Year · 1757

1757

A great storm endangered ships and damaged the Funchal harbour works.

Shipwrecks Pontinha

1757

D. Maria do Rosário Henriques built the chapel of Nossa Senhora da Nazaré at Câmara de Lobos.

Our Lady of Nazaré (chapels)Preces Maria do Rosário Henriques Chapel of Our Lady of Nazaré (Câmara de Lobos)Câmara de Lobos

1757

According to the Elucidário, Ricardo Smith founded an acclimatisation garden in Funchal.

Smith (Ricardo Carlos) Ricardo Carlos Smith Funchal

1757–1762

Walls were built joining the inner Pontinha islet to the Funchal coast, the first stage of the Pontinha mole.

Pontinha mole (breakwater)Pontinha (locality, road, islets and mole)

1757–1784

D. Gaspar Afonso da Costa Brandão governed the diocese of Funchal as its 17th bishop.

Brandão (Dom Gaspar Afonso da Costa) D. Gaspar Afonso da Costa Brandão

February 1757

Governor Manuel Saldanha da Gama Albuquerque was recalled to Lisbon and replaced by Bishop Gaspar Afonso da Costa Brandão.

Albuquerque (Manuel Saldanha da Gama) Manuel Saldanha da Gama AlbuquerqueD. Gaspar Afonso da Costa Brandão LisbonMadeira

5 August 1757

Bishop Brandão arrived in Funchal.

Brandão (Dom Gaspar Afonso da Costa) Funchal

September 1757–November 1757

A famine caused by a shortage of bread struck Madeira until cereal supplies arrived in November.

Famine in Madeira in 1757

4 November 1757

A gale damaged the newly begun Pontinha wall in Funchal.

Pontinha mole (breakwater)