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The Carnation Revolution (Portuguese: Revolução dos Cravos), also known as the 25 April (Portuguese: 25 de Abril), was a military coup by military officers that overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo government on 25 April 1974 in Lisbon, [2] producing major social, economic, territorial, demographic, and political changes in Portugal and its overseas colonies through the Processo ...
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]
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.
The Restoration War (Portuguese: Guerra da Restauração), historically known as the Acclamation War (Guerra da Aclamação), [7] was the war between Portugal and Spain that began with the Portuguese revolution of 1640 and ended with the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668, bringing a formal end to the Iberian Union.
Bloody Night (Portuguese: Noite Sangrenta) is the name by which the radical revolt that took place in Lisbon, on the night of 19 October 1921, became known. [1] During the day, a coup led António Granjo's government to resign, but President António José de Almeida resisted appointing the rebels' government. [2]
Marquês de Sá da Bandeira. The Rossio Massacre (Portuguese: ‘massacre do Rossio’) [1] took place on the evening of 13 March 1838, when forces loyal to the Portuguese government of Prime Minister Sá da Bandeira put down a revolt by radical sections of the National Guard and their supporters, who were gathered in Rossio Square in central Lisbon.
The February 1927 Revolt, sometimes also referred to as the February 1927 Revolution, was a military rebellion that took place between February 3 and 9, 1927, centered in Porto, the city where the insurgents' command center was installed and fought the main challenges.
The immediate cause of the revolt was the 1890 British Ultimatum, also known as Lord Salisbury's Ultimatum, which was delivered to Portugal on 11 January 1890.Portugal had attempted to claim a large area of land in southern Africa between its colonies of Mozambique and Angola, which had been included in Portugal's Pink Map prepared in 1885 to show the country's sovereignty over that land.