title: 1940 in Portugal
text: # 1940 in Portugal
  
  Events in the year 1940 in Portugal.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Óscar Carmona
  * Prime Minister: António de Oliveira Salazar
  
  ## Events
  
  * Portuguese Mathematical Society founded
  * Portuguese World Exhibition
  
  ## Births
  
  * 11 March – Sebastião Alba, poet (d. 2000)
  * 30 July – Nicolau Breyner, playwright and actor (d. 2016)
  
  ### Full date missing
  
  * Ana Vieira, artist (d. 2016)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 28 June – António Ginestal Machado, politician (born 1874)
  
  ### Full date missing
  
  * Abel Fontoura da Costa, colonial administrator (born 1869).
  