Portuguese Restoration War

Portuguese Restoration War
Part of Anglo-Spanish Wars and Franco-Spanish Wars
German engraving from the 1650s representing the episodes of the Portuguese restoration of independence. Clockwise from top left: The assassination of Miguel de Vasconcelos and the arresting of the Duchess of Mantua News of the coup d'état reaches the Lisbon populace Acclamation of King John IV of Portugal The Duke of Braganza is sworn as King of Portugal
Date 1 December 1640 – 13 February 1668 (27 years, 2 months, 1 week, 6 days) Location Portugal and Spain Result Portuguese victory[4] Acclamation of John IV as the new King of Portugal (1640)[5] The Habsburgs relinquish all claims to the Portuguese Throne Treaty of Lisbon (1668) End of the Iberian Union[5][6] Territorial changes Portugal cedes Ceuta to Spain Portugal cedes Hermisende to Spain
Belligerents
Portugal  France (1641–1659)[1]  England (1662–1668) Dutch Republic (1641-1648)[2][3]	Spain
Commanders and leaders
John IV of Portugal Luisa de Guzmán Afonso VI of Portugal Peter II of Portugal Marquis of Marialva Count of Vila Flor Count of Alegrete Duke of Schomberg	Philip IV of Spain Marquis of Carpio John of Austria Duke of Osuna Marquis of Caracena

The Restoration War (Portuguese: Guerra da Restauração), historically known as the Acclamation War (Guerra da Aclamação),^[7] was the war between Portugal and Spain that began with the Portuguese revolution of 1640 and ended with the Treaty of Lisbon in 1668, bringing a formal end to the Iberian Union. The period from 1640 to 1668 was marked by periodic skirmishes between Portugal and Spain, as well as short episodes of more serious warfare, much of it occasioned by Spanish and Portuguese entanglements with non-Iberian powers. Spain was involved in the Thirty Years' War until 1648 and the Franco-Spanish War until 1659, while Portugal was involved in the Dutch–Portuguese War until 1663.

In the seventeenth century and afterwards, this period of sporadic conflict was simply known, in Portugal and elsewhere, as the Acclamation War. The war established the House of Braganza as Portugal's new ruling dynasty, replacing the House of Habsburg who had been united with the Portuguese crown since the 1580 succession crisis.^[5]