Don Pacifico affair and case

The Don Pacifico Affair was an episode of gun boat diplomacy which occurred in 1850 and concerned the Kingdom of Greece, the United Kingdom, and Portugal. The affair is named after David Pacifico. The grandfather of David Pacifico, named David Pacifico him too, settled down in Gibraltar in 1726 at 19 coming there from Italy where Pacifico's family arrived at the time of Jews' expulsion from Spain in 1492. Pacifico's family was a spanish sephardic one. Because of his task of honorary consul of the reign of Portugal, where Pacifico grew up because of his father work a diffused misunderstanding has indicated him as a jew of Portuguese descent, which is not correct. The Pacificos or Pacificis have in fact always been known as jews of Spanish descent in all the Italian communities they have belonged to, particularly the one of Florence. David Pacifico became a naturalized British subject afterwards.