1851 in Portugal

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Events in the year 1851 in Portugal .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Mary II
• Prime Minister:
  • da Costa Cabral (until 26 April)
  • António José Severim de Noronha, 1st Duke of Terceira (until 1 May)
  • João Carlos Saldanha de Oliveira Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha

Events

• 1 May – coup causing the end of Costa Cabral's tenure and of the Septembrist government. Start of the Regeneration period.
• 4 May – protests in Lisbon, suppressed by the municipal guard. ^[1]
• 2 November – legislative election. ^[2]

Date unknown

• Founding of the Regenerator Party. ^[3]

Births

• 28 January – Francisco Gomes Teixeira, mathematician (died 1933).
• 28 March – Bernardino Machado, president of Portugal in 1915-1917 and 1925-1926 (died 1944).
• 28 May – Luís Pinto de Soveral, 1st Marquis of Soveral, diplomat (died 1922).
• 13 November – António Maria Vasco de Melo Silva César e Meneses, noble, diplomat (died 1923). ^[4]

References

1. "Regeneração (1851-1865)". maltez.info. Retrieved 2026-01-12.
2. "Eleições de 1851" (in Portuguese). Archived from the original on 2005-01-11. Retrieved 9 September 2014.
3. de Oliveira Marques, A.H. (March 1986). História de Portugal Volume III (in Portuguese). Lisbon: Palas Editores. pp. 33, 39, 69, 270.
4. Mónica, Maria Filomena (2006). Dicionário Biográfico Parlamentar (1834-1910), vol. 3. Lisbon. pp. 899–901.