Flores

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Establishment

• January 1551: Flores Island was a Portuguese possession from the 16th century.

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)

• January 1852: In 1851 Lima Lopes, the new governor of Timor, Solor and Flores, agreed to sell eastern Flores and the nearby islands to the Dutch in return for a payment of 200,000 Florins in order to support his impoverished administration.

Disestablishment

• January 1855: In 1854 Portugal ceded all its historical claims on Flores to the Dutch.

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