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1st Period - Pre Roman Period
(Before 3rd Century BC)
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Before Christ (BC) |
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| 800.000 |
Homo Erectus in Peninsular |
| 300.000 |
Hunting camps |
| 100.000 |
Evidence of Neanderthal tribes |
| 35.000 |
Cro-Magnon tribe in Peninsular |
| 20.000 |
Solutrean Period - (Vila Nova de Foz Cõa rock paintings) |
| 18.000 |
Cave Dwellers |
| 2.500 |
Palaeolithic tribe across the whole of the Peninsular |
| 2.000 |
Emergence of Bronze Age in the Peninsular |
| 1.100 |
Phoenicians settled in southern coastal regions |
| 1.000 |
Tartessus kingdom in southern Spain spread into southern Portugal |
| 1.000 |
Evidence of Phoenician artefacts in southern Peninsular |
| 1.000 |
Emergence of villages in the western part of the Peninsular |
| 1.000 |
Phoenicians start trading with the southern coast now partly known as the Algarve |
| 900 |
Phoenicians create trading colony of Cartage on North African coast |
| 800 |
Phoenicians artefacts indicate colony at Balsa (Tavira in the Algarve) |
| 700 |
Celtic invaders settle in land of future Portugal |
| 700 |
Neothlitic tribe across most of the Peninsular |
| 700 |
Evidence of Tartessus still occupying southern Peninsular |
| 600 |
Decline of tribe of Tartessus |
| 600 |
Greek myth of Ulysses founding the town of Olissipo (Lisbon) |
| 600 |
Phoenicians presence at Balsa (Tavira) destroyed by violence |
| 600 |
First evidence of writing in western Iberia |
| 600 |
Tribe known as Conii inhabited the Algarve and southern Alentejo |
| 500 |
Strong influx of Celts from northern Europe into western Iberia |
| 500 |
First use of coins as money |
| 400 |
Further wave of Celts penetrating the Alentejo and parts of the Algarve |
| 400 |
Tribe known as Turduli inhabited the area at the mouth of the River Guadiana |
| 400 |
Tribes known as Cynetes inhabited villages of Castro Marim, Faro, Silves and Tavira |
| 400 |
The Celts inhabited the whole of the northern part of Portugal |
| 400 |
"Ora Maritima" written by Avienus describing the inhabitants of western Iberia |
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| 2nd Period |
Roman Lusitania (3rd Century BC to 4th Century AD) |
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NOTE
The above was compiled by Michael Tannock from published information
in the Portuguese language. While every care was taken in obtaining the above
facts some conflicting dates, information and spelling were encountered.
In such cases, our own discretion was used in choosing which facts
to publish.
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