May 13, 1699 - Lisbon, Portugal - Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo is born
January(?) 1(?), 1708 - Lisbon - His father, Manuel de Carvalho e Ataíde (1668-1720) is nominated for the prestigious position of cavalry officer of the Court
October 27, 1708 - Lisbon - King John V marries Anna Maria of Austria, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I
October 27, 1708 - Lisbon - King John V marries Anna Maria of Austria, daughter of the Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I
January(?) 1(?), 1715(?) - Coimbra - Studies Law, at the Faculty of Laws and at the Faculty of Canons of the University of Coimbra
March 15, 1720 - While in Coimbra(?) - His father dies in Lisbon, aged 43
January(?) 1(?), 1721(?) - Coimbra(?) - Serves in the army where he reaches the rank of corporal
January 23, 1723 - Lisbon - Carvalho e Melo marries D. Teresa de Noronha e Bourbon Mendonça e Almada, with whom he had lived in Lisbon
January(?) 1(?), 1724 - Gramela, N. of Pombal, central Portugal - He retires from Lisbon to a family farm in the "Coimbra countryside", where he would stay for 7 years taking care of its administration.
October 24, 1733 - Lisbon - Conference of the Royal Academy of Portuguese History. Carvalho e Melo is elected to the Academia dos Ilustrados (Academy of the Illustrated) =(START)
July 19, 1738 - Lisbon - Carvalho e Melo is accepted as a family member of the Holy Office, an important step towards social recognition
October 2, 1738 - Lisbon - Carvalho e Melo is named Ambassador to London. Bullfight at Junqueira with the presence of the royal family
October 8, 1738 - Lisbon - Carvalho e Melo sails for London on board the british ship "King of Portugal"
October 19, 1738 - London, England - Arrives in London, where his cousin and predecessor awaited him
November 29, 1738 - London - Carvalho e Melo is officially received in London
January 7, 1739 - While in London - Teresa de Noronha, first wife of Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, dies in Lisbon.
March 5, 1739 - London - Carvalho e Melo delivers the credentials of Portuguese ambassador in London
November 16, 1739 - London - Letter to D. Luís da Cunha
May 15, 1740 - London - Elected Fellow of the Royal Society
May 8, 1741 - London - Letter from D. Luís da Cunha, about the problem of Hungary and the need to proceed negotiations with Prussia
May 10, 1742 - While in London - King John V has a bout of paralysis at the age of 52 that leaves him partially paralyzed on the left side of his body
May 23, 1742 - While in London - Consort queen Maria Anna de Austria takes over the regency of the Kingdom while the king recovers
January(?) 1(?), 1743 - London - Carvalho e Melo asks permition to returns to Lisbon for being ill
November 21, 1743 - Lisbon, Portugal - Carvalho e Melo returns to Lisbon
August 22, 1744 - Lisbon - He is called to the Royal Palace, where he learns of the mission that would be entrusted to him
September 14, 1744 - Lisbon - Carvalho e Melo receives instructions to take royal letters to the Emperor and Queen of Hungary, receiving monetary assistance from the crown for travel expenses
October 8, 1744 - Lisbon - Carvalho e Melo leaves for Vienna, via London, in order to inform George II of his mission in Austria.
Deember 1(?), 1744 - London - He disembarks first in London to attend to embassy business and to follow the India Company's plan that insisted on proceeding.
May(?) 1(?), 1745 - The Hague, Netherlands - Passage through The Hague on the way to Vienna
June(?) 1(?), 1745 - Hannover, Germany - Passage through Hannover on the way to Vienna
July 17, 1745 - Vienna, Austria - Arrives in Vienna
September 13, 1745 - Frankfurt, Germany - Accompanies Maria Theresa (future Holy Roman Empress) and the Court to Frankfurt for the imperial election. Francis III Stephen is elected Holy Roman Emperor
December 13, 1745 - Vienna - Carvalho e Melo and Eleonore Ernestina, Countess of Daun sign the nuptial contract
December 18, 1745 - Vienna - Carvalho e Melo marries Eleonore Ernestine Eva Wolfganga Gräfin von und zu Daun auf Sassenheim und Callaborn (Countess of Daun)
May 31, 1746 - Vienna - Letter to Marco António de Azevedo Coutinho, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and War: "In the instructions with which I left that court, the King ordered me to be called a simple wayfarer. In the letters of belief he named me, whoever wrote, emissary. And this resulted in two things. First, that when I arrived here, to make up for the lack of means, which I did not have in my faculties, I said that, in fact, I was a traveler, and had left my home in England , because my mission in this court was restricted to an object, which could not be of long duration. Second, that the said word emissary caused this court notable strangeness, seeming to it absolutely new, and not finding it in accordance with the gravity of the case. business, which I came to deal with"
August 8, 1746 - Vienna - Letter to Marco António de Azevedo Coutinho, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and War: "The situation in which I spoke to the Empress was and is such that her interests can decide, not only on the conservation of the house in Austria, but on the freedom of the whole of Europe if general peace is achieved as had hitherto been projected, and if the States of the House of Austria are divided by it; if the two maritime powers (England and Holland) do a public confession of their present impotence, to support the indivisibility of the same States and their greater future impotence, after the aforementioned States were once divided: in such a case all the treaties, which we have hitherto made for the purpose of our conservation, on one hand would be useless to support us, because in spite of them they would be obliged to do what France wanted; on the other hand, they would remain in force to afflict us; because England and Holland, as long as they are not completely annihilated, always continue to enjoy their observance, and to do us the vexations that they bring with it. If, on the other hand, those allies of ours increase their power and strength, through our alliance with Spain, everything remains, at least, in the old state"
October 18, 1746 - Vienna - Empowered to negotiate and sign agreements concerning mediation between Rome and Vienna after the death of Philip V of Spain
May 1(?), 1748 - Vienna - Expresses the desire to return to Portugal, complaining of having run the risk of going blind
November 15, 1748 - Vienna - Letter to Marco António de Azevedo Coutinho, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and War: "With the negotiation of mediation between the crowns of Rome and Vienna at that time, mediation that was to be negotiated eight hundred leagues from Lisbon, in the climate of Germany much colder than that of England, where my health was ruined and a mediation that did not promise the slightest hope of being effective, against the strong and already clear opposition of the ministries, with whom it should be negotiated; presenting, I mean, this remote and almost impossible negotiation, demonstrated the facts that there was no lack of someone to inculcate me for it... There is, in political books, and in the examples of ministerial history, intrigue more trivial and shabby than that in which similar commissions are promoted, very remote and extremely difficult. , the ministers that some particular interest seeks to remove from the shadow of the throne and ruin the master's concept..The aforementioned gruesome means had the aim of excluding me from the establishment of the aforementioned Oriental Company, so that I could not have the smallest part in it."
May 31, 1749 - While in Vienna - King John V finally requests him to end his Envoyship
August 30, 1749 - Vienna - Carvalho e Melo holds his farewell audience in Vienna
September 3, 1749 - Vienna - Carvalho e Melo departs for Lisbon, via France and Spain
December 20(?), 1749 - Lisbon, Portugal - Arrives in Lisbon
May 19, 1750 - Lisbon - Marco António de Azevedo Coutinho, diplomat and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and War, dies in Lisbon.
July 31, 1750 - Lisbon - King John V dies, aged 60. Regent Queen Maria Anna of Austria gives up power to their eldest son Joseph I of Portugal
August 1, 1750 - Lisbon - Joseph I ascends to the throne of Portugal
August 2, 1750 - Lisbon - The new King, Joseph I, names Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo as one of his three ministers
August 5, 1750 - Lisbon - Carvalho e Melo is designated to the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and War
September 7, 1750 - Lisbon - Solemn act of the acclamation of King Joseph
September 25, 1750 - Lisbon - Letter from ex-ambassador Manuel Teles da Silva, Count of Tarouca, in Vienna
January(?) 1(?), 1751 - Lisbon - Founds Banco Real (Royal Bank) and establishes a new structure to manage the collection of taxes, centralized by the Real Fazenda de Lisboa (Royal estate of Lisbon), under its direct control
February 5, 1751 - Lisbon - The "Junta", summoned by Carvalho e Melo, gives the unanimous opinion that negotiations for the implementation of the Treaty of Madrid should be broken off.
September 21, 1751 - Lisbon - Instructions by Carvalho e Melo for the mission to demarcate the southern borders of Brazil with the Spanish possessions, directed by Gomes Freire de Andrade, future 1st Count of Bobadela.
January(?) 1(?), 1753 - Lisbon - Creation of the Company of Commerce of Portuguese Asia, aimed at controlling and promoting commercial activity with the Portuguese State of India and with China, strengthening the practice of mercantilism in the kingdom
August 14, 1754 - Lisbon - The Queen-Mother Maria Anna of Austria dies, aged 70
June 7, 1755 - Lisbon - Creation of the Grão Pará and Maranhão General Company
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| Earthquake, Tsunami and fires in Lisbon, 1755 |
November 2, 1755 - Lisbon - Carvalho e Melo consults the cardinal-patriarch of Lisbon on the fate to be given to the bodies of those killed in the earthquake
November 3, 1755 - Lisbon - Letter from ex-Ambassador Manuel Teles da Silva, Count of Tarouca, in Vienna
November 8, 1755 - Lisbon - New earthquake in Lisbon
November 11, 1755 - Lisbon - New earthquake in Lisbon
November 14, 1755 - Lisbon - Issues orders to rebuild "Ribeira das Naus" (Navy arsenal on the Tagus River)
November 18, 1755 - Lisbon - Carvalho e Melo, as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, officially informs Portuguese diplomats abroad of the earthquake
December 11, 1755 - Lisbon - New earthquake in Lisbon
December 21, 1755 - Lisbon - New earthquake in Lisbon
December 24, 1755 - Lisbon - Presentation by the chief engineer of the Kingdom Manuel da Maia of the first plan for the reconstruction of Lisbon
April 9, 1756 - Lisbon - Manuel da Maia tasks a group of engineers with studying an urbanization plan for the western part of the city.
May 6, 1756 - Lisbon - Carvalho e Melo is appointed Secretary of State of Internal Affairs of the Kingdom, also known as Prime-Minister, after the death of Pedro da Mota e Silva
July 16, 1756 - Lisbon - The General Company of Agriculture of the Vineyards of High Douro is created on the initiative of the Marquis of Pombal. Its creation was part of an environment of overproduction and crisis in the quality of Port wine. This chaotic state was mainly due to an attempt at easy profit. In order to maintain the level of exports to England, at a time of underproduction, the Douro farmers choose to weaken the final product, admitting wines from other wine regions and adding elderberries, among other harmful products. Exports fall drastically, degenerating into a crisis
August 31, 1756 - Lisbon - Carvalho e Melo takes over as State Secretariat of the Kingdom's businesses
October 1(?), 1756 - Lisbon - Father Gabriel Malagrida, an italian jesuit, publishes an opuscule in Lisbon, pointing the 1755 Lisbon's earthquake as a divine punishment for the spiritual negligence of the portuguese people and its Court
November 1, 1756 - Lisbon - Carvalho e Melo resents Malagrida's implicit criticism of the government, and persuades King Joseph to banish him to Setúbal and to have all Jesuits removed from the Court
February 23, 1757 - While in Lisbon - In Porto, about 5,000 insurgents besiege the house of Bernardo Duarte de Figueiredo, judge administrator of the Douro Company
May 1(?), 1757 - Lisbon - In Pará (Brazil), laws are published that extinguish the missions and in which the Indians of Brazil are declared free
May 3, 1757 - Lisbon - The Directory Law is issued, proposing the regulation of various colonial practices, establishing educational criteria, workforce management and relations between indigenous and settlers
August 27, 1758 - Lisbon - Mourning in the Court: Queen Maria Bárbara, King Joseph's sister, dies in Spain. The Directory Law is confirmed
September 3, 1758 - Lisbon - King Joseph I was riding incognito in a carriage traveling along a side street on the outskirts of Lisbon. He would return to the Ajuda tents for a night with his lover the “little marquess” Távora D.Teresa Leonor. Along the way, the carriage is intercepted by three masked men, who shoot at the occupants. The King is shot in the arm and shoulder but survives. Although probably innocent, the Távora family, which included the Duke of Aveiro and the Count of Alvor - Carvalho and Melo's political enemies - are implicated and arrested with their families soon after. The sentence ordered the execution of all, including women and children. Only the interventions of Queen Mariana and Princess Maria (future Queen Maria I) saved most of them.
September 7, 1758 - Lisbon - King Joseph resumes the government due to his complete recovery
December 12, 1758 - While in Lisbon - The Marquis of Távora, his two children, and the Count of Atouguia, his son-in-law, are arrested and imprisoned in the cages in the animal yard of the Palace of Belém. The Duke of Aveiro, his wife and children, as well as some of the his servants, are imprisoned in his palace in Azeitão
December 14, 1758 - Lisbon - The marquises of Távora, mother and daughter-in-law, and the countess of Atouguia are arrested and sent to different convents
December 18, 1758 - Lisbon - The defendants are declared “pilgrims, vagabonds, not belonging to any civil society and deprived of the birthplace and denomination of Portuguese”, as had been requested by the Judge of the People and the House of the Twenty Four
December 22, 1758 - Lisbon - Due to the attack on the king, searches are carried out in the Jesuit Houses.
January 11, 1759 - Lisbon - Several Jesuits are arrested, among them Father Gabriel Malagrida, being sent to the Junqueira fort
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| The execution of the Távoras |
January 19, 1759 - Lisbon - Order is given to take the goods of the priests of the Society of Jesus
April 19, 1759 - Lisbon - Creation of the Commerce Class, initiating the reform of education
June 6, 1759 - Lisbon - Carvalho e Melo is made "Count of Oeiras" by royal letter
June 28, 1759 - Lisbon - To remedy the deficiency of structures and teachers, through a charter dated June 28, 1759, the government instituted the Royal Classes, serving the elementary teaching of Letters and Humanities, as well as providing classes in Latin Grammar, Greek and Rhetoric. . This document highlighted the "pernicious" character of the Jesuit teaching method, stating that one of the objectives of the changes was to bring the Portuguese system closer to that in practice in the more civilized nations of Europe. In addition, the position of Director of Studies was created, which should supervise the progress of the reforms, and the admission of professors by competition was defined.
August 13, 1759 - Lisbon - Creation of the General Company of Pernambuco and Paraíba (Brazil)
September 3, 1759 - Lisbon - The law of expulsion is published, in which the members of the company of Jesus (jesuits) are declared "corrupted, deplorably alienated from their holy institute... Rebels, traitors, adversaries and aggressors..." against the royal person and his States, being "denatured, proscribed and exterminated", and having to be expelled from all Portugal and its domains.
September 16, 1759 - Lisbon - The 133 members of the Society of Jesus who were detained at Quinta de Azeitão, in the Duchy of Aveiro, were embarked on the brig "São Nicolau", bound for Civittavechia, port of the Papal States, and others on the brig "São Boaventura", which departs for Genoa
July 22, 1760 - Lisbon - The "Gazeta de Lisboa" (Lisbon Gazette) resumes its publication, after having stopped its publication due to the earthquake of 1755.
February 1(?), 1761 - Lisbon - The Count of Oeiras prohibits the importation of slaves into mainland Portugal and India, not for humanitarian reasons, which were foreign to their nature, but because they were necessary labor in Brazil. At the same time, it stimulated the trade in black slaves to that colony, and two companies were founded, with the support and direct involvement of the Marquis of Pombal - the Companhia do Grão-Pará e Maranhão and the Companhia Geral de Pernambuco and Paraíba - whose activities The main one was precisely the slave trade, mostly Africans, to Brazilian lands.
February 12, 1761 - Lisbon - Signing of the Treaty of Pardo, in which Portugal and Spain agreed to annul the Treaty of Demarcation of Santo Ildefonso of 1750, and to return to the previous situation, with Portugal maintaining the Sacramento Colony, on the estuary of the River Plate, and the Spaniards the region of the Missions Jesuits on the Uruguay River.
March 7, 1761 - Lisbon - The Count of Oeiras creates the Colégio dos Nobres (College of the Nobles)
September 19, 1761 - Lisbon - The transport of slaves from ports in Africa, America and Asia to Portugal is prohibited, and the slave trade in Portugal is prohibited, with the intention that the slaves do not leave Brazil.
September 21, 1761 - Lisbon - Finding the works attributed to Malagrida as heretical, he was sentenced to death. The italian jesuit is strangled at the garrotte in Rossio Square. His corpse is then burned on a bonfire and the ashes are thrown into the Tagus river
December 22, 1761 - Lisbon - The Count of Oeiras creates the General Treasury by charter, as the top institution of the Portuguese tax administration aimed at centralizing the current management of public accounts.
March 11, 1762 - Lisbon - General Tirawley, former british ambassador in Lisbon, returns to his post to inform George III about portuguese preparations for war with Spain and France
March 16, 1762 - Lisbon - The ambassadors of France and Spain deliver to the Portuguese Government a "pro-memory" demanding that Portugal adhere to the Bourbon Family Pact, signed in 1761, and exclude from its ports the ships of the British and their allies in exchange for the protection of their domains overseas. Spanish forces begin to concentrate on the borders
March 20, 1762 - Lisbon - The Portuguese Government refuses the offer of cooperation by the two countries in the defense of Portuguese overseas domains, effectively rejecting adherence to the Family Pact.
April 1, 1762 - Lisbon - In a new "pro-memory" the ambassadors of France and Spain demand that the Portuguese Government participate in the war against Great Britain, informing that Spanish troops will invade Portuguese territory if Portugal does not prevent the use of Portuguese ports by British ships
April 5, 1762 - Lisbon - The Portuguese Government refuses to collaborate with France and Spain in the war against Great Britain.
April 16, 1762 - Lisbon - Bearing in mind that since 1754 the Portuguese Army had been reduced to half of its statutory numbers, the Marquis of Pombal ordered an increase in the number of infantry, cavalry and artillery regiments.
April 23, 1762 - Lisbon - The French and Spanish ambassadors deliver to the Portuguese government a third and final "pro-memory", in an ultimatum style, demanding the closure of ports to the British and their allies.
April 25, 1762 - Lisbon - Portugal responds negatively to the ultimatum, effectively making war inevitable
April 30, 1762 - While in Lisbon - The commander of the Spanish forces concentrated around Zamora, General Nicolás de Carvajal y Lancaster, Marquis of Sarriá, issues a proclamation to the Portuguese, stating that the objective of the invasion of Portugal was to benefit the Portuguese.
April 27, 1762 - Lisbon - The spanish and french ambassadors abandon Lisbon
May 2, 1762 - Lisbon - Letter to the Field Marshal João de Almada, Governor of the Arms of the City of Porto, indicating the tactics to be followed to face the invasion of the Castilians, which is expected to be carried out between Bragança and Miranda, with the aim of reaching Porto.
May 5, 1762 - While in Lisbon - Spanish forces enter Portugal via the Trás-os-Montes border and head towards Miranda do Douro, which is besieged.
May 6, 1762 - Lisbon - British auxiliary forces disembark in Lisbon, under the command of General George Townshend, later Viscount and Marquis Townshend
May 8, 1762 - While in Lisbon - The explosion of a powder magazine during a bombardment causes 400 deaths in Miranda do Douro, leading to the surrender of the town, which on that day is occupied by the Spanish army
May 16, 1762 - While in Lisbon - The city of Bragança surrenders and is occupied by the Spanish army
May 18, 1762 - Lisbon - King Joseph I declares WAR against Spain and France
May 21, 1762 - While in Lisbon - The city of Chaves is occupied by the spanish army
June 15, 1762 - Lisbon - Spain declares WAR on Portugal and the publication of the "Gazeta de Lisboa" is suspended
July 3, 1762 - Lisbon - By British appointment, William of Schaumburg-Lippe, the Count of Lippe, arrives in Lisbon with the aim of commanding the Portuguese-British army.
July 10, 1762 - Lisbon - William, Count of Schaumburg-Lippe, is appointed marshal-general of the Portuguese-British army.
July 20, 1762 - While in Lisbon - France declares WAR on Portugal
July 23, 1762 - While in Lisbon - The spanish take Cidade Rodrigo unopposed
August 25, 1762 - While in Lisbon - A new front opens with the entry of Spanish forces of the Marquis of Sarriá across the Beiras border, which take the town of Almeida
October 29, 1762 - While in Lisbon - The Sacramento Colony (Uruguay)surrenders and is occupied by Spanish forces
October 31, 1762 - Lisbon - Letter to Pombal from the Army Secretary - "and [the number of deserters] would be higher, they say, if they were not afraid of [being killed by] our irregulars"
November 3, 1762 - While in Lisbon - At Escalos de Cima, Penamacor and Monsanto, the portuguese, under Hamilton, rout a retreating spanish cavalry force, while the british of Fenton sweep another retreating spanish corps from Salvaterra. A provisional peace treaty is signed at Fontainebleau between the kingdoms of Portugal, Great Britain, France and Spain.
November 22, 1762 - While in Lisbon - The Spanish general, Count of Aranda, proposes an armistice
December 1, 1762 - While in Lisbon - An armistice is signed between the Portuguese-British and Franco-Spanish armies commanded, respectively, by the Count of Lippe and by General Pedro Pablo Abarca de Bolea, Count of Aranda.
February 10, 1763 - While in Lisbon - A peace treaty (Treaty of Peace of Paris) is signed in Paris, whereby Spain returns to Portugal the cities/towns of Chaves e Almeida and the Sacramento Colony on the estuary of the River Plate.
February 25, 1763 - Lisbon - The peace treaty is ratified by King Joseph I of Portugal
March 25, 1763 - Lisbon - Peace is proclaimed in Lisbon between the Kingdoms of Portugal, Spain and France
January 1, 1765 - Lisbon - Earthquake in Lisbon
September 10, 1765 - Lisbon - Abolition of the fleets of Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, giving rise to freedom of commerce between all domains of the Portuguese Empire
September 13, 1765 - Lisbon - Earthquake in Lisbon
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| The Marquis of Pombal and the city of Lisbon, 1766 |
February 5, 1768 - Lisbon - Creation of the Royal Censorship Table, with the aim of transferring from the hands of the Church to the direct control of the State the censorship of books and publications considered to be disturbing in religious, political and civil matters that entered Portugal, a function that until then was the responsibility of the Inquisition , applying pecuniary and corporal penalties against those who transgress the rules.
May 18, 1768 - Lisbon - The statutes of the Royal Censorship Table, charged with organizing a general index of all prohibited books, is approved
December 24, 1768 - Lisbon - The Royal Print, the future National Press, is created
March 10, 1769 - While in Lisbon - Mazagon fortress in southern Morocco is abandoned. It was the last Portuguese possession on the Moroccan coast. Its population is evacuated by two ships and sent to Brazil, where the town of "Vila Nova de Mazagão" (New Town of Mazagão) is established
October 16, 1769 - Lisbon - Receives the title of Marquis of Pombal, aged 71
December 1(?), 1770 - Lisbon - The Board of Literary Welfare is created, with the objective of investigating the causes of the decay of the University of Coimbra. Less than a year later, the Board presents the conclusions and those responsible: the Jesuits
June 1(?), 1771 - Lisbon - The «Real Fábrica da Cordoaria» (Ropework Royal Factory) is created to manufacture cables, weave sails and flags for the Navy
September 6, 1771 - Lisbon - A mentally ill man throws a stone at him in the street as he passes by
August 28, 1772 - Lisbon - The Marquis of Pombal is appointed Plenipotentiary and Lieutenant of the University of Coimbra, with the determination to inspect it
September 15, 1772 - Lisbon - The Marquis of Pombal leaves Lisbon for Coimbra to visit the University
September 22, 1772 - Coimbra - Arrives in Coimbra to personally supervise the University's renovation
October 24, 1772 - Coimbra - Leaves Coimbra for Lisbon
December 21, 1772 - Lisbon - Letter to the Pope (Ganganelli) insisting in the suppresion of the "Company of Jesus"
January 15, 1773 - Lisbon - Creation of the Admiralty and the "General Company of the Real Fisheries of the Kingdom of the Algarve", which are granted privileges and guarantees such as the monopoly in the exploitation of fisheries throughout the Algarve province
May 25, 1773 - Lisbon - He enacts a law that extinguishes the differences between Old Christians (Catholics without suspicion of Jewish ancestors) and New Christians, making all previous decrees and laws that discriminated against New Christians and imposed criteria of "blood cleansing" invalid.
July 21, 1773 - While in Lisbon - Pope Clement XIV makes the "Company of Jesus" extinct
September 9, 1773 - Lisbon - The news of the extinction of the "Company of Jesus" is published in Lisbon. The city puts up lamps. There are manifestations of rejoicing in the streets, in the churches and in the Court. King Joseph writes to the Pope to thank
December 30, 1773 - While in Lisbon - Foundation of the town of Vila Real de Santo António by royal letter
January 2, 1774 - Lisbon - First meeting of the Chamber Senate, at the new Palace of Rossio in Lisbon, with the presence of the Marquis of Pombal, Secretary of State and of the court.
February 10, 1774 - Lisbon - The Marquis of Pombal orders the Viceroy of India to extinguish the Inquisition of Goa
June 6, 1775 - Terreiro do Paço, Lisbon - During 3 days, the inauguration of the equestrian statue of Joseph I is celebrated. During the morning, a bomb is discovered in the carriage that was supposed to take Pombal to the Royal Palace. The blame fell on a Neapolitan - Gianbatista Pelle - who, despite not having confessed, was severely judged for the crime of "lèse-majesté"
October 12, 1775 - Cordoaria Square, Junqueira, Lisbon - Pombal signs the sentence for the man who put the bomb in his carriage - "may [Gianbatista Pelle] be driven in a car, fire insignia, in the Cordoaria Square, at the site of Junqueira, and there, alive, his hands are to be cutted off, and afterward be taken and dismembered by four horses, and his body broken into pieces, which will be consumed with fire until they are reduced to ashes, which will be thrown to the wind; and this for conjuring with other partners against the life of the most illustrious and most excellent Marquis of Pombal, prime-minister and secretary of state, immediate to the royal person, and his lieutenant"
November 29, 1776 - Lisbon - With King Joseph seriously ill, his daughter Maria assumes the regency of Portugal
February 24, 1777 - Sintra - King Joseph I dies
March 1, 1777 - Lisbon - Pombal requests his resignation from Princess Regent Maria and bids farewell to the Government
March 4, 1777 - Lisbon - The Marquis of Pombal is removed from public office
March 5, 1777 - Lisbon - Pombal abandons the Court
March 6, 1777 - Oeiras - Letter to his firstborn son, expressing his sadness and pain
March 15, 1777 - Pombal - Pombal and family arrive at his manor house, where they receive numerous visits from creditors
February 25, 1778 - While in Pombal - Queen Maria I extinguishes the Grão-Pará and Maranhão General Company
October 1(?), 1779 - Pombal - Interrogated (until January 1780) in a legal process of accusation of abuse of power, corruption and other types of fraud. The Marquis of Pombal defends himself by declaring that he had never acted without the King's permission.
August 16, 1781 - While in Pombal - Queen Maria I confirms the accusations against the former Prime-minister and has a decree published declaring Pombal "defendant and deserving of an exemplary punishment", but because the Marquis had asked her to "pardon, hating the reckless excess that he had committed" refering to "the corporal penalties that should have been imposed on him", in attention to the Marquis's state of health, the Queen confirms only his exile
May 8, 1782 - Pombal - Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo dies, aged 82 =(END)
