From the birth of the First Republic...
Visit our gallery of photographs taken on 5 October 1910.
...to its death
Documents from the military dictators, their opponents and interested observers.
Without forgetting our growing collection of books, journals, ebooks and videos.
A new revolt?
As protests mount against austerity measures, the New York Times claims some of the officers who led the overthrow of the dictatorship are making their voices heard again, even warning the debt crisis could trigger the kind of revolutionary turmoil they spearheaded in 1974.
Can you help?
We are looking for some volunteers who have knowledge of some of the leading political figures in the history of the Portuguese Republic and who would be prepared to write short, 100-200 word, biographies of people such as Afonso Costa, Bernardino Machado, Sidónio Pais, Salazar, Carmona, Caetano, Craveiro Lopes, Humberto Delgado, Mário Soares, Álvaro Cunhal, Cavaco, etc., etc. Please contact us by JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING or on Facebook if you can help. Thanks.
A new republic
On the afternoon of 5 October 1910, José Relvas, speaking on behalf of the leadership of the Portuguese Republican Party proclaimed the establishment of the republic from the balcony of Lisbon City Chambers. On 6 October the republic was proclaimed in Oporto, and the rest of the country over the following days.