Events in the year 1854 in Portugal.
Incumbents
Monarch: Peter V Prime Minister: João Carlos Saldanha de Oliveira Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha
Events
26 February – Students of the University of Coimbra and locals clash in riots during Carnival. 14 December – 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).
Arts and entertainment
Pedro V, King of Portugal (1837–61), oil painting by Franz Xaver Winterhalter.
Births 17 September – Francisco de Arruda Furtado, naturalist (d. 1887). 29 November – Egas Moniz, neurologist, inventor of the lobotomy, and first Portuguese to be awarded a Nobel Prize (d. 1955).
Deaths
9 December – Almeida Garrett, writer, journalist, and politician (b. 1799).
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