← 1887 1886 1885 1888 in Portugal → 1889 1890 1891
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See also:	List of years 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

Sports

Births

• 22 August – Francisco Cunha Leal, politician (died 1970)
• 30 December – Ruimondo Mayer, fencer (died 1959).^[1]
• 13 June; Fernando Pessoa, Poet, writer, and translator (died 1935)

Deaths