1876 in Portugal

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See also:	List of years in Portugal

Events in the year 1876 in Portugal .

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis I
• Prime Minister: Fontes Pereira de Melo

Events

• 1–7 May – Edward, Prince of Wales visits Lisbon on the final leg of an eight-month international tour. ^[1]
• 11 October – The first edition of the Diário de Notícias da Madeira newspaper is published. ^[2]
• 7 December – After weeks of heavy precipitation the Guadiana and Tagus rivers in southeastern Portugal burst their banks, destroying several villages in one of the worst flooding events in recorded in the country as well as the biggest involving Guadiana and Tagus rivers. ^{[3] [4]}

Sports

• Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F. founded

Births

Stephen Alencastre

• 3 November – Stephen Alencastre, Roman Catholic Bishop (died 1940)
• 13 November – Vitorino Guimarães, economist and politician (died 1957)

Full date missing

• António dos Santos, Olympic shooter (1920). ^[5]

References

1. Wheeler, Charles (1876). India in 1875-76: The Visit of the Prince of Wales. A Chronicle of His Royal Highness's Journeyings in India, Ceylon, Spain, and Portugal. London: Chapman and Hall. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
2. "Diário de Notícias da Madeira – 134 anos". Biblioteca Pública Regional da Madeira. 12 October 2010. Archived from the original on 16 February 2016. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
3. Trigo, Ricardo M.; Varino, Filipa; Ramos, Alexandre M.; Valente, Maria A.; Zêzere, José L.; Vaquero, José M.; Gouveia, Célia M.; Russo, Ana (2014). "The record precipitation and flood event in Iberia in December 1876: description and synoptic analysis". Frontiers in Earth Science. 2 (3). doi: 10.3389/feart.2014.00003 . hdl: 10451/35645 .
4. Varino, Filipa Catarina Martins (2011). Reassessing the impacts and atmospheric circulation of large storms over Portugal (masterThesis thesis).
5. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "António dos Santos". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 25 September 2016.