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Timeline of Portuguese history (Second Republic)

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This is a historical timeline of Portugal.


Second Republic: Dictatorial Estado Novo

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1926

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1927

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  • February, Failed Republican revolutionary attempt against the Ditadura Nacional in Porto and Lisbon.
  • March 26, The Police of Information of Porto, a Political Police, is created.
  • May 17, Minimum years of schooling reduced from the 6th to the 4th grade; in all levels of non-university schooling students are divided by sex.
  • The Confederação Geral do Trabalho (national trade union center) is dissolved.
  • August - Failed right wing military coup.
  • December 1 - Students demonstrate in Lisbon against the Ditadura Nacional.

1928

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1929

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1930

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1932

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1933

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1934

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1935

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1936

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1937

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1939

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1942

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1943

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October 8, Although officially neutral during World War II, Portugal, after considerable pressure from the Allies, allowed the British the use of the ports of Horta on Faial Island and Ponta Delgada on São Miguel Island, as well as the airfields of Lajes on Terceira Island and Santana Field on São Miguel.

1945

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  • The Political Police PVDE is reorganized and renamed PIDE (Polícia Internacional de Defesa do Estado; International Police for the Defense of the State).
  • October 8, The MUD (Movimento de Unidade Democrática - Movement of Democratic Unity) is created with official permission.

1948

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  • January, The MUD is banned.

1949

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1951

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1954

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1956

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1957

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1958

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1959

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1960

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1961

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1962

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1963

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1964

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  • The FRELIMO controls most of Northern Mozambique.
  • February, The first Party Congress of the PAIGC takes place at liberated Cassaca, in which both the political and military arms of the PAIGC were assessed and reorganised, with a regular army (The People's Army) to supplement the guerilla forces (The People's Guerillas).

1965

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  • 6th Congress of the Portuguese Communist Party, one of the most important congresses in the Party's history, after Álvaro Cunhal released the report The Path to Victory – The tasks of the Party in the National and Democratic Revolution, which became an important document in the anti-fascist struggle.

1966

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1967

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  • By this time the PAIGC had carried out 147 attacks on Portuguese barracks and army encampments, and effectively controlled 2/3 of Portuguese Guinea.

1968

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1969

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  • The Single Party União Nacional is renamed Acção Nacional Popular (National Popular Action).
  • The Political Police PIDE is renamed DGS (Direcção Geral de Segurança, Directorate-General of Security).
  • Beginning of the Primavera Marcelista (Marcelist Springtime), a timid and failed opening of the regime.

1970

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1973

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1974

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See also

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