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| 1926 |
| | | A coup in Portugal brings in a military dictatorship, in which general António Óscar de Fragoso Carmona soon emerges as the leader | |
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| 1932 |
| | | Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes prime minister of Portugal with dictatorial powers | |
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| 1939 September 1 |
| | | Spain and Portugal declare that they will maintain their neutrality in the European war that now seems inevitable | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Antonio de Salazar, the Portuguese dictator, suffers a stroke and is replaced by Marcelo Caetano | |
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| 1974 |
| | | A military coup in Portugal ends four decades of Salazar's and Caetano's dictatorial New State | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Portugal adopts a democratic constitution after 43 years of dicatorship | |
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| 1976 |
| | | Mario Soares becomes Portugal's first democratically elected prime minister in half a century | |
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| 1999 |
| | | The island of Macau reverts from Portuguese ownership to the People's Republic of China | |
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