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António de Oliveira Salazar[a] GCTE GCSE GColIH GCIC (28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese statesman, academic, and economist who served as Prime Minister of Portugal from 1932 to 1968. Having come to power under the Ditadura Nacional ("National Dictatorship"), he reframed the regime as the corporatist Estado Novo ("New State ...
Overview. At the outbreak of World War II, Portugal was ruled by António de Oliveira Salazar, who in 1933 had founded the Estado Novo ("New State"), the corporatist authoritarian government that ruled Portugal until 1974. He had favoured the Spanish nationalist cause, fearing a communist invasion of Portugal, yet he was uneasy at the prospect ...
For Portuguese heads of state prior to 1910, see list of Portuguese monarchs. Top left: Teofilo Braga President of the Provisional Government of the Republic. Top right: Óscar Carmona was the longest serving head of state. Bottom left: António Ramalho Eanes was the first president elected in democracy. Bottom right: Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa is ...
Rifles. Mauser Karabiner 98k [1] Mauser–Vergueiro m/1904-39. Portuguese-Mannlicher M1896 Portuguese licensed production. Steyr-Kropatschek M1886/89 Portuguese licensed production for colonial troops. Lee-Enfield No.1 Mk III* m/917[2] Remnants of British military aid in WW1. M1917 Enfield.
James Stewart, 1st Earl of Moray, Regent of Scotland. James Hamilton. The first assassination carried out with a firearm. 1628. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, Lord High Admiral /royal favourite. John Felton. Stabbed in Portsmouth as he planned a second expedition to La Rochelle. 1679. James Sharp, Archbishop of St Andrews.
The history of Portugal can be traced from circa 400,000 years ago, when the region of present-day Portugal was inhabited by Homo heidelbergensis. The Roman conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, which lasted almost two centuries, led to the establishment of the provinces of Lusitania in the south and Gallaecia in the north of what is now Portugal.
Assassination of Alexander I and Louis Barthou on October 9, 1934, Marseilles, France. Executed body of Abd al-Karim Qasim on February 9, 1963, Baghdad, Iraq. Executed body of Ngô Đình Diệm on November 2, 1963, Saigon, South Vietnam. Assassination of John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, Dallas, Texas, United States.
Portugal was officially neutral during World War II and the period of the Holocaust in German-occupied Europe.The country had been ruled by an authoritarian political regime led by António de Oliveira Salazar but had not been significantly influenced by racial antisemitism and was considered more sympathetic to the Allies than was neighbouring Francoist Spain.