1872 in Portugal

Events in the year 1872 in Portugal.

Incumbents

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

Births

 * 2 February – Tomé de Barros Queirós, trader and politician (died 1925)
 * 1 May – Sidónio Pais, politician and diplomat (died 1918).
 * 18 June – Ana de Castro Osório, writer, journalist, feminist and republican activist (died 1935)