Construction of a chapel in honour of Our Lady of Monserrate
Leasing of the estate
Purchase of the estate by Dom Caetano de Mello e Castro
Lord Byron visits the estate and laments its abandoned condition
Francis Cook is one of the largest property owners in Sintra
The Portuguese state purchases the property
Prize for the “Best Public Restoration Plan”
Brazilian independence
Battle of Alcácer Quibir
Methuen Treaty (commercial agreement between Portugal and England)
Apparitions at Fatima
Opening of the bridge over the Tagus
Battles of Trafalgar and Austerlitz
Black Thursday on Wall Street
Outbreak of the Gulf War
Cervantes writes Don Quixote
Daniel Defoe writes Robinson Crusoe
Bell invents the telephone
The Mello e Castro Family (Dom Caetano de Mello e Castro buys Monserrate in 1718).
Later, in 1718, the property was bought by Dom Caetano de Mello e Castro, Viceroy of India, whose family had held the lease for the territory for over a century.
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