Sacramento: The portuguese colony in La Plata River

[Tutankhamun]

A few years after the Discovery of Brazil in 1500, an expedition commanded by Martim Afonso de Sousa arrived with his caravels as far as the estuary of the La Plata River, with the mission of placing markers owned by the Portuguese on the left bank of the mouth of that river, but mission not successful.

In 1679 the Portuguese Crown, with King Afonso VI, again expressed its interest in extending the southern borders of the State of Brazil to the La Plata River when it ordered the governor of Rio de Janeiro, Manuel Lobo, to found a fortification on the left bank of that river.

With the support of merchants from Rio de Janeiro, Manuel Lobo's expedition landed in the city of Santos at the end of 1679 and reached in La Plata River in January 1680. On January 22, 1680, Portuguese forces began establishing the Colonia do Santíssimo Sacramento the first European settlement in what is now Uruguay, 52 km away from Buenos Aires.



Location of Sacramento in Portuguese America.






The response from the Spanish authorities was immediate: in a short time the governor of Buenos Aires, Vera Mujica, reacted, and the Portuguese core was conquered by Spanish troops. But through diplomatic negotiations, possession of the Colony was returned to Portugal by the Provisional Treaty of Lisbon (May 7, 1681). Sacramento would remain under Portuguese possession until 1777. Due to the battles against the Spanish government of Buenos Aires, the colony was fortified monthly with colonists coming from other parts of Portuguese America, mainly from cities such as São Vicente, Laguna, Rio Grande, Viamão and mainland Portugal.

In this period in response to the founding of Sacramento, the governor of Buenos Aires, Bruno Mauricio de Zabala founded the city of Montevideo in 1726.


In 1777 Sacramento is conquered by the Spanish governor of Buenos Aires Pedro de Cevallos.


40 years later Sacramento would return to Portuguese possession, when the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves, conquered the Banda Oriental in 1817. With the Independence of Brazil in 1822 Sacramento became part of the domains of the Brazilian Empire. And In 1828 Sacramento became part of Uruguay, a new country created to be a demilitarized buffer between Argentina and the Empire of Brazil





Sacramento

[Tutankhamun]

[axel.aleman]

Interesante hilo
Enseña algo nuevo, no muestra OWD y necedades a diferencia de la mayoría de los hilos recientes
Ojalá hubieran más usuarios brasileños aqui

[Tutankhamun]

Interesante hilo
Enseña algo nuevo, no muestra OWD y necedades a diferencia de la mayoría de los hilos recientes
Ojalá hubieran más usuarios brasileños aqui

Jaja, gracias Axel.

[Kriptc06]

Portugal, then, exchanged Sacramento with Spain for the western part of what is now Rio Grande do Sul, that was part of the Vice Royalty of Rio de la Plata, after this many azorean migrants came to colonize these new lands.

For Spain it was not a good thing to have the Portuguese so close to the Rio de la Plata, so it sees like the trade was unfavorable for Spain, but it was not, it made them control the Plata completely.