1558 Portuguese settled at Daman.
1560 Inquisition introduced into India.
1567 Portuguese established at Rio de Janeiro after conflicts with French settlers.
1568 Sebastian of age.
1578 He invades Africa, and is defeated and killed at Kassr-el-Kebir. He is succeeded by his uncle Henry, who, feeling that he cannot live long, calls the cortes to name his successor.
1580 Henry dies. Philip II of Spain is chosen king as Philip I, and defeats his rival Antonio, prior of Crato, at Alcantara, and again in
1582 the Azores.
1584-1585 Two pretenders, who claim to be the dead Sebastian, captured.
1585 São Thiago, Cape Verd Islands, captured by an English fleet.
1586 Bahia plundered by the English.