1922 in Portugal

← 1921 1920 1919 1922 in Portugal → 1923 1924 1925
Centuries:	18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	List of years in Portugal

Events in the year 1922 in Portugal.

Incumbents

• President: António José de Almeida
• Prime Minister: António Maria da Silva

Events

• 29 January – Portuguese legislative election, 1922.^[1]

Sports

• 31 March – first issue of Jornal Sporting
• S.C. Beira-Mar founded
• S.C. Lusitânia founded
• Padroense F.C. founded
• SC Bustelo founded

Births

• 3 May – Vasco Gonçalves, military officer and politician (died 2005)
• 10 November – Manuel Franco da Costa de Oliveira Falcão, Roman Catholic prelate, Bishop of Beja (died 2012).^[2]
• José Saramago, novelist, poet, playwright, journalist and Nobel laureate (died 2010).^[3][4]

References

1. "Eleições Gerais Portuguesas desde 1820" (in Portuguese). Retrieved 21 January 2016.
2. "Bishop Manuel Franco da Costa de Oliveira Falcão". Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 23 January 2015.
3. Sletsjøe, Anne. "José Saramago". In Godal, Anne Marit. Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Norsk nettleksikon. Retrieved 28 October 2012.
4. "José Saramango, Nobel Prize-Winning Portuguese Writer, Dies at 87". New York Times. 18 June 2010. Retrieved 28 October 2012.