with a great force, and is compelled to raise the
siege, after losing four thousand men, and his
eldest son.
C. 1569. S. 1491. H. 977*
A single Portuguese man-of-war defeats the
Achinese fleet, commanded by the king in person.
C. 1570. | S. 1492. H. 978.
Aeiro, king of Ternate, is treacherously assassinated
by Lopez de Mesquita, governor of the Moluccas,
at his own house, under pretext of a friendly
conference, arid his body being refused to his
friends, who demand it for burial, is cut in pieces
and thrown into the sea.
The Ternatians under Baber, the late king’s
son, retire to the mountains, and for the rest of
the period of the residence of the Portuguese in the
Moluccas, continue to harass them by a predatory
warfare.
C. 1571. S. 1493. H. 979.
The king of Achin sends a fleet to attack that
under the Portuguese admiral Louis de Melo, and
is defeated near Malacca with great loss.
Manila is conquered by the Spaniards, and a
town built.
C. 1572. S. 1494. H. 980.
The king of Achin, in consequence of a league
entered into with the princes of western India,
again attacks Malacca with a numerous army, but
his fleet is defeated by Tristan de la Vega, and he
is in consequence compelled to raise the siege.
C. 1573. S. 1495. H. 981.
The king of Achin having formed an alliance
with the queen of Japara in Java, again attacks
Malacca.
C. 1574. S. 1496. H. 982.
Manila is attacked by the Chinese rover Lima-
hon, and nearly taken.
The queen of Japara, with an army of fifteen
thousand men, and a fleet of forty-five great
junks, attacks Malacca, and, after a siege of three
months, is compelled to retire.
C. 157i. S. 1497- H. 983.
The king of Achin again besieges Malacca with
a greater force than at any former period, and when
on the eve of taking the town, which is defended
by no more than one hundred and fifty men, is suddenly
panic-struck, and retires with precipitation.
Don Francisco la Sande, governor of the Philippines.
C. 1578. S. 1500. H. 986.
Nov. 14th.—The English, under Sir Francis
Drake, make their first appearance in the Archipelago,
touching at the islands of Ternate and Java.
C. 1580. S. 1502. H. 988.
Don Gonzalo Ronquillo, governor of the Philippines.