---------------------------+------------------------------------------ ALLIANCES. | PRINCIPAL EVENTS. ---------------------------+------------------------------------------ Don Juan I, of Castille. | 1381, the English, under the |command of the earl of Cambridge, |brother to the duke of Lancaster, |came to the assistance of the king. | 1385. Battle of d'Aljubarotta |against the king of Castille. A |convent built on the field of battle, |which afterwards became the burying |place for the kings of Portugal. |Ferdinand Nugno Alvarez Perreyra, |constable of Portugal, was made Philip _the good_, duke of |duke of Braganza, as a reward for Burgundy. |his great services. His heiress afterwards |married Alphonso of Portugal, |the natural son of John I, from |which marriage sprung the family |of Braganza now reigning in Portugal. | 1415, capture of Ceuta in Africa. | 1420, discovery and conquest of |Madeira. | 1422, the Christian era first in |general use throughout Portugal. | Frederic III, Emperor. | | | 1459. Alphonso V instituted Henry IV, king of Castille.|the order of the sword. | 1476. The battle of Toro gained |by Ferdinand, king of Castille, |against Alphonso, who goes to |France to demand assistance from |Louis XI, whom he met at Tours. |He embarked the next year at |Houfleur, in Normandy, for Portugal, |where he arrived Nov. 15.