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    "ocrText": "SECRET\nAPPENDIX F\nCHRONOLOGY OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS\n2nd C. B.C.-4th C.\nRoman occupation (Province of Lusitania).\nA.D.\n5th C.\nSwabian Kingdom of Portugal.\n6th C.\nVisigothic Kingdom of Spain and Portugal.\n711-712\nIslamic occupation of the Iberian Peninsula.\n8th C.-11th C.\nCounty of Portugal included in Spanish territory as reconquest of the\npeninsula from the Moors progressed southward.\n1128\nD. Afonso I defeats Spanish armies and becomes first King of Portugal,\nhitherto a Spanish county.\n1147\nLisbon recaptured from Moors, a turning point in the reconquest.\n1249\nMoors finally expelled from all of Portugal.\n1385\nVictory of Aljubarrota over the Castilians, preserving Portuguese inde-\npendence.\n1386\nTreaty of peace and alliance known as Treaty of Windsor signed with\nEngland. Portuguese King John the Great married Philippa, daughter\nof the English King, John of Gaunt.\n1415\nCapture of Ceuta, the first of Portugal's possessions in North Africa: be-\nginning of Portugal's period of expansion and greatness.\n1432\nOccupation of Azores Islands.\n1420-1487\nExploration of and occupation of points along the west coast of Africa.\n1487-88\nRounding of Cape of Good Hope by Bartolomeu Dias.\n1494\nTreaty of Tordesillas with Spain, dividing world spheres of influence fol-\nlowing discovery of America.\n1497-99\nVoyage to India by Vasco da Gama.\n1500\nDiscovery of Brazil.\n1501-1550\nExpansion of the Portuguese maritime empire in Far East and Africa.\n1530-1548\nBeginnings of colonization of Brazil.\n1578\nPortuguese defeated by Moors at Alcazar-Kebir, North Africa; an event\nsymbolic of the end of Portugal's period of greatness.\n1580-81\nInvasion and occupation by Philip II of Spain: union of thrones of Spain\nand Portugal under Spanish Hapsburgs.\n1640\nRevolt against union of Spain and Portugal.\n1661\nCharles II of England married Catherine of Braganza: marriage treaty\nand alliance provided that England would defend Portugal by land and\nsea.\n1668\nSpanish finally driven out and peace signed.\n1807\nFrench invasion: transfer of Court to Rio de Janeiro: British armies sent\nto Portugal.\n1811\nFrench finally driven out of Portugal by British-Portuguese armies under\nWellington.\nSECRET\n49"
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