The Távora affair is a political scandal of the eighteenth century Portuguese court.
The events triggered by the attempted murder of King Joseph I of Portugal in 1758 ends with the public execution of the entire Távora family and its closest relatives in 1759.
Some historians will interpret the whole affair as an attempt by the prime minister Sebastião de Melo (later Marquis of Pombal) to limit the growing powers of the old aristocratic families.
