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The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

Establishment

  • August 1471: The Portuguese occupied Tangiers, unopposed, on 28 August 1471 after its garrison fled upon learning of the conquest of Asilah.

Chronology

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1. War of the Portuguese Succession

Was a succession crisis caused by the death of the King of Portugal without heirs. The conflict saw two main claimants to the Portuguese throne: António, Prior of Crato, proclaimed in several towns as King of Portugal, and his first cousin Philip II of Spain, who eventually succeeded in claiming the crown, reigning as Philip I of Portugal.

  • October 1580: Philip II of Spain succeeded in claiming the Portuguese crown, reigning as Philip I of Portugal.

2. Portuguese Restoration War

Was a revolution organized by the Portuguese nobility and bourgeoisie sixty years after the crowning of Philip I (Philip II of Spain), the first "dual monarch", that ended the Iberian Union.

  • November 1640: A revolution organized by the nobility and bourgeoisie on 1 December 1640, sixty years after the crowning of Philip I (Philip II of Spain), the first "dual monarch", ended the Iberian Union between Portugal and Spain.

3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)

  • February 1662: Iberian rule lasted until 1661, when it was given to England's King Charles II as part of the dowry of the Portuguese infanta Catherine of Braganza. The english Tangier was fully occupied in January 1662.
  • February 1684: Forces under Lord Dartmouth (including Samuel Pepys) methodically destroyed the town and its port facilities for five months prior to Morocco's occupation of the city.

Disestablishment

  • February 1684: Forces under Lord Dartmouth (including Samuel Pepys) methodically destroyed the town and its port facilities for five months prior to Morocco's occupation of the city.

Selected Sources

  • Fernández Álvarez, M. (1998): Felipe II y su tiempo, cuarta edición, p. 523
  • de Oliveira Marques , A. H. R.(1972): History of Portugal, Columbia University Press, p. 322-325