Events in the year 1868 in
Portugal.
Incumbents
*
Monarch:
Louis I
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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 -
Legislative election.
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Janeirinha (protest movement)
Arts and entertainment
Sports
Births
*7 April –
José de Castro, lawyer, journalist and politician (died
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 ...
)
*9 December –
Manuel António Gomes
Manuel António Gomes (9 December 1868 – 21 December 1933) was a Portuguese Catholic priest, inventor and physicist. He was a very tall man, and was nicknamed ''Father Himalaya'' (in Portuguese: ''Padre Himalaya''), a name he proudly used freque ...
, Catholic priest, inventor and physicist, a pioneer of solar energy in Portugal (d. 1933)
Deaths
References
{{Year in Europe, 1868
1860s in Portugal
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Years of the 19th century in Portugal
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