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João Maria Gil de Braganca van Uden

Born 25 Jul 1989

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A life in time

  1. 25 Jul 1989

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The 1980s · João is born

Who governed

Music

Popular Instruments in Portuguese Social Gatherings

The concertina, a type of diatonic accordion, was central to local fiestas and saw a revival in the early 1990s for accompanying informal singing and dancing. Portable string instruments such as the cavaquinho, a small four-string guitar approximately 50 centimeters long, were widely used in these social gatherings.

Daily life

Difficult schooling conditions for rural children

Children often walked several kilometers to attend basic, crowded schools that lacked electricity and indoor toilets, with many students dropping out after the mandatory four-year primary education. To reach school, children often faced cold and rain on foot, sometimes wearing worn-out or repaired clothing.

What it cost

Controlled food prices in 1985

In 1985, the government set the maximum price for a unit of wheat bread at 4.50 escudos and one liter of milk at 62 escudos.

The Berlin Wall falls. Berliners tore down the wall on 9 November; within two years communism had ended in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.Around the world · 1989

The Berlin Wall falls. Berliners tore down the wall on 9 November; within two years communism had ended in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

Unknown photographer, Reproduction by Lear 21 at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0

What people wore

Children walked to school barefoot

School children would walk to school barefoot, carrying their shoes in their hands to ensure they would not be ruined before they arrived at class.

Getting around

Long coach journeys from Paris to Lisbon

In 1984, the 1,830 km coach journey from Paris to Lisbon took 31 hours, maintaining an average commercial speed of 57 km/h.

At the table

Sharing a single sardine between three people

In rural areas, poverty was so extreme that a single sardine was often shared among three people.