Portuguese Restoration War

Portuguese Restoration War
Part of Anglo-Spanish Wars and Franco-Spanish Wars

German engraving from the 1650s representing the episodes of the Portuguese restoration of independence. Clockwise from top left:
Date1 December 1640 – 13 February 1668
(27 years, 2 months, 1 week, 6 days)
Location
Portugal and Spain
Result

Portuguese victory[4]

Territorial
changes		 Portugal cedes Ceuta to Spain
Portugal cedes Hermisende to Spain
Belligerents
Commanders and leaders

The Restoration War (Portuguese: Guerra da Restauração), historically known as the Acclamation War (Guerra da Aclamação),[7] 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 1580 succession crisis.[5]

  1. ^ Davenport 2012, pp. 324–328.
  2. ^ Glete 2002, p. 176.
  3. ^ Pinzelli 2020, p. 151.
  4. ^ Anderson 2000, p. 131.
  5. ^ a b c Torgal 1981, pp. 69–85
  6. ^ Birmingham 2003, p. 51.
  7. ^ "Guerra da Aclamação". Infopédia. Retrieved 22 April 2024.