History of Portugal (1834-1910)
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The History of Portugal from the end of the Liberal Civil War in 1834 to the republican revolution of 1910 was marked by several events that made way for the proclamation of the Portuguese Republic in the 5 October 1910 revolution.
The initial turmoil of coups d'état perpetrated by the victorious generals of the Civil War was followed by a parliamentary unstable system of governmental "rotation" marked by the growth of the Portuguese Republican Party. This was caused mainly by the inefficiency of the monarchic governments as well as the monarchs' apparent lack of interest for the country, aggravated by the British ultimatum for the abandonment of the Portuguese "pink map" project that united Portuguese East and West Africa (today's Angola and Mozambique).
The situation culminated in a dictatorship-like government imposed by King Charles I, in the person of João Franco, followed by the king's assassination in the Lisbon regicide of 1908 and the revolution of 1910.
[edit] The monarchs: Maria II, Pedro V, Luís I
[edit] Devourism
The first years of the post-civil war Portuguese constitutional monarchy were known as the Devourism period, after a speech by Gastão Pereira de Sande, Count of Taipa, an opositionist (that at the time were known as radicals) who stated that the government was a "gang made up to devour the country under the shadow of a child".
[edit] Septembrism
[edit] Cabralism
[edit] Regeneration
[edit] Fusion
[edit] Rotationism
[edit] Carlos I and the rise of the Republican Party
[edit] Imperialism: the pink map and the ultimatum
[edit] João Franco
[edit] The Regicide of Lisbon and Manuel II
On February 1 of 1908, the king and the royal family returned to Lisbon from Vila Viçosa. After leaving the train in Almada and travelling by boat to Lisbon, they were awaited in the downtown of Lisbon by members of the court, government and some few citizens. On the way to the royal palace, while passing through Terreiro do Paço, a republican activist, Alfredo Costa, jumped to the carriage and shot the king in the back, killing him instantly. When Prince Luís Filipe tried to shoot Alfredo Costa, another man, Manuel Buíça shot him with a rifle. Meanwhile, his brother Prince Manuel had been wounded in the arm. The police immediately killed the murderers and the royal carriage headed to the nearby Navy's Arsenal, where Luís Filipe would die. Soon after Manuel was acclaimed king of Portugal.
