1854 in Portugal

1854
in
Portugal

Decades:
  • 1830s
  • 1840s
  • 1850s
  • 1860s
  • 1870s
See also:

Events in the year 1854 in Portugal.

Incumbents

Events

  • 26 February – Students of the University of Coimbra and locals clash in riots during Carnival.[1][2]
  • 14 December – Signing of a decree requiring the registration of all slaves in Overseas Provinces as libertos ("freed slave", but not with equal rights to a free born individual).[3]

Arts and entertainment

Births

  • 17 September – Francisco de Arruda Furtado, naturalist (d. 1887).[4]
  • 29 November – Egas Moniz, neurologist, inventor of the lobotomy, and first Portuguese to be awarded a Nobel Prize (d. 1955).[5]

Deaths

References

  1. ^ Teixeira Bastos, H. (1920). A vida do estudante de Coimbra - Antiga e moderna: duas conferências na Associação Cristã de Estudantes, nos dias 29 e 30 de abril de 1920 [The student life of in Coimbra - Ancient and modern: two lectures at the Christian Students' Association, on 29 and 30 April 1920.] (PDF) (in Portuguese). Coimbra: Imprensa Universidade de Coimbra. pp. 46–47.
  2. ^ "Portugal > History and Events > Date Table > Fourth Dynasty". www.portugal-info.net. Retrieved 2026-01-10.
  3. ^ Declich, Francesca (2022-01-01). "Living Memories of Domestic Slavery versus Forced Labour: Freedom, dependence and oppression (Ibo Island, Cabo Delgado)". Cadernos de Estudos Africanos (43): 137–160. doi:10.4000/cea.7054. ISSN 1645-3794.
  4. ^ DRC. "Direção Regional da Cultura". Cultura Açores (in Portuguese). Retrieved 2026-01-10.
  5. ^ Rocha, Maria Francisca; Rodrigues, Rosa Maria; Mehta, Arpan R (December 2024). "The legacy of Egas Moniz". The Lancet Neurology. 23 (12): 1189. doi:10.1016/S1474-4422(24)00450-2. ISSN 1474-4422. Archived from the original on 2024-11-22.
  6. ^ "O Portal da História - Biografia: Almeida Garrett (1799-1854)". www.arqnet.pt. Retrieved 2026-01-10.