Events in the year 1855 in Portugal.

Incumbents

* Monarch: Peter V * Prime Minister: João Carlos Saldanha de Oliveira Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha

Events

Arts and entertainment

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O Pobre Rabequista ''O Pobre Rabequista'' (''The Poor Rabeca Player'') is an oil painting, 1855 (oil on canvas 170 X 122 cm), by José Rodrigues. Exhibitions * 1855 - Universal Exhibition in Paris * 1865 - International Exposition of Porto, where he was awar ...

'' (''The Poor Rabeca Player''), oil painting by José Rodrigues

Sports

* Oporto Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club founded

Births

*14 February –

João Franco João Franco Ferreira Pinto Castelo-Branco, GCTE (; (14 February 1855 in Alcaide, Fundão – 4 April 1929 in Anadia) was a Portuguese politician, minister, 43rd Minister for Treasury Affairs (14 January 1890) and 47th Prime Minister (19 ...

, politician (d.

1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...

) *13 March –

António Osório Sarmento de Figueiredo Jr. António Osório Sarmento de Figueiredo Jr. (13 March 1855 in Santa Marta de Penaguião – 19 May 1935 in Lisbon) was a Portuguese nobleman, jurist, politician and magistrate. He was a son of António Osório Sarmento de Figueiredo and Elvira L ...

, nobleman, jurist, politician and magistrate. (d.

1935 Events January * January 7 – Italian premier Benito Mussolini and French Foreign Minister Pierre Laval conclude Franco-Italian Agreement of 1935, an agreement, in which each power agrees not to oppose the other's colonial claims. * ...

) *23 September – Abel Botelho, diplomat, writer and military officer (d. 1917).

Full date missing

Amélia dos Santos Costa Cardia Amélia dos Santos Costa Cardia (1855–1938), born in Lisbon Lisbon (; pt, Lisboa ) is the capital and largest city of Portugal, with an estimated population of 544,851 within its administrative limits in an area of 100.05 km2. Grand ...

, physician (d. 1938).

Deaths

References

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