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In 1960, at the initiation of Salazar's more outward-looking economic policy after the beginning of the end of a period of deep economically illiberal corporativism and protectionism, [62] Portugal's per capita GDP was only 38 per cent of the European Community (EC-12) average; by the end of the Salazar period, in 1968, it had risen to 48 per ...
The President of the Republic, Bernardino Machado, resigns. José Mendes Cabeçadas Júnior becomes Prime Minister and President of the Republic. June 3, António de Oliveira Salazar becomes Minister of Finance; he resigns 16 days after nomination. June 3, The Congress of the Republic of Portugal (National Assembly) is dissolved by dictatorial ...
Estado Novo (Portugal) One-party states; Political history of Portugal; Republicanism in Portugal; Former countries on the Iberian Peninsula; Anti-communism; Far-right politics in Europe; 1930s in Portugal; 1940s in Portugal; 1950s in Portugal; 1960s in Portugal; 1970s in Portugal; States and territories established in 1933; States and ...
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.
Composed of the overseas colonies, factories, and later overseas territories, governed by the Kingdom of Portugal, and later the Republic of Portugal, it was the longest-lived colonial empire in European history, lasting 584 years from the conquest of Ceuta in North Africa in 1415 to the transfer of sovereignty over Macau to China in 1999. [2 ...
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 ...
There have been two regimes known as Estado Novo ('New State'): . Estado Novo (Portugal), or Second Republic, the Portuguese authoritarian regime between 1933 and 1974 Estado Novo (Brazil), the period from 1937 to 1945, under the leadership of Getúlio Vargas
Year Date Event 80 to 72 BC: The Sertorian War takes place, with Quintus Sertorius, a Roman general, rebelling against Rome with the support of the Lusitanians.: 27 BC: Augustus replaces the old Hispania Ulterior and Citerior division with a new one: Lusitania (Centre and South of modern Portugal and some territory of Modern Spain, namely the capital of Lusitania, Mérida), Baetica (only ...