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The history of the kingdom of Portugal and the Algarves, from the First Treaty of San Ildefonso and the beginning of the reign of Queen Maria I in 1777, to the end of the Liberal Wars in 1834, spans a complex historical period in which several important political and military events led to the end of the absolutist regime and to the installation of a constitutional monarchy in the country.
Lisbon became part of the Umayyad Caliphate based in Damascus, Syria, soon after the beginning of Muslim rule in Iberia. An ongoing rebellion (740–743) of the Berber or "Moorish" elite against the Umayyads had spread through the Maghreb (North Africa) and across the Strait of Gibraltar to al-Andalus, but needed reinforcements to defeat the ...
The May 14 Revolt (1915) was a politico-military uprising led by Álvaro de Castro and General Sá Cardoso which started in Lisbon, Portugal, with the objective of taking power from the dictatorship of General Pimenta de Castro during the Portuguese First Republic and returning the government to the principles of the 1911 Constitution.
May 10 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: The 3rd Light Cavalry of the British East India Company's army rebels against its British officers, thus beginning the rebellion. May 11 – Indian Rebellion of 1857: Indian combatants capture Delhi from the British East India Company. May 15 – Spanish financial group, Banco Santander founded in Cantabria ...
The Liberal Wars (Portuguese: Guerras Liberais), also known as the War of the Two Brothers (Guerra dos Dois Irmãos) and the Portuguese Civil War, was a war between liberal constitutionalists and conservative traditionalists in Portugal over royal succession that lasted from 1828 to 1834.
The following is a list of events from 1857 in art. Events. June 22 – The South Kensington Museum, predecessor of the Victoria and Albert Museum, ...
The Kingdom of Portugal under the House of Braganza was a constitutional monarchy from the end of the Liberal Civil War in 1834 to the Republican Revolution of 1910.The initial turmoil of coups d'état perpetrated by the victorious generals of the Civil War was followed by an unstable parliamentary system of governmental "rotation" marked by the growth of the Portuguese Republican Party.
The Potato Revolt was a social unrest that broke out in Lisbon and Porto, with reverberations in several other Portuguese cities, between May 19 and 21, 1917, in protest against hunger and the rising cost of living. People looted grocery stores and warehouses, and a state of siege was declared in Lisbon and Porto. [1] [2] [3] [page needed]