Portugal
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Portugal is a European country, founded in 868, with a population of 10 million people and Lisbon as capital. It is a member of the European Union and the United Nations. It is ruled by the House of Braganza and the Jesuits. Its coat of arms contains 2 dragons. Its biggest conglomerates are Amorim, Sonae, Jéronimo Martins, CUF Group of José de Mello, PCB bank.
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History of Portugal
219 Lusitanians are conquered by the Visigoths and Roman Empire.
726 Portugal is conquered by the Islamic Moors of the Umayyad Caliphate.
866 Battle of Aljubarotta, Alfonso III of Asturias reconquers Portugal.
1385 House of Aviz rules Portugal and participates in the African slave trade.
1452 pope Nicholas V authorizes Alfonso V of Portugal, married to Joanna of Castile, to use non-Christians as slaves.
1494 Alexander IV Borgia creates the Treaty of Tordesillas to define a demarcation line and end the rivalry between Spain and Portugal.
1498 Portugese explorer Vasco da Gama (Order of Christ) travels to South Africa and eventually reaches Calcut India (start of Portugese renaissance).
1505 the Portugese reach Latin America (era of Inca Empire).
1512 Portugal colonises Uruguay.
1526 the Portugese transport African slaves to Brazil (start of the Atlantic slave trade). Africans are gathered at forts on African coasts and traded by African kings from a different tribe for European goods.
1549 John III of Portugal (Habsburg) orders missions to conquer Latin America and to convert the native tribes to Christianity.
1553 Manuel de Nobrega becomes first provincial of jesuits in Brazil.
1554 Spanish jesuit Joseph of Anchieta, related to Ignatius of Loyola, founds Sao Paulo (sacred pole of Draco) and Rio de Janeiro.
Alfonso of Portugal is a Knight of Malta.
1559 Marquis de Pombal executes jesuit Gabriel Malagrida.
1640 John IV Braganza.
1750 Joseph I Braganza as king, married to Mariana Bourbon.
1777 Peter III (mason), succeed by John V (mason)
1822 Brazil declares independance from Portugal. Michael I of Portugal (mason).
1861 king Louis I Braganza (Order of the Golden Fleece).
1908 king Manuel II Braganza, married to Augusta of Hohenzollern.
1910 oct 5 revolution.
1926 coup d'etat with Gomes da Costa.
1930 Fernando Pessao is a friend of MI6 agent Aleister Crowley, fakes his death.
1947 the jesuits establish the St John de Britto College in Lisbon.
1974 Carnation Revolution.
1998 Jesuit Paulo Portas leads the CDS People's Party.
2002 jesuit José Emanuel Barroso (Goldman Sachs) as pm.
2007 financial crisis.
2020 Covid19-ritual, jesuit Barroso as member of the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunisation.
Presidents
Oscar Carmona, Antonio Ramalho Earnes, Mario Suares (married to Dame of Malta Maria Barroso), Jorge Sampaio, Anibal Cavaco Silva, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.
Prime ministers
Antonio de Oliveira Salazar, Mario Suares, Annibal Cavaco Silva, Antonio Guterres, jesuit José Manuel Barroso (Goldman Sachs, European Commission), Pedro Lopes, José Socrates de Sousa, Pedro Passos Coelho, Antonio Costa.