In 1433 Cape Bojador was rounded ; in 1434 the first consignment of slaves was brought to Lisbon ; and slave trading soon became the most profitable branch of Portuguese commerce, until India was reached.

He was captured and sent to Lisbon as a prisoner of war, but he soon escaped and returned to South Africa via London as a Captain in the British Army.

Stating the communion of ludic spaces between the bohemian aristocracy and the most disfavoured fringes of Lisbon ’ s population, the history of fado crystallized into myth the episode of the amorous relationship between the Count Vimioso and Maria Severa Onofriana ( 1820 – 1846 ), a prostitute consecrated by her singing talents, who would soon transform into one of greatest myths of the History of Fado.

The Teatro de Revista sort of vaudeville theatre, a typical theatre genre from Lisbon born in 1851, would soon discover fado ’ s potential.

She was soon replaced with a new singer, Susana, a graduate of Lisbon Conservatory.

Other important debuts for Corelli soon followed, including his first appearances at: the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence and the Arena di Verona Festival in 1955 ; the Vienna State Opera, as Radamès, and the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London, as Cavaradossi, in 1957 ; the Teatro Nacional de São Carlos in Lisbon, the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the San Francisco Opera in 1958 ; and the Berlin State Opera in 1961.

At the first performance, the opera was received with some hostility, but it soon became popular throughout Italy and beyond ; it reached Lisbon in 1819, London in 1820 and New York in 1826.

Wellesley arrived the 11th and soon began arguing with General Freire, the commander of 6, 000 Portuguese troops, about supplies and the best route to Lisbon.

On 4 December 1980, while on his way to a presidential election rally in Porto, the Cessna 421 he was on crashed into a building in Camarate, Loures, soon after takeoff from Lisbon Airport.

The postal history begins with communication between the Viceroy and the Court at Lisbon soon after the conquest of Old Goa by Afonso de Albuquerque in 1510. Letters, written in triplicate, were carried by separate ships because of the hazards of the voyage.

In 1800, Andrada e Silva was appointed professor of geology at Coimbra, and soon after inspector-general of the Portuguese mines ; and in 1812 he was made perpetual secretary of the Sciences Academy of Lisbon ( Academia das Ciências de Lisboa ).

Traffic soon increased well beyond predictions, and has remained at maximum capacity despite the enlargement from four to six lanes, the addition of the rail line, and the building of a second bridge serving Lisbon, the Vasco da Gama Bridge.

After the capitulation of France he emigrated to Lisbon but soon he moved to New York.

The Order, from its outset, enjoyed great favor from the King of Spain, and soon possessed some of the most famous monasteries in the Peninsula, including the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria de Guadalupe in Extremadura, the Royal Monastery of Belem near Lisbon, and the magnificent monastery built by Philip II of Spain at the Escorial.

He was nominated as bishop of Lisbon soon after the assassination of his predecessor, Bishop Dom Martinho, who was defenestrated by the citizens when Lisbon was besieged by the Castilians in 1383, under suspicion of conspiring with the enemy.

The Christians soon captured the surrounding territories and besieged the walls of Lisbon itself.

He soon adopted Portugal as his home country and his skills earned him the appointment by King Manuel I of Portugal as Alcaide menor ( mayor ) of Lisbon in 1496.

He died, unmarried, at Falmouth, soon after landing from Lisbon, and was buried in the chancel of the Church of King Charles the Martyr, Falmouth.

Other European expositions soon followed: Bern and Madrid in 1845 ; Brussels with an elaborate industrial exposition in 1847 ; Bordeaux in 1847, St Petersburg in 1848, and Lisbon in 1849.

Young was detached from Alaska at Lisbon, Portugal, and soon joined

Disaster fell upon Portugal in the morning of 1 November 1755, when Lisbon was struck by a violent earthquake with an estimated Richter scale magnitude of 9.

Nina Eliade fell ill with uterine cancer and died during their stay in Lisbon, in late 1944.

But in the meantime Lisbon fell into the hands of the Duke of Terceira, who had left Oporto earlier in the Liberal fleet commanded by Charles John Napier, disembarked in the Algarve and marched across the Alentejo to defeat the Miguelist General Teles Jordão ( seizing the city on July 24 ).

Disaster fell upon Portugal on the morning of November 1, 1755, when Lisbon was struck by a violent earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 9 on the Richter scale.

After the Estado Novo regime which ruled Portugal and its overseas territories fell in the " Carnation Revolution " military coup of 25 April 1974 in Lisbon, independence was offered to all the territories abroad, including to Angola.

Despite being declared unwanted in Lisbon, Karadas returned to Benfica after his transfer to Brann fell through.

In 1569, a terrible epidemic of carbunculous fever broke out and carried off 50, 000 inhabitants of Lisbon, and, on November 29, Ferreira, who had stayed there doing his duty when others fled ; fell a victim.

His brothers were John of Lisbon and Richard, a general in Washington ’ s army who fell at the siege of Quebec in 1775.

* On the morning of December 1, 1640 in Lisbon, a group of supporters of the Duke of Braganza party found Miguel de Vasconcelos, the hated Portuguese Secretary of State of the Habsburg Philip III, hidden in a closet, killed him and defenestrated him.

Philip, for example, keen to reach out to his Portuguese subjects, put his considerable influence behind the case for Isabella of Portugal, a 14th-century role model of a ' perfect wife ', to great effect, ultimately paying for a lavish celebration in Lisbon after her canonisation in 1625.

Although the peace Treaty of Lisbon with Portugal in 1668 ceded the North African enclave of Ceuta to Spain, it was little solace for the loss of Portugal and the Portuguese colonies by Philip IV to the Duke of Braganza's successful revolt against 60 years of Habsburg rule.

On 19 October 1428, Philip thus sent a delegation from Sluys led by his chief counsellor, the Seigneur de Roubaix, that arrived in Lisbon on 16 December after calling at Sandwich until 2 December and acquiring two more ships.

Later, at the beginning of his reign, Philip II ordered that the mutilated remains said to be Sebastian's ( and so recognized after the battle by some of his close companions ), and still in North Africa, be returned to Portugal, where they were buried at the Jerónimos Monastery, in Lisbon.

* O Corvo Branco, ( with Philip Glass ), Teatro Camões ( Lisbon ), 1998

** Philip Goodwin-The Lisbon Traviata-The Studio Theatre

Philip II sent him on to Lisbon, where he was to meet his confederate, Fitzmaurice, and to secure better ships before sailing for Ireland.

In that year, to escape the pest that devastated Lisbon, the governors of the kingdom for Philip II decided to move their quarters to his residence ; thereupon, finding his protest against this arbitrary resolution unheeded, he set fire to his house, and to escape the consequences of his courageous act had to leave Portugal.

It was not a simple matter, and the expedition had three distinct aims: to burn the Spanish Atlantic fleet, to make a landing at Lisbon and raise a revolt there against Philip II ( Philip I of Portugal ), and then to continue south and establish a permanent base in the Azores.

Lisbon was recovered by the Portuguese in 1147.

o Bolonhês ), King of Portugal ( 5 May 1210 in Coimbra – 16 February 1279 in Alcobaça, Coimbra or Lisbon ) was the first to use the title King of Portugal and the Algarve, from 1249.

Afonso, born in Lisbon, was the rightful heir to the Portuguese throne.

Madrid, Aug. 28. Letters from Lisbon bring the following Account from Rio Janeiro: That the St. Augustine, of 70 Guns, having being separated from the Squadron of M. Casa Tilly, was attacked by two Portugueze Ships, against which they defended themselves for a Day and a Night, but being next Day surrounded by the Portugueze Fleet, was obliged to surrender.

It was destroyed along with much of the town in the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

The Lisbon treaty was ratified by the Danish parliament alone.

He certainly returned to Lisbon by the beginning of April 1484, when John II ennobled him, made him a cavaleiro ( knight ) of his household ( he was already an escudeiro or esquire in the same ), and granted him an annuity and a coat of arms ( April 8, 1484 and April 14, 1484 ).

Additionally, a declaration by sixteen Member States on the symbols, including the flag, was included in the final act of the Treaty of Lisbon stating that the flag, the anthem, the motto and the currency and Europe Day " will for them continue as symbols to express the sense of community of the people in the European Union and their allegiance to it.

The precise date of Francisco Álvares death, like that of his birth, is unknown, but the writer of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article concludes it was later than 1540, in which year an account of his travels were published at Lisbon.

Lima Lopes did so without the consent of Lisbon and was dismissed in disgrace, but his agreement was not rescinded and in 1854 Portugal ceded all its historical claims on Flores.

Gibraltar was a landing point of the long-range submarine cable that from Porthcurno, in the United Kingdom ran to Lisbon, Gibraltar, Malta, Alexandria, Suez, Aden, Bombay, over land to the east coast of India, then on to Penang, Malacca, Singapore, Batavia ( current Jakarta ), to finally reach Darwin, Australia.

Two mounted skins were destroyed in the 20th century, one in the Mainz Museum during the Second World War, and one in the Museo Bocage, Lisbon, was destroyed by a fire in 1978.

The constitution's replacement, the Treaty of Lisbon, was also voted down by the Irish before they reversed their decision in 2009.

In addition, the most recent data show that Italy's spending in R & D in 2011 was equal to 1. 1 % of GDP ( 12th in the world by expenditures ), below the European average of 1. 7 % and the Lisbon Strategy target of devoting 3 % of GDP to research and development activities.

On 28 June 1979, while the Calypso was on an expedition to Portugal, his second son, Philippe, his preferred and designated successor and with whom he had co-produced all his films since 1969, died in a PBY Catalina flying boat crash in the Tagus river near Lisbon.

Felicitas Iulia Olisipo ( Lisbon ) was a roman law municipality ) and 3 other towns had the old Latin status ( Ebora ( Évora ), Myrtilis Iulia ( Mértola ) and Salacia ( Alcácer do Sal ).

In addition to his activities as a member of the Académie française, he was also a member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon, and of the Front national des Ecrivains.

Pedro Julião was probably born in Lisbon between 1210 and 1220.

He started his studies at the episcopal school of Lisbon Cathedral and later joined the University of Paris, although some historians claim that he was educated at Montpellier.

He tried to become Bishop of Lisbon, but he was defeated.

French philosopher Voltaire criticised Leibniz's concept of theodicy in his Poème sur le désastre de Lisbonne ( Poem on the Lisbon disaster ), suggesting that the massive destruction of innocent lives caused by the Lisbon earthquake demonstrated that God was not providing the " best of all possible worlds ".

In 1781 he caught a fever in Lisbon from a young friend whom he was attending through a fatal illness.