This is a timeline of Portuguese Cape Verde from 1456 to independence on July 5, 1975.
For earlier times, see Timeline of Cape Verde before 1456
1456 - First discovery of the Cape Verdean islands, the first was Boa Vista Island, then Fogo by Vicente Dias
1460
Santiago was discovered by Antonio da Noli
May 1: Maio Island discovered and gave its name to the date that it discovered
December 3: the island of Llana discovered (Modern Portuguese: Plana), the island is now known as Sal
1461 - December 6: São Nicolau Island discovered
1462
The remaining islands discovered by Diogo Afonso:
Brava Island discovered
Early January: Santa Luzia island discovered
Early January: Santo Antão, island discovered
January 22: São Vicente island discovered
Cape Verde's first settlement named Ribeira Grande (now known as Cidade Velha) founded
1481 - Pêro Lourenço was the first corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1466 - A monopoly of slaves began, its first slaves in Cape Verde arrived
1493 - Construction of Nossa Senhora do Rosario church began
1494 - The old Treaty of Tordesillas which was put on June 7, 1494 between Portugal and the Kingdom of Castile that determined the division of the areas of influences of the Iberian countries it marked the line of discovered and then undiscovered lands with an imaginary line located 370 leagues (1,770 km) west of the island, marked at the westernmost point west of Monte Trigo in the island of Santo Antão
1495 - The church of Nossa Senhora do Rosário completed, the first colonial church
1517 - Pêro de Guimarães ended his term as the second corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde, João Alemão became the third corregedor
1520 - Santiago Island's and Cape Verde's first pillory constructed
1521 - Leonis Correia became fourth corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1527 - 28 August - Gaspar Correia became fifth corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1533 - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Santiago created by the Bull "Pro excellenti praeeminentia" of Pope Clement VII.
1534 - Estêvão de Lagos became sixth corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1536 - André Feio became seventh corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1539 - Simão Afonso became eighth corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1541
Pěro Moniz became ninth corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde
Santiago island was raided by Barbary pirates
1544 - António Ferreira became tenth corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1547 - Pěro de Araújo became eleventh corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1550 - Jorge Pimentel became twelfth corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1555 - Sé Cathedral in Ribeira Grande (now Cidade Velha) built
1556 - Manuel de Andrade became thirteenth corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1559 - Luís Martins de Evangelho became fourteenth corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1562 - Barnardo de Alpoim became fifteenth corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1571 - António Velho Tinoco became sixteenth corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1577 - Cristóvão Soares de Melo became seventeenth corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1578 - The first English corsairs and pirates attacked Ribeira Grande (now Cidade Velha) on Santiago Island
1579 - Diogo Dias Magro became the eighteenth corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1580 - Philippine Dynasty in power
1584 - Gaspar de Andrade became the nineteenth corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1585
Capture of Santiago (1585) happened on the island of Santiago, this was part of the Anglo-Spanish War (1585)
November 17 - Plans for Fort Real de São Filipe started on Santiago
1587 - All of the Cape Verdean Islands were united into a single crown colony
1588
Amador Gomes Raposo became the last corregedor of Portuguese Cape Verde
Duarte Lobo da Gama became the first governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1589 - Engraving about the raid on Ribeira Grande (common name was Cape Verde City or Cidade de Cabo Verde, now Cidade Velha) finished by Giovanni Battista Boazio, the first engraving and its hand colored made about Cape Verde or any of its island
1590 - Saudades da Terra manuscript written - Book I is about Cape Verde along with the Canary Islands
1591 - Brás Soares de Melo became the second governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1593
Forte Real de São Filipe was built, the first fort in Cape Verde
May 30: A total solar eclipse took place before noon, the maximum eclipse was seen in the Barlavento islands except for most of São Nicolau, Sal and Boa Vista, the remainder saw it as partial, it was the first total eclipse (umbral part) seen by people in Cape Verde
1597 - Francisco Lobo da Gama became the third governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1603 - Fernão de Mesquita de Brito became the fourth governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1604 - Baltasar Barreira, the Jesuit missionary arrived in the archipelago for a year
1606 - Francisco Correia da Silva became the fifth governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1611 - Francisco Martins de Sequeira became the sixth governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1614 - Nicolau de Castlho became the seventh governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1615 - Praia de Santa Maria appeared on the previous settlement on the plateau in southern Santiago
1618 - Francisco de Moura became the eighth governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1620 - Saltpans attracted English captains on the island of Boa Vista, slaves mined the salt, Sal Rei was later founded, they also mined in Maio and Sal
1622 - Francisco Roulim became the ninth governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1624 - Manuel Afonso de Guerra became acting governor for Francisco Roulim
1628 - Francisco Vasconcelos da Cunha became the tenth governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1632 - Cristòvão de Calbral became the eleventh governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1636 - Jorge de Castilho became the twelfth governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1629 - Jerónimo de Cavalcanti e Albuquerque became the thirteenth governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
17th and 18th centuries: Brava's coast raided by pirate attacks
1640 - João Serrão da Cunha became the fourtheenth governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1645
Philippine Dynasty ends
Lourenço Garro became the fifteenth governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1646 - Jorge de Araújo became the sixteenth governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1648
Roque de Barros do Rêgo became the seventeenth governor of Portuguese Cape Verde for a few months
The Council of Government began
1649
The Council of government ended, the Philippine dynasty completed ended in Cape Verde
12 June - Gonçalo de Gamboa Ayala became the eighteenth governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1650
Final end of the Habsburg rule in the Portuguese colonies
Pedro Semedo Cardoso became the twentieth governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1651 - Jorge de Mesquita Castelo Branco became the 21st governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1653 - Pedro Ferreira Barreto became the 22nd governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1655 - São Filipe on the island of Fogo was destroyed by Flemish pirates
1658 - Francisco de Figueroa became the 23rd governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1661 - March 30: A total solar eclipse took place about 10 miles (20-30 km) north of the island of Santo Antão, it was visibly partial in the archipelago
1662 - September 12: An annular solar eclipse took place about 90-100 miles (150 km) north of the island of Sal, it was visibly partial in the archipelago
1663 - António Galvão became the 24th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1667
Fortim Carlota built to prevent further pirate attacks on the island of Fogo
Manuel da Costa Pessoa became the 25th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde and served his first term
1671 - Manuel Pacheco de Melo became the 26th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1673 - August 12: A total solar eclipse started about 50 miles (90-100 km) south of the island of Santiago around Praia and Maio, it was visibly partial in the east of Santiago and the islands of São Nicolau, Boa Vista and Maio
1675 - The last eruption on the main cone on Fogo that would later create a larger eruption
1676
April 30: João Cardoso Pássaro became the 27th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
June 11: An annular solar eclipse took place in the Sotavento Islands except for Fogo, João Valente reef and Boa Vista island, the remainder was visibly partial
Late-1676: The Second Council of Government took place
1678 - The Second Council of Government ended
15 March: Manuel da Costa Pessoa became the 28th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde and served his second term
1680 - A major eruption took place in Pico do Fogo and devastated much of the island, many inhabitants fled the island, several would settle in nearby Brava, the eruption continued for a few years, it would receive the island name Fogo (Portuguese for fire).
1681 - Inácio de Franca Barbosa became the 29th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1687 - Veríssimo Carvalho da Costa became the 30th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1688 - Vitoriano da Costa became the 31st governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1690
Diogo Ramires Esquível became the 32nd governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
Cacheu and Cape Verde Company, a trading company established
1691 - The Third Council of Government took place
1692
The Third Council of Government finished
Manuel António Pinheiro da Câmara became the 33rd governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1696 - António Gomes Mena became the 34th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
7 June: The Fourth Council of Government began
1698
The Fourth Council of Government finished
4 November: António Salgado became the 35th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
18th century - Jewish people inhabited a part of the island and founded Sinagoga on Santo Antão
1702
10 February: Jorge Cotrim de Mello became the 36th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
12 April: Gonçalo de Lemos Mascarenhas became the 37th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1706 - May 12: A total solar eclipse took place about 150 miles (250 km) northwest of the island of Santo Antão, it was visibly partial in the archipelago
1707 - 11 May: Rodrigo de Oliveira da Fonseca became the 38th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1710 - 12 February: José Pinheiro da Câmara became the 39th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1712
Cidade Velha along with its fort were destroyed by French corsairs commanded by Jacques Cassard in the Cassard expedition
Because of the raid, Ribeira Grande no longer served as island capital, the name became Cidade Velha
1715 - 16 December: Serafim Teixeira Sarmento de Sa became the 40th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1719 - April 9: Balthasar de Sousa Coutinho became the 41st governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1720 - March 11: António Vieira became the 42nd governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1722 - December 8: An annular solar took place more than 140 miles (230 km) north of the island of Santo Antão, it was visibly partial in the archipelago, the greatest eclipse took place aboute 150 miles (250 km) north of the island
1724 - The British possessed and ruled the island of Santo Antão. It was soon returned to the Portuguese
1726
January 24: Francisco Miguel da Nóbrega Vasconcelos became the 43rd governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
September 25: A total solar eclipse took place about 140 miles (230 km) north of Santo Antão and 90 miles (150) km north of Sal, it was visibly partial in the archipelago
1728 - 10 July: Francisco de Oliveira Grans became the 44th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1733 - Bento Gomes Coelho became the 45th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1734 - São Vicente's first fortification built to protect against British, French and Dutch pirates.
mid-18th century: The English merchant ships started trading salt to England from Porto Inglês, slaves mined the salt, the Portuguese shipped it from Calheta do Maio to Portugal
1736 - May 1: José da Fonseca Barbosa became the 46th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1738 - August 7: The Fourth Chamber of Senate began
1741 - 10 June: The Fourth Chamber ends, João Zuzarte de Santa Maria became the 47th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1747 - The first famine struck Fogo and later Brava (see Famine in Cape Verde)
1749 - July 14: An annular solar eclipse took place about 85-95 miles (130-150 km) south of the island of Santiago, it was visibly partial in the archipelago
1751 - March 6: António José d'Eça e Faria became 47th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1752
Luís António da Cunha d'Eça became the 48th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
May 13: A total solar eclipse took place before sunset and the umbral part included the southernmost Boa Vista, Sotavento with the exception of Brava and was probably close to Ilhéu Secos, the remainder was visibly partial
1756 - Manuel Antònio de Sousa e Meneses became the 49th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1757 - Cacheu and Cape Verde Company became part of the Grão-Pará and Maranhão General Trading Company based in Portuguese controlled Brazil
1761 - March 5: Marcelino Pereira de Ávila became the 50th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1764 - Bartolomeu de Sousa de Brito Tigre became the 51st governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1766
João Jácome de Brito Barena Henriques became the 52nd governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
August 5: An annular solar eclipse took place before sunset in the Barlavento Islands along with João Valente Reef, the islands of Maio and Santiago, the southwest was visibly partial
1768 - 25 November: Joaquim Salema Saldanha Lobo became the 53rd governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1769 - Pico do Fogo erupted, the last time it erupted from the top
1770 - The island of Santiago's and the colonial capital officially transferred from Ribeira Grande to Praia (then Porto Praya)
1774 - Another famine struck Fogo and Brava, livestock later disappeared from Fogo
1777
António do Vale de Sousa e Meneses became the 54th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
Trading rights became part of the Cape Verde Islands, Bissau and Cacheu Monopoly Trading Company
1780s - First wave of emigration began on Brava as American whaling ships headed to the area within the island, some people emigrated
1781
Pirate raids continued to raid São Vicente, a plan for a new settlement was made
February 19: Duarte de Melo da Silva Castro de Almeida became the 55th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
April 16: - Though Portugal was neutral throughout the conflict (Anglo-French War, American Revolutionary War), the Battle of Porto Praya took place off modern day Praia and the island between Great Britain and France
1782 - Francisco de São Simão became the 55th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1783 - Naturalist and mineralogist João da Silva Feijó arrived in Cape Verde for his Scientific trip
1784 - 23 August: António Machado de Faria e Maia became the 56th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1785
Pico do Fogo erupted, the following eruptions would occur in the lower parts
Start of emigration on Fogo
1786 - African Coast Trading Company replaced the Cape Verde Islands, Bissau and Cacheu Monopoly Trading Company
1788 - A total solar eclipse took place about 50 miles (80 km) south of Santiago, it was visibly in the archipelago, the eclipse started in the morning hundreds of miles (or kilometers) west of Brava and the umbral part around 60 miles (100 km) west
1789 - April 2: Francisco José Teixeira Carneiro became the 56th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1790 - João da Silva Feijó returned to Portugal and finished his scientific journey in Cape Verde
1792 - September 16: An annular solar eclipse started in the morning about 30-40 miles (40-50 km) east of Boa Vista, the archipelago saw it as partial
1793 - September 27: José da Silva Maldonado d'Eça became the 57th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1794 - Cotton first produced in the island of Santiago and Cape Verde
1795 - The island's first permanent settlement Mindelo on São Vicente, then as Aldeia de Nossa Senhora da Luz was founded
1796 - Marcelino António de Bastos became the 58th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1799 - Salt deposits discovered on Sal
1803 - May 12: António Coutinho de Lencastre became the 59th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1804
Cape Verde's first tunnel constructed at Pedra de Lume on Sal
February 11: a hybrid solar eclipse took part around the north of the archipelago.
1806 - The English ship The Lady Burgess sank over the João Valente reef between Boa Vista and Maio islands
1815 - Sal Rei on Boa Vista sacked by pirates
1817 - Sal Rei sacked for the second time
1818
A pirate ship from South America seized the fort in Sal Rei, likely one of the last pirate raids in any of the Cape Verde islands.
February 6: António Pusich became the 60th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1820 - Forte Duque de Bragança (today, commonly known as Forte de Sal Rei) built on Ilhéu de Sal Rei, Boa Vista completed
1822
A riot broke out in Praia in Santiago instigated by Manuel António Martins which overthrew António Pusich and put João da Mata Chapuzet as colonial governor
May 8: João da Mata Chapuzet was the 61st governor of Cape Verde up to around September 1826. He was engineer and military architect and underwent large modernization of the city of Praia, capital of the archipelago
1826 - September 7: Caetano Procópio Godinho de Vasconcelos became the 62nd governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1830 - Duarte da Costa e Sousa de Macedo became the 63rd governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1831
José Coutinho de Lencastre became the 64th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
The first famine strucked most of Cape Verde
1831 or 1833 - the village of Santa Luzia became abandoned due to desertification
1832 - Scientist Charles Darwin along with the Beagle's visit to the island of Santiago and its then colonial capital Praia (then as Porto Praya), he also visited Ilhéu de Santa Maria
1833 - The first wave of famine ended
1834
Manuel António Martins became the 64th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
February 14: Portuguese colonial governor Manuel António Martins decided to transfer the colonial seat from Praia to Picos, this had never happened
1835
The Fontean Rebellion took place on Santiago Island
Joaquim Pereira Marinho became the 66th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde and served his first term
1836 - Domingos Correia Arouca became the 67th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1837 - Joaquim Pereira Marinho became the 68th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde and served his second term
1838 - Mindelo became the official name of the capital of the island of São Vicente
1839 - João de Fontes Pereira de Melo became the 69th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde and served his first term
1842 - April 5: Francisco de Paula Bastos became the 70th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1843
The Anglo-Portuguese Commission on the Abolition of Slavery took place in Boa Vista, it would be abolished 44 years later.
USS Yorktown visited Santiago
1845 - June 26: José Miguel de Noronha became the 71st governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1847
An eruption struck the area of Pico do Fogo, earthquakes killed several people
July 28: João de Fontes Pereira de Melo became the 72nd governor of Portuguee Cape Verde and served his second term
1849 - January: Sloop USS Yorktown visited Porto Praya (now Praia), one of the first American ships and one of the first American sloop to visit Porto Praya and Santiago Island.
1850
June: USS Yorktown returned to Porto Praya (now Praia)
September 4: USS Yorktown sunk first American ships and likely its first sloop to sink in Cape Verdean waters and Maio island.
1851
June 25: Fortunato José Barros became the 73rd governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
Botanist Johann Anton Schmidt visited the islands to study and find flora
1852
The lower part of Pico do Fogo erupted
Fortim d'El-Rei or Fortim do Mindelo built
1854 - April 6: António Maria Barreiros Arrobas became the 74th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1855 - Much of the island of Santiago suffered a famine, the governor temporarily moved the residence from Praia (then Porto Praya) to Picos, Praia remained colonial capital
1857
The lower part of Pico do Fogo erupted again
November 25: Sebastião Lopes de Calheiros Meneses became the 75th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1859 - The islands of Santo Antão and São Nicolau abolished slavery
1860 - Januário Correia de Almeida became the 76th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
September 6: Carlos Joaquim Franco became the 77th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1861 - Two custom houses, one in Praia in Santiago and another in the port of Mindelo, São Vicente were built by governor Januário Correia de Almeida.
1863 - José Gudes de Carvalho e Meneses became the 78th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1865
The Cape Verdean real became the colony's currency, it was equal to the Portuguese real
The first branch of the Portuguese bank for the colonies, the Banco Nacional Ultramarina was opened, it would be replaced with the Bank of Cape Verde in 1975 after it became an independent nation
October 19: an annular solar eclipse took place in the Sotavento Islands as well as Boa Vista Island, the Barlavento Islands and the waters around it saw it as partial
1869: February 11 - Caetano Alexandre de Almeida e Albuquerque became the 79th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1872 - Corpo de Polícia Civil, now the Capeverdean National Police established, its station and headquarters was in Praia
1874 - Two submarine or telegraph cables linked with the island of São Vicente, they are now as communication cables or lines, via Madeira, it connected with Brazil in the capital of Pernambuco, Recife, one of the first in Cape Verde
1875 - Coal shipping company Cory Brothers established in Mindelo on the island of São Vicente
1877 - G.C. Lopes de Macedo became the 80th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1878 - Slavery abolished in the island of Boa Vista
1879
Vasco Guedes de Carvalho e Meneses became the 81st governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
669 ships were refueled each year at Mindelo, São Vicente
1880 - Mindelo Library (Biblioteca do Mindelo) first opened, one of the first two libraries opened in Cape Verde
1882 - António de Nascimento Pereira de Sampaio became the 82nd governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1885 - A telegraph line with Mindelo on São Vicente and Cameroon via Bathurst (now Banjul), Gambia established
1886 - João Paes de Vasconcellos became the 83rd governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1887
João Césario became the 84th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
Forte de São José on Maio became a lighthouse
Salt production went into decline after Brazil nationalized its salt production to Portugal
1890 - Augusto Cesário Carlos de Carvalho became the 85th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1891 - José Guedes Brandão de Melo became the 86th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde and served his first term
1893
Fernando de Magalhães e Menezes became the 87th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
José Guedes Brandão de Melo became the 88th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde and served his second term
April 16: A total eclipse took place about 130 miles or 200 km south of the island of Santiago, it was visibly partial in the archipelago
1897 - Alexandre Alberto da Rocha de Serpa Pinto became the 89th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1898 - João Cesário da Lacerda became the 90th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1901 - Arlando de Novalis Guedes Rebelo became the 89th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1902 - Francisco de Paula Cid became the 90th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1903 - António Alfredo Barjoa de Freitas became the 91st governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1905 - Amâncio Alpoim de Cerqueira Borges Cabral became the 92nd governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1907
Bernardo António da Costa de Macedo became the 93rd governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
Jules Richard, photographer visited Cape Verde and took a couple of pictures
1908 - Solar eclipse of June 28, 1908 took place, the greatest eclipse took place some hundreds of kilometers (or miles) north of the archipelago
1909 - Martinho Pinto de Queirós Montenegro became the 94th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1910
The Ribeirão Manuel Rebellion took place
A civil revolution in Portugal drew aristocracy and large land-owners from Fogo back to Portugal and left civilians behind, Fogo was the last island to have slavery abolished
1911
Artur Marinha de Campos became the 95th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
Joaquím Pedro Vieira Índice Bicker became the 96th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1912 - Mindelo on the island of São Vicente was the most used Transatlantic telegraph station for some time
1914 - the Cape Verdean escudo replaced the real, it was a colonial and provincial currency up to independence in 1975
1915 - Abel Fontoura da Costa became the 97th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1918 - Teófilo Duarte became the 98th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1920 - French salt company Le Salines du Cap-Vert mined for salt production from Sal to France
1921 - Manuel Firmino de Almeida da Maia Magalhães became the 99th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1922
Estado Novo regime established, emigration to other countries including the United States would not be permitted for around 60 years
May 25: CS Mindelense, Cape Verde's first football (soccer) club established
April 5: Aviators Gago Coutinho and Sacadura Cabral and their plane Lusitânia stopped at Porto Grande Bay which was part of their flight to the South Atlantic which started in Lisbon and ended in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, at the time the national capital, they stopped for repairs
Apri; 17: The two aviators stopping at Praia on the island of Santiago and later headed to Fernando de Noronha in Saints Peter and Paul Archipelago off mainland Brazil and Rio de Janeiro
1924 - Júlio Henriques d'Abreu became the 100th governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1927
João da Almeida became the 101st governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
António Álvares Guedes Vaz became the 102nd governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1930s - Economic crisis started mainly after the Great Depression and famines struck all the inhabited islands of Cape Verde
1931 - Anadeu Gomes de Figueiredo became the 103rd governor of Portuguese Cape Verde
1934 - June 7: Riots sparked across Mindelo on São Vicente, protesters expressed against hunger caused by food shortages and shops and warehouses were looted, it was the darkest of Cape Verde's history
1936 - Claridade, a literary review inaugurated in Mindelo
1938 - Cape Verde's first football (soccer) competition began, the São Vicente Island League began, it was also a national competition that was unofficial until 1953
1939 - Sal Island: Italian government after granted authorization by the Portuguese government constructed Cape Verde's first major and international airport primarily to serve as a stopover for flights between Rome and South America.
1940
As a consequence of World War II in Europe, the Italians left, airport construction abandoned
The diocese of Santiago de Cabo Verde included exclusively Cape Verde
1941
José Diogo Ferreira Martins became the 104th governor of Cape Verde
Drought and famine struck Cape Verde
1942 - Drought and famine ended
1943 - João de Figueiredo became the 105th governor of Cape Verde
1944, March - Cape Verdean review Certeza started publishing in Praia, a milestone in Cape Verdean literature, it was later banned by the censors a year later.
1945 - Radio Clube de Cabo Verde (now Radio Praia) started broadcasting and was the first radio station in Cape Verde
1946
A petition took place in Assomada and other parts of Santiago
Another drought and famine struck Cape Verde
1947 - Sal Island: The Portuguese purchased the airport installations from the Italians, the Portuguese constructed the rest
1949
The settlement of Preguiça, named after a settlement in São Nicolau was founded in the island of Sal, it is now known as Espargos due to its abundances of asparagus grown in the sandy areas of the area
Drought and famine ended
1950s - Brava devastated by famine
1950 - Carlos Alberto Garcia Alves Roçadas became the 106th governor of Cape Verde
1951 - A small eruption affected the island of Fogo in the area of Pico do Fogo, the next eruption in 94 years
1952 - The Portuguese colonial administration proposed settling fifteen thousand people from Cape Verde to the island of São Tomé in São Tomé and Príncipe, at the time, another Portuguese colony, an attempt to seize that land from the forros, some of the people emigrated from Brava
1953
Both the Cape Verdean Colonial Championships and the Santiago Championships started its first edition
Manuel Marques de Abrantes Amaral became the 107th governor of Cape Verde
1957 - António Augusto Peixoto Correia became acting governor for Manuel Marques de Abrantes Amaral
1958 - Silvino Silvério Marques became the 108th governor of Cape Verde
1961
Praia Airport first opened, after independence, the nation's third airport or aerodrome opened, it would operate for 44 years before a new airport opened in the northeast
September 6: Hurricane Debbie passed through Cape Verde
1962
The first attacks ordered by the guerrillas of the PAIGC, this started the struggle against the oppression of Portugal, months later the Guinea-Bissau War of Independence broke out in Portuguese Guinea (now Guinea-Bissau), due to logistical reasons, Cape Verde didn't take part
The port at Porto Novo completed on the island of Santo Antão, the village name of Carvoeiros changed its name to Porto Novo
1963 - Leão Maria Tavares Rosado do Sacramento Monteiro became the 109th governor of Cape Verde
1967 - Sal Island: South African Airways (SAA) used as a refueling stop for flights to and from Europe, since SAA was denied landing rights by most African countries due to the international boycott of apartheid.
1969 - March 13: António Adriano Faria Lopes dos Santos became the 110th governor of Cape Verde
1970
Spring: Student rebellion took place in Assomada and on Santiago Island
1973 - The only legislative assembly election took place in March 1973
1974
April: the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, the Estado Novo regime collapsed, Cape Verde became an autonomous province
August 6: Henrique da Silva Horta became the 111th governor of Cape Verde
September 21 Vicente Almeida d'Eça became the 112th and last governor of Cape Verde
December 30: Vicente Almeida d'Eça became the only high commissioner of Cape Verde
1975 - July 5: Portuguese Cape Verde dissolved, Cape Verde became an independent nation
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