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Decades:	1830s 1840s 1850s 1860s 1870s
See also:	List of years in Portugal

Events in the year 1850 in Portugal.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Mary II
• Prime Minister: da Costa Cabral

Events

• 18 October – the title Duke of Palmela established, first granted to Dom Pedro de Sousa Holstein

Births

• 12 June – Roberto Ivens, explorer of Africa, geographer, colonial administrator, and naval officer (died 1898).^[1]

Deaths

• 12 October – Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela, diplomat and statesman (b. 1781)