In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last government of the Estado Novo, the authoritarian regime established in 1933 by dictator António de Oliveira Salazar (1889-1970), paving the way for full democracy: a chronicle of the Carnation Revolution.
António dos Santos Ramalho Eanes is a Portuguese general and politician who was the 16th President of Portugal from 1976 to 1986.