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==Premodern history==
The area that is now [[Portugal]] was ruled successively by the Celts, Romans, Goths, and Arabs until the independent [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County_of_Portugal County of Portugal] was established in 1096 during the Reconquista. [[Spain]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Zamora recognized Portugal's sovereignty in 1143] and the [[Catholic Church|Church]] in 1179. Portugal, under the Burgundy dynasty, conquered the Algarve in 1249, establishing the final form of its continental European territory.
 
The [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Windsor_(1386) Treaty of Windsor] in 1386 formed a strong alliance with [[United Kingdom|England]]. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_I_of_Portugal King John I] established the Portuguese empire in 1415 with the invasion of [[Morocco]] and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_conquest_of_Ceuta capture of Ceuta]. In the 15th century, the Portuguese reached India, [[Cape Republic|the Cape]], [[Kongo]], western Africa, and eventually the Americas. After the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Tordesillas Treaty of Tordesillas] in 1494, explorer [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedro_%C3%81lvares_Cabral Pedro Cabral] arrived in [[Brasil]] in 1500.
 
==Gilded Century (1656-1754)==▼
== The Iberian Union (1580-1640) ==
The Iberian Union was the name given to the dynastic union of the crowns of Aragon, Castille and Portugal for sixty years, bringing together the Iberian Peninsula and the vast Spanish and Portuguese empire under the next three Spanish Habsburg monarchs: Philip II, Phillip III and Phillip IV.
 
Started by a succession crisis between the grandchildren of king Manuel I, due the death of the young king D. Sebastian in 1578 and shortly after the death of his successor, Cardinal Henry due to old age in 1580, the throne of Portugal was taken by Phillip II after his successful campaign in the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Alc%C3%A2ntara_(1580) Battle of Alcântara].
 
▲==Gilded Century (16561640-1754)==
The Iberian Union saw its end after the restoration of the Portuguese Crown under John IV, former 8th Duke of Braganza, in 1640. In the late stages of the Iberian Union, the Portuguese noble support to the Spanish king was reaching its lowest point. High taxation, the economic burden of Spanish wars across Europe and the mostly Spanish occupied public offices, drove them, along with the wealthy class of merchants from Portugal, to rise in a rebellion which began a conflict that would last for the next almost 30 years, as peace with Spain was reached only in 1668.
 
From 1645 to 1654, a joint force of Pernambucan colonists and Portuguese troops retook Recife, the last bastion of Dutch occupation in Brasil. In 1661, peace between the [[Netherlands]] and Portugal was finally established as the Dutch ownership of Ceylon, Cochin and Malabar was recognized.
 
In the next 86 years of peace, Portugal saw its empire lose prestige and relevance on the world stage to other European nations.
 
== Three Tragedies period (1755-1834) ==
 
==== 1755 earthquake ====
On November 1, 1755, Portugal was hit by a powerful earthquake with an epicenter in the Atlantic Ocean, close to the Iberian Peninsula and Morocco. The disaster destroyed almost all of Lisbon. Shortly after the earthquake, a tsunami took shore, elevating even more the destruction. It’s estimated that the death toll of the catastrophe was around tens of thousands. Among these ten thousand was most of the Portuguese Royal Family. The earthquake not only caused massive destruction but also almost ended the House of Braganza. The only ones spared were King Henry II’s brother, John, proclaimed King John IV, and one of his daughters, Joana,  who ended up receiving the nickname Astúcia (the Astuteness).
 
==== '''Arrangement with Tuscany:''' ====
To prevent the end of the royal house, efforts to engage Joana took place as quickly as possible. At the end, one of the sons of Tuscany’s Grand Duke, Ferdinando (Fernando in Portugal), was chosen to engage in a marriage with the heir to the crown of Portugal. The ceremony happened in 1757, and the hopes of a new generation of Braganzas were high.
 
'''Second Habsburg Rule:'''
 
In 1766, Joana became regent of Portugal as King John IV's health deteriorated, and she was crowned queen in 1768 after her uncle's death. Still childless and with a life marked by miscarriages, tensions over the fate of the royal house started again as uncertainty arose about the generation of an heir. In 1771, the expectations were finally fulfilled after the birth of a healthy boy, Afonso. Although the heritance of the throne was secured for now, Queen Joana died days after giving birth.
 
After Joana's death, no one in Portugal was in a position to take regency until Afonso’s 18th birthday. Therefore, the king of Habsburg Spain, Philip V, was recognized as regent of Portugal. Once again, Portugal was under the rule of a Spanish Habsburg more than a hundred and thirty years after the dissolution of the Iberian Union in 1640.
 
Differently from the Iberian Union, this period of Habsburg control was much shorter and calmer, as Europe was at the moment in a state of stability. Of course, a significant part of the government became upset and fearful of Philip appointing the Spanish to take their positions, but this did not end up happening. The most notorious achievement of the second Habsburg period was the completion of the Lisbon reconstruction in 1773.
 
Philip V's rule as regent lasted until 1789, when Afonso reached his 18th birthday and was crowned King Afonso II.
 
====Portugal in the Great Silesian War====
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===End=Collapse of the American colonial empireBrazil====
After decades of revolts and tensions, the colony of Brazil began to fall apart. In 1845, [[Bahia]] gained independence, shortly followed by the [[Riograndense Republic]] in 1846. When Portugal abolished slavery in 1874, the plantation owners of [[Equador]] declared their sovereignty and achieved it in 1877.
====Independence of Bahia and the Riograndense Republic====
The Bahia Republic and the Riograndense Republic, respectively, gained independence from Portugal in 1845 and 1846. The two nations were the first to break from the colony of Brazil during the ramifications of the Spring of Nations in Latin America.
====Independence of Equador====
In 1877, Equador was recognized as independent by Portugal after a war started by large landowners. Three years prior, in 1874, Portugal abolished slavery in all of its territory. The economy of Equador, at the time, was sole based on plantations and slave labor, thus the end of slavery was seen as threat to profit by the large plantation owners. After many disagreements with the crown, the rural elite of the colony rebelled.
====Creation of the Autonomous Territory of Brazil====
By the late 19th century, only the region around Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Minas Gerais, southern Mato Grosso and Paraná were still under Portuguese colonial rule. In 1878, after the failure to end the revolt in Equador, Portugal feared that their last bit of Brazil would break up as well very soon. To prevent this to happen, Brazil ceased to be a colony in this year, and was elevated to the title of Autonomous Territory of Brazil.▼
 
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===Mid to late-19th century===
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====Coimbra insurrection of 1875====
 
In the 1870s, Europe was shaken by a wave of egalitarian revolutions. Revolutions [[History of Europe#Second French Revolution|in France]] and [[History of Europe#Communard occupation of Madrid|in Spain]] inspired the formation of the Communard Party of Portugal (Portuguese: ''Sociedade Comunarde de Portugal'') in Coimbra. The communard revolutionaries despised the agrarian policies of the conservative Portuguese monarchy and strove to propagate Enlightenment values and industrialisation in Portugal with the establishment of a republic.
The coffee economic boom fit like a glove for the Portuguese economy and the landowners in Brazil. Since the late 18th century, the gold exports, Brazil’s main source of income, have gone down due to the end of the mineral in more superficial deposits. During the gold rush, many plantations were closed and their owners shifted to exploration of mines, then when mining ceased, the colony and, therefore Portugal, suffered from a heavy economic crisis. So when coffee became a highly demanded drink in other continents, Portugal saw this as an opportunity to recover from this decades-long crisis.
 
For about a century, this region became the core of Brazil and the Portuguese colonial empire, but when foreign nations' demand for coffee decreased in the late 19th century, once again, the single activity based economy entered a recession. The end of the coffee based economy also opened the opportunity to Brazilian industrialization and rise of nationalism.
====Failed Communard Revolution====
In the 1870s, Europe was shaken once again by a wave of revolutions, The Communard Revolutions. Although France and Spain were the two that most suffered the effects of such unrest, Central Europe, Italy and Portugal had their own attempts of revolutionary take over. In 1875, the Sociedade Comunarde de Portugal (Communard Society of Portugal) was formed in the city of Coimbra, and started to plan a coup to end the Portuguese Monarchy.
 
Communardism had arrived in Portugal already in the mid-19th century, and was popular among part of the academic community in Coimbra and Lisbon. At that time, Europe was facing a rapid process of economic growth and industrialization, but this reality didn’t arrive in Portugal with the same strength as it did in other western nations, so the country kept focused on an agrarian based economy, especially focused on coffee exportation. The communards saw this situation as a result of the conservative Portuguese government, which still had some characteristics of the old absolutist regime. According to many publications, the only way for Portugal to rise as a power again, was to end the monarchy once and for all.
 
Differently from the cases in France and Spain, the Communard Society of Portugal didn’t last long. After the revolutions beginning in the neighboring nations, Portuguese parliament quickly approved the instaurantion of censorship over communard papers and the prohibition of public demonstrations. The citizens were also advised to tell authorities any suspicion of revolutionary activities. Soon later, the members of the Communard Society of Portugal got arrested for the crime of conspiracy and rebellion. The imprisonment of the group was seen by sympathizers as an atrocious action, soon riots started to happen first in Coimbra and days later in Lisbon. Both were unsuccessful.
====Portuguese imperialism in the 19th century====
In 1900, the Portuguese colonial holdings consisted of large chunks of land in continental Africa and city ports across the Gulf of Guinea, islands in North Atlantic, Madagasikara, India and the Canton coast.
=====Portuguese Southern Africa=====
=====Gulf of Guinea=====
=====Portuguese India=====
=====Portuguese on the Far-East=====
===United kingdom with Brazil===
====The Luso-Brazilian Compromise (1922)====▼
The end of the colonial rule in Carolina sparked once again the feeling of nationalism and independence in Brazil, many republican authors, republican associations and communard societies across Brazil started to advocate for the end of Portuguese rule in the continent. These ideals gained more force after Brazil got hit directly by the economic crisis in Europe during most of the 1920s.
 
The economic crisis hit Brazil severely, coffee customers across the world, Brazil’s most important economic partners, started to reduce the purchase of the product, thus the many coffee plantations started to suffer from overproduction and devaluation of the prices. Many businesses closed and unemployment skyrocketed. In this context, opposition to the semi-colonial government of Brazil started to gain force. Many saw the problem as consequences of the crown heavily influencing the political and economic decisions, and from August 1922 to November of the same year, protests demanding more political freedoms, and in the most radical cases, total independence, started to happen.
 
The government swiftly censored the media and suppressed public demonstrations. Several leading members of the Party, today known as the Coimbra 28, were arrested and persecuted. By the new year, the communards of Portugal were successfully extinguished.
On November the 2nd, 1922, in a radio broadcast, the province president of São Paulo declared revolt. The province of Minas Gerais followed the same strategy soon later in the same day. The presidents of the two provinces had been in secret talks since September of 1922, the plan was to send an ultimatum to the crown. To prevent a bloody conflict in the continent, the rebel provinces stated openage to dialogue with the crown.
▲====The Luso-Brazilian Compromise (1922)====
[[Carolina]]'s achievement of home rule in 1914 and the [[European Economic Crisis]] of the 1920s stirred up republican sentiment in Brazil. Brazilian industries, most notably coffee, suffered overproduction and devaluation. Unemployment and civil unrest plagued the country, often being blamed on Lisbon's disproportionate and unjust political power over Brazilian affairs. In the second half of 1922, large scale riots and demonstrations began en masse.
 
On the second of November, 1922, the Governor of São Paulo declared a revolt. The province of Minas Gerais followed shortly, forcing the militarily weak Lisbon to accept the prospect of negotiations with the autonomous territory of Brazil.
Portugal wasn’t in shape to fight a war thousands of kilometers away, and in telegram, agreed to discuss terms with the new Brazilian Government, which already comprised four of the six provinces of Brazil. On November 25th, Portuguese envoys and the Brazilian Independent Government gathered in Rio de Janeiro to solve the situation diplomatically.
 
On December 4th, the Luso-Brazilian Compromise, or Treaty of Rio, de Janeiro established thea dual[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_union monarchyreal ofunion] between Portugal and Brazil. Thecalled mainthe United termsKingdom of thePortugal-Brazil. treaty were:
*The creation of a new, more progressive Brazilian constitution;
*The Kingdom of Brazil would consists ofencompass every Portuguese territory in South America, while the Kingdom of Portugal would consists of the rest of the empireAmericas;
*AbolitionDisestablishment of the titleoffice of Governor of Brazil and the creation of the titleChancellor of Prime MinisterBrazil;
*Brazilians could be elected to all political offices within the empire;
*A common Ministry of Foreign Affairs and united diplomatic and foreign policies.
*Establishment of a single citizenship. Luso-Brazilian;
*A common Ministry of Foreign Affairs, responsible for diplomacy and foreign policy, comprised from both Portuguese and Brazilian integrants;
*Brazil would engage in every conflict which Portugal is involved;
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