In 1290, King Dinis created the first Portuguese university in Lisbon (later moved to Coimbra) and decreed that Portuguese, then called simply the "common language", would henceforth be used instead of Latin, and named the "Portuguese language".
In 1290, King Dinis established Portugal's first university in Lisbon (later moved to Coimbra) and mandated that Portuguese, previously known simply as "common speech", should replace Latin and be called the "Portuguese language" from then on.