Year · 1772

1772

Inácio Pedro Quintela leased the Madeira customs revenues for six years.

Customs houses Inácio Pedro Quintela

1772

The Academy volume dated 1772, published in 1776, contained De Bory's account of his voyage to Madeira.

Bory (De) De Bory Madeira

1772

Public classes in philosophy, Latin, mathematics and rhetoric were created in Funchal, with Francisco Manuel de Oliveira appointed to the chair of philosophy.

EducationOliveira (Francisco Manuel de)

1772

The Marquês de Pombal reformed the University of Coimbra.

Bettencourt (Dr António João de França) Marquis of Pombal

30 May 1772

Engineer Domingos Rodrigues Martins was called to estimate the rebuilding of the walls of Funchal's streams.

Stream walls Domingos Rodrigues Martins

29 July 1772

Captain James Cook arrived at Funchal in the Resolution on his second voyage, accompanied by the botanists Forster; he recorded large numbers of Black and mulatto people in Madeira.

Cook (James)Forster (Johann Reinhold)Madeira (island) James CookJohann Reinhold ForsterGeorg Forster Harbour of Funchal

6 November 1772

A royal law established secondary classes of Latin, Greek, rhetoric and philosophy in Funchal and the first six public primary schools in Madeira; the Greek class never opened.

Drawing and painting classPrimary SchoolsLyceum Marquis of Pombal Funchal

10 November 1772

A law created the subsídio literário tax to fund schools.

Taxes

30 November 1772

The poet Francisco Álvares de Nóbrega was born in Machico.

Alvares de Nobrega (Francisco) Francisco Álvares de Nóbrega Machico