title: 1917 in Portugal
text: # 1917 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 (d. 2011)
  * 1 August – Manuel Soares Marques, footballer (d. 1987).
  * 29 October – Virgilio Teixeira, actor (d. 2010)
  * 22 December – Eduardo Lopes, cyclist (d.1997)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 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)
  