Events in the year 1917 in

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Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...

Bernardino Machado Bernardino Luís Machado Guimarães, GCTE, GCL (; 28 March 1851, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – 29 April 1944, Porto, Portugal), was a Portuguese political figure, the third and eighth president of Portugal (1915–17, 1925–26). In 1917, ...

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

: Four different.

Events

*13 October –

Miracle of the Sun The Miracle of the Sun ( pt, Milagre do Sol), also known as the Miracle of Fátima, is a series of events reported to have occurred miraculously on 13 October 1917, attended by a large crowd who had gathered in Fátima, Portugal, in response to ...

near Fátima *The

Portuguese Naval Aviation The Portuguese Naval Aviation ( pt, Aviação Naval Portuguesa) constituted the air component of the Portuguese Navy, from 1917 to 1957. The Portuguese Air Force maritime patrol units and the Navy's Helicopter Squadron (EHM, ''Esquadrilha de Helic ...

established

Arts and entertainment

Sports

* Académico de Viseu FC founded

Births

*31 January –

Manuel da Luz Afonso Manuel da Luz Afonso (Loulé, 31 January 1917 – 15 October 2000) was a Portuguese football manager. He was the head of the football department of Benfica, during their 1960s Golden Era, until 1964 when he was called to work for the Portugal n ...

, football manager (d. 2000) *18 March – Joaquim Teixeira, footballer *5 June –

José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo (; 5 June 1917 – 10 August 1983) was a Portuguese political figure, reformer and revolutionary. He helped overthrow Marcelo Caetano in 1974. He served as the 104th Prime Minister of Portugal between 19 Sept ...

, politician (d. 1983) *27 June –

Artur Quaresma Artur da Silva Quaresma (27 June 1917 – 2 December 2011) was a Portuguese footballer who played as a forward. Club career Born in Barreiro, Setúbal District, Quaresma started playing with local F.C. Barreirense in the second division. In the ...

, footballer *1 August – Manuel Soares Marques, footballer (d. 1987). *29 October – Virgilio Teixeira, actor *22 December – Eduardo Lopes, cyclist (d.1997)

Deaths

*5 March –

Manuel de Arriaga Manuel José de Arriaga Brum da Silveira e Peyrelongue (; 8 July 1840 – 5 March 1917) was a Portuguese lawyer, the first attorney-general and the first elected president of the First Portuguese Republic, following the deposition of King Ma ...

, lawyer and politician (born

1840 Events January–March * January 3 – One of the predecessor papers of the ''Herald Sun'' of Melbourne, Australia, ''The Port Phillip Herald'', is founded. * January 10 – Uniform Penny Post is introduced in the United Kingdom. * Janua ...

) *18 March –

António José de Ávila, 2nd Marquis of Ávila and Bolama António José de Ávila (7 November 1842, Horta – 18 March 1917, Lisbon) was a military officer, politician, member of the Portuguese nobility (made Marquis of Ávila, following the death of his illustrious uncle) and benemerit. Biography ...

, military officer, politician, nobility (b. 1842) *5 June –

António Teixeira de Sousa António Teixeira de Sousa, 2nd Count of Sousa Palmela (5 May 1857 in Celeirós, Sabrosa – 5 June 1917 in Celeirós, Sabrosa; ) was a Portuguese medical doctor and politician during the Constitutional Monarchy. He graduated in Medicine at the ...

, physician and politician (b. 1857) *6 November –

António Júlio da Costa Pereira de Eça António Júlio da Costa Pereira de Eça GCIC (Lisbon, 31 March 1852 — 6 November 1917) - commonly known as Pereira d'Eça - was a general of the Portuguese Army The Portuguese Army ( pt, Exército Português) is the land component of the ...

, Army general (b. 1852)

Full date missing

Abel Botelho Abel Acácio de Almeida Botelho (23 September 1855 or 1856 – 1917), was a Portuguese military officer and diplomat who distinguished himself as a writer. A representative of Naturalism in Portugal, he wrote, among others, ''O Barão de Lavos'' ...

, military officer and diplomat (b. 1855) *

Hermenegildo Capelo Hermenegildo de Brito Capelo (Palmela, 1841 – Lisbon, 1917) was an officer in the Portuguese Navy and a Portuguese explorer, helping to chart territory between Angola and Mozambique in southern Central Africa that was unknown to Europeans ...

, Navy officer (b. 1841) * Guilherme de Vasconcelos Abreu, writer, cartographer and orientalist (b. 1842)

References

1910s in Portugal

Years of the 20th century in Portugal

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