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The Acclamation of the King John IV by Veloso Salgado
Renascimento - A Portuguese Timeline
Chapter 1
On 1661, after the defeat of Maniago, due to the town leaders in Pampanga being deceived by the Spanish, Maniago decided to go to his ally, Andres Malong who also led a rebellion in the Island centered in Pangasinan since the majority of his faction had already surrendered to the Spanish, in this point in time there is a leader of this revolt in Ilocos named Almazan.
The Maniago-Malong revolt have been considered a threat to the Spanish control in Luzon due to the people actually supporting it and because the Spanish abandoned their war against the moros in Mindanao, the revolt caused the Spanish to lose most of their gains in the wars against the moros, this was due to the fact that the revolt became a threat to the Spanish rule in Manila and the Manila-Acapulco trade.
After the time the Maniago-Malong revolt change its center to Pangasinan, the Chinese in the Luzon also revolted which coincided with the victory of Koxinga, it is rumored that Koxinga wanted to ally with the 17th Century revolters in the Island of Gold.
The Merdicas (also spelled Mardicas or Mardikas) were Catholic natives of the islands of Ternate and Tidore of the Moluccas, converted during the Portuguese occupation of the islands by Jesuit missionaries. The islands were later captured by the Spanish who vied for their control with the Dutch. In 1663, the Spanish garrison in Ternate were forced to pull out to defend Manila against the Maniago-Malong revolt (sacrificing the Moluccas to the Dutch in doing so). A number of Merdicas volunteered to help, eventually being resettled in a sandbar near the mouth of the Maragondon river (known as the Barra de Maragondon) and Tanza, Cavite, Manila.
Although the Spanish were able to defeat the leaders Maniago-Malong in Luzon, namely Maniago, Malong and Almazan in 1665, when the Spanish had a solid army with collaborators, Merdicas and Spanish, this revolt would inspire future revolts and the Christians in Luzon or the Island of Gintu, Saludong/Saludong or Nueva Castilla would not resettle the sparsely inhabited inland flatlands of Luzon which is majority inhabited by Infidels such as Upper Cagayan, Tarlac, Zambales and Upper Pampanga river basin, further missions in those lands would fail after the revolt and the Spanish would focus on pleasing the nobility of the lands they already control in the island and the Tobacco monopoly in Cagayan would only be found in Lower Cagayan which is in Spanish control, the Spanish would favor the Kapampangans over the Tagalogs and the Ilocanos who made rebellions.
Due to the consequences of the strong revolt started by Maniago, the people would be more assertive of their rights to stay in their ancestral lands and would not leave due to famines but rather chose to defend their own rights.
Chapter 2
Due Gov. General Manuel de Leon already lost and had already gambled out of their control of most of Mindanao, on 1670 due to the revolt, the following governor Juan Manuel Bonifaz would resettle some Tagalogs, Ilocanos and Visayans in their controlled area of Mindanao since controlling the Interior of Luzon would be impossible since the conversion has been a failure for these people and it would cause the Spanish to lose more of their control in the land and at this point it is the nobles who are ruling for them but the people of Ilocos and Southern Luzon, had learned that they would not take advantage of the difficulties of the Infidels in the Inland Luzon as they were part of the earlier struggle against the Spanish, due to the Ilocanos not wanting to resettle the territories of Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, Zambales and Nueva Viscaya/Upper Cagayan due to the people there are their allies in the revolt, the loosely controlled territories inhabited by majorly pagans in Luzon would slowly go away from Spanish control, the results were good for the people of the Saludong or Luzon.
The limits of absolute Spanish control in Cagayan is in the Tuguegarao area after the revolt and the area where the Spanish control fades in the Central Luzon Plains is on the last populous town of the Bulacan and Pampanga provinces, Karaklan and Bukid live in what our world is called as Nueva Ecija (they are speak a language similar to Kapampangan and Pangasinense), Ilongots, Irraya, Gaddang, Ifugaos, Isinay and Sambals and other areas where the Infieles lived are out of Spanish control.
Chapter 3
Spain is currently ruled by Philip IV, the Spanish had experienced the loss of their rule in Celebes and Ternate and most of Mindanao and is also suffering the gradual loss of their rule in Luzon/Nueva Castilla or the Island of Gold as the Spanish could no longer help the nobles in Luzon as the peasants have learned of their rights.
Due to the rule in Luzon being unstable, the Spanish would be more desperate in clinging to the Manila-Acapulco trade.
In this point some of the Christian Peasants become influenced by the Pagans, however, the Christians are still having problems in working the fields for their own hacienderos and the nobles who only have a string hold on their people and so does the Spanish central rule in Luzon.
At this point there are many threats to the Spanish rule in Luzon which are the Pagans living there.
The Peasants have learned of their rights and periodic revolts and riots happen, the slowly losing control of the Spanish in Luzon was irreversible due to the change in the Peasants, while Visayas and the Spanish ruled Mindanao are more tightly integrated in the Spanish yoke, it would just be time before a great man expel the Spanish in Manila.
Chapter 4
On 1670, The Spanish had completely lost control of Nueva Ecija, Tarlac and Nueva Vizcaya, the Gaddangs and Irrayas attacked Tuguegarao and reclaimed it on 1670 expelling the Ibanag settlers north, the Irraya reclaimed Tuguegarao as their territory and the Irraya of Tuguegarao would be the only one remained there and the capital of the Cagayan Province became Lallo.
The Spanish would view this as a painful defeat and the proof of the Spanish weakness in the island and the natives would realize this and the fact that they can defeat the spanish and expel them.
The Spanish were always defeated in their wars against the raiders in Southern Luzon and the Pagan raiders from Inner Luzon.
The Visayans at this point became more loyal of the Spanish and became more allied and acculturated to them and the Visayans experience more privileges under the Spanish rule which the lowlanders in Luzon and Mindanao don't experience due to the undying loyalty of the Visayans since the beginning.
The Spanish at this point only controlled only the Coastal Parts of Luzon but the control to these areas are shaky and any challenge of the Spanish to the status quo will lead to their expulsion.
In this point the Ifugaos had absorbed the Isinay and Kankanaey and expanded to parts of Upper Cagayan valley(which in our world is Nueva Vizcaya) and parts of the areas of the Ilongots and the former province of Tarlac and Nueva Ecija, the Karlakan, Bukid, Gaddang and Irraya would recover from what the Spanish did to them and start to multiply like rabbits, the Ifugaos multiply like rabbits as well, a republican government for the Pagan parts of Luzon or Selurong formed and it is centered in the areas of the Ifugao and led by a chosen person by the councils, the old dynasty of the Majapahitans in Luzon or Saludong were restored under an unknown King who was named Laki Balagtas.
Chapter 5
By 1640, the Habsburg king, Philip IV of Spain (Philip III of Portugal), could no longer count on the trust, support, or loyalty of most Portuguese nobles. The country was overtaxed and Portuguese colonies had been left unprotected. Portugal, like many of Philip's domains, was on the verge of open rebellion.
After sixty years of living under the rule of Spanish kings, a small band of conspirators in Lisbon rebelled and the Duke of Braganza was acclaimed king of Portugal as John IV on 1 December 1640, taking advantage of a simultaneous revolt in Catalonia and Spain's continuing conflict with France. This began the 28-year-long Portuguese Restoration War.
In the beginning, Portugal lost many of its colonial possessions to the opportunistic Dutch. Portugal's military strength was reserved for protecting its own frontiers against Spanish incursions; however, after 1648, with the end of the Thirty Years' War, these misfortunes began to reverse. Portugal regained its colonies in Angola, São Tomé, and Brazil by 1654.
In 1652, Catalonia's rebellion against Spain collapsed, and, in 1659, Spain ended its war with France, so there were grounds for Spanish optimism in the struggle to regain control over Portugal. Yet Portugal could draw on the wealth of Brazil and the aid of (first) France and (then) England, while Spain's finances were perpetually in crisis.
A series of successes by the Portuguese made it clear that the Iberian Peninsula would not be reunited under Spanish rule. The first of these took place on 8 June 1663, when the count of Vila Flor, Sancho Manoel de Vilhena, with Marshal Schomberg by his side, utterly defeated John of Austria the Younger, an illegitimate son of Philip IV, at the Battle of Ameixial, before retaking Évora, which had been captured earlier that year. One year later, on 7 July 1664, Pedro Jacques de Magalhães, a local military leader, defeated the Duke of Osuna at Ciudad Rodrigo in the Salamanca province of Spain. And finally, on 17 June 1665, the marquis of Marialva and Schomberg destroyed a Spanish army under the marquis of Caracena at the Battle of Montes Claros, followed by defeat at Vila Viçosa.
The Spaniards failed to gain any compensating advantage. Five years later, in 1668, desperate to reduce its military commitments, at almost any price, Spain accepted the loss of the Crown of Portugal and formally recognized the sovereignty of the House of Braganza by signing the Treaty of Lisbon.
The Spaniards failed to gain any compensating advantage. Three years later, in 1668, desperate to reduce its military commitments, at almost any price, Spain accepted the loss of the Crown of Portugal and formally recognized the sovereignty of the House of Braganza by signing the Treaty of Lisbon.
Chapter 6
The regent of Spain, queen Mariana of Austria, second wife of the late King Philip IV, acting in the name of her young son Carlos II, oversaw the negotiation on behalf of Spain. The prince-regent of Portugal, Pedro, future king Peter II of Portugal, in the name of his incapacitated brother, Afonso VI, represented Portugal. The peace was mediated by Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of Sandwich, an ambassador of Charles II of England.
The fundamental terms of the treaty of Lisbon on 1668 were:
The Spanish Habsburgs led by Charles II of Spain finally recognized the legitimacy of the Braganza dynasty in Portugal. Infanta Catarina, Duchess of Braganza (1540–1614), former Duchess of Braganza and grandmother of João IV of Portugal, was retrospectively acknowledged as a legitimate heir to the throne.
Portuguese sovereignty over its colonial possessions was reconfirmed, except for the African exclave of Ceuta, who did not recognize the House of Braganza as the new ruling dynasty.
Agreements on the exchange of prisoners, reparations, and the restoration of commercial relations were reached.
Portugal ceded the African city of Ceuta to Spain. Seven years earlier, the nearby city of Tangiers had been awarded to Charles II of England as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza; this was stipulated in the Treaty of Lisbon of 1661.
A few years after the Treaty of Lisbon was signed on 1672, the Spanish sold the rights to Northern Luzon which was lost to the Spanish and the lands that the Spanish still have in Northern Luzon and Celebes, the spanish would also sell their rights to the Borneo.
On the 1672, the Portuguese would purchase three lands from the Spanish which are;
Novo Ecija(Nueva Ecija), whose majority lapsed from the Spanish due to the Spanish being defeated in the rebellion of Maniago-Almazan-Malong and the Pagans, which the Spanish also called as Norte-Nueva Castilla aka Norte de Luzon, however the Spanish would retain Bataan and the Meycauayan area which are vital to the Spanish trade causing the Spanish Luzon and Portuguese Luzon border to run in Tayabas and Pampanga.
Celebes, Another rebellious colony to the Spanish, in the South of Mindanao.
Borneo, A majority muslim land wherein the Missionaries still would have any success.
Both Novo Ecija and Celebes were beneficial to the Spanish because they used Novo Ecija and Celebes in their own monopolies like Tabacco and Coffee monopoly.
The three lands were sold to the Portuguese in 20 Million Portuguese Reals.
After the Purchase, in the latter 1670's the Portuguese would make the pagan government of Saludong or Luzon and Minahasa states as their own vassals, the Portuguese would respect their rights to their own religion and rule as autonomous vassals.
1.The border runs in the OTL Bulacan and Quezon Provinces.