Since after independence from Portugal in 1975, a number of Cape Verdean students continued to be admitted every year at Portuguese high schools, polytechnical institutes and universities, through bilateral agreements between the Portuguese Government and the Cape Verdean Government.

Chinese lottery is not documented before 1847 when the Portuguese Government of Macao decided to grant a licence to lottery operators.

The Chinese Imperial Government imprisoned and executed multiple Portuguese envoys after torturing them in Guangzhou.

The President of Portugal is the formal Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces but in practice they answer to the Portuguese Government via the Minister of National Defense.

Beyond the Comandos, the Portuguese Armed and Security Forces used several other commando type forces in the Colonial War in Angola, Mozambique and Guinea, like the Caçadores Especiais ( Special Hunters ) of the Portuguese Army, the Caçadores Paraquedistas ( Parachute Hunters ) of the Portuguese Air Force, the Fuzileiros Especiais ( Special Marines ) of the Portuguese Navy, the Flechas ( Arrows ) of the International and State Defense Police and the Grupos Especiais ( Special Groups ) of the Government of Mozambique.

Civil servants in Brazil, Servidores públicos in Portuguese, are those working in the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the federal government, state government, municipal government and the Government of Brasilia, including congressmen, senators, mayors, ministers, the president of the republic, and workers in Government-owned corporation.

We can refer to the resolution approved by the United nations General Assembly on December 12, 1975, saying " having heard the statements of the representatives of Portugal, as the Administering Power, concerning developments in Portuguese Timor ... deplores the military intervention of the armed forces of Indonesia in Portuguese Timor and calls upon the Government of Indonesia to withdraw without delay its armed forces from the Territory ... and recommends that the Security Council take urgent action to protect the territorial integrity of Portuguese Timor and the inalienable right of its people to self-determination ".

* In Portugal, high commissioner ( alto comissário in Portuguese ) is the title of certain officials appointed by the President, the Parliament or the Government to deal with special matters of national importance ( e. g.: the High Commissioner for Immigration and Intercultural Dialogue is the government official responsible for the immigration and ethnic minorities affairs ).

Prime Minister is the current title of the chief of the Portuguese Government.

The overseas policy of the Portuguese Government and the desire of many overseas residents to remain under Portuguese rule would lead to an abrupt decolonisation, which occurred only after the Carnation Revolution of April 1974 and the fall of the regime.

Portuguese Government poster from the mid-1970s by artist João Abel Manta ( it reads: MFA, People-People, MFA )

The first of such episodes was caused by an upheaval in the capital city on 7 September 1974, with the seizing of offices and transmitters of the Rádio Clube de Moçambique, in protest against the Lusaka Agreement signed by the Portuguese Provisional Government and FRELIMO, which provided for the handover of power exclusively to the nationalist movement.

Although the Japanese Federal Government is encouraging mandatory English education across the nation within Suzuka city there are many courses offered, not only by cram schools ( juku ) but also by publicly funded institutions, supporting Portuguese and Spanish in order to compensate for the ever growing South American Community.

Portugal had been in turmoil for several years and the British Admiralty had received intelligence that Lisbon was threatened by a 5, 000 strong revolutionary army and the Portuguese Government was preparing for conflict.

After the military coup in 1980, he was sent into exile, first in Cuba, which offered to receive him, then ( in 1984 ), in Portugal, where the Portuguese Government received him and gave him measure to live with his family, until his death in 2009.

At the Portuguese Grand Prix at Monsanto Park, Brabham was chasing race leader Moss when a backmarker moved over on him and launched the Cooper into the air.

In 2002, a Portuguese edition in was launched in Brazil.

** PoSAT-1 ( the first Portuguese satellite ) is launched on board French rocket Ariane 4.

The ship that truly launched the first phase of the Portuguese discoveries along the African coast was the caravel, a development based on existing fishing boats.

The follow-up expedition, the Second India Armada launched in 1500, was placed under the command Pedro Álvares Cabral, with the mission of making a treaty with the Zamorin of Calicut and setting up a Portuguese factory in the city.

Portuguese paratroopers being launched from an Air Force ' helicopter in Angola during the Colonial War.

The documentary record on the navy is fragmentary ; Portuguese records indicate that the fleet was launched sometime between 1763 and 1765.

The boat was launched on May 13, 1888, the very day slavery was abolished in Brazil, and therefore the ship was given the Portuguese name Liberdade.

* São João Baptista nicknamed Botafogo, the most powerful warship when launched ( 1534 ) by the Portuguese ; became famous during the conquest of Tunis, where it was commanded by Infante Luís, Duke of Beja.

* Padre Eterno, a Portuguese galleon launched in 1663.

UNITA launched its first attack on Portuguese colonial authorities on December 25 that same year.

The ship that truly launched the first phase of the discoveries along the African coast was the Portuguese caravel.

After repeated attempts by India to negotiate with Portugal for the return of its territory were spurned by Portuguese prime minister and dictator, Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, India launched Operation Vijay on 12 December 1961 to evict the Portuguese.

Many Herero migrated south to Namibia when the Portuguese launched a military expedition against them in 1940 following their refusal to pay taxes.

In the early 1960s, the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) launched an anti-colonial guerrilla war against the Portuguese authorities.

Also in this event, a new theoretical magazine was launched, called America Socialista, which is now published in Spanish, but will eventually come out in Portuguese, English and French.

In March 2007, HSW International launched its Portuguese website with headquarters in São Paulo, Brazil.

In February 2008, Portuguese Parliamentary Speaker Jaime Gama led a session which launched a virtual Museum, on the World-Wide Web ; it offers access to photographs and other documents chronicling Mendes ' life.

Eurosport 2 launched on 10 January 2005 and is currently available in 35 countries, broadcasting in 11 different languages: English, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Greek, Hungarian, Russian, Polish, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbian and Turkish.

Converging on Kodungallur, the Portuguese-Kochi fleet quickly dispersed the Calicut forces on the beach using cannon, and launched their composite army – some 1, 000 Portuguese soldiers and 1, 000 Nair warriors of Kochi – who took on the rest of the enemy force in Kodungallur.

In the initial stages of the battle, the Kongolese archers swept most of the African archers of the Portuguese forces from the field and then launched attacks against the Portuguese musketeers, supported by their own heavy infantry and musketeers.

The opportunity came in 1578 when the Portuguese king Sebastian launched an ill-conceived crusade against Morocco.

The Vikings, the Portuguese, and the Spaniards were the most famous among early explorers.

Parts of both countries were part of the Portuguese Empire from the early 16th century until Brazil's independence in 1822.

The name of Germany and the German language, in French, Allemagne, allemand, in Portuguese Alemanha, alemão, in Spanish Alemania, alemán, and in Welsh ( Yr ) Almaen, almaeneg are derived from the name of this early Germanic tribal alliance.

A very successful Portuguese feature film was made in the early 20th century that dramatically captured the primitive and dangerous life of these fishermen.

The Bassas da India was first recorded by Portuguese explorers in the early sixteenth century as the " Baixo da Judia " (" Jewess Shoals ").

Some etymologists believe it comes from a dialectal pronunciation of the Portuguese " bandore " or from an early anglicisation of the Spanish word " bandurria ", though other research suggests that it may come from a West African term for a bamboo stick formerly used for the instrument's neck.

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.

In the early 15th century, the town became an independent state once again, and emerged as a safe harbour for pirates and privateers, leading to it being targeted by the Portuguese, who destroyed the town in 1468.

Probably the last use of real dragoons ( infantry on horseback ) in combat was made by the Portuguese Army in the war in Angola during the 1960s and early 1970s.

An archipelago in the region of the Falkland Islands appeared on Portuguese maps from the early 16th century.

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.

France negotiated Guinea's present boundaries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the British for Sierra Leone, the Portuguese for their Guinea colony ( now Guinea-Bissau ), and Liberia.

Thus, during the 1960s and early 1970s, Portuguese development plans promoting strong economic growth and effective socioeconomic policies, like those applied by the Portuguese in the other two theaters of war ( Portuguese Angola and Portuguese Mozambique ), were not possible.

Infante Henry, Duke of Viseu (; Porto, 4 March 1394 – Sagres, 13 November 1460 ), better known as Henry the Navigator, was an important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and the Age of Discoveries in total.

However, Portuguese settlers destroyed the trade and began a series of wars which left the empire in near collapse in the early 17th century.

Lured by the potential of high profits from another expedition, the Portuguese established a permanent base south of the Indian trade port of Calicut in the early 15th century.

Portuguese explorers established contacts with people of the land later known as " Liberia " as early as 1461.

According to Manoel de Almeida ( a Portuguese missionary in the early 17th century ), there were 21 islands, seven to eight of which had monasteries on them " formerly large, but now much diminished.

The development of large capacity, sail-powered ships carrying cannon led to a rapid expansion of European navies, especially the Spanish and Portuguese navies which dominated in the 16th and early 17th centuries, and helped propel the age of exploration and colonialism.

* 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.

Little was known in the West about the island until the 19th century, although Portuguese and Spanish explorers, such as Dom Jorge de Meneses and Yñigo Ortiz de Retez, respectively, had encountered it as early as the 16th century.