← 1875 1874 1873 1876 in Portugal → 1877 1878 1879
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See also:	List of years in Portugal

Events in the year 1876 in Portugal.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Louis I
• Prime Minister: Fontes Pereira de Melo

Events

• 1–7 May – Edward, Prince of Wales visits Lisbon on the final leg of an eight-month international tour.^[1]
• 11 October – The first edition of the Diário de Notícias da Madeira newspaper is published.^[2]
• 7 December – After weeks of heavy precipitation the Guadiana and Tagus rivers in southeastern Portugal burst their banks, destroying several villages in one of the worst flooding events in recorded in the country as well as the biggest involving Guadiana and Tagus rivers.^{[3] [4]}

Arts and entertainment

Sports

• Associação Académica de Coimbra – O.A.F. founded

Births

• 3 November – Stephen Alencastre, Roman Catholic Bishop (died 1940)
• 13 November – Vitorino Guimarães, economist and politician (died 1957)

Full date missing

• António dos Santos, Olympic shooter (1920).^[5]

Deaths