Bruxelas aprova 612 milhões de ajudas estatais para eletrointensivos portugueses

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O nosso passado imperial:
http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10. ... eline.0001

Portuguese Empire

1415
A Portuguese prince, Henry the Navigator, becomes fascinated by exploration down the coast of Africa and commissions successive voyages

c. 1420
The Portuguese, discovering the lush and uninhabited island of Madeira, send colonists to settle it

1446
Portugal claims ownership of the region of Guinea, subsequently the centre of their slave trade on the west African coast

c. 1450
The caravel, a sailing ship developed in the Mediterranean and used down the west coast of Africa, is adapted by the Portuguese for Atlantic use

1466
The Portuguese settlers on the Cape Verde islands are granted a monopoly on the new slave trade

1483
The Portuguese establish a further presence on the west coast of Africa, at the mouth of the Congo river

1488
Bartolomeu Dias, sailing for the king of Portugal, becomes the first European navigator to round the Cape of Good Hope

1493
Pope Alexander VI draws a line through the Atlantic, dividing new discoveries between Spain (west) and Portugal (east)

1494
In negotiations about the New World at Tordesillas, the king of Portugal insists on a new demarcation line which later brings him Brazil

1498
Vasco da Gama reaches the southern coast of India, at Calicut, after sailing across the Indian Ocean from east Africa

1500
Portuguese explorer Pedro Cabral, with a fleet of thirteen ships, makes landfall in Brazil

The Portuguese establish trading posts in east Africa, on the coast of Mozambique

1502
Vasco da Gama wins a trading treaty for Portuguese merchants after bombarding the Indian port of Calicut into submission

1503
The Portuguese set up a trading post on the east African island of Zanzibar

1505
The Portuguese establish a presence in Sri Lanka, trading in the island's crop of cinnamon

1510
The Portuguese seize Goa and make it their colonial capital in India

1511
The Portuguese take control of Malacca, in the Malay peninsula, as a base for trade further east

1512
The Portuguese make treaties in the Moluccas (or Spice Islands), to trade in cloves and nutmeg

1514
The Portuguese capture Hormuz and establish a garrison to control the Gulf of Oman

1534
The Portuguese force the local ruler to cede to them the island of Bombay

1549
Brazil becomes a Portuguese royal province, under the control of a governor general

The first Portuguese governor general of Brazil selects Bahia (now Salvador) as his capital

c. 1550
Africans, bought in the Portuguese trading posts of west Africa, are shipped across the Atlantic as slaves

1557
The Portuguese establish a trading post on Macao, a small peninsula off the south coast of China

c. 1625
The Dutch gradually exclude the Portuguese from the immensely lucrative trade in cloves from the Spice Islands (or Moluccas)

1641
The Dutch expel the Portuguese from their trading posts in Malacca

1656
After a six-month siege, the Dutch capture Colombo from the Portuguese in Sri Lanka

1658
The Dutch expel the Portuguese from the last of their trading posts in Sri Lanka

1668
England's East India Company is granted a lease on Bombay by Charles II, who has received it from his Portuguese bride

1698
A fleet from Oman evicts the Portuguese from Mombasa and Zanzibar

1763
The capital of the Portuguese colony of Brazil is moved from Bahia to Rio de Janeiro

1788
Tiradentes (the 'puller of teeth') leads the first rebellion against Portuguese rule in Brazil

1792
The Brazilian rebel Tiradentes is beheaded in public in Rio de Janeiro as a warning to would-be revolutionaries

1815
Brazil is given equal standing with Portugal, forming together the Kingdom of Portugal and Brazil

1821
The 22-year-old Portuguese prince, Dom Pedro, is made regent of Brazil

1822
The Portuguese regent, Dom Pedro, proclaims the independence of Brazil and three months later is crowned emperor, as Pedro I

1836
The Portuguese ban the shipping of slaves from the coast of Angola

1875
Slavery is finally made illegal in the Portuguese empire

1887
The imperial government in China formally acknowledges Portuguese territorial rights in Macao

1956
The MPLA (Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola) is formed as a guerrilla movement to end Portuguese rule

1962
Frelimo emerges as a Marxist guerrilla group dedicated to winning independence for Mozambique

1966
UNITA, led by Jonas Savimbi, joins the fight for Angolan independence

1974
Portuguese Guinea becomes independent as Guinea-Bissau, with Luís Cabral as president

1975
Portuguese East Africa becomes independent as Mozambique, with Frelimo as the only political party

The Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa, become independent as the republic of Cape Verde

1999
The island of Macau reverts from Portuguese ownership to the People's Republic of China

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Estados Unidos e Zona Euro vs Ásia

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Estados Unidos e Zona Euro vs Ásia

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8 Reasons Why Rome Fell
http://www.history.com/news/history-lis ... -rome-fell

Não directamente relacionado com Portugal, mas, talvez, com o mundo chamado de ocidental. A História, por vezes, repete-se.

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Bom exemplo. Ficava feliz se fizessem a reforma do sistema eleitoral e reduzissem o numero de deputados.

Parece-me que a maioria dos portugueses também o pretende. O que poderemos fazer para forçar os políticos a avançarem nessa direcção?

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Bom exemplo. Ficava feliz se fizessem a reforma do sistema eleitoral e reduzissem o numero de deputados.

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