Year · 1597

1597

The offices of provedor and corregedor in Madeira were united.

Customs houses

1597

A municipal book recorded four seaward gates in Funchal.

City gates

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.

Constitutions of the bishopric Luís de Figueiredo e Lemos