------------------------------------------------------------------------- | The Year of their | KINGS AND QUEENS | [------------------] | CHILDREN. |birth|marriage|coronat.|death| ---------------------------+--------------------------------------------- SPANISH KINGS. | | | | | Philip II of Spain, | | | 1580 |1598 | and Philip I of Portugal. | | | | | | | | | | Philip III, and II of | | | 1621 |1640 | Portugal. | | | | | | | | | | Philip IV, and III of | | | 1640 | | Portugal. | | | | | | | | | | John IV, duke of Braganza, |1604 | | 1640 |1656 | Alphonso VI. k. the grandson of | | | | | Pedro, king, Catherine, who was | | | | | Maria, the daughter of the infant | | | | | Catherine, Edward, the son | | | | | of king Emmanuel. | | | | | ------------------------------------------------------------------- ALLIANCES. | PRINCIPAL EVENTS. ----------------------------------+--------------------------------- | 1581. States general of Portugal | held at Tomar. Philip II acknowledged | as king, provided Portugal | might ever be regarded as a | separate and independent kingdom, | of which Lisbon should be | the capital. So many persons | were thrown into the Tagus, that | the inhabitants would not eat the | fish, whereupon the archbishop of | Lisbon, solemnly, and with the | accustomed rites, absolved and | blessed the river. | | Vertot commences his relation | of the Revolution at this epoch, | which we continue till the departure Charles II, king of | of the family of Braganza for England. | Brazil, or, more properly speaking | till the battle of Veimera. |