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Charles II (r. 1660–85) married Catherine of Braganza in May 1662. Part of her large dowry was the Portuguese territory of ‘Bom Bahia’ (Bombay) on the western coast of India, modern Mumbai. The king agreed to transfer control of Bombay to the East India Company and it soon became their base. Nicholas Dixon (1660-1708)
Ruins of St. John the Baptist Church in Andheri, built by the Portuguese Jesuits in 1579. Bombay, also called Bom Bahia or Bom Baim in Indo-Portuguese creole, Mumbai in the local language; is the financial and commercial capital of India and one of the most populous cities in the world. It's also the cosmopolitan city centre of the Greater Bombay Metropolitan Area, and the cultural base of the ...
Catherine of Braganza ( Portuguese: Catarina de Bragança; 25 November 1638 – 31 December 1705) was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland during her marriage to King Charles II, which lasted from 21 May 1662 until his death on 6 February 1685. She was the daughter of John IV of Portugal, who became the first king from the House of Braganza ...
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Bombay in the 1880s. Bombay, also called Bom baim in Portuguese, is the financial and commercial capital of India and one of the most populous cities in the world.. Once an archipelago of seven islands, obtained by the Portuguese via the Treaty of Bassein (1534), from the Sultan Bahadur Shah of Gujarat, the island group would later form part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza, daughter of ...
Mar 26, 2018 · No history tour of the city ever concludes without the participants learning that Bombay was given to the British as part of Catherine of Braganza's royal dowry when she married King Charles II of ...
Jan 10, 2006 · In 1662, Mumbai was simply handed over to King Charles II of England as part of Catherine of Braganza’s dowry when the two were married. The decision to hand over Mumbai was purely transactional; it was as simple as adding it to an extensive list of territories that were ceded as part of this dowry.
Aug 3, 2022 · Portugal had proposed the fattest of dowry to King Charles II. This dowry was 300,000 pounds of cash, a place called Tangier in the Meditteranean, and Bombay, which was called Bom Bahia back then. Catherine of Braganza, the princess from Portugal who would give the dowry, trumped other princesses in line.
