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Group: Armenia, Baronry of Little, or Lesser
People: Muryeong of Baekje
Topic: Portuguese Succession, War of the
Location: Trieste (Triest) Friuli-Venezia Giulia Italy

Portuguese Succession, War of the

Years: 1580 - 1583

The War of the Portuguese Succession is fought from 1580 to 1583 between the two main claimants to the Portuguese throne: António, Prior of Crato, proclaimed in several towns as King of Portugal, and Philip II of Spain, who eventually succeeds in claiming the crown, reigning as Philip I of Portugal.

"{Readers} take infinitely more pleasure in knowing the variety of incidents that are contained in them, without ever thinking of imitating them, believing the imitation not only difficult, but impossible: as if heaven, the sun, the elements, and men should have changed the order of their motions and power, from what they were anciently"

― Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on Livy (1517)