1851 in Portugal

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.
• 2 November – legislative election.

Date unknown

• Founding of the Regenerator Party.

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).

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