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Flag Date Use Description 1979–present: Flag of the Autonomous Region of the Azores.: This flag is similar to the flag of Portugal used between 1830 and 1910, except that the Portuguese coat of arms has been replaced by nine five-sided stars in a semi-circular arch over a stylized golden goshawk (in Portuguese: Açor), the symbol of the Azores, positioned over the border of the two bands.
Flag of Kingdom of France and French First Republic: 14 July 1790: Revolutionist flag: 21 January 1793: Revolutionist flag: 7 May 1794: Revolutionist flag: Similar to the Pre-Communist Yugoslavia. 1814–1830: Royal flag of Kingdom of France: 1848: Flag of French Second Republic: 1940–1944: Flag of Free France: 1943–1944: Flag of the Milice
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.
1780s in the Portuguese Empire (6 C, 1 P) Pages in category "1780s in Portugal" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Some of the colonies, protectorates and mandates of the French Colonial Empire used distinctive colonial flags.These most commonly had a French Tricolour in the canton.. As well as the flags of individual colonies, the governors-general of French colonies flew a square flag with a blue field and the French ensign in the canton.
The Selling of the Empire: British and French Imperialist Propaganda, 1890–1940 (1985) Chafer, Tony, and Amanda Sackur. Promoting the Colonial Idea: Propaganda and Visions of Empire in France (2002) Confer, Vincent (1964). "French Colonial Ideas before 1789". French Historical Studies. 3 (3): 338– 359. doi:10.2307/285947. JSTOR
The moonlight Battle off Cape St Vincent, 16 January 1780 by Francis Holman, painted 1780, shows the Santo Domingo exploding, with Rodney's flagship Sandwich in the foreground. 16 January – Battle of Cape St. Vincent, a naval battle off the southern coast of Portugal during the Anglo-Spanish War. A British fleet defeated a Spanish squadron.
Since the white field was too royal for the taste of the revolution, on 27 pluviôse year II of the French Republican calendar (15 February 1794), the flag and the ensign were changed to the design of the current flag of France: three columns of equal width, of blue, white, and red. The same banner was again decreed to be the flag on 7 March 1848.