Lourenço de Brito Correia

Lourenço de Brito Correia was governor of Portuguese Timor between June 15, 1779 and 1782 . He received the appointment in April 1778. He replaced Caetano de Lemos Telo de Meneses , who was accused of various offenses and was therefore exiled to Mozambique .

In 1777 (according to other sources 1776, 1779 or 1781) the kingdom of Luca arose, due to repression against the animistic religion, in a revolt against the Portuguese colonial rulers that lasted until 1785, the " war of the mad " ( Portuguese guerra de loucas , also called guerra dos doidas ). A "prophetess" had announced to the warriors that the ancestors would support them to shake off the yoke of the strangers. The warriors believed they were invulnerable. Viqueque supported the Portuguese in suppressing the rebellion, but this was only achieved by Governor João Baptista Vieira Godinho in 1785.

See also

• History of East Timor

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Geoffrey C. Gunn: History of Timor. ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 50, (PDF; 805 kB). 
2. ↑ Junta da real Fazenda do Estado da Ìndia. Livro 49. (1777-1779). (PDF; 262 kB).
3. ↑ Susana Barnes, Hans Hägerdal, Lisa Palmer: An East Timorese Domain - Luca from Central and Peripheral Perspectives , p. 336, 2017, DOI: 10.1163 / 22134379-17302020 , accessed on November 22, 2017.
4. ↑ Hans Hägerdal: Lords of the Land, Lords of the Sea. Conflict and Adaptation in Early Colonial Timor, 1600–1800 (= Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde. 273). KITLV Press, Leiden 2012, ISBN 978-90-6718-378-9 , p. 407.

predecessor	Office	successor
Caetano de Lemos Telo de Meneses	Governor of Portuguese Timor June 15, 1779–15. June 1779	João Anselmo de Almeida Soares