1917 in Portugal

← 1916 1915 1914 1917 in Portugal → 1918 1919 1920
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	List of years in Portugal

Events in the year 1917 in Portugal.

Incumbents

• President: Bernardino Machado
• Prime Minister: Four different.

Events

• 13 October – Miracle of the Sun near Fátima
• The Portuguese Naval Aviation established

Sports

• Académico de Viseu FC founded

Births

• 31 January – Manuel da Luz Afonso, football manager (d. 2000)
• 18 March – Joaquim Teixeira, footballer
• 5 June – José Baptista Pinheiro de Azevedo, politician (d. 1983)
• 27 June – Artur Quaresma, footballer
• 1 August – Manuel Soares Marques, footballer (d. 1987).^[1]
• 29 October – Virgilio Teixeira, actor
• 22 December – Eduardo Lopes, cyclist (d.1997)

Deaths

Abel Botelho

• 5 March – Manuel de Arriaga, lawyer and politician (born 1840)
• 18 March – António José de Ávila, 2nd Marquis of Ávila and Bolama, military officer, politician, nobility (b. 1842)
• 5 June – António Teixeira de Sousa, physician and politician (b. 1857)
• 6 November – António Júlio da Costa Pereira de Eça, Army general (b. 1852)

Full date missing

• Abel Botelho, military officer and diplomat (b. 1855)
• Hermenegildo Capelo, Navy officer (b. 1841)
• Guilherme de Vasconcelos Abreu, writer, cartographer and orientalist (b. 1842)

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