2024 in Portugal
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Events in the year 2024 in Portugal.
Incumbents
[edit]- President: Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
- Prime Minister – António Costa (Socialist) (until 2 April); Luís Montenegro (Social Democratic) (since 2 April)
Events
[edit]February
[edit]- 4 February – 2024 Azorean regional election
March
[edit]- 10 March – 2024 Portuguese legislative election: The Democratic Alliance wins the most seats.[1]
April
[edit]May
[edit]- 26 May – 2024 Madeiran regional election
June
[edit]- 2 June – Two stunt aircraft collide during a demonstration at the Beja Air Show, killing a pilot.[2]
- 9 June – 2024 European Parliament election
July
[edit]- 3 July – Three people are killed and three others are reported missing after a fishing boat sinks off the coast of Marinha Grande.[3]
August
[edit]- 21 August – A wildfire in Madeira burns at least 4,937 hectares of land, prompting authorities to issue an emergency appeal for aid from the European Union.[4]
- 30 August – Four people are killed and one other is reported missing after a National Republican Guard helicopter crashes into the Douro river in Lamego.[5]
September
[edit]- 7 September – Five inmates escape from the Vale de Judeus high-security prison near Lisbon.[6]
- 17 September –
- At least seven people are killed in nationwide wildfires.[7] A state of calamity is declared in parts of the country.[8]
- Six children are injured in a mass stabbing inside a school in Azambuja. The suspect, a 12-year old boy, is arrested.[9]
October
[edit]- 2 October – Three people, two men and a woman, are shot and killed inside a barbershop in Lisbon. The suspect escapes with his family.[10]
Art and entertainment
[edit]Holidays
[edit]Source:[11]
- 1 January - New Year's Day
- 29 March - Good Friday
- 31 March - Easter Sunday
- 25 April – Freedom Day
- 1 May - Labour Day
- 30 May - Feast of Corpus Christi
- 10 June – Portugal Day
- 15 August - Assumption Day
- 5 October – Republic Day
- 1 November - All Saints' Day
- 1 December – Independence Restoration Day
- 8 December – Immaculate Conception
- 25 December - Christmas Day
Deaths
[edit]- 2 January – Alberto Festa, 84, footballer (Porto, Tirsense, national team).[12]
- 4 January – Ana Afonso, 47, model and actress (Quinta das Celebridades).[13]
- 4 January – Antonino Solmer, 73, actor and theatre director.[14]
- 8 January – Arnaldo Trindade, 89, music editor and producer.[15]
- 22 January – Maria da Graça Carmona e Costa, 91, galerist and art collector.[16]
- 4 February – Rui Patrício, 91, politician, minister of Foreign Affairs (1970-1974).[17]
- 8 February – André Jordan, 90, tourism businessman.[18]
- 8 February – João Oliveira Pinto, 52, footballer.[19]
- 16 February – José Pinto, 95, actor (2016 Sophia Awards).[20]
- 18 February – Armando Guedes da Costa, 84, jurist and film producer.[21]
- 22 February – Artur Jorge, 78, footballer and coach (national team).[22]
- 22 February – Hugo Maia de Loureiro, 79, singer (Festival da Canção 1970 and 1971).[23]
- 23 February – Rui Rodrigues, 80, footballer and coach (national team).[24]
- 1 March – Fernando António Pinheiro Correia, 81, journalist (Diário de Lisboa, O Militante).[25]
- 3 March – Alexandre Baptista, 83, footballer.[26]
- 5 March – António-Pedro Vasconcelos, 84, film director.[27]
- 7 March – Minervino Pietra, 70, footballer (national team).[28]
- 8 March – Estrela Novais, 70, actress.[29]
- 11 March – Miguel Gullander, 49, writer and teacher.[30]
- 17 March – Nuno Júdice, 74, poet and essayist.[31]
- 18 March – Joaquim Santos, 71, rally driver.[32]
- 20 March – António Pacheco, 57, footballer.[33]
- 21 March – António Évora, 82, actor.[34]
- 21 March – Gina Santos, 86, actress.[35]
- 3 April – António Marques Miguel, architect and professor.[36]
- 9 April – Eugénio Lisboa, 93, essayist, poet, critic.[37]
- 11 April – António Amorim, 72, geneticist, researcher, professor-emeritus of University of Porto.[38]
- 10 May – Fernando Emílio, 77, sports journalist.[39]
- 16 May – Casimiro de Brito, 86, poet and essayist.[40]
- 24 May – Paulo Lourenço, 52, diplomat, ambassador to Cape Verde.[41]
- 29 May – Santana Castilho, 80, educator and politician.[42]
- 15 June – Maria Quintans, 69, poet and playwright.[43]
- 27 June – Manuel Fernandes, 73, footballer and manager.[44]
- 1 July – Fausto Bordalo Dias, 75, singer, guitarist and composer.[45]
- 9 July – Joana Marques Vidal, 68, prosecutor and Attorney-General (2012-2018).[46]
- 27 July – Mísia, 69, fado singer.[47]
- 28 July – Joana de Barros Baptista, 88, teacher and women's rights activist (Order of Liberty).[48]
- 4 August – João Paulo Guerra, 82, journalist.[49]
- 11 August – José Manuel Constantino, 74, president of the Olympic Committee of Portugal (since 2013).[50]
- 16 August – Álvaro Monjardino, 93, politician, president of the Legislative Assembly of the Azores.[51]
- 17 August – Ana Faria, 74, singer of children's music.[52]
- 28 August – Renato Moura, 75, Portuguese politician and tax administrator, member of the Legislative Assembly of the Azores.[53]
- 29 August – Adolfo Calisto, 80, Portuguese football player (Benfica, national team) and manager (CD Alcains).[54]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ ""Não sou maçon nem tenho nenhuma ligação à maçonaria"". TSF Rádio Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 17 March 2024.
- ^ "Spanish pilot dies as two aircraft collide at Portugal air show". Reuters. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ "Shipwreck off the coast of Portugal kills three, three missing". al-Arabiya. 3 June 2024.
- ^ "EU sends water bomber planes to fight Madeira wildfires". France 24. 22 August 2024.
- ^ "Portugal: 4 dead after firefighter helicopter crash". dw.com. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
- ^ "Portugal high-security jailbreak sees five inmates escaping by ladder". Reuters. 7 September 2024.
- ^ "Three firefighters die tackling Portugal wildfires". BBC. 17 September 2024.
- ^ "Portugal declares a state of calamity as wildfires rage out of control". Associated Press. 19 September 2024.
- ^ "12-year-old boy stabs and injures six children at a school in Portugal". Associated Press. 17 September 2024.
- ^ "Three people shot and killed in Lisbon, suspects on the run". Reuters. 2 October 2024.
- ^ "Portugal Public Holidays 2024". Public Holidays Global. Retrieved 27 November 2023.
- ^ "Morreu ex-futebolista internacional português Alberto Festa". SIC Notícias (in Portuguese). 2 January 2024. Retrieved 3 January 2024.
- ^ "Morreu a atriz e modelo Ana Afonso. Tinha 47 anos". Fama Show (in European Portuguese). 4 January 2024. Retrieved 5 January 2024.
- ^ "Morreu Antonino Solmer, ator, encenador e professor de teatro". CNN Portugal (in Portuguese). 5 January 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
- ^ Lopes, Mário (8 January 2024). "Morreu Arnaldo Trindade, o sr. Orfeu, editor fundamental da música portuguesa". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ^ Oliveira, Luísa Soares de (22 January 2024). "Morreu Maria da Graça Carmona e Costa, grande mecenas da arte portuguesa". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 24 January 2024.
- ^ "Morreu Rui Patrício, o último ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros do Estado Novo". Expresso (in Portuguese). 5 February 2024. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
- ^ "Morreu André Jordan, empresário de turismo que fez muito pelo Algarve". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ^ "Morreu João Oliveira Pinto. Tinha 52 anos" [João Oliveira Pinto has died. He was 52]. O Jogo (in Portuguese). 8 February 2024. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
- ^ "Morreu o ator José Pinto, aos 95 anos. O actor adorado por Manoel de Oliveira e que ganhou o Prémio Sophia". Observador (in European Portuguese). 16 February 2024. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ^ "Produtor de cinema Armando Guedes da Costa morre aos 84 anos". cmjornal.pt (in European Portuguese). Lusa. 21 February 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ^ "Morreu Artur Jorge". Abola.pt (in Portuguese). 22 February 2024. 22 February 2024.
- ^ "Morreu o cantor Hugo Maia de Loureiro". Expresso Blitz (in Portuguese). 23 February 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ "Antigo campeão pelo Benfica e internacional Rui Rodrigues morreu aos 80 anos". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). 23 February 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ^ "Faleceu Fernando Correia". Portuguese Communist Party (in European Portuguese). 2 March 2024. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ^ "Alexandre Baptista: partiu um 'gentleman'". Abola.pt (in Portuguese). 4 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ "Morreu António-Pedro Vasconcelos". SIC Notícias (in Portuguese). 6 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ "Morreu Pietra, antigo jogador do Benfica e da seleção. Tinha 70 anos". Diário de Notícias (in Portuguese). 8 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ Jesus, João (8 March 2024). "Morreu a actriz Estrela Novais". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 8 March 2024.
- ^ "Escritor e professor luso-sueco Miguel Gullander morre em Luanda aos 49 anos". VerAngola (in Portuguese). 12 March 2024. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ^ Suspiro, Ana (17 March 2024). "Morreu o poeta Nuno Júdice aos 74 anos". Observador (in European Portuguese). Lusa. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ "Morreu Joaquim Santos, tetracampeão nacional de ralis". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). 18 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ "Morreu António Pacheco". Abola.pt (in Portuguese). 20 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ "Ator português António Évora morre aos 82 anos". Observador (in European Portuguese). Lusa. 21 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ "Actriz Gina Santos morre aos 86 anos". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). 21 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ "Architect and Professor António Marques Miguel has passed away". Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa. 4 April 2024. Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ^ Cardoso, Joana Amaral (9 April 2024). "Morreu o ensaísta, poeta e crítico cultural Eugénio Lisboa". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 23 April 2024.
- ^ Melo, Luísa; Silva, Renata (11 April 2024). "Morreu António Amorim, referência mundial da genética forense". Notícias U.Porto (in European Portuguese). Retrieved 12 April 2024.
- ^ "Jornalista alentejano Fernando Emílio morre aos 77 anos". DianaFM (in European Portuguese). 11 May 2024. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ Miguel Queirós, Luís (16 May 2024). "Casimiro de Brito (1938-2024): uma poesia da exaltação erótica". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Lusa. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Morreu Paulo Lourenço, embaixador de Portugal em Cabo Verde". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Lusa. 25 May 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "Morreu Santana Castilho, professor e antigo subsecretario de Estado". CNN Portugal (in Portuguese). Lusa. Retrieved 16 June 2024.
- ^ "Morreu a poetisa e dramaturga Maria Quintans". RTP Notícias (in Portuguese). 16 June 2024. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ^ Jorge Miguel, Matias; Sales Dias, Pedro (27 June 2024). "Manuel Fernandes, antiga glória do Sporting, morre aos 73 anos". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ Lopes, Mário (1 July 2024). "Morreu Fausto Bordalo Dias, o genial alquimista da música portuguesa". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 7 August 2024.
- ^ Henriques, Ana (9 July 2024). "Morreu a ex-procuradora-geral da República Joana Marques Vidal". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ^ Pacheco, Nuno (27 July 2024). "Mísia (1955-2024), a voz corajosa de aquém e além-fado". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "Morreu Joana de Barros Baptista, defensora da igualdade de género". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Lusa. 28 July 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
- ^ "Morreu o jornalista João Paulo Guerra". PÚBLICO (in Portuguese). Lusa. 4 August 2024. Retrieved 5 August 2024.
- ^ "Morreu José Manuel Constantino, presidente do Comité Olímpico de Portugal". RTP Notícias (in Portuguese). 12 August 2024. Retrieved 14 August 2024.
- ^ "Morreu Álvaro Monjardino, antigo presidente do parlamento dos Açores". RTP Notícias (in Portuguese). 17 August 2024.
- ^ "Morreu a cantora Ana Faria, autora dos projetos "Brincando aos Clássicos", Queijinhos Frescos e Onda Choc". SIC Notícias (in Portuguese). 18 August 2024.
- ^ "Faleceu antigo deputado Renato Moura". RTP Açores (in European Portuguese). 28 August 2024. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
- ^ "Benfica de Luto: Morreu Adolfo Calisto". Record (in Portuguese). 29 August 2024. Retrieved 29 August 2024.
