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2010: Death of José Saramago in Tías, Lanzarote, at the age of 87. The novelist, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature — the only Portuguese-language writer ever to receive the award — was author of 'Memorial do Convento', 'O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo' and 'Ensaio sobre a Cegueira'. His body is later interred at the foot of an olive tree outside the Casa dos Bicos, his Lisbon foundation.

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1815: Napoleon Bonaparte is decisively defeated by the British under the Duke of Wellington and the Prussians under Field Marshal Blücher at the Battle of Waterloo, ending his Hundred Days and the Napoleonic Wars. Wellington's army includes thousands of Portuguese troops who served throughout the Peninsular War.