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History Cape Verde

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1456: 1456: said-discovery by the Venetian Ca'da Mosto, a navigator and merchant financed by Portugal. The Infante Enrique, King of Portugal, decides to make this archipelago a colony. Cape Verde then becomes one of the turntable of the slave trade.
1885: Cape Verde is recognised as a Portuguese territory at the Berlin conference.
1956: creation of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, by the impetus of a Cape Verdean, Amilcar Cabral, in Bissau.
1974: Cape Verde obtains independence.
1975: Cape Verde obtains independence. Aristides Maria Pereira becomes the first President of the country.
1980: the coup d'Etat in Guinea-Bissau puts an end to the project for a common party with Cape Verde. The constitution of the country is formally recognised as a "Democratic national revolutionary state based on national unity".
1985: Aristides Maria Pereira is re-elected
1991: Antonio Mascarenhas Monteira becomes President.
1996: re-election of Antonio Mascarenhas Monteira.
2001: February 25th: presidential election: victory by Pedro Pires(socialist party)
2005: Pedro Pires, the President leaving office, wins the presidential elections.