title: 1855 in Portugal
text: # 1855 in Portugal
  
  Events in the year 1855 in Portugal.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch: Peter V
  * Prime Minister: João Carlos Saldanha de Oliveira Daun, 1st Duke of Saldanha
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  * O Pobre Rabequista (The Poor Rabeca Player), oil painting by José Rodrigues
  
  ## Sports
  
  * Oporto Cricket and Lawn Tennis Club founded
  
  ## Births
  
  * 14 February – João Franco, politician (d. 1929)
  * 13 March – António Osório Sarmento de Figueiredo Jr., nobleman, jurist, politician and magistrate. (d. 1935)
  * 23 September – Abel Botelho, diplomat, writer and military officer (d. 1917).
  
  ### Full date missing
  
  * Amélia dos Santos Costa Cardia, physician (d. 1938).
  