The year 2007 in

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic ( pt, República Portuguesa, links=yes ), is a country whose mainland is located on the Iberian Peninsula of Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Atlantic archipelagos of ...

Incumbents

President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) * President (education), a leader of a college or university * President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...

: Aníbal Cavaco Silva *

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...

José Sócrates José Sócrates Carvalho Pinto de Sousa, GCIH (born 6 September 1957), commonly known as José Sócrates (), is a Portuguese politician who was the prime minister of Portugal from 12 March 2005 to 21 June 2011. For the second half of 2007, he ...

Events

May

*May 3:

Disappearance of Madeleine McCann Madeleine Beth McCann (born 12 May 2003) is a British missing person who disappeared from her bed in a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, on the evening of 3 May 2007, at the age of 3. '' The Daily Telegraph'' described the disappear ...

, in

Praia da Luz Praia da Luz (, changing to before a following vowel), officially Luz, is a civil parish of the municipality of Lagos, in Algarve region, Portugal. The population of the civil parish in 2011 was 3,545, in an area of 21.78 km². Also known as ...

Algarve The Algarve (, , ; from ) is the southernmost NUTS II region of continental Portugal. It has an area of with 467,495 permanent inhabitants and incorporates 16 municipalities ( ''concelhos'' or ''municípios'' in Portuguese). The region has it ...

. *May 29: Prime Minister

visits

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. *May 30: General strike.

June

*June 25: Opening of the Berardo Museum in Lisbon.

July

*July 1: Beginning of the Portuguese presidency of the

European Union The European Union (EU) is a supranational political and economic union of member states that are located primarily in Europe. The union has a total area of and an estimated total population of about 447million. The EU has often been de ...

. *July 4: The 1st EU-Brazil summit takes place in Lisbon. *July 15: Local elections in Lisbon. António Costa is elected

mayor In many countries, a mayor is the highest-ranking official in a municipal government such as that of a city or a town. Worldwide, there is a wide variance in local laws and customs regarding the powers and responsibilities of a mayor as well ...

September

*September 28: Luís Filipe Menezes wins the elections in

PSD PSD may refer to: Educational bodies * Pennsylvania School for the Deaf, a Pre-K to 12th grade school for Deaf and Hard of Hearing students, located in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania * Philippine School Doha, a Filipino scho ...

and become the leader of the main opposition party.

October

*October 25: Visit of the

President of Russia The president of the Russian Federation ( rus, Президент Российской Федерации, Prezident Rossiyskoy Federatsii) is the head of state of the Russian Federation. The president leads the executive branch of the federal ...

Vladimir Putin Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin; (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence officer who holds the office of president of Russia. Putin has served continuously as president or prime minister since 1999: as prime min ...

to Portugal. *October 26: EU-Russia summit in

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November

*November 5: A road accident on

Auto-estrada Roads in Portugal are defined by the Plano Rodoviário Nacional (PRN, en, National Road Plan), which describes the existing and planned network of Portuguese roads. The present plan in force is the 2000 National Road Plan (PRN 2000), approv ...

A23, in the municipality of Vila Velha de Ródão, killed 15 people and injured 22.

December

*December 8 - December 9: Africa-EU Summit. *December 13: Signing of the

Treaty of Lisbon The Treaty of Lisbon (initially known as the Reform Treaty) is an international agreement that amends the two treaties which form the constitutional basis of the European Union (EU). The Treaty of Lisbon, which was signed by the EU member s ...

Arts & literature

New Books

Awards

Music

Television

Film

* October 25: Premiere of A Outra Margem.

Internet

Sport

*May 20: F.C. Porto wins the football championship. *May 26: Ovarense wins the basketball championship. *May 27: Sporting C.P. wins the football cup final against C.F. Os Belenenses.

Deaths

*January 19: Fiama Hasse Pais Brandão *January 23: A. H. de Oliveira Marques *March 1:

Manuel Bento Manuel Galrinho Bento (25 June 1948 – 1 March 2007) was a Portuguese professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. Bento was best known for his 20-year spell at Benfica, having retired well into his 40s after appearing in nearly 650 off ...

*March 26: João Soares Louro ( pt) *May 21: Alberto VilaçaMorreu o advogado antifascista Alberto Vilaça
, '' Público'', 21 May 2007. *July 4:

Henrique Viana Henrique Viana ( Lisbon, June 29, 1936 — Lisbon, July 4, 2007) was a Portuguese actor who worked in theatre, cinema and television. He died of cancer in Capuchos Hospital, aged 71. Filmography *''Aqui Há Fantasmas'' (1964) by Pedro Martins ...

*July 15: Alberto Romão Dias *August 25: Eduardo Prado Coelho *August 27: Alberto de Lacerda *October 9: Fausto Correia

References

{{Year in Europe, 2007

Years of the 21st century in Portugal