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Lima Lopes did so without the consent of Lisbon and was dismissed in disgrace, but his agreement was not rescinded and in 1854 Portugal ceded all its historical claims on Flores.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

Thus, Afonso continued to distinguish himself by his exploits against the Moors, from whom he wrested Santarém ( see Conquest of Santarém ) and Lisbon in 1147 ( see Siege of Lisbon ).

In 1515, he created his woodcut of a Rhinoceros which had arrived in Lisbon from a written description and sketch by another artist, without ever seeing the animal himself.

Trains: the city is serviced by Alfa Pendular ( Lisbon <-> Braga ; Lisbon <-> Oporto ; Faro <-> Oporto ) and Intercity ( Intercidades: Lisbon <-> Oporto and Lisbon <-> Guimarães ) trains, Regional trains, Suburban Trains ( Urbanos do Porto ) and also the Linha do Vouga, a narrow gauge railway to Águeda and Sernada do Vouga.

Finally, Lisbon gave the Commission its executive powers directly rather than have it delegated by the Council.

The exception however is the foreign affairs council, which has been chaired by the High Representative since the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty.

The four pillars set up by Cão on his two voyages have all been discovered in situ, and the inscriptions on two of them from Cape Santa Maria and Cape Cross, dated 1482 and 1485 respectively, are still to be read and have been printed ; the Cape Cross padrão is now at Kiel ( replaced on the spot by a granite facsimile ); those from the Congo estuary and the more southerly Monte Negro are in the Museum of the Lisbon Geographical Society.

" Don Quixote, Part Two, published by the same press as its predecessor, appeared late in 1615, and quickly reprinted in Brussels and Valencia ( 1616 ) and Lisbon ( 1617 ).

The evidence is found in two early maps, one made by the Portuguese cartographer Pedro Reinel in about 1522, the very first map to show the Falklands, the other a French copy of a Portuguese map bought in Lisbon by André Thévet ( 1516-1590 ), a Franciscan friar and prolific writer on many subjects ; this copy is now in the manuscript of a large unpublished work by Thevet in the Bibliothèque nationale de France in Paris.

Though it previously held a more eurosceptic stance than is usually articulated by most other green parties in Europe, the party backed the Lisbon Treaty with support from two thirds of the party.

* 1541 – Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.

TAP Air Portugal the Portuguese national carrier operates a daily service from Lisbon to Sal with late evening departures returning after midnight and reaching Lisbon in the early morning.

It belongs to the so-called plane chart model, where observed latitudes and magnetic directions are plotted directly into the plane, with a constant scale, as if the Earth were a plane ( Portuguese National Archives of Torre do Tombo, Lisbon ).

When the French general Junot arrived in Lisbon, the Portuguese fleet had already left with all the local elite.

Colonisation began in 1603, when the Portuguese Pero Coelho de Souza constructed the Fort of São Tiago and founded the settlement of Nova Lisboa ( New Lisbon ).

* Portuguese Geographic Institute ( IGEO ), Lisbon, Portugal

* 1499 – Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.

After the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon on April 25, 1974, with the advent of independence and the start of the Angolan Civil War ( 1975 – 2002 ), most of the white Portuguese Luandans left as refugees, principally for Portugal, with many travelling overland to South Africa.

* 1807 – The Portuguese Royal Family leaves Lisbon to escape from Napoleonic troops.

* 1147 – The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege.

* 1921 – Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.

The Silk Road complemented the Portuguese sea routes, and brought the treasures of the Orient to Europe via Lisbon, including many spices.

* Sacramento ( Lisbon ), a Portuguese parish

* Marquis of Pombal ( 1699 – 1782 ) Portuguese statesman notable for his swift and competent leadership in the aftermath of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake.

* 1147: On October 25, the four-month long Siege of Lisbon successfully brings the city under definitive Portuguese control, expelling the Moorish overlords.

* October 19 – A massacre in Lisbon claims the lives of Portuguese Prime-Minister António Granjo and other politicians.

* November 29 – The Portuguese Queen Maria I and the Court embark at Lisbon bound for Brazil.

On the continent, the British and Portuguese remained restricted to the area around Lisbon and to besieged Cadiz.

Further north, a fleet led by Abd Allah b. Ishaq b. Jami is sailing to attack Lisbon but is repelled by the Portuguese admiral D. Fuas Roupinho near the Cape Espichel.

* 1255 – The Portuguese capital is moved to Lisbon.