title: 1888 in Portugal
text: # 1888 in Portugal
  
  Events in the year 1888 in Portugal.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch: Louis I
  * Prime Minister: José Luciano de Castro
  
  ## Events
  
  * 21 June – first published issue of the newspaper Jornal de Notícias
  
  ## Arts and entertainment
  
  Os Maias – novel by José Maria de Eça de Queiroz
  
  ## Births
  
  * 22 August – Francisco Cunha Leal, politician (died 1970)
  * 30 December – Ruimondo Mayer, fencer (died 1959).
  * 13 June; Fernando Pessoa, Poet, writer, and translator (died 1935)
  