Duarte Pio is a soft-spoken, unassuming 62-year-old who would be king of Portugal ... deposed Carlos I's successor - Manuel II - by force in 1910, Portugal packed a bigger economic and diplomatic ...

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In 1514, King Manuel I of Portugal gave Pope Leo X a white Indian Elephant named Hanno. When Hanno arrived in the Vatican—after sailing from Conchin, on India’s southwest coast, to Lisbon and ...

By order of King Manuel I, the selling of maps showing Portuguese navigations was prohibited outside of Portugal. "So maps were Portugal's secret weapon?" asked Teichner. "Maps were power," said Lt.

In a letter he wrote to Portugal's King João III in 1526 ... article gave the addressee of Afonso's 1526 letter as being Manuel I. This has been corrected. The department apologizes for the ...

1910 - King Manuel II abdicates amid revolution; Portugal proclaimed a republic. 1911 - New constitution separates church from state. Manuel Jose de Arriaga elected first president of republic.