1868 In Portugal
Events in the year 1868 in Portugal. Incumbents *List of Portuguese monarchs, Monarch: Luís I of Portugal, Louis I *List of Prime Ministers of Portugal, 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 - Portuguese legislative election, 1868, Legislative election. *Janeirinha (protest movement) Arts and entertainment Sports Births *7 April – José de Castro, lawyer, journalist and politician (died 1929 in Portugal, 1929) *9 December – Manuel António Gomes, Catholic priest, inventor and physicist, a pioneer of solar energy in Portugal (d. 1933) Deaths References

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Portugal
Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of the Azores and Madeira. It features the westernmost point in continental Europe, and its Iberian portion is bordered to the west and south by the Atlantic Ocean and to the north and east by Spain, the sole country to have a land border with Portugal. Its two archipelagos form two autonomous regions with their own regional governments. Lisbon is the capital and largest city by population. Portugal is the oldest continuously existing nation state on the Iberian Peninsula and one of the oldest in Europe, its territory having been continuously settled, invaded and fought over since prehistoric times. It was inhabited by pre-Celtic and Celtic peoples who had contact with Phoenicians and Ancient Greek traders, it was ruled by the Ro ...
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1868 In Europe
Events January–March * January 2 – British Expedition to Abyssinia: Robert Napier leads an expedition to free captive British officials and missionaries. * January 3 – The 15-year-old Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, declares the '' Meiji Restoration'', his own restoration to full power, under the influence of supporters from the Chōshū and Satsuma Domains, and against the supporters of the Tokugawa shogunate, triggering the Boshin War. * January 5 – Paraguayan War: Brazilian Army commander Luís Alves de Lima e Silva, Duke of Caxias enters Asunción, Paraguay's capital. Some days later he declares the war is over. Nevertheless, Francisco Solano López, Paraguay's president, prepares guerrillas to fight in the countryside. * January 7 – The Arkansas constitutional convention meets in Little Rock. * January 9 – Penal transportation from Britain to Australia ends, with arrival of the convict ship '' Hougoumont'' in Weste ...
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