1846 in Portugal

Events in the year 1846 in Portugal.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Mary II
• Prime Ministers: António Bernardo da Costa Cabral, 1st Marquis of Tomar; Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela; João Carlos Saldanha de Oliveira Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha

Events

• 6 October – Emboscada (palace coup)
• 19 November – Banco de Portugal established

Births

• 21 March – Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro, artist, comics creator (d. 1905).

• 5 November – Joaquim Pimenta de Castro, military officer, mathematician and politician (died 1918)

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