1868 in Portugal

Events in the year 1868 in Portugal.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis I
• Prime Ministers: Joaquim António de Aguiar; António José de Ávila, 1st Duke of Ávila and Bolama; Bernardo de Sá Nogueira de Figueiredo, 1st Marquis of Sá da Bandeira

Events

• 22 March and 12 April - Legislative election.
• Janeirinha (protest movement)

Births

• 7 April – José de Castro, lawyer, journalist and politician (died 1929)
• 9 December – Manuel António Gomes, Catholic priest, inventor and physicist, a pioneer of solar energy in Portugal (d. 1933)

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