title: 1821 in Portugal
text: # 1821 in Portugal
  
  Events in the year 1821 in Portugal.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch: John VI
     * President of the Regency: Manuel António de Sampaio Melo e Castro Moniz Torres de Lusignan (from January)
  * Minister of the Kingdom: Inácio da Costa Quintela (from 4 July to 7 September), Francisco Duarte Coelho (interim, from 14 August to 7 September), Filipe Ferreira de Araújo e Castro (from 7 September), José da Silva Carvalho (interim, from 7 September to 8 October)
  
  ## Events
  
  * January - General Extraordinary and Constituent Courts of the Portuguese Nation
  * Cortes Gerais e Extraordinárias da Nação Portuguesa drafts the basis for a new constitution, proposes the closure of Portuguese Inquisition
  * July 4 - Return of John VI from Brazil, who approves on that day the Bases da Constituição
  