1875 in Portugal

Events in the year 1875 in Portugal. There were 455,000 registered voters in the country.[1]

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Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
See also:List of years in Portugal

Incumbents
  • King: Luís I
  • President of the Council of Ministers: Fontes Pereira de Melo[1]

Events
  • Creation of the Lisbon Geographic Society.
  • Creation of the Portuguese Socialist Party.
  • First football match in the country.
  • Publication of O Crime do Padre Amaro, by José Maria de Eça de Queirós.
  • Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro creates the Zé Povinho character.

Deaths
  • José Alberto dos Reis, jurist (died 1955)
  • José António Duro, poet (died 1899)

Births
  • 22 May - Nuno José Severo de Mendoça Rolim de Moura Barreto, 1st Duke of Loulé, politician (born 1804)
  • 18 June - António Feliciano de Castilho, writer, poet (born 1800)
  • Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, infante (born 1811 in Brazil)

See also
  • List of colonial governors in 1875 § Portugal

References
  1. de Oliveira Marques, A.H. (March 1986). História de Portugal Volume III (in Portuguese). Lisbon: Palas Editores. pp. 65, 610.


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