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Lisbon is the capital city and largest city of Portugal with a population of 545,245 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Lisbon extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of 3 million on an area of , making it the 9th most populous urban area in the European Union...

Timeline of Events

1147

10.24.1147

After a siege of 4 months crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques, reconquered Lisbon.

10.25.1147

The Portuguese, under Afonso I, and Crusaders from England and Flanders conquer Lisbon after a four-month siege.

1493

3.4.1493

Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.

1499

7.10.1499

Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon, after discovering the sea route to India as a companion of Vasco da Gama.

1500

3.9.1500

The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.

1502

2.12.1502

Vasco da Gama sets sail from Lisbon, Portugal, on his second voyage to India.

1531

1.26.1531

Lisbon, Portugal is hit by an earthquake--thousands die.

1541

4.7.1541

Francis Xavier leaves Lisbon on a mission to the Portuguese East Indies.

1588

5.28.1588

The Spanish Armada, with 130 ships and 30,000 men, sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. (It will take until May 30 for all ships to leave port).

5.30.1588

The last ship of the Spanish Armada sets sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel.

1709

8.8.1709

Bartolomeu de Gusmão demonstrates the lifting power of hot air in an audience before the King of Portugal in Lisbon

1755

11.1.1755

Lisbon earthquake: In Portugal, Lisbon is destroyed by a massive earthquake and tsunami, killing between sixty thousand and ninety thousand people.

1820

9.15.1820

Constitutionalist revolution in Lisbon, Portugal.

1908

2.1.1908

King Carlos I of Portugal and his son, Prince Luis Filipe are killed in Terreiro do Paco, Lisbon.

1919

5.16.1919

A naval Curtiss aircraft NC-4 commanded by Albert Cushing Read leaves Trepassey, Newfoundland, for Lisbon via the Azores on the first transatlantic flight.

5.27.1919

The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.

1921

10.19.1921

Portuguese Prime Minister António Granjo and other politicians are murdered in a Lisbon coup.

2001

8.24.2001

Air Transat Flight 236 runs out of fuel over the Atlantic Ocean (en route to Lisbon from Toronto) and makes an emergency landing in the Azores.