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Aníbal Cavaco Silva
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Person

Aníbal Cavaco Silva

b. 1939

Portuguese politician (born 1939)

Born
15 Jul 1939 · Boliqueime
Part ofPortugal305 CE – today

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 100 years
  1. 15 Jul 1939BornBorn in Boliqueime
  2. 1980 – 1981RoleMinister for Finance
  3. 1985 – 1995RolePrime Minister of Portugal
  4. 1988AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Wissam Alaouite
  5. 1991AwardGrand Cross of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
  6. 1991AwardGrand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  7. 1995AwardGrand Cross of the Military Order of Christ
  8. 1998AwardRobert Schuman Medal
  9. 2006 – 2016RolePresident of Portugal
  10. 2006AwardCollar of the Order of Isabella the Catholic‎
  11. 2006AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
  12. 2007AwardGrand Cross with collar of the Order of Vytautas the Great
  13. 2008AwardCollar of the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana
  14. 2008AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta
  15. 2008AwardNational Maltese Order of Merit
  16. 2008AwardKnight Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav‎

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1939 – today).

  1. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  2. 1939 – 1945World War II
  3. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  4. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  5. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  6. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  7. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  8. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  9. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  10. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  12. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  13. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  14. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  15. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  16. 1956Suez Crisis
  17. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  18. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  19. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  21. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  22. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  23. 1968Prague Spring
  24. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  25. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  26. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  27. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  29. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  30. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  31. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  32. 1985Schengen Agreement
  33. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  34. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  35. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  36. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  37. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  38. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  39. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  40. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan

Biography

Aníbal António Cavaco Silva (European Portuguese: [ɐˈniβɐl ɐ̃ˈtɔni.u kɐˈvaku ˈsilvɐ, - ɐ̃ˈtɔnju -]; born 15 July 1939) is a Portuguese economist and politician who served as the president of Portugal from 2006 to 2016, and as prime minister of Portugal, from 1985 to 1995. His 10-year tenure was the longest of any prime minister since Salazar, and the longest for a freely elected prime minister in Portugal's republican history. He was the first Portuguese prime minister to win an absolute parliamentary majority under the current constitutional system (dating to 1974). He is most recognized for guiding Portugal into the European Union, liberalizing the Portuguese economy and improving infrastructures across the country. As prime minister, his style and policies came to be known as Cavacoism.

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