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Part of Kingdom of León civil war and War of Portuguese independence; Location: Iberian Peninsula. County of Portugal Supported by: Kingdom of Galicia: Portuguese rebels Victory. Afonso Henriques takes the leadership of the County of Portugal and paves the way for an independent Kingdom of Portugal. Luso-Leonese War (1130–37) Location ...
Monument in Coimbra, Portugal, to the Portuguese soldiers who died in World War I. The Kingdom of Portugal had been allied with England since 1373, and thus the Republic of Portugal was an ally of the United Kingdom. However, Portugal remained neutral from the start of World War I in 1914 until early 1916.
The House of Aviz, known as the Joanine Dynasty, succeeded the House of Burgundy as the reigning house of the Kingdom of Portugal. The house was founded by John I of Portugal, who was the Grand Master of the Order of Aviz. When King John II of Portugal died without an heir, the throne of Portugal passed to his cousin, Manuel, Duke of Beja.
Map of territorial changes in Europe after World War I (as of 1923) The Paris Peace Conference imposed a series of peace treaties on the Central Powers officially ending the war. The 1919 Treaty of Versailles dealt with Germany and, building on Wilson's 14th point, established the League of Nations on 28 June 1919. [226] [227]
During the Napoleonic Wars, Portugal was, for a time, Britain's only ally on the continent. Throughout the war, Portugal maintained a military of about 200–250 thousand troops worldwide. In 1807, after the Portuguese government's refusal to participate in the Continental System, French troops under General Junot invaded Portugal, taking ...
Spanish–Portuguese War (1735–1737), fought over the Banda Oriental (Uruguay) Spanish–Portuguese War (1762–1763), also known as the Fantastic War; Spanish–Portuguese War (1776–1777), fought over the border between Spanish and Portuguese South America; War of the Oranges in 1801, when Spain and France defeated Portugal in the Iberian ...
On 15 November 1853, Queen Maria II died, and her eldest son succeeded to the throne as Pedro V, the first king of the Braganza-Saxe-Coburg and Gotha dynasty. The dynasty remained on the throne until the outbreak in Portugal of the 5 October 1910 revolution when King Manuel II of Portugal was deposed and the Portuguese First Republic was ...
The Infanta Maria Francisca, ascended the throne to reign as Queen Maria I Marquis of Pombal, Queen Maria's nemesis, who was dismissed and exiled. The death of King Joseph in 1777 forced the accession of Princess Maria Francisca, his eldest daughter, to the throne of Portugal; she succeeded her father as the first Queen regnant of the 650-year-old country, which was still recovering from the ...