Angola
Angola · Africa
Portuguese overseas colony which served as a place of exile for those condemned for the 1668 and 1834 disturbances in Madeira and by the Alçada of 1823. It was governed by Vasco Guedes, Sebastião Xavier Botelho and D. Lourenço de Almada. It was also the main source of the P.O.J. sugar-cane varieties imported from 1933 onwards.
1Mentioned in
- Cacongo (Viscount of) — Portuguese province where the viscount rendered his services.
- Popular riots — Destination of those exiled for the 1668 and 1834 disturbances.
- Guedes (Vasco) — Portuguese overseas possession Guedes governed as governor-general.
- Botelho (Sebastião Xavier) — Colony Botelho also governed.
- Special judicial commission of 1823 — Colony to which several condemned were exiled.
- Sugar cane — Main source of the P.O.J. cane varieties imported from 1933 onwards.
- Medina e Vasconcelos (Francisco de Paula) — Original destination of his sentence of exile.
- Almada (Dom Lourenço de) — He later served as its governor-general.
- Agricultural Board — Cited as a colony where making and trading aguardente was banned.
- Geodesy — Cited as a coast where astronomical traverses may give errors of over 500 m.
- Welwitsch (Dr Friedrich) — Welwitsch was well known for his studies of its flora.
- Calheta (parish) — Place of exile for rioters of 1834.
- Sousa (João Francisco de) — Destination of the 1915 military column.
- Sousa Brasão (Manuel de) — Served there 1914–15.
- Coutinho (Dom Manuel Pereira) — Colony that Coutinho later governed.
- Emigration — Destination of 1889–90 emigrants.
- Meneses (Aires de Saldanha de Sousa) — He later governed it.
- Wireless telegraphy — Planned location of a Marconi wireless station.
- Fernandes Vieira (João) — Vieira was its governor.
- Carpo (Arsénio Pompílio Pompeu do) — Place of his exile and later fortune.
- Santos (Vitorino José dos) — Province where he was a public works engineer.
2Chronology
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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.
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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.
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The Calheta rioters were tried; seven were sentenced to perpetual exile in Angola and a priest to Mozambique.
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Madeiran emigration to Angola and Lourenço Marques continued, with 1,338 departures; a further 704 settlers reached Moçâmedes, bringing Madeirans there to 1,281.
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Manuel de Sousa Brasão served in southern Angola.
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João Francisco de Sousa was killed at the cacimbas of Mangua, Angola.
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P.O.J. sugar-cane varieties began to be imported, mainly from Angola.