Timeline of Portuguese History - 7th Century BC

7th Century BC

Year Date Event
700 Strong Tartessian influence in the area of modern Algarve.
Second wave of Indo-European (Celts of the Hallstatt culture?) migration into Portuguese territory.
The cattle herding culture of Cogotas I is transformed into Cogotas II, mixing the Celtic culture with the Iberian culture (Celtiberians).
654 Phoenician settlers found a port in the Balearic Islands as Ibossim (Ibiza).

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