On this day in 1640, the Portuguese Restoration War begun. The war was eventually won by the Portuguese, dissolving the Iberian Union in the process

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1. [Context](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_Restoration_War)

   The Portuguese Restoration War (Portuguese: Guerra da Restauração) was the war between Portugal and Spain that began with the Portuguese revolution of 1640 and ended with the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668, bringing a formal end to the Iberian Union. The period from 1640 to 1668 was marked by periodic skirmishes between Portugal and Spain, as well as short episodes of more serious warfare, much of it occasioned by Spanish and Portuguese entanglements with non-Iberian powers. Spain was involved in the Thirty Years’ War until 1648 and the Franco-Spanish War until 1659, while Portugal was involved in the Dutch–Portuguese War until 1663.

   In the seventeenth century and afterwards, this period of sporadic conflict was simply known, in Portugal and elsewhere, as the Acclamation War. The war established the House of Braganza as Portugal’s new ruling dynasty, replacing the House of Habsburg who had been united with the Portuguese crown since the 1581 succession crisis.

2. You reposted RexLynxPRT’s post after 7 hours to the same subreddit. Nice job !

3. Odd question, but now’s the prfect time to ask, do you know why Portugal canned Restoration of Independence Day as a national holiday back in 2012, only to restore it in 2016?

4. re-indpendence htank you very much

5. 🅾️ R G 🅰️ N I C

6. Much love to our Portuguese brothers and sisters.

7. Fun fact: Thanks to the Iberian Union, Portuguese and Brazilian explorers “Bandeirantes” were able to go deeper into the continent, passing the established line that separated Spanish and Portuguese colonies (Treaty of Tordesilhas). Because of that, they had to establish a new division many years after the union ended (Treaty of Madri). So this union is one of the main reasons why Brazil has its current size