← 1874 1873 1872 1875 in Portugal → 1876 1877 1878
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Decades:	1850s 1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s
See also:	List of years in Portugal

Events in the year 1875 in Portugal. There were 455,000 registered voters in the country.^[1]

Incumbents

• King: Luís I
• President of the Council of Ministers: Fontes Pereira de Melo^[1]

Events

• Creation of the Lisbon Geographic Society.
• Creation of the Portuguese Socialist Party.
• First football match in the country.
• Publication of O Crime do Padre Amaro, by José Maria de Eça de Queirós.
• Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro creates the Zé Povinho character.

Deaths

• José Alberto dos Reis, jurist (died 1955)
• José António Duro, poet (died 1899)

Births

• 22 May - Nuno José Severo de Mendoça Rolim de Moura Barreto, 1st Duke of Loulé, politician (born 1804)
• 18 June - António Feliciano de Castilho, writer, poet (born 1800)
• Infante Sebastian of Portugal and Spain, infante (born 1811 in Brazil)

See also

• List of colonial governors in 1875 § Portugal

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