestana asylum for women only.
  299. 19 June 1924 Pedro Ivo's poem 'Adeus à Madeira' was published in the Diário da Madeira.
  300. August 1924 The Trapiche asylum was solemnly inaugurated.
  301. 1925 A second court was added to the comarca of Funchal.
  302. 1925 Damião Peres published Book II in Porto without Azevedo's notes.
  303. 1925 An edition of Saudades da Terra was published transcribing a document on the episode.
  304. 5 February 1925 Rodrigues died in Funchal.
  305. 2 March 1925 His remains were taken from Funchal to São Miguel for burial.
  306. 13 April 1925 The restored Limoges chapel was blessed by the diocesan bishop.
  307. 9 May 1925 Câmara Pestana was entrusted to the Hospitaller Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.
  308. 15 June 1925 The Visconde de Cacongo died in Funchal.
  309. September 1925 C. A. de Meneses replied in the Diário da Madeira, defending the title.
  310. 11 September 1925 The school became an industrial and commercial school.
  311. 1926 Club Sport Marítimo won the Championship of Portugal.
  312. 1926 The comarca of São Vicente was abolished.
  313. 1926 The idea of founding a scout region in Madeira arose.
  314. 1926 The second Madeiran pilgrimage took place, visiting France, Switzerland and Italy.
  315. 31 May 1926 Jardim de Oliveira died in Funchal.
  316. 15 June 1926 A decree abolished the Escola Primária Superior.
  317. 11 August 1926 He died.
  318. December 1926 Sarsfield died.
  319. 15 December 1926 A great storm badly damaged the Pontinha breakwater.
  320. 1927 The brotherhood of the Misericórdia took back management of all administrative services of the Santa Casa do Funchal.
  321. 1927 He published Auto de Villões.
  322. 1927 Aires de Ornelas erected a large Sacred Heart statue on Ponta do Garajau.
  323. 1927–1931 Official statistics record boats, tonnage and fishermen in the archipelago for 1927–1931.
  324. 1927 Brousson published Itinéraire de Paris à Buenos Aires, describing the Madeira stop.
  325. 1927 José de Almada came to Madeira to study the Lombada da Ponta do Sol question.
  326. 1927 Padre José Augusto Rodrigues Amado began editing the Almanach Ecclesiasticum.
  327. 1927 A legal measure limited aguardente production in Madeira to 500,000 litres a year.
  328. 1927 The Estádio dos Barreiros sports ground was formally inaugurated.
  329. 8 January 1927 Azevedo Ramos died in Funchal.
  330. 11 January 1927 João Nunes Diabinho died.
  331. 25 January 1927 The buildings were ceded for a missionary college run by the Franciscan sisters, who also opened a crèche.
  332. 4 February 1927 João Soares Branco died in Lisbon.
  333. 27 March 1927 Meneses's article on the city flag was published in the Diario da Madeira.
  334. April 1927 The Feiticeiro do Norte died at Arco de São Jorge.
  335. 23 April 1927 João Cabral do Nascimento published the article establishing Zargo's death year.
  336. 25 April 1927 Decree ordering the building returned to the Church.
  337. 25 April 1927 A decree declared illegal the cession of the Incarnação building to the Junta Geral.
  338. 25 April 1927 The seminary building was returned to the diocesan worship commission.
  339. 22 May 1927 Father André dos Passos was murdered by a deranged man at Garachico.
  340. 9 June 1927 Decree abolishing the comarca of São Vicente.
  341. 22 June 1927 A decree abolished the São Vicente comarca, redrew Funchal's julgados and created separate civil and criminal courts.
  342. 14 August 1927 The monument was solemnly inaugurated under the diocesan bishop before thousands of people.
  343. 14 August 1927 The monument to Our Lady of Peace was solemnly inaugurated.
  344. September 1927 Augusto Nobre visited his brother's former house at Boliqueme.
  345. 17 October 1927 The town council greatly enlarged the city limits to about 750 hectares.
  346. 17 October 1927 Council greatly enlarged the city into suburban parishes.
  347. 24 October 1927 Funchal Council named a square after António Nobre.
  348. 26 October 1927 Adolfo César de Noronha published 'A Lagosta da Madeira' in the Diário de Notícias of Funchal.
  349. 30 October 1927 The Sacred Heart statue at Garajau was inaugurated and blessed.
  350. 28 November 1927 A decree created a 4% surcharge on Funchal customs duties, later used as security for the hospital loan.
  351. December 1927 Adolfo de Noronha published articles on the tern and the headland in the Diário de Notícias.
  352. December 1927 The bishop solemnly blessed the new church at Chão do Cedro Gordo.
  353. 8 December 1927 Sé conference established.
  354. 1928 Adolfo César de Noronha became director of the Funchal Municipal Library and began campaigning for a natural science museum.
  355. 1928 Manuel Gregório Pestana Júnior published his study D. Cristobal Colom ou Symam Palha.
  356. 1928 João José Vieira died.
  357. 1928 Carlos Azevedo de Meneses published his last study in the journal Brotéria.
  358. 1928–1929 Books arguing Columbus's Portuguese nationality were published.
  359. 1928 The Executive Committee of the Junta Geral asked the central government to send a forestry specialist to Madeira.
  360. 1928 Juvenal Henriques de Araújo published his parliamentary speeches as Trabalhos Parlamentares.
  361. 1928 The Funchal harbour works contract with the Fumasil Company was declared rescinded.
  362. 28 February 1928 Dr Nuno Silvestre Teixeira died in Funchal.
  363. March 1928 Fire destroyed the building housing Santa Cruz's courts and public offices.
  364. 9 March 1928–29 March 1928 Decrees ceded the Marmeleiros sanatorium building to the Misericórdia of Funchal.
  365. 13 April 1928 Francisco João de Vasconcelos died in Lisbon.
  366. May 1928 D. Maria Helena Jervis de Atouguia e Almeida died in Lisbon.
  367. 1 May 1928 Carlos Azevedo de Meneses died while director of the Funchal Municipal Library.
  368. 26 May 1928 A decree raised the seat of Ribeira Brava to the status of vila, the last in the archipelago, and the locality Lugar was renamed Vila.
  369. 31 July 1928 A decree authorised the sale of the levadas.
  370. 31 July 1928 A decree greatly widened the powers and charges of Madeira's administrative autonomy without matching revenue.
  371. 1 October 1928 Vitorino José dos Santos died.
  372. 29 October 1928 Decree 16.003 regulated the sugar and alcohol factories of Madeira.
  373. 8 December 1928 The first Madeiran scouts made their solemn promise in Funchal, founding the scout movement in Madeira.
  374. 1929 The new town hall of Machico was opened.
  375. 1929 Clado Ribeiro de Lessa published a biographical sketch of his uncle, Padre António João de Lessa.
  376. 1929–1932 Annual statistics recorded cane, sugar and alcohol production in the archipelago.
  377. 1929 Peres Trancoso published 'O Trabalho Português, I, Madeira', an estimate of Madeira's economic wealth.
  378. 1929 São Vicente's municipal administrative commission chose a new site and sketched a plan for moving the municipal seat.
  379. 17 January 1929 Madre Virgínia da Paixão died at Lombo dos Aguiares.
  380. 21 February 1929 D. Marta Celina Sauvayre da Câmara died in Portugal.
  381. 4 March 1929 A landslide into the sea near the Ribeira do Vigário, Câmara de Lobos, caused waves that killed twenty people.
  382. 6 March 1929 A landslide after heavy rain destroyed houses and killed 32 people near the Rosário chapel in São Vicente.
  383. June 1929 José Augusto Fragoso presented his forestry report to the Junta Geral.
  384. 14 June 1929 Decree 16.956 authorised a 7,000-conto loan for Funchal's sanitation works.
  385. 23 June 1929 The Diário de Notícias of Funchal published an article on Jean Jacques Brousson's account of Anatole France.
  386. December 1929 Baron Charles Van Beneden died in Belgium.
1930s 176
  1. c. 1935 Around 1935 the road was extended to the top of Cabo Girão and a viewpoint was built there.
  2. 1930 The 1930 census gave the Madeira archipelago about 211,000 inhabitants in fifty parishes, an 18% rise in ten years, with a density of 270.3 inhabitants per km².
  3. 1930 The 1930 census gave Porto Santo an area of 42.17 km².
  4. 1930 The 1930 census recorded 10,114 inhabitants in the parish of Machico.
  5. 1930 Death of João Ernesto Blandy.
  6. 1930 A Portuguese translation of Padre Manuel Constantino's Insulae Materiae Historia, sponsored by Henrique Hinton, was published in Funchal.
  7. 1930 Manuel da Costa Dias died in Lisbon as a major of Military Administration.
  8. 1930 João Cabral do Nascimento published «Genealogia da Familia Medina da Ilha da Madeira».
  9. 1930–1932 Wind direction and intensity were observed systematically at Ponta de São Lourenço from 1930 to 1932.
  10. 17 January 1930 The Misericórdia of Funchal was authorised to borrow 500 contos from the Caixa Geral dos Depósitos for the Marmeleiros hospital.
  11. March 1930–April 1930 The Diário de Notícias of Funchal published Alberto Artur Sarmento's series 'Ingleses na Madeira'.
  12. 4 March 1930 A landslide near the mouth of the Ribeira do Vigário, Câmara de Lobos, forced the sea into the ravine and the backwash killed about twenty people.
  13. April 1930–March 1931 239 concrete blocks were made to reinforce the Pontinha breakwater at Funchal harbour.
  14. 22 June 1930 The first Funchal–Porto inter-city football match was played in Porto, Funchal losing 1–3.
  15. September 1930 A small monument with an image of Nossa Senhora das Graças was inaugurated above Praia da Lapa on Deserta Grande.
  16. 12 October 1930 The Visconde de Cacongo's chapel at Quinta da Choupana was blessed.
  17. 12 October 1930 The Diário da Madeira published a biographical article on Manuel da Costa Dias.
  18. 30 October 1930 The tender for the extension of Funchal's city quay closed and was awarded to a Dutch harbour-works firm.
  19. November 1930 The first patients were transferred to the new hospital at Marmeleiros.
  20. November 1930 José Maria de Gouveia died in Lisbon.
  21. 9 November 1930 Pedro José Lomelino died while travelling from Lisbon to Madeira.
  22. December 1930 Dr José de Barros e Sousa died in Porto.
  23. 14 December 1930 Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos died in Lisbon.
  24. 28 December 1930 Francisco Mendes Gonçalves died in Buenos Aires.
  25. 1931 Vicente Henriques de Gouveia was contracted as director of the Laboratório de Bacteriologia e Higiene.
  26. 1931 All hospital services moved from Santa Isabel to Marmeleiros, and the hospital took the name Hospital dos Marmeleiros.
  27. 1931 The military uprising known as the Revolução da Madeira, linked to a revolt in the Azores, was suppressed; General Sousa Dias held the military command, and on 2 May rebels and government forces exchanged fire on Pico do Castanho.
  28. 1931 Death of Fr. António do Presépio.
  29. 1931 J. R. Glover's diary of Napoleon's voyage was published in Oxford.
  30. 1931–1933 The restored buildings of the Convento de São Bernardino housed the first-year classes of the diocesan minor seminary.
  31. 4 February 1931–8 February 1931 Riots against a grain-import decree paralysed Funchal, killing three civilians and a policeman.
  32. 14 February 1931 A decree definitively settled the ownership of levada waters, maintaining rights acquired before the Civil Code.
  33. 20 February 1931 The general assembly of the Aliança Madeirense deliberated on paying up the company's shares.
  34. July 1931 The Madeira District Archive (Arquivo Histórico da Madeira) was created, with João Cabral do Nascimento as its first director.
  35. 1 August 1931 The beacon on the Ilhéu at Pontinha, Funchal, was replaced by a proper lighthouse.
  36. 13 August 1931 A Informação published the article 'Os Pereiras de D. Nuno Alvares'.
  37. 25 September 1931 Francisco Luís Pereira de Sousa died in Lisbon.
  38. 1 October 1931 Francisco Carregal da Silva Passos died in Lisbon.
  39. 11 October 1931 The chapel of Our Lady of Fátima at Pico do Galo, Câmara de Lobos, was blessed.
  40. 20 October 1931 A decree reorganised the courses of the Escola Industrial António Augusto de Aguiar.
  41. 24 October 1931 A decree created the julgado municipal of São Vicente, covering the three parishes of the municipality.
  42. October 1931–December 1931 Three harbour lights were installed at the entrance of Machico bay for fishing boats.
  43. 13 December 1931 The Diário da Madeira published a biographical article on Vicente Gomes da Silva.
  44. 1932 Madeira's customs revenue reached a record 21,252,161$84, equivalent to 869,209$97 gold escudos.
  45. 1932 Madeira produced 4,173 tonnes of sugar and 812,777 litres of alcohol.
  46. 1932 João Barbeito da Silva died in Lisbon.
  47. 1932 A great landslide occurred on the Ribeira da Madalena in Canhas.
  48. 1932 The first part of Frederico dos Santos Martins's 'Direito Comercial Marítimo' was published.
  49. 1932 Funchal Municipal Council built a public seawater swimming pool at Gorgulho.
  50. February 1932–3 November 1933 Water pipes were laid in Funchal's lower town between February 1932 and November 1933.
  51. 26 February 1932 O Jornal published a detailed article on João Carvalho Lobato.
  52. 7 March 1932 A decree regulating museums of art and archaeology was issued.
  53. 7 March 1932 Charles Thomas Stanford died in England.
  54. 18 March 1932 The Aliança Madeirense general assembly further deliberated on its share operation.
  55. 28 March 1932 Priest and journalist João Jorge Bettencourt died in Gaula.
  56. April 1932 A tea house, the Casa de Chá, opened at Ribeiro Frio.
  57. 7 June 1932 Francisco Jorge de Abreu died in Porto.
  58. 25 June 1932 The first block of the extension of the quay at the entrance to Funchal was placed.
  59. 1 July 1932 A. C. de Noronha's article on Madeiran fishing was published in the Diário de Notícias.
  60. 13 November 1932 Funchal council created the Serviços Municipalizados to run sanitation and water distribution.
  61. 1933 The Santa Isabel hospital building was sold to the Junta Geral for 1,500 contos.
  62. 1933 The new town hall of Santa Cruz was inaugurated early in the year.
  63. 1933 The Arquivo Histórico moved to the Palácio de São Pedro.
  64. 1933 Cayola Zagalo began publishing studies revealing Madeira's artistic heritage.
  65. 1933 P.O.J. sugar-cane varieties began to be imported, mainly from Angola.
  66. 1933 Padre Fernando Augusto da Silva published 'A Lombada dos Esmeraldos na Ilha da Madeira'.
  67. 1933 The district anti-tuberculosis dispensary was built on the Campo da Barca in Funchal.
  68. 1933 The monument bust of João Fernandes Vieira was moved to the Jardim Municipal in Funchal.
  69. January 1933 The last block of the Funchal city quay extension was placed.
  70. 28 May 1933 The extension of the quay at the entrance to Funchal was officially inaugurated.
  71. 29 June 1933 A decree established two mixed courts (varas) and a judicial secretariat in the Funchal judicial district.
  72. October 1933 The Funchal seminary returned to and resumed operating in the former Convento da Incarnação building.
  73. October 1933 The Junta Geral offices were installed in the old Hospital de Santa Isabel buildings.
  74. 5 October 1933 The Museum of Natural Sciences opened in the Palácio de São Pedro, attached to the Funchal Municipal Library.
  75. 21 December 1933 The Diário da Madeira published an article on collections of documents for Madeiran history.
  76. 1934 Noronha and Sarmento published the study 'Os Peixes dos Mares da Madeira'.
  77. 1934 The population census was published, giving Madeira an area of 740.62 km² and a density of 270 inhabitants per km².
  78. 1934–1939 Period of Madeiran legislation summarised in Fernando Augusto da Silva's book.
  79. 1934 The Instituto Geográfico e Cadastral revised and updated the 1915 map of Madeira.
  80. 1934 A newspaper article on the Museum of Natural Sciences in Funchal was published.
  81. 1934 The remains of Aires de Ornelas de Vasconcelos were transferred to the Angústias cemetery in Funchal.
  82. 1934 The pamphlet 'Camões e a Madeira' by one of the Elucidário's authors was published.
  83. 1934 Fernando Augusto da Silva published the Dicionário Corográfico do Arquipélago da Madeira.
  84. 6 January 1934 'O Jornal' published details of the feast of the Menino Jesus Perdido.
  85. 30 January 1934 José Fernandes Velosa, founder of the Casa dos Pobres Desamparados, died.
  86. 14 May 1934 Decree no. 23.847 regulated Madeira's sugar regime, prohibiting new cane plantations and new sugar factories until 1953 and restricting direct distillation from cane juice.
  87. 27 May 1934 A 7,000 m³ concrete reservoir on the Levada de Santa Luzia was inaugurated for Funchal's water supply.
  88. 28 May 1934 The monument to João Gonçalves Zarco by Francisco Franco was solemnly inaugurated on the Avenida Arriaga in Funchal.
  89. July 1934 Evening reading was introduced at the Funchal Municipal Library.
  90. 29 July 1934 The Elucidário's authors exposed Padre Manuel Constantino's plagiarism of Giulio Landi in an article in O Jornal.
  91. 11 August 1934 Boaventura Mendes de Almeida died in Lisbon.
  92. 18 November 1934 The police services moved into their building in Rua da Carreira, Funchal.
  93. 1935 The first Rampa dos Barreiros hill-climb was held.
  94. 1935 Alfredo de Castro de Freitas Branco published A Flora Madeirense na Medicina Popular.
  95. 1935 Sugar production in Madeira was restricted to local consumption.
  96. 1935 The Aliança Madeirense carried out a large operation freeing up its shares.
  97. 3 April 1935 Dr Quirino Avelino de Jesus died in Lisbon.
  98. 31 May 1935 Decree no. 25,437 allowed authorised renewal of sugar-cane plantations up to 80 per cent of plants and area.
  99. 5 June 1935 Decrees created in Funchal the Grémio de Exportadores de Frutas e Produtos Hortícolas and a Delegation of the Junta Nacional de Frutas.
  100. 25 June 1935 A decree sent a technical mission to study Madeira's road network.
  101. 11 November 1935 The foundation stone of the memorial to the dead of the Great War was laid in Funchal.
  102. 23 November 1935 Decree-law no. 26.117 set the conditions for contracted staff of the Ministry of Public Works.
  103. December 1935–January 1936 O Jornal published a series of articles on the deanship of Funchal Cathedral.
  104. 20 December 1935 The heraldry section of the Associação dos Arqueólogos approved Afonso de Ornelas's design for Funchal's arms.
  105. 1936 Alfredo de Castro de Freitas Branco published A Estada de Cristovam Colombo na Madeira.
  106. 1936 Funchal handled 88.63% of the tonnage of the Adjacent Islands' port trade.
  107. 1936 The new church of São João de Deus at Trapiche was inaugurated.
  108. 1936 The 1914 triangulation was revised and extended to Porto Santo and the Desertas for chorographic and hydrographic surveys.
  109. 1936–1939 The Almanaque Madeirense Ilustrado was issued for 1936 to 1939.
  110. 1936 The Junta Geral Autónoma do Funchal published Hugo de Lacerda's 'Le Climat de Madère'.
  111. 6 February 1936 Funchal council adopted new arms, flag and seal, to Afonso de Ornelas's design.
  112. 4 April 1936 Dr Manuel Augusto Martins died in Funchal.
  113. 26 May 1936–30 May 1936 The Associação Comercial do Funchal celebrated its centenary with exhibitions, lectures and commemorative stamps.
  114. 4 June 1936 A decree created the Junta Nacional de Lacticínios da Madeira.
  115. 4 August 1936–5 August 1936 Rural riots against the milk decree and the Junta dos Lacticínios left eight dead and hundreds arrested, and were suppressed by warships and troops.
  116. 5 September 1936 A decree ceded the old military hospital to the Junta Geral for building the lyceum.
  117. November 1936 A temperature and rain-gauge post began operating at Areeiro, and a rain-gauge post was set up at Santa Cruz.
  118. 1937 The Junta Autónoma de Hidráulica Agrícola's report for 1937 argued irrigation could absorb surplus population.
  119. 1937 Alberto Artur Sarmento published his study of Madeiran ants.
  120. 1937 Jordão de Freitas published a pamphlet on water sawmills.
  121. 1937–1938 Official studies gave Madeira an area of 728 km² and Porto Santo 48.8 km².
  122. 1937 Shipping at Funchal recovered to 1,438 vessels.
  123. 1937 The chorographic map of Madeira was published.
  124. 1937 Carlos Santos published 'Tocares e Cantares da Ilha' in Funchal.
  125. 1937 A universal theodolite was acquired from Askania Werk for astronomical observations.
  126. 1937 The Junta Geral Autónoma published an improved edition of Sarmento's chorography for schools.
  127. 1937 Tide-gauge records at the Pontinha mole were used to calculate the Funchal tide table.
  128. 9 February 1937 Stephen Gaselee's article on the French sack was published in the Diário da Madeira.
  129. March 1937 João Franco Machado argued that Saudades da Terra copied Dias Leite's manuscript.
  130. 12 March 1937 Vicente Henriques de Gouveia's article on yams and elephantiasis was published.
  131. 24 May 1937 Luís de Freitas Branco gave a radio talk on Madeiran musicians.
  132. 31 July 1937 Decree no. 27.912 fixed the factory price of alcohol at 7$50 per litre and the cane price at 7$60 per 30 kg.
  133. 20 August 1937 A decree established the Casas dos Pescadores.
  134. 1938 The Junta Geral built a new branch of the São Jorge levada to serve the Ilha locality.
  135. 1938–1940 The Junta Geral built many kilometres of new levada channels, including a branch to Ponta do Pargo.
  136. 1938–1940 The Junta Geral carried out water-retention works on the Paul da Serra.
  137. 1938 The first Circuito da Cidade cycling race was held in Funchal.
  138. 1938 The library held 31,000 printed volumes.
  139. 1938 The chorographic map of Madeira was published at a scale of 1:50,000.
  140. 1938 An English translation, 'The Climate of Madeira', was published.
  141. 1938 The first Regional Scout Camp was held in Madeira.
  142. 1938 Terra Negra published a pamphlet on Madeira as the 'Island of Love', read by the Elucidário's author.
  143. March 1938 The Diário da Madeira published an article on Madeiran regional dress.
  144. 14 April 1938 The official gazette listed 62 Funchal residents entitled to compensation for damage from the First World War submarine attacks.
  145. 14 April 1938 A decree approved a 44,000-conto plan for Madeira's complementary road network, 75% state-funded.
  146. June 1938 Herculano Amorim Ferreira visited Madeira to study its weather service.
  147. 21 August 1938 A decree adopted measures protecting the export of Madeiran fruit and horticultural produce.
  148. 22 September 1938–24 November 1939 Decrees regulated the dairy Junta; rural resistance led to riots, deaths and deportations.
  149. November 1938 The Escola Industrial António Augusto de Aguiar moved into the former Asilo dos Velhinhos building.
  150. 22 November 1938 The military hospital left the Rochinha building and its first patients entered the Hospital dos Marmeleiros.
  151. 30 November 1938 Alfredo Rodrigues Gaspar died in Lisbon.
  152. 1939 The Mercado dos Lavradores, Funchal's main market, was inaugurated.
  153. 1939 Funchal council improved Barreirinha beach and its access path for bathing.
  154. 1939 The Avenida do Mar in Funchal was inaugurated.
  155. 1939 A shelter house was built near the summit of Pico Ruivo.
  156. 1939 Book I of Saudades da Terra was published in Ponta Delgada.
  157. 1939 Madeira's Casa dos Pescadores began operating.
  158. 1939 The Delegação de Turismo built a rest house and shelter in Serra de Água near the Encumeada.
  159. 1939 Vicente Henriques de Gouveia published the second edition of his book on the banana.
  160. 1939 The Pilar de Banger in Funchal was demolished despite protests from the local press.
  161. 1939 A scout leaders' congress was held at Camacha.
  162. 1939 A municipal park for poor children named after D. Maria Lívia Nosolini was inaugurated at the Praça Académica.
  163. 1939 The Junta Autónoma dos Portos began publishing an annual tide table for Funchal.
  164. 10 January 1939 A ministerial order made the Junta Geral and the Câmara cover the Misericórdia hospital's deficits.
  165. 15 April 1939 Mary Jane Wilson's remains were transferred to her congregation's chapel in Rua do Carmo.
  166. 14 May 1939 The monument to Dr Alexandre da Cunha Teles was inaugurated.
  167. 16 May 1939 A further decree adopted measures protecting fruit and horticultural exports.
  168. 26 June 1939 Decree-law 29.718 created a technical mission to study Madeira's hydro-electric and irrigation potential and hydraulic works.
  169. 12 July 1939 Decree 29.742 granted the Junta Geral a subsidy for repairs to the São Lourenço palace.
  170. 18 October 1939 Civil governor José Nosolini issued a regulation on must purchase and wine export.
  171. November 1939 The João Diniz springs disappeared during repair works on the São Lourenço palace.
  172. 16 November 1939 The Diário da Madeira published an article on Zarco's sword.
  173. December 1939 The Areeiro meteorological post was enlarged with further instruments.
  174. 8 December 1939 The Central Council of the women's Conferences of St Vincent de Paul was constituted.
  175. 22 December 1939 A decree reorganised the Laboratory of Bacteriology and Hygiene into bacteriological and chemical sections.
  176. 30 December 1939 A flood of the Ribeira da Madalena destroyed dozens of homes and killed several people.
1940s 65
  1. 1940 J. C. de Morais published a geological study of the Selvagens.
  2. 1940 The 1940 census counted about 250,000 inhabitants in the Madeira archipelago (figures of 251,798 and 249,771 are given).
  3. 1940 The 1940 census recorded 2,701 inhabitants on Porto Santo.
  4. 1940 The Tourism Delegation built a pousada near the Lapa da Cadela for climbers of Pico Ruivo.
  5. 1940 The Associação de Natação do Funchal was founded.
  6. 1940–1943 The Second World War cut ship arrivals at Funchal to 389, 234, 190 and 187 a year between 1940 and 1943.
  7. 1940 The Associação dos Irmãos de São João de Deus ended as the Order gained legal personality under the Concordat.
  8. 1940 At the end of 1940 a monument commemorating the first Madeiran settlers was unveiled at Sá da Bandeira, Angola.
  9. January 1940–February 1940 Pires de Matos published a geodesy article on Madeira in the Anais do Club Militar Naval.
  10. 1 January 1940 The chapel of Nossa Senhora dos Remédios e Amparo at the Quinta de São João, built by the Bettencourt da Câmara family, was blessed on 1 January 1940.
  11. 8 April 1940 A decree reorganised the Madeira military command under a brigadier or colonel.
  12. 18 June 1940 A decree extended the Junta Nacional do Vinho to Madeira.
  13. 10 August 1940 Major improvements at the Marmeleiros hospital, including wards for 120 patients and three operating theatres, were inaugurated.
  14. 24 September 1940 The Diário do Governo published a list of national monuments and properties of public interest including Madeiran buildings such as the Casa de Dona Mécia.
  15. 6 October 1940 The Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art was solemnly inaugurated in the chapter house of Funchal Cathedral.
  16. 5 November 1940 Vicente Henriques de Gouveia was permanently appointed director of the Bacteriology and Hygiene Laboratory.
  17. 15 November 1940 The Junta Geral voted a surcharge on water rents to fund levada repairs.
  18. 22 November 1940 Decree-law no. 30.896 governed the position of permanent staff serving on commissions.
  19. 1 December 1940–8 December 1940 A scout exhibition marked the centenaries of Portugal's foundation and restoration.
  20. 1941 The new Municipal Slaughterhouse of Funchal was built.
  21. 1941 Sperm-whaling began in Madeira, with catches at Porto Moniz and Porto da Cruz.
  22. 1941 A cross raised by the Juventude Antoniana commemorating Portugal's centenaries was inaugurated on Pico dos Barcelos.
  23. 1941 Gustavo Teixeira Dias was appointed civil governor of Funchal.
  24. 1941 The Sanatório Doutor João Francisco de Almada was solemnly inaugurated.
  25. 1941–1943 The value of fish landed in Madeira rose from 2,725 to 4,800 contos.
  26. January 1941 The Diário de Notícias published an editorial on livestock development.
  27. June 1941 Weather stations were set up at Encumeada, Lugar de Baixo and the Monte Sanatorium.
  28. July 1941 The Porto Santo weather station was set up.
  29. 22 July 1941–23 July 1941 Padre Eduardo Pereira's lecture on Porto Santo was published in the Diário de Notícias of Funchal.
  30. December 1941 The technical mission on the levadas completed its reports at the end of 1941.
  31. 28 December 1941 Funchal Council unveiled a bust of António Nobre in the Jardim do Ribeiro Seco.
  32. 1942 João Abel de Freitas, president of the Junta Geral, described the rainwater channel under construction on Porto Santo.
  33. 1942 Funchal council revived its traditional devotions to St James and moved its holiday to 21 August.
  34. 1942 103 sperm whales were landed at Porto Moniz and Reis Magos, plus one at Porto da Cruz.
  35. 1942 A historical monograph on the Desterro chapel was published.
  36. 1942 The long-profaned chapel of the Quinta do Leme was restored to worship.
  37. January 1942 The Santana weather station was set up.
  38. 14 June 1942 Dr João Francisco de Almada died in Funchal.
  39. October 1942 Classes began in the new lyceum building in Funchal.
  40. 27 October 1942 An article on the Santa Catarina chapel was published in the Jornal.
  41. 1943 The public works department measured the flows and lengths of the state levadas for the first time in many years; the Rabaçal levadas were measured at 65 and 86 l/s.
  42. 1943 J. Brito Câmara's poem Auto da Lenda was published.
  43. 1943 Câmara de Lobos led Madeira's fish landings, while Reis Magos landed 102 sperm whales.
  44. 1943 Only 187 vessels entered the port of Funchal during the Second World War.
  45. 1943 Imports and exports through the port of Funchal reached 222,258 tonnes.
  46. 1943 A. Artur Sarmento published a pamphlet on Archduchess Leopoldina's visit to Madeira.
  47. 1943–1944 The Praça do Município in Funchal was enlarged, the town hall freed from adjoining buildings and a large fountain built.
  48. 29 January 1943 Armando Eduardo Pinto Correia died at Quelimane, Mozambique.
  49. July 1943–August 1943 A series of articles on the beginning of Madeiran settlement, 1425–1450, was published in O Jornal.
  50. 9 July 1943 Alfredo Vital Miguéis died in Funchal.
  51. 11 July 1943 João de Oliveira Sá Camelo Lampreia died in Rio de Janeiro.
  52. 17 July 1943 The Casa dos Pescadores building in Machico was inaugurated.
  53. 18 August 1943 A further list of classified national monuments in Madeira was published in the Diário do Governo.
  54. 20 September 1943 José da Cruz Tavares published an article on Madeiran wine folklore.
  55. 21 October 1943 Decrees nos. 33,158 and 33,159 on the hydraulic development of Madeira were promulgated, changing the administration of the levadas, regulating the use of springs, and ordering a network of new irrigation channels and hydro-electric works.
  56. 1944 The Junta Autónoma dos Portos published a table of sunrise and sunset times for Funchal.
  57. 1944 Common upland land was sold at public auction by a state office in a rural municipality.
  58. 1944 An official report noted that the Malvasia Candia vine had almost entirely disappeared from Madeira.
  59. 13 February 1944 Aníbal Augusto Trigo died.
  60. July 1944 The Junta Geral inaugurated a fishermen's housing block at Paul do Mar.
  61. September 1944 Engineer Henrique Schreck presented to the Junta Geral a report on works to be carried out in Madeira's ports.
  62. 1945 Madeira's forest posts were increased from 14 to 19 and the number of forest guards raised to 42.
  63. 1945 Publication date given by the Elucidário for Moritz Edenfeld's travel book, probably a misprint.
  64. May 1945 A rain-gauge post was set up at São Vicente.
  65. 19 August 1945 José de Oliveira Duarte's commemorative article on João Francisco de Sousa appeared in the Diário de Notícias.
1970s 1
  1. August 1971 A bill was presented in parliament to cede the Quinta Vigia in Funchal as a house for journalists.

All events 6

  1. ..–1550 Pedro de Leme instituted the Leme entailed estate before 1550.
  2. ..–1774 The British Factory in Madeira was established before 1774.
  3. ..–1834 Joaquim Melchior Gonçalves emigrated to Brazil before 1834.
  4. ..–1834 A newspaper, O Realista, may have been published before 1834, though its existence is doubtful.
  5. ..–1834 All collegiate chapters in Madeira had been abolished by 1834.
  6. ..–1860 The Praça de São João in Funchal was demolished before 1860.

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