The colonial power, Portugal, becoming ever richer and more powerful, would not tolerate the growth of these neighbouring states and subjugated them one by one, so that by the beginning of this century the Portuguese had complete control over the entire area.

After the dissolution of the Iberian Union in 1640, Portugal would reestablish its authority over the lost territories of the Portuguese Empire.

* 1987 – Portugal and the People's Republic of China sign an agreement in which Macau would be returned to China in 1999.

Cities would grow in importance and Brazilian people could finally get the permission to manufacture common products once imported from Portugal, like glass.

This ensured for the first time that all the realms of the Iberian peninsula ( save for Portugal ) would be united by one monarch under one nascent Spanish crown, with the founding territories retaining their separate governance codes and laws.

He understood that Portugal could wrest commercial supremacy from the Arabs only by force, and therefore devised a plan to establish forts at strategic sites which would dominate the trade routes and also protect Portuguese interests on land.

The goal of Portuguese presence was not settlement but the establishment of naval bases that would give Portugal control of the Indian Ocean.

Thus if Portugal specialized in wine and England in cloth, both states would end up better off if they traded.

The production site would still be the Auto-Europa site in Portugal.

Innocent IV would also send other missions to the Mongols in 1245: the mission of André de Longjumeau, the possibly aborted mission of Laurent de Portugal, and the mission of Giovanni da Pian del Carpine, which left on 16 April 1245 and would reach the Mongol capital Karakorum.

It was agreed that Portugal would provide training, education, logistical support and health care to the forces.

Portugal claims the de jure sovereignty over Olivenza / Olivença on the grounds that the Treaty of Badajoz was revoked by its own terms ( the breach of any of its articles would lead to its cancellation ) when Spain invaded Portugal in the Peninsular War of 1807.

Foods such as corn and cassava from the Americas, turnips from Morocco, and cabbage from Portugal would play an important part in the history of African-American cooking.

In 1775 he was appointed physician to Birmingham General Hospital ( at the suggestion of Erasmus Darwin, a physician and founder member of the Lunar Society ), but in 1783 he diagnosed himself as having pulmonary tuberculosis and went twice to Portugal hoping the better winter climate would improve his health ; it didn't.

Delegates to this sejm passed a resolution forbidding the candidacy of foreigners ; this would explicitly exclude both Emmanuel of Portugal and Augustus II's son, Frederick August II, the Elector of Saxony.

The colonial power, Portugal, becoming ever richer and more powerful, would not tolerate the growth of these neighbouring states and subjugated them one by one, so that by the beginning of the twentieth century the Portuguese had complete control over the entire area.

In Portugal, before the Bologna process, students would become licentiates after 5 years of studies ( 4 years in particular cases like Marketing, Management, etc.

After the dissolution of the Iberian Union in 1640, Portugal would reestablish its authority over some lost territories of the Portuguese Empire.

His eldest son, Pedro I of Brazil, briefly became Pedro IV of Portugal, but neither the Portuguese nor the Brazilians wanted a unified monarchy ; consequently, Pedro abdicated the Portuguese crown in favor of his 7-year-old daughter, Maria da Glória, on the condition that when of age she would marry his brother, Miguel.

This coup installed the " Second Republic " that would become the Estado Novo in 1933, led by António de Oliveira Salazar, which transformed Portugal into a proto-Fascist Axis-leaning state.

The massive exodus of the Portuguese military and citizens from Portuguese Angola and Mozambique, would prompt an era of chaos and severe destruction in those territories after independence from Portugal in 1975.

, brought back to Portugal, baptised and expressed his hope that the entire populations of these new-found lands would be converted.

The master of Santiago was Prince John, who would ascend to the throne in 1481 as King John II of Portugal.

Although they defeated Latvia, Ireland needed to beat Portugal in Lisbon to qualify outright, but lost 3 – 0.

In the 1958 qualification, Portugal finished last in the group stage that also featured Northern Ireland and Italy ; only the first-placed team would qualify.

After their tremendous success in the 1966 World Cup, Portugal tried to qualify for the 1970 World Cup, which was to be held in Mexico.

Sweden failed to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in the group qualification stage, having been edged out by Portugal.

Bulgaria managed to qualify for the Euro 2004 in Portugal by finishing first in the group ahead of teams like Croatia and Belgium with 17 points and just one defeat.

The Netherlands failed to qualify for the 2002 World Cup after failing to compete with Portugal and the Republic of Ireland and so during all of his career with the Netherlands, he had missed one tournament.

This was followed by a series of wins including a 2 – 1 win against Azerbaijan, with the team needing to win against Portugal away from home needing to qualify.

In the qualification games for Euro 2004, he scored the game-winning goal in a 1 – 0 victory over closest rivals Norway, helping Denmark qualify for the final tournament in Portugal.

With seven goals in only six matches, Gomes helped Portugal qualify for the 2002 FIFA World Cup – this included a four-goal performance against Andorra.

Although he did not take part in qualifying, he was later included in the squad for the Euro 2004 in Portugal since the U-21s had failed to qualify for the European Championships.

Following a record of 14 wins in 31 matches, Queiroz failed to qualify Portugal for Euro 92 ( losing the qualifying spot to Holland ) and for the 1994 World Cup ( knocked out by Italy and Switzerland ).

These results, together with a defeat of Sweden to Denmark, enabled Portugal to finish the campaign second in the group with 19 points, one ahead of Sweden, and qualify for the UEFA play-off.

This meant that Bosnia with a victory over Denmark in the last round in Sarajevo could top the group and qualify directly for Euro 2004 in Portugal.

Portugal struggled initially but did qualify for the quarter-finals, and he played all of the side's matches, as Portugal was eliminated by Germany 3 – 2 in the quarter-finals, where he misjudged in two box exits, allowing two headers.

Their car was temperamental and didn't always qualify, but Johansson finished a surprise and popular third in Portugal for his last ( and the team's only ) podium finish.

Grouillard failed to qualify in Portugal and had to take a spare gearbox with the old one failing to work.

During qualifying for his first round of the year, in Portugal, Délétraz was hindered by a gearbox problem which saw him qualify last, twelve seconds behind pole-position sitter David Coulthard.

Finn Jyrki Jarvilehto was drafted in at the last minute as his replacement, but with little time to familiarise himself with the new car he failed to qualify for the next round in Portugal.

2005 became a bad year for Halmstads BK as they struggled to a 10th place, Gunnar Heidar Thorvaldsson became league top goalscorer with 16 goals, however in Europe things went a bit better as the club managed to qualify for the new group stage in the UEFA Cup after winning on away goal against last year runners-up Sporting Clube de Portugal, however the club failed to take a single point in the group and only scored 1 goal.

* 22 June 2004: Sweden qualify for the quarterfinals of the Euro 2004 tournament in Portugal after beating Bulgaria 5 – 0, drawing Italy 1 – 1 and in the final group stage game, playing 2 – 2 against Denmark, a result which ensured both Scandinavian teams a place in the final stage.

The damage, however, was already done, and Portugal would not qualify again for an international competition until Euro 96.