1864 Portugal protects Confederate privateers and has difficulties with the United States.
1865 The colonies receive constitutional privileges.
1866 The Spanish general Prim ordered out of Portugal.
1869 Saldanha, objecting to the Duke of Loulé, compels his dismissal (1870) and forms a ministry. He is soon after sent as ambassador to England.
1876 Financial panic.
1878-1883 The house of peers loses hereditary privileges.
1880 Celebration in honour of Camoens and Vasco da Gama.
1883 Fontes Pereira de Mello prime minister.
1887 Macao, hitherto leased to Portugal, formally ceded by China. Delagoa Bay Railway confiscated by Portuguese government.
1889 Riots at Oporto. King Luiz dies and is succeeded by Carlos I. Difficulties with England over rival claims in East Africa.