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Hace 18 horas · Palace of Mafra built by John V, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. War led to a deterioration of relations with Portugal's oldest ally, England, and the loss of Hormuz, a strategic trading post located between Iran and Oman.
- John I of Castile
John I of Castile, accompanied by allied French cavalry,...
- John I of Castile
Hace 3 días · King John V of Portugal. John V was King of Portugal for most of five decades in the 18th Century. He oversaw a great increase in his country's riches from overseas and, unlike many before him, ruled as an absolute monarch. He was born on Oct. 22, 1689, at Riberia Palace in Lisbon.
Hace 1 día · The Peninsular War (1807–1814) was the military conflict fought in the Iberian Peninsula by Spain, Portugal, and the United Kingdom against the invading and occupying forces of the First French Empire during the Napoleonic Wars. In Spain, it is considered to overlap with the Spanish War of Independence. [e]
Hace 4 días · The expedition of Sir John Norris and Sir Francis Drake to Spain and Portugal, 1589, ed. R. B. Wernham (London, 1988). Back to (3) Agustín R. Rodríguez González, Drake y la ‘Invencible’: mitos desvelados (Madrid, 2011); Ibid., El león contra la jauría: batallas y campañas navales españolas 1621-1640 (Málaga, 2018).
Hace 3 días · St. John Paul II visited the church and prayed in the crypt chapel in 1982 before continuing on to Fatima to give thanks to the Blessed Virgin Mary for saving him from an assassination attempt. The pope also inaugurated a statue of the saint, which can be seen outside of the church. The statue outside of Lisbon’s Church of St. Anthony.
Hace 2 días · By Vincenzo De Meulenaere. On October 25, 1555, the grandees of the Habsburg Netherlands gathered in the Great Hall of the Coudenberg Palace in Brussels to witness an extraordinary event. A weary old man with a grey beard and a limp shuffled into the room to deliver a speech that would change the course of the land. The man was Emperor Charles V.
