1852 in Portugal

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Events in the year 1852 in Portugal .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Mary II
• Prime Minister: João Carlos Saldanha de Oliveira Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha

Events

• 9 August – Earthquake causing casualties in São Miguel Island. ^[1]
• 10 December – abolishing of the death penalty for political crimes. ^[2]
• 12 December – legislative election.

Date unknown

• Founding of the Historic Party. ^[3]

Arts

Pobre Cego by Francisco Pinto da Costa, 1852.

• Pobre Cego– Francisco Pinto da Costa.

Births

• 5 August – Infanta Maria das Neves of Portugal, daughter of Miguel I of Portugal (d. 1941).

References

1. Ferreira, Jorge Miguel Quintino Gomes (2013). Da sismicidade à ciência dos sismos: para a história da sismologia em Portugal (doctoralThesis thesis). Universidade de Évora.
2. "Portugal > History and Events > Date Table > Fourth Dynasty". www.portugal-info.net. Retrieved 2026-01-11.
3. Partido Histórico in Infopédia, 2003-2010. (Accessed 2010-12-23)