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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 ...
The Portuguese House of Burgundy, known as the Afonsine Dynasty, was the founding house of the Kingdom of Portugal. Prior to the independence of Portugal, the house ruled the feudal County of Portugal, of the Kingdom of Galicia. When Afonso Henriques declared the independence of Portugal, he turned the family from a comital house to a royal ...
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A Portuguese fleet commanded by Fuas Roupinho is defeated by an Almohad fleet of 51 galleys. 1184 The Portuguese defeat the Almohads at Santarém. Yusuf I, Almohad Caliph, dies and is succeeded by Abu Yusuf Ya'qub al-Mansur. 1185 December 6, King Afonso I of Portugal dies. Sancho I of Portugal becomes King of Portugal.
237 BC - The Carthaginian General Hamilcar Barca enters Iberia with his armies through Gadir.; 228 BC - Hamilcar Barca dies in battle. He is succeeded in command of the Carthaginian armies in Iberia by his son-in-law Hasdrubal, who extends the newly acquired empire by skillful diplomacy, and consolidates it by the foundation of Carthago Nova as the capital of the new province.
The Spanish Fleet of Santa Cruz defeats the Portuguese-French Fleet of Strozzi in the Azores. Introduction of the Gregorian Calendar in Portugal. 1583 Cortes in Lisbon. King Philip I of Portugal departs for Madrid and leaves the government of Portugal with Portuguese trustees. The Azores are submitted. Francis Drake attacks Portuguese Brazil.
Goa, in Portuguese India, is attacked by a coalition of Indian forces, but these are defeated by Portuguese Vice-Roy Luís de Ataíde, Count of Atouguia. 1578 Portuguese troops utterly defeated in Africa, in the battle of Alcácer Quibir ; king Sebastião disappears in the battle never to be seen again. Cardinal Henrique I of Portugal becomes king.
1640, December 1: a small group of conspirators storms the Palace in Lisbon and deposes the Spanish Governor, Margaret, Duchess of Mantua.The Duke of Bragança, head of the senior family of the Portuguese nobility (and descended from a bastard of João I), accepts the throne as Dom João IV of Portugal, despite deep personal reluctance, by popular acclaim and at the urging of his wife.