Latest news and stories about historical events in Portugal for expats and residents.
There are many stories about spies, but one about a Portuguese man who sold himself to Russia is unique. This story also includes well-known names such as Ivo Rosa and Luís Neves.
It all began as (yet) another military coup, until the unexpected resistance of the Spanish people stopped the generals. This year marks the 90th anniversary of the start of a conflict in which the Portuguese also fought against each other. In a battle without quarter.
In 'The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad', British journalist Simon Parkin highlights an episode that remained buried in the grand history of the siege that the Germans subjected that Soviet city to between 1941 and 1943.
An account of an event or story set during the Cold War period taking place in Portugal.
The re-establishment of formal diplomatic ties between the Portuguese and Polish governments.
Our study does not demonstrate that cultural identity and miscegenation are incompatible opposite poles of human behaviour. If it demonstrates anything, in my view, it demonstrates precisely the opposite.
A reflection on the historic 2000 visit of President Jorge Sampaio to East Timor, highlighting the emotional journey alongside musician Luís Represas. The author, then Minister of Education, recounts the challenges of rebuilding the education system, the power of the song 'Ai, Timor!', and the enduring impact of cultural and human connections in the struggle for independence.
It was the Iberian kingdoms, and Portugal first and foremost, that explored the slave system the most and for the longest time, yet they were not the ones that developed the most in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Luísa de Jesus went down in history as the last woman to be executed in Portugal. She was arrested, tried, and sentenced to death in the 18th century, accused of the murder of 34 children left at the “Foundling Wheel” in Coimbra. “Never has such a monster with a heart so perverse and corrupted been seen,” said the judges who sentenced her to die by garrote.
The Government is doing well when it creates the conditions for us to celebrate the memory of foundational events.
On 28 July 1966, Portugal achieved its best-ever finish in a football World Cup, beating the Soviet Union 2-1 to secure third place in England.
An eight-kilometre walk through places such as Covão dos Conchos and Lagoa Redonda, to relive the historic 1881 scientific mission led by Brito Capelo.
The heads of state of Cape Verde and Portugal met in Tarrafal to commemorate the struggle for freedom and democracy.
Paulo Portas has been sworn in to lead the preparations for the 900th anniversary of the founding of Portugal.
At a time when the centenary of the 28th of May is being commemorated, British historian Tom Gallagher analyses the book 'The Century of May – 100 years of National Revolution'
The descendants of the settlers are gathering this Saturday at a picnic park to evoke the memory. PÚBLICO found a survivor from that time, who does not forget the torments endured.
Without knowing the violent and sadistic acts of the French version, the revolution on the new continent took place with grit and determination, no doubt, but with mutual respect between the contenders.
In “Atlantic Cataclysm”, British historian David Eltis documents the transatlantic crossings that transported African slaves to the Americas.
It was July 9, 1943, when the only armed conflict of World War II to take place on the Portuguese mainland occurred in the skies above the cove. A story to discover in the extra magazine 'Superpraias Expresso 2026', which will be offered with the July 17 edition.
In this episode, Lourenço Pereira Coutinho and Margarida Magalhães Ramalho talk to historian Joaquim Boiça and recall the daring landing of Philip II's troops, at the end of July 1580, north of Cabo Raso.
António Passaporte's son was nine years old when he joined the thousands of children fleeing the war. In his father's memoirs, he wrote ten pages detailing his recollections of those days in exile.
The plague is caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis and was at the origin of some of the most devastating outbreaks in human history, including the Black Death in the 14th century.
PÚBLICO begins a series in the P2 supplement that tells, for the first time, stories of the participation of Portuguese people in the Spanish Civil War.
89 years ago, an attack carried out by a group of anarchists could have changed the history of Portugal. The dictator was miraculously saved from an explosive device that detonated on the opposite side of the target.
Eleven municipalities are covered, with 18 bodies to be exhumed in a first phase. The remains will stay in Angola, in ossuaries to be built under an agreement between Lisbon and Luanda.
A commission will mark the 9th centenary of three foundational dates: the Battle of São Mamede, the Battle of Ourique, and the signing of the Treaty of Zamora. Montenegro argues that Portas is a “consensual” figure.
The former leader of the CDS-PP will be responsible, the Prime Minister announced, for coordinating an executive committee that will permanently oversee the presentation and implementation of the programme.
