Portugal becomes a republic
October 5, 1910
A two-day revolution in Lisbon overthrew the eight-hundred-year-old Portuguese monarchy and proclaimed a republic. King Manuel II sailed into exile aboard the royal yacht. The First Republic would prove chaotic, passing through forty-five governments in sixteen years before a military coup ended the experiment, ushering in the long authoritarian rule of António de Oliveira Salazar.
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