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January
- 11962 The Beja revolt
- 21950 Death of Militão Ribeiro in the Lisbon Penitentiary
- 31960 The Peniche escape: Álvaro Cunhal and nine other leaders break out
- 41947 Exhibition of Books Written by Women
- 41961 The Baixa do Cassanje revolt, in Angola
- 111935 The National Assembly opens, with the first three women deputies
- 131975 MLM feminist demonstration attacked in Parque Eduardo VII
- 151975 The Alvor Agreement sets the date of Angola’s independence
- 161959 Henrique Galvão escapes from the Santa Maria Hospital
- 181934 The revolutionary general strike of 18 January 1934
- 201937 The “Ministry Bombs”: anarchists attack Franco’s supporters in Lisbon
- 201973 Amílcar Cabral assassinated in Conakry
- 212013 Parliament approves the Istanbul Convention
- 221961 Operation Dulcineia: Henrique Galvão seizes the liner Santa Maria
- 231963 The PAIGC begins the armed struggle in Guinea
- 261954 The Tarrafal camp closes (for the first time)
- 261965 Demonstration outside the Aljube for the release of students
- 261986 Pintasilgo, the first woman candidate for the Presidency of the Republic
- 281949 Meeting of the Women’s Committee of Norton de Matos’s campaign
- 281949 Norton de Matos rally at the Voz do Operário
- 291983 José Afonso’s last great concert at the Coliseu
- 311961 The opposition releases the “Programa para a Democratização da República” (Programme for the Democratisation of the Republic)
February
- 11975 The Commission on the Status of Women is created
- 31911 Women’s delegation takes the proposal for women’s suffrage to Teófilo Braga
- 31927 The February 1927 Revolt against the Military Dictatorship
- 31953 The Batepá massacre in São Tomé
- 41961 The attack on the Luanda prisons starts the armed struggle in Angola
- 41976 RTP broadcasts “O Aborto não é um Crime” (Abortion Is Not a Crime), by Maria Antónia Palla
- 71927 The February 1927 Revolt in Lisbon
- 101949 Norton de Matos campaign rally at the Voz do Operário, with Maria Lamas and Cesina Bermudes
- 112007 The second referendum: the “yes” to decriminalising the voluntary termination of pregnancy wins
- 121949 Norton de Matos withdraws from the presidential election
- 131965 The PIDE murders Humberto Delgado and Arajaryr Campos
- 151931 First issue of “Avante!”, the PCP’s clandestine newspaper
- 151962 Arrest of Stella Piteira Santos
- 151975 Additional Protocol to the Concordat opens the way to divorce for Catholic marriages
- 181978 Lisbon accompanies the transfer of the Tarrafal dead
- 191975 The “Renascença affair”
- 221949 Mário Soares and Maria Barroso marry by proxy in the Aljube prison
- 221974 Spínola publishes “Portugal e o Futuro” (Portugal and the Future)
- 231919 First issue of the workers’ newspaper “A Batalha” comes out
- 231987 José Afonso dies
- 241969 “Desfolhada Portuguesa” (Portuguese Husking) wins the Grande Prémio TV da Canção (TV Song Grand Prix), at the São Luiz Theatre
March
- 11948 The MUD is declared illegal
- 11974 Maria Lamas, defence witness in the Three Marias trial
- 21982 The first parliamentary debate on abortion, and Natália Correia’s poem
- 51974 The Cascais meeting: the coup becomes irreversible
- 61921 Founding of the Portuguese Communist Party
- 71974 “E Depois do Adeus” (And After the Goodbye) wins the Grande Prémio TV da Canção (TV Song Grand Prix), at the Maria Matos Theatre
- 72025 Parliament marks 50 years of universal suffrage for women
- 81953 Clandestine meeting of women in Lisbon on International Women’s Day
- 81962 Women demonstrate in Porto against the war and repression
- 81969 Women gather in the Serra de Sintra on Women’s Day
- 81971 The ARA destroys helicopters at Tancos Air Base
- 81975 First International Women’s Day celebrated in freedom
- 111959 The “Revolta da Sé” or Cathedral Revolt (Independent Military Movement)
- 111975 The Spinolist coup of 11 March fails
- 121962 Rádio Portugal Livre begins broadcasting
- 141911 The Republic’s first electoral law does not exclude women
- 141974 The “Rheumatic Brigade” and the dismissal of Spínola and Costa Gomes
- 141975 Creation of the Council of the Revolution and nationalisation of the banks
- 151961 UPA attacks in northern Angola: the colonial war begins
- 161974 The Caldas da Rainha uprising
- 171939 Salazar and Franco sign the Iberian Pact
- 171970 Natália Correia tried at the Plenary Court over the “Antologia”
- 181963 End of the ban on nurses marrying
- 211947 The MUD Juvenil’s Youth Week and the siege of Bela Mandil
- 211952 Dissolution of the Portuguese Women’s Association for Peace
- 241962 Students’ Day banned: the 1962 academic crisis begins
- 241974 Last meeting of the Movement’s Coordinating Committee
- 241984 Law No. 3/84 on sex education and family planning
- 241997 The first Global Plan for Equal Opportunities is approved
- 251949 The PIDE arrests Álvaro Cunhal, Militão Ribeiro and Sofia Ferreira
- 261962 Declaration of “luto académico” (academic mourning)
- 271916 Creation of the Crusade of Portuguese Women
- 282019 Balanced representation among the senior staff of the Public Administration
- 291974 The 1st Portuguese Song Meeting at the Coliseu
- 292019 Revision of the Parity Law raises the threshold to 40%
April
- 11911 Carolina Beatriz Ângelo asks to be registered as a voter
- 21976 The Constituent Assembly approves the Constitution of the Republic
- 41931 First issue of “Diário da Manhã”, the National Union’s newspaper
- 41973 Third Congress of the Democratic Opposition, in Aveiro
- 51962 Marcelo Caetano tenders his resignation as rector
- 51984 Law No. 4/84: the protection of maternity and paternity
- 111933 The Estado Novo Constitution comes into force
- 111933 Decree-Law No. 22 469 introduces prior censorship
- 111936 Law No. 1941 creates the Portuguese Youth (Mocidade Portuguesa)
- 111961 The Botelho Moniz coup — the “Abrilada” (April coup) of 1961
- 171969 The 1969 academic crisis begins in Coimbra
- 172007 Law No. 16/2007 decriminalises the voluntary termination of pregnancy at the woman’s request
- 191973 The Socialist Party is founded in Germany
- 211961 The first contingent of troops leaves for Angola on the “Niassa”
- 211965 Arrest and torture of Conceição Matos
- 221974 Setting up the Pontinha Command Post and the listening network
- 231936 Decree creates the Tarrafal concentration camp
- 231974 “Grândola” is chosen as the signal on the programme “Limite”
- 231974 Otelo hands over the “Final Instructions” in Parque Eduardo VII
- 241914 Founding of the National Council of Portuguese Women
- 241974 Otelo sets up the MFA command post at Pontinha
- 241974 “E Depois do Adeus” (And After the Goodbye): the first signal of the revolution
- 251974 The National Assembly meets for the last time, without a quorum
- 251974 Decree-Law No. 171/74 abolishes the DGS, the Legion and the Portuguese Youth
- 251974 Celeste Caeiro and the carnations
- 251974 “Grândola, Vila Morena” on Rádio Renascença confirms the revolution
- 251974 Occupation of the Emissora Nacional
- 251974 Occupation of Rádio Clube Português
- 251974 Occupation of the RTP studios in Lumiar
- 251974 Occupation of the airport and closure of the airspace
- 251974 Rádio Clube Português reads the MFA’s first communiqué
- 251974 Silva Pais warns Caetano: “the Revolution is out in the streets”
- 251974 Salgueiro Maia’s column occupies the Terreiro do Paço
- 251974 The frigate “Almirante Gago Coutinho” on the Tagus
- 251974 Ministers escape through a wall knocked open with pickaxes
- 251974 Ribeira das Naus: the soldiers refuse to fire
- 251974 Rua do Arsenal: the brigadier assaults Lieutenant Assunção
- 251974 Lisbon disobeys the MFA and takes to the streets
- 251974 The MFA Programme is delivered to the newspaper “República”
- 251974 The Cavalry Practical School (EPC) column climbs to the Carmo and surrounds the GNR barracks
- 251974 Surrender of the Portuguese Legion command
- 251974 A woman’s voice reads the communiqué on the siege of the Carmo
- 251974 Ultimatum and bursts of fire at the façade of the Carmo Barracks
- 251974 Spínola’s emissaries enter the Carmo; Caetano agrees to surrender
- 251974 Spínola at the Carmo; Caetano leaves in the Chaimite “Bula”
- 251974 PIDE/DGS gunfire kills four people on Rua António Maria Cardoso
- 251974 The MFA Proclamation on Rádio Clube Português
- 251974 Paratroopers head for Caxias prison
- 251975 The first free elections by universal suffrage
- 251975 Election of the Constituent Assembly: 20 women deputies
- 251976 The first legislative elections
- 251980 A citizens’ plaque at the former PIDE headquarters
- 252010 A municipal plaque marks the former PIDE/DGS headquarters
- 252015 The Aljube Museum – Resistance and Freedom opens
- 252019 Digital Memorial to Political Prisoners and the Politically Persecuted at Baixa-Chiado station
- 252024 50 years of 25 April: the popular parade on Avenida da Liberdade
- 261974 Surrender and occupation of the DGS headquarters
- 261974 The people storm the censorship headquarters
- 261974 Amnesty for political crimes
- 261974 The National Salvation Junta presents itself to the country
- 261974 Caetano and Tomás leave for Funchal
- 261974 The MFA Programme is made public
- 261974 Caxias is taken and the political prisoners are released
- 271928 Salazar takes office as Minister of Finance
- 271962 Arrest of the Women of Couço
- 271974 The political prisoners of Peniche Fortress are released
- 271974 May Day (1 May) becomes a national holiday
- 272024 The National Museum of Resistance and Freedom opens in Peniche Fortress
- 281911 Court ruling orders Carolina Beatriz Ângelo to be registered as a voter
- 281961 Founding of the National Women’s Movement (pro-regime)
- 281974 Mário Soares arrives from exile at Santa Apolónia
- 291976 The Council of the Revolution shuts down Natália Correia’s “O Século — Hoje”
- 301974 Álvaro Cunhal arrives from exile at the airport
- 301974 José Mário Branco and Luís Cília arrive from exile and are welcomed with “Grândola”
May
- 11931 Deaths in the repression of May Day 1931 in Lisbon
- 11962 May Day 1962 in Lisbon’s Baixa
- 11964 Death of David Almeida Reis by the Elevador da Glória
- 11974 The first May Day in freedom
- 11974 Release of the Tarrafal prisoners
- 21950 Álvaro Cunhal and Sofia Ferreira tried by the Plenary Court
- 31973 Arrest of Aurora Rodrigues
- 41924 First Feminist and Education Congress
- 51931 Decree No. 19 694: women heads of household in parish council elections
- 71940 Concordat with the Holy See bans divorce for Catholic marriages
- 71974 The “Three Marias” are acquitted
- 71974 The Women’s Liberation Movement (MLM) is born
- 91962 Hunger strike in the Cidade Universitária canteen
- 91991 The Commission on the Status of Women becomes the CIDM
- 101919 Law abolishes civil restrictions on grounds of sex
- 101958 Humberto Delgado: “Obviously, I’ll sack him!” (Obviamente, demito-o!)
- 111984 Law No. 6/84 decriminalises termination of pregnancy in some cases
- 121911 Feminist Propaganda Association founded
- 141974 The National Assembly and the Corporative Chamber are abolished
- 151962 SPE writers stand in solidarity with the students
- 151969 The Second Republican Congress of Aveiro
- 151974 Spínola is sworn in as President of the Republic
- 161958 Humberto Delgado arrives at Santa Apolónia
- 161974 Palma Carlos’s First Provisional Government is sworn in
- 161974 Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, Secretary of State for Social Security
- 171930 Maria Lamas organises the exhibition “Mulheres Portuguesas” (Portuguese Women)
- 171967 The LUAR raids the Bank of Portugal in Figueira da Foz
- 171974 The first legal “Avante!” (Forward!) comes out
- 181958 Humberto Delgado’s rally at the Liceu de Camões
- 191954 Catarina Eufémia killed by the GNR in Baleizão
- 191975 The “República affair” begins
- 192021 Lisbon City Council approves the Memorial to Political Prisoners and the Politically Persecuted in Largo da Boa-Hora
- 211965 The Portuguese Society of Writers is dissolved and its headquarters raided
- 261969 “Zip-Zip” premieres on RTP, recorded before a live audience at the Villaret Theatre
- 271974 The first national minimum wage is set
- 271975 Decree-Law No. 261/75 allows those married in church to divorce
- 271975 The new divorce law
- 272000 Domestic violence becomes a public crime
- 281911 Carolina Beatriz Ângelo, the first woman to vote in Portugal
- 281926 Military coup of 28 May ends the First Republic
- 281946 Law No. 2015 extends the vote to some married women
- 281962 Arrest of Eurico Figueiredo
- 281974 Artists cover up the statue of Salazar at the Palácio Foz
June
- 21975 Opening session of the Constituent Assembly
- 31971 The ARA cuts Lisbon’s telecommunications during the NATO meeting
- 41962 Police charge at the Faculty of Medicine; Lindley Cintra assaulted
- 81958 The 1958 presidential election and the fraud against Humberto Delgado
- 121974 Decree-Law No. 251/74 opens the judiciary to women
- 131935 The FNAT, the National Foundation for Joy at Work, is created
- 141962 A plenary meeting at the Técnico suspends the academic mourning
- 161934 The First Portuguese Colonial Exhibition opens in Porto
- 161960 The Mueda massacre, in northern Mozambique
- 171961 Tarrafal reopens for prisoners from the liberation movements
- 191950 Petition to Salazar against the ill-treatment of prisoners
- 201962 Demonstration for the release of the student Eurico Figueiredo
- 212011 Assunção Esteves, the first woman President of the Assembly of the Republic
- 221926 Press censorship moves into the Carmo Barracks
- 231940 The Exhibition of the Portuguese World opens in Belém
- 241928 Second Feminist and Education Congress
- 251975 Independence of Mozambique
- 271940 The Colonial Section opens, with 138 people from the colonies put on display to the public
- 271948 Bento de Jesus Caraça’s funeral becomes a protest against the regime
- 271976 Ramalho Eanes elected the first constitutional President
- 281947 The police close down the National Council of Portuguese Women
- 281998 The first referendum on the voluntary termination of pregnancy
July
- 11938 Decree requires nurses to be single or widowed
- 31912 Socialist and republican women ask the Senate for the vote
- 31913 Electoral Code reserves the vote for men
- 31944 The House of the Students of the Empire is made official
- 41937 Bomb attack on Salazar on Avenida Barbosa du Bocage
- 41956 The statutes of the Portuguese Society of Writers are approved
- 51932 Salazar becomes President of the Council of Ministers
- 51975 Independence of Cape Verde
- 61974 Decree-Law No. 308/74: women enter the diplomatic career
- 81930 Salazar has the Colonial Act enacted
- 91912 League delivers a petition for women’s right to vote to the Senate
- 121975 Independence of São Tomé and Príncipe
- 131973 Decree-Law No. 353/73 sets off the captains’ protest
- 131975 The attack on the PCP offices in Rio Maior opens the “Hot Summer”
- 151931 Decree No. 20 073: the vote for women with secondary or higher education
- 151973 Caetano in London amid the Wiriyamu revelations
- 181936 Franco’s uprising: the Spanish Civil War begins
- 181950 Maria Lamas arrested for the second time
- 181974 Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, Minister of Social Affairs
- 191918 Decree opens the legal profession and other public posts to women
- 191975 PS rally at the Fonte Luminosa
- 231976 Mário Soares’s First Constitutional Government is sworn in
- 241911 Feminist Propaganda Association petitions the Constituent Assembly
- 261911 Constituent Assembly removes the article on women’s civil and political rights
- 261943 The 1943 wave of strikes begins in the Lisbon region
- 261971 Bank workers demonstrate in Lisbon’s Baixa
- 261980 Portugal ratifies the CEDAW Convention without reservations
- 271970 Salazar dies
- 271974 Law No. 7/74 recognises the colonies’ right to independence
- 281946 The MUD Juvenil is formally constituted
- 311958 Raul Alves falls from the third floor of the PIDE headquarters
August
- 11917 Death of Angelina Vidal
- 11979 Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, the first woman prime minister
- 12017 A law imposes balanced representation on company boards
- 31959 The Pidjiguiti massacre, in the port of Bissau
- 61936 The “Milk Revolt” in Madeira; ten women prisoners sent to Lisbon
- 81961 The “Seis Marias” (Six Marias), the first paratrooper nurses
- 81975 The “Document of the Nine”
- 151936 Statutes of the Mothers’ Work for National Education approved
- 161971 The 1971 constitutional revision promises “greater autonomy” to the colonies
- 211970 Maria Teresa Lobo, the first woman in a Portuguese government
- 212006 The Parity Law: a minimum of 33% of each sex on the lists
- 261931 The “reviralho” revolt of 26 August 1931 in Lisbon
- 271974 Decree-Law No. 392/74 regulates the right to strike
- 291933 The State Surveillance and Defence Police (PVDE) is created
September
- 61965 Closure of the House of the Students of the Empire
- 71974 The Lusaka Agreement sets Mozambique’s independence for 25 June 1975
- 81936 The Sailors’ Revolt on the Tagus
- 91973 Meeting at Monte do Sobral (Alcáçovas): the Captains’ Movement is born
- 101974 Portugal recognises the independence of Guinea-Bissau
- 162009 Law No. 112/2009 sets out the system for protecting victims of domestic violence
- 201979 Decree-Law No. 392/79: equality at work and in employment
- 231933 National Labour Statute bans strikes
- 241973 The PAIGC unilaterally proclaims the independence of Guinea-Bissau
- 251933 Creation of the National Propaganda Secretariat
- 251964 FRELIMO begins the armed struggle in Mozambique
- 261958 The guitarist Carlos Paredes arrested at his workplace
- 271968 Marcelo Caetano succeeds Salazar as head of government
- 271975 Demonstrators destroy the Spanish Embassy in Lisbon
- 281974 The “silent majority” and the barricades
- 301936 The Portuguese Legion is created
- 301974 Spínola resigns; Costa Gomes becomes President
October
- 11970 The Intersindical is created
- 21970 Suicide of Albina Fernandes
- 31911 Death of Carolina Beatriz Ângelo
- 41965 Manifesto of the “101 Catholics” against colonial policy
- 51910 Proclamation of the Republic in Lisbon
- 51990 Humberto Delgado in the National Pantheon
- 81945 Founding of the Movement of Democratic Unity (MUD)
- 111971 José Afonso records “Cantigas do Maio” (Songs of May) in France
- 121972 Student Ribeiro Santos shot dead by the PIDE/DGS at the ISCEF
- 121975 The MDM’s 2nd National Meeting at the Liceu D. Filipa de Lencastre
- 141949 Arrest of Cesina Bermudes, a leader of the National Democratic Women’s Movement
- 141972 Funeral of Ribeiro Santos
- 151921 First issue of “Seara Nova” published
- 151959 Arrest of Maria Alda Nogueira on Avenida da Liberdade
- 161982 Adriano Correia de Oliveira dies
- 171924 Lisbon names a street after Angelina Vidal
- 171936 The rebel sailors embark for Tarrafal
- 181980 “Os 10 Magníficos” (The Magnificent Ten) at the Coliseu, for the ten years of the CGTP-IN
- 201945 The Plenary Courts replace the Special Military Courts
- 221945 The political police becomes the PIDE
- 251969 Married women no longer need their husband’s permission to have a passport
- 251973 The trial of the Three Marias begins, behind closed doors
- 261910 League assembly approves the feminist list of demands
- 261969 The 1969 elections to the National Assembly
- 261970 The ARA sabotages the ship “Cunene” in the Alcântara dock
- 271910 The League presents its demands to the Provisional Government, among them the vote
- 291936 The first 152 prisoners arrive at Tarrafal
November
- 21972 The UN recognises the legitimacy of the armed struggle against Portugal
- 31910 Provisional Government decrees the Divorce Law
- 51941 Strike by the Covilhã woollen mill workers
- 61934 Decree-Law No. 24 631: some women can vote and be elected to the National Assembly
- 61973 Father Felicidade Alves and Nuno Teotónio Pereira tried by the Plenary Court
- 71971 First armed action of the Revolutionary Brigades
- 71975 Soldiers blow up the Rádio Renascença transmitters
- 101935 Establishment of the Portuguese Women’s Association for Peace
- 101943 The PCP’s Third Congress (the first illegal one) in Monte Estoril
- 101961 Operation Vagô: a hijacked plane and leaflets over Lisbon
- 101970 “La Chanson de Combat Portugaise”: the exiled singers in Paris
- 111961 Cândido Capilé shot dead at a demonstration in Almada
- 111975 Independence of Angola
- 121975 Construction workers besiege the Constituent Assembly
- 141913 Regina Quintanilha, the first woman to practise law in Portugal
- 151974 Electoral law enshrines universal suffrage at 18
- 152024 Celeste Caeiro, the woman of the carnations, dies
- 161975 Unity demonstration in the Terreiro do Paço
- 171977 Decree-Law No. 485/77 institutionalises the Commission on the Status of Women
- 191933 150 political prisoners deported to Angra do Heroísmo
- 192019 José Mário Branco dies; the farewell at A Voz do Operário
- 201970 Three ARA bombs in Lisbon
- 211974 Humberto Delgado posthumously reinstated
- 221970 Operation Green Sea (Operação Mar Verde): the invasion of Conakry
- 241936 Women primary teachers may only marry with the minister’s authorisation
- 241969 The PIDE is renamed the Directorate-General of Security
- 241973 The DGS case against the anti-colonial group and the Revolutionary Brigades
- 251966 New Civil Code keeps the husband as “head of the family”
- 251967 Floods in the Lisbon region expose the destitution hidden by the regime
- 251975 25 November: the end of the revolutionary period
- 251977 Decree-Law No. 496/77: the reform of the Civil Code
December
- 11973 The Óbidos meeting enlarges the Coordinating Committee
- 41961 The escape from Caxias in Salazar’s armoured car
- 41969 Strike by the women workers of the Penteadora mill, in Unhais da Serra
- 51932 Creation of the Special Military Courts
- 61973 Arrest of Maria da Conceição Moita
- 71949 Arrest of Maria Lamas and members of the National Democratic Movement
- 71975 Indonesia invades Timor
- 81968 The PIDE raids the Técnico Students’ Association
- 101967 The British press reveals the “Ballet Rose” scandal
- 131946 Isabel Aboim Inglez arrested by the PIDE for the first time
- 151961 Albina Fernandes arrested with her small children
- 161934 The first three Portuguese women deputies are elected
- 161972 The Wiriyamu massacre, in Mozambique
- 171954 António Dias Lourenço escapes from Peniche Fortress by sea
- 181961 The Indian Union occupies Goa, Daman and Diu
- 191961 The PIDE murders the sculptor José Dias Coelho in Alcântara
- 201953 Maria Lamas arrested at the airport
- 251910 Family Laws: civil marriage and equality in the marital partnership
- 261968 A law sets the same voting requirements for women and men for the first time
- 271969 Women primary school teachers no longer need permission to marry
- 301972 The Capela do Rato vigil against the colonial war
- 311945 Electoral law excludes married women from the vote
- 311968 Vigil for peace in the Church of São Domingos