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1917
December
08
Sidónio Pais's coup
On 8 December 1917, after three days of fighting in Lisbon, Costa's government fell to the revolutionary junta of Major Sidónio Pais, an opponent of the war.
11
Sidónio Pais takes power
On 11 December 1917 a revolutionary junta removed Portugal's President Bernardino Machado and exiled him, and Sidónio Pais became head of the government.
27
Sidónio Pais becomes president
On 27 December 1917 Sidónio Pais, Portugal's prime minister after a coup, also took on the presidency by decree, beginning a presidential regime.
1918
May
09
Sidónio Pais elected president
On 9 May 1918 Sidónio Pais was proclaimed president of Portugal, elected on 28 April in the country's first ever direct election of a head of state.
15
Portuguese prime minister resigns
On 15 May 1918 Sidónio Pais's first government left office. The president himself led a cabinet of secretaries of state; no prime minister until December.
December
14
Assassination of Sidónio Pais
On 14 December 1918 at Lisbon's Rossio station the former sergeant José Júlio da Costa fatally shot the President of Portugal, Sidónio Pais.
16
Canto e Castro becomes president
On 16 December 1918, two days after Sidónio Pais was killed, Congress elected Admiral João do Canto e Castro, a monarchist at heart, president of Portugal.
23
Tamagnini Barbosa becomes prime minister of Portugal
On 23 December 1918 President Canto e Castro appointed João Tamagnini Barbosa's government. Portugal again had a prime minister; Pais's secretaries left.