Year1533
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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.
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1533
Simão Gonçalves da Câmara led a Madeiran expedition that relieved Santa Cruz do Cabo de Gué from a Moorish siege.
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1533
The parish church of Santa Cruz was built under João de Freitas, granted its chancel on 29 September.
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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.
Archdiocese of FunchalDiocese of FunchalPortugal (Dom Martinho de)Funchal Cathedral (the Sé) FunchalAngraCape VerdeSão ToméGoa
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11 February 1533–1547
D. Martinho de Portugal was appointed Archbishop of Funchal, the only holder of that title, governing until 1547.
Archdiocese of FunchalBishops of Funchal Martinho de Portugal
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1533–1535
Death of Francisco Moniz, founder of the Porto do Moniz settlement.