1855 in Portugal

Events in the year 1855 in Portugal.

Incumbents

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

Arts and entertainment

• O Pobre Rabequista (The Poor Rabeca Player), oil painting by José Rodrigues.

Sports

• Oporto Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club founded

Births

• 14 February – João Franco, politician (d. 1929).
• 13 March – António Osório Sarmento de Figueiredo Jr., nobleman, jurist, politician and magistrate. (d. 1935).
• 28 April José Malhoa, painter.
• 23 September – Abel Botelho, diplomat, writer and military officer (d. 1917).

Full date missing

• Amélia dos Santos Costa Cardia, physician (d. 1938).

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