Events in the year 1851 in Portugal.
Incumbents
Monarch: Mary II Prime Minister: da Costa Cabral (until 26 April) António José Severim de Noronha, 1st Duke of Terceira (until 1 May) João Carlos Saldanha de Oliveira Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha
Events 1 May – coup causing the end of Costa Cabral's tenure and of the Septembrist government. Start of the Regeneration period. 4 May – protests in Lisbon, suppressed by the municipal guard. 2 November – legislative election.
Date unknown
Founding of the Regenerator Party.
Births 28 January – Francisco Gomes Teixeira, mathematician (died 1933). 28 March – Bernardino Machado, president of Portugal in 1915-1917 and 1925-1926 (died 1944). 28 May – Luís Pinto de Soveral, 1st Marquis of Soveral, diplomat (died 1922). 13 November – António Maria Vasco de Melo Silva César e Meneses, noble, diplomat (died 1923).
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