Among those in the picture are Monarchy of Belgium | King Albert II of Belgium | Albert II of the Belgians, U. S. President George W. Bush, President of the French Republic | French President Jacques Chirac, President of the Philippines | Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, President of Estonia | Estonian President Arnold Rüütel, and President of Portugal | Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio.

* 1939 – Jorge Sampaio, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 18th President of Portugal

* September 18 – Jorge Sampaio, former President of Portugal

* January 14 – Jorge Sampaio is elected president of Portugal.

* March 9 – Jorge Sampaio is the new Portuguese president.

Socialist Jorge Sampaio won the February 1996 presidential elections with nearly 54 % of the vote.

Though opposition parties called for general elections, the President Jorge Sampaio nominated Pedro Santana Lopes, the new Social Democratic leader, as Prime Minister, who thus formed a new government, in coalition with the People's Party.

Prime Minister José Sócrates was sworn in by President Jorge Sampaio on March 12.

Kim Yong Nam has made statements affirming the good relationship between the two countries, such as the condolences he gave then-President Jorge Sampaio when Francisco da Costa Gomes died, and the congratulations he extended to President Aníbal Cavaco Silva after he won the Portuguese elections.

Barroso arranged with Portuguese President Jorge Sampaio to nominate Pedro Santana Lopes as a substitute Prime Minister of Portugal.

Jorge Fernando Branco de Sampaio,,, () is a Portuguese lawyer and politician who was the 18th President of Portugal from 1996 to 2006.

Jorge Sampaio was involved in the student contestation against the fascist regime and was leader of the Lisbon students union between 1960 and 1961.

Following his graduation in 1961, Jorge Sampaio started a notable career as a lawyer, often involved in the defence of many political prisoners.

Also in 1989, Jorge Sampaio was elected the 62nd Mayor of Lisbon, charge he took in 1990, and re-elected in 1993, remaining in office until 1995.

In 1995, Jorge Sampaio announced his wish to run for the presidency of the Republic.

Although the Portuguese law does not allow bullfights ending with the death of the bull in the arena, Jorge Sampaio was able to promote an exception to this law for Barrancos in The Alentejo province.

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In December 2004, Jorge Sampaio, President of the Republic, called fresh elections for February 2005.

* Leader of the parliamentary bench of the Socialist Party, succeeding Jorge Sampaio ( 1988 )

In December 2001, following a disastrous result for the Socialist Party in the local elections, Guterres resigned, stating that " I am resigning to prevent the country from falling into a political swamp ", and President Jorge Sampaio dissolved the Parliament and called for elections.

The President theoretically has wide powers, but most are rarely used, following the precedent set by President António Ramalho Eanes ( 1976 – 1986 ) and upheld by his successors Mário Soares and Jorge Sampaio.

Among the many distinguished graduates from the faculty of law are the former Presidents of Portugal Jorge Sampaio and Mário Soares, Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano, the President of the European Commission José Manuel Durão Barroso, Portuguese statesman, deputy, and professor Adriano Moreira and businessman and former Prime Minister Francisco Pinto Balsemão.

In 1996, he belonged to the Political Committee for the presidential candidature of Portugal's current ( 2004 ) President Jorge Sampaio.

He resigned on 9 July 2004, immediately after President Jorge Sampaio announced a decision not to hold early elections when former Prime Minister Durão Barroso stepped down from office in order to be appointed President of the European Commission.

In 2003, former management consultant Jorge Aguilar-Cauz was appointed President of Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Cauz is the senior executive and reports directly to the Britannica's Board of Directors.

In 1941, Jorge Luis Borges created The Garden of Forking Paths, a branching style short story that is often considered an inspiration for the concept of hypertext.

The series is still a source of contention among fans, notably the controversial call in the bottom of the ninth of game 6 in which Jorge Orta was called safe on a play that replays later showed him out.

* 1695 – Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, is executed by the forces of Portuguese bandeirante Domingos Jorge Velho.

In 1526 – 27, the Portuguese explorer Jorge de Menezes accidentally came upon the principal island and is credited with naming it Papua, a Malay word for the frizzled quality of Melanesian hair.

The current Minister of Foreign Relations as of 2011 is Jorge Lara Castro

Jorge Luis Borges's ( 1939 ) short story Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote, is often considered as predicting postmodernism and conceiving the ideal of the ultimate parody.

An example is Jorge Luis Borges, who won American fame with " The Garden of Forking Paths ", published in the August 1948 Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine.

The Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is the most famous writer of short stories in the Spanish language.

** President of Guatemala Jorge Serrano Elías is forced to flee the country after an attempted self-coup.

* January 6 – The runoff for the Guatemalan presidential election is won by Jorge Serrano Elías.

Although the first European trade expeditions to China took place in 1513 and 1516 by Jorge Álvares and Rafael Perestrello, respectively, Andrade's mission is the first official diplomatic mission of a European power to China commissioned by a ruler of Europe ( Manuel I of Portugal ).

* San Jorge :, located on the 1st District ( Cotahuma ) and near Sopocachi, it is one of the main residential and diplomatic areas of the city.

* Averroes appears in a short story by Jorge Luis Borges, entitled " Averroes's Search ", in which he is portrayed trying to find the meanings of the words tragedy and comedy.

Seaborne moisture is vital to the cloud forest of Bosque de Fray Jorge National Park | Fray Jorge that is surrounded by the arid southern reaches of the Atacama Desert

He is also a major character in several historical novels, such as Inés y las raíces de la tierra, by María Correa Morande ( 1964 ), Ay Mamá Inés-Crónica Testimonial ( 1993 ) by Jorge Guzmán, and Inés of My Soul () by Isabel Allende ( 2006 ).

The 2008-2012 alcalde is Jorge Castro Muñoz.

Pedro de Alvarado is identified as the torturer of Tzinacán, the narrator in Jorge Luis Borges's story " The God's Script " (" La Escritura del Dios "), first published in 1949.

Z is a 1969 French language political thriller directed by Costa-Gavras, with a screenplay by Gavras and Jorge Semprún, based on the 1966 novel of the same name by Vassilis Vassilikos.

There is a short tale written by Jorge Luis Borges (" The House of Asterion ") telling the story of Theseus and Ariadne from the point-of-view of Asterius.