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Mário Soares
Mário Soares · Photo Claude TRUONG-NGOC, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Mário Soares

1924 – 2017 · aged 93

President of Portugal (1924–2017)

Born
7 Dec 1924 · Lisbon
Died
7 Jan 2017 · Lisbon
Part ofPortugal305 CE – today

Life timeline

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

Showing 107 years
  1. 7 Dec 1924BornBorn in Lisbon
  2. 1973 – 1985RoleGeneral Secretary of the Socialist Party (Portugal)
  3. 1974 – 1975RoleMinister of Foreign Affairs
  4. 1975RoleMinister without Portfolio
  5. 1975 – 1976RoleDeputy of the Constituent Assembly
  6. 1976 – 1978RolePrime Minister of Portugal
  7. 1977 – 1978RoleMinister of Foreign Affairs
  8. 1977AwardGrand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic
  9. 1977AwardHonorary doctor of the University of Rennes 2
  10. 1983 – 1985RolePrime Minister of Portugal
  11. 1986 – 1996RolePresident of Portugal
  12. 1987AwardCollar of the Order of Charles III
  13. 1987AwardHonorary doctorate of the University of Salamanca
  14. 1988AwardOrder of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau
  15. 1989AwardKnight Grand Cross with Collar of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
  16. 1989AwardHonorary doctor of the Sorbonne Nouvelle University
  17. 1990AwardGrand Cross with Collar of the Order of the White Rose of Finland
  18. 1990AwardKnight Grand Cross of the Order of Pius IX‎
  19. 1991AwardGrand Collar of the Military Order of the Tower and Sword
  20. 1991AwardGrand Cross Special Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  21. 1992AwardHonorary doctorate of the University of Santiago de Compostela
  22. 1999 – 2004RoleMember of the European Parliament
  23. 7 Jan 2017DiedDied in Lisbon

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Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1924 – 2017).

  1. 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
  2. 19341934 FIFA World Cup
  3. 19361936 Summer Olympics
  4. 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
  5. 19381938 FIFA World Cup
  6. 1938Munich Agreement
  7. 1939 – 1940Winter War
  8. 1939 – 1945World War II
  9. 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
  10. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  11. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  12. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  13. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  14. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  15. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  16. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  18. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  19. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  20. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  21. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  22. 1956Suez Crisis
  23. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  24. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  25. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  26. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  27. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  28. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  29. 1968Prague Spring
  30. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  31. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  32. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  33. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  34. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  35. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  36. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  37. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  38. 1985Schengen Agreement
  39. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  40. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall

Biography

Mário Alberto Nobre Lopes Soares (European Portuguese: [ˈmaɾju alˈβɛɾtu ˈnɔβɾɨ ˈlɔpɨʃ suˈaɾɨʃ]; 7 December 1924 – 7 January 2017) was a Portuguese statesman who served as prime minister of Portugal from 1976 to 1978 and from 1983 to 1985 and subsequently as the president of Portugal from 1986 to 1996. He was the first secretary-general of the Socialist Party, from its foundation in 1973 to 1986. A major political figure in Portugal, he is considered the father of Portuguese democracy.

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