1854 in Portugal
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Events in the year 1854 in Portugal.
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Incumbents
Events
- 26 February â Students of the University of Coimbra and locals clash in riots during Carnival.[1][2]
- 14 December â 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
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- Pedro V, King of Portugal (1837â61), oil painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
Births
- 17 September â Francisco de Arruda Furtado, naturalist (d. 1887).[4]
- 29 November â Egas Moniz, neurologist, inventor of the lobotomy, and first Portuguese to be awarded a Nobel Prize (d. 1955).[5]
Deaths
- 9 December â Almeida Garrett, writer, journalist, and politician (b. 1799).[6]