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Independence Day: 27 October: 1979 Samoa: Independence Day: 1 June: 1962 New Zealand São Tomé and Príncipe: Independence Day: 12 July: 1975 Portugal: Effective date of the agreement with Portugal reached on 26 November 1974. [75] [76] Senegal: Independence Day: 4 April: 1960 France Serbia: Statehood Day: 15 February: 1804 and 1835 Ottoman Empire
Source: [5] 1 January – New Year's Day; 18 April – Good Friday; 20 April – Easter Sunday; 25 April – Freedom Day; 1 May – Labour Day; 10 June – Portugal Day; 19 June – Feast of Corpus Christi; 15 August – Assumption Day; 5 October – Republic Day; 1 November – All Saints' Day; 1 December – Independence Restoration Day
Portugal Day, officially Portugal, Camões, and Portuguese Communities Day (Portuguese: Dia de Portugal, de Camões e das Comunidades Portuguesas), is the national day of Portugal celebrated annually on 10 June. It is one of the public holidays in Portugal and celebrated by Portuguese people throughout the world.
The Restoration War (Portuguese: Guerra da Restauração), historically known as the Acclamation War (Guerra da Aclamação), [7] was the war between Portugal and Spain that began with the Portuguese revolution of 1640 and ended with the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668, bringing a formal end to the Iberian Union.
Portugal, [e] officially the Portuguese Republic, [f] is a country in the Iberian Peninsula in Southwestern Europe.Featuring the westernmost point in continental Europe, Portugal borders Spain to its north and east, with which it shares the longest uninterrupted border in the European Union; to the south and the west is the North Atlantic Ocean; and to the west and southwest lie the ...
On the same day, Portugal signed a separate Treaty of Badajoz with France, which Napoleon, then First Consul of France, refused to sign. An amended version was agreed in September 1801, which is known as the Treaty of Madrid ; France received large parts of Portuguese South America in what is now Brazil plus a payment of 20 million francs .
Watch as Pope Francis arrives in Portugal on Wednesday, 2 August, for World Youth Day. The event was created by the late Pope John Paul for young Catholics in their teens or early 20s.
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