Cape Verde
Cabo Verde
Cape Verde · Africa
Cape Verde is an archipelago and Portuguese colony that served as a place of exile and deportation for Madeirans, including liberals in the 1820s, protesters against the dairy decrees and the 1936 rioters. Lowe visited it in 1864 and 1866. It shares one flowering-plant species with Madeira.
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- Loggerhead turtle (Caouana Oaretta) — Islands where the turtle is supposed to lay its eggs.
- Abreu (Francisco Ferreira de) — Archipelago where Abreu went and died.
- Simões Soares (Daniel Telo) — Colony where he served.
- Lowe (Revd Richard Thomas) — Islands Lowe visited in 1864 and 1866.
- Gonçalves (Joaquim Melchior) — Place of his exile, 1823–26.
- Phanerogams — Archipelago sharing one species with Madeira.
- António Alfredo — Place of his deportation for liberal ideas.
- Dairy industry — Place of exile for protesters against the dairy decrees.
- Island History — Treated in Book II.
- Popular riots — About fifty 1936 rioters were sent there for trial.
- Slaves — Archipelago where slave labour also expanded.
- Colvocoress (Lieut. Gio. M.) — Visited by the expedition after Madeira.
- Andrade (Manuel Dias de) — Where Andrade died in 1638.
- Submarine cable — One of the Cape Verde islands was to be a cable landing point.
- Melo (Dom Francisco Manuel de) — Next destination of the fleet.
- Diocese (creation of the) — Later diocese made suffragan to Funchal.
- Patron saint and The Lusiads (The) — Archipelago containing Santiago island.
- Castro (Father Francisco de) — Where Castro went to seek a cure for leprosy and died.
- Archdiocese of Funchal — Diocese suffragan to Funchal.
- Moura (Dom Patrício Xavier de) — Diocese Moura governed for about ten years.
- Dragon tree (Dracaena draco) — Part of the dragon tree's native range.
- Napoleon — Passed by the squadron on 1 September 1815.
- Calheta (parish) — Archipelago with several places called calheta.
- Martins (Dr João Augusto) — His birthplace.
- Moniz (Dom João Henriques) — Archipelago of his deportation and later his diocese.
- Medina — Home of a Medina family of Madeiran origin.
- Wireless telegraphy — Planned location of a Marconi wireless station.
- Medina e Vasconcelos (Sérvulo de Paula) — Islands where he served and died.
- Diocese of Funchal — Suffragan see of the Funchal archdiocese.
- Fontes Pereira de Melo (António Maria de) — Destination to which he sailed on leaving Madeira.
- Camões — Destination of the route from Lisbon debated by Rodrigues and Gago Coutinho.
- Memorable landmarks — Discovered after Madeira.
- Gonçalves de Freitas (Viscount of) — Archipelago where he lived for some years practising law and which he represented as deputy.
- Epidemics — Origin of the ship that brought smallpox in 1815.
2Chronology
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The Portuguese discovered Santiago island in Cape Verde on the feast of St James the Less.
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Funchal was raised by papal bull to an archdiocese with suffragans Angra, Cape Verde, São Tomé and Goa, its cathedral becoming an archiepiscopal see.
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Manuel Dias de Andrade died in Cape Verde with a fleet bound to recover Pernambuco.
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Father Francisco de Castro died in Cape Verde.
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A smallpox epidemic, brought by a ship from Cape Verde, killed about 2,000 people in Madeira.
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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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D. João Henriques Moniz was deported from Lisbon to Cape Verde.
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Francisco Ferreira de Abreu died in Cabo Verde.
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Sérvulo de Paula Medina e Vasconcelos published Amor e Pátria and left for Cape Verde as a civil servant.
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António Maria de Fontes Pereira de Melo stayed in Madeira, arriving aboard the brigantine Mariana and leaving in her for Cape Verde.