1854 in Portugal

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Events in the year 1854 in Portugal .

Incumbents

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

Events

• 26 February – Students of the University of Coimbra and locals clash in riots during Carnival. ^{[1] [2]}
• 14 December – Signing of a decree requiring the registration of all slaves in Overseas Provinces as libertos ("freed slave", but not with equal rights to a free born individual). ^[3]

Arts and entertainment

Pedro V, King of Portugal by Franz Xaver Winterhalter, 1854 (oil on canvas 138.5 X 95 cm)

• Pedro V, King of Portugal (1837-61), oil painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.

Births

• 17 September – Francisco de Arruda Furtado, naturalist (d. 1887). ^[4]
• 29 November – Egas Moniz, neurologist, inventor of the lobotomy, and first Portuguese to be awarded a Nobel Prize (d. 1955). ^[5]

Deaths

• 9 December – Almeida Garrett, writer, journalist, and politician (b. 1799). ^[6]

References

1. Teixeira Bastos, H. (1920). A vida do estudante de Coimbra - Antiga e moderna: duas conferências na Associação Cristã de Estudantes, nos dias 29 e 30 de abril de 1920 [The student life of in Coimbra - Ancient and modern: two lectures at the Christian Students' Association, on 29 and 30 April 1920.](PDF) (in Portuguese). Coimbra: Imprensa Universidade de Coimbra. pp. 46–47.
2. "Portugal > History and Events > Date Table > Fourth Dynasty". www.portugal-info.net. Retrieved 2026-01-10.
3. Declich, Francesca (2022-01-01). "Living Memories of Domestic Slavery versus Forced Labour: Freedom, dependence and oppression (Ibo Island, Cabo Delgado)". Cadernos de Estudos Africanos (43): 137–160. doi:10.4000/cea.7054. ISSN   1645-3794.
4. DRC. "Direção Regional da Cultura". Cultura Açores (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2026-01-10.
5. Rocha, Maria Francisca; Rodrigues, Rosa Maria; Mehta, Arpan R (December 2024). "The legacy of Egas Moniz". The Lancet Neurology. 23 (12): 1189. doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(24)00450-2. ISSN   1474-4422. Archived from the original on 2024-11-22.
6. "O Portal da História - Biografia: Almeida Garrett (1799-1854)". www.arqnet.pt. Retrieved 2026-01-10.