2022 in Portugal explained

Events in the year 2022 in Portugal.

Incumbents

• President: Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa
• Prime Minister: António Costa (Socialist)

Events

Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Portugal

• 2 January – AIDAnova, a cruise ship operated by German cruise line AIDA Cruises and carrying 4,197 people, docked in Lisbon, Portugal, after 52 crew members tested positive for COVID-19 and isolated at various hotels.^[1]
• 30 January - Portuguese people vote in a snap parliamentary election.^[2]
• 1 February - Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa announces that he has tested positive for COVID-19.^[3]
• 11 February - Portuguese police, with help from the FBI, arrest an 18-year-old boy for planning an armed attack on a university in Lisbon.^[4]
• 12 March - Portuguese footballer Cristiano Ronaldo surpasses Josef Bican as the sport's official top goalscorer of all time as recorded by FIFA, after scoring his 806th and 807th goals during a Premier League match with Manchester United against Tottenham Hotspur.^[5]
• 5 April - Portugal expels Russian diplomats due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[6]
• 18 May - Portugal confirms its first five cases of monkeypox.^[7]
• 21 May - Three people are killed and more than 30 are injured in a bus crash on the motorway near Mealhada.^[8]
• 28 June - Portugal reports more than ten new cases of monkeypox.^[9]
• 8 July - Portugal issues warnings of temperatures as high as 43 °C (109 °F) amid a drought and wildfires in parts of the country.
• 14 July - Pinhão, district of Vila Real, sets the highest July temperature ever in Portugal, reaching 47.0 °C (116.6 °F).^[10]
• 15 July - Portugal reports 238 deaths related to the ongoing heat wave as it battles more than 30 active wildfires. In France, more than 10,000 people have fled wildfires in Gironde and in Spain, firefighters continue to battle forest fires near the town of Monsagro.^[11]
• 16 July - In Vila Nova de Foz Côa a waterbombing plane crashes while fighting wildfires in the region, killing the pilot, and in Spain, around 2,300 people are evacuated from the Costa del Sol due to wildfires in the Mijas hills.^[12]
• 19 July - The death toll from the wildfires and heat wave in Spain and Portugal increases to more than 1,700 people, with more than 1,063 deaths in Portugal.^[13]

Deaths

• 8 January – Lourdes Castro, abstract artist (b. 1930)^[14]
• 17 January - Armando Gama, singer-songwriter (b. 1954)^[15]
• 22 January - António Lima Pereira, footballer (b. 1952)^[16]
• 3 February - Lauro António, film director (b. 1942)^[17]
• 4 February - Rolando Gonçalves, footballer (b.1944)^[18]
• 6 February - Maria Carrilho, politician (b. 1943)^[19]
• 9 February - Jaime Serra, politician (b. 1921)^[20]
• 15 February - Artur Albarran, journalist (b. 1953)
• 14 March - Jorge Silva Melo, theatre director (b. 1948)^[21]
• 19 March - Joel Hasse Ferreira, politician (b. 1944)^[22]
• 5 April - Joaquim Carvalho, footballer (b. 1937)^[23]
• 15 April - Eunice Muñoz, actress (b. 1928)^[24]
• 17 April - Eduardo Barbeiro, Olympic swimmer (b. 1932)^[25]
• 2 May - João Gago Horta, politician (b. 1943)
• 7 May - Elisa Maria Damião, politician (b. 1946)^[26]
• 10 May - Manuel Abreu, footballer (b. 1959)^[27]
• 13 May - João Rendeiro, banker (b. 1952)^[28]
• 29 May - Raquel Seruca, oncobiologist (b. 1962)^[29]
• 8 June - Fernando Pinto Monteiro, jurist (b. 1942)^[30]
• 8 June - Dame Paula Rego, visual-artist (b. 1935)^[31]
• 5 August - Ana Luísa Amaral, poet, (b. 1956)^[32]
• 10 August - João de Almeida Bruno, judge (b. 1935)^[33]
• 10 August - Fernando Chalana, footballer (b. 1959)^[34]
• 22 August - António de Sousa Braga, Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1941)^[35]
• 23 August - Carlos Duarte, footballer (b. 1933)^[36]
• 28 October - José Da Silva Costa, Economist, professor, researcher, and consultant^[37]

Notes and References

1. News: Minder . Raphael . 2022-01-01 . A crew outbreak halts a German New Year's cruise in Lisbon. . en-US . The New York Times . 2022-08-29 . 0362-4331.
2. News: Goncalves . Sergio . Demony . Catarina . Khalip . Andrei . Demony . Catarina . 2022-01-31 . Portugal's PM Costa stuns with majority win in snap election . en . Reuters . 2022-08-29.
3. Web site: 2022-02-01 . Portuguese PM António Costa tests positive for COVID-19 . 2022-08-29 . POLITICO . en-US.
4. News: 2022-02-10 . Police say violent attack prevented at Lisbon university, suspect arrested . en . Reuters . 2022-08-29.
5. Web site: 2022-03-13 . Cristiano Ronaldo scores stunning hat-trick, breaks World record in football . 2022-08-29 . The Indian Express . en.
6. Web site: 2022-04-05 . Six EU countries to expel Russian diplomats . 2022-08-29 . POLITICO . en-US.
7. Web site: 2022-05-18 . Portugal finds 5 monkeypox cases in men as outbreak spreads . 2022-08-29 . AP NEWS . en.
8. Web site: Rivera . Nathan . 2022-05-22 . At least three dead and four seriously injured in a bus accident in Portugal . 2022-08-29 . Today90 News . en-US.
9. Web site: 365 casos confirmados de infeção humana por vírus Monkeypox em Portugal . 2022-08-29 . www.dgs.pt.
10. Web site: MacLellan . Catarina Demony and Kylie . 2022-07-15 . Fires, evacuations and health warnings as European temperatures hit 47 degrees . 2022-08-29 . The Age . en.
11. News: 2022-07-15 . Europe heatwave: Thousands escape wildfires in France, Spain and Greece . en-GB . BBC News . 2022-08-29.
12. News: 2022-07-17 . Europe heatwave: Deadly wildfires spread in Mediterranean . en-GB . BBC News . 2022-08-29.
13. Web site: Heat-related deaths top 1,100 in Spain, Portugal amid heat wave and wildfires . 2022-08-29 . ABC News . en.
14. Web site: Comercial . Rádio . Morreu a artista Lourdes Castro . 2022-08-29 . Rádio Comercial . pt.
15. Web site: Redação . 2022-01-17 . Morreu o cantor Armando Gama . 2022-08-29 . O Minho . pt-PT.
16. Web site: Portugal . Rádio e Televisão de . Morreu o antigo defesa internacional Lima Pereira aos 69 anos . 2022-08-29 . Morreu o antigo defesa internacional Lima Pereira aos 69 anos . 22 January 2022 . pt.
17. Web site: Morreu o cineasta Lauro António . 2022-08-29 . www.dn.pt . 3 February 2022 . pt-PT.
18. Web site: FC Porto - Notícias - Faleceu Rolando . 2022-08-29 . fcporto.pt.
19. Web site: Morreu ex-deputada do PS Maria Carrilho . 2022-08-29 . www.dn.pt . 6 February 2022 . pt-PT.
20. Web site: Lusa . Agência . Morreu o histórico dirigente do PCP Jaime Serra, aos 101 anos . 2022-08-29 . Observador . pt-PT.
21. Web site: Morreu o encenador, cineasta, ator e autor Jorge Silva Melo . 2022-08-29 . www.dn.pt.
22. Web site: Morreu antigo deputado e eurodeputado socialista Joel Hasse Ferreira . 2022-08-29 . www.tsf.pt.
23. Web site: Sporting de luto por Joaquim Carvalho - Sporting - Jornal Record . 2022-08-29 . Record.
24. Web site: Lusa . Agência . Morreu Eunice Muñoz. A estrela maior do teatro português tinha 93 anos . 2022-08-29 . Observador . pt-PT.
25. Web site: Olympedia – Eduardo Barbeiro . 2022-08-29 . www.olympedia.org.
26. Web site: Lusa . Agência . Morreu antiga dirigente da UGT e deputada socialista Elisa Damião . 2022-08-29 . Observador . pt-PT.
27. Web site: 2022-05-11 . Disparition de Manuel Abreu, figure emblématique du Stade de Reims . 2022-08-29 . ici, par France Bleu et France 3 . fr.
28. Web site: Henriques . Sónia Trigueirão, Ana . João Rendeiro encontrado morto na cadeia . 2022-08-29 . PÚBLICO . 13 May 2022 . pt.
29. Web site: Morreu Raquel Seruca, referência no estudo do cancro gástrico . 2022-08-29 . www.jn.pt . 30 May 2022 . pt-PT.
30. Web site: Observador . Morreu Fernando Pinto Monteiro, antigo Procurador-Geral da República. Tinha em 80 anos . 2022-08-29 . Observador . pt-PT.
31. News: 2022-06-08 . Dame Paula Rego: Celebrated Portuguese-British artist dies at 87 . en-GB . BBC News . 2022-08-29.
32. Web site: Ferreira . Beatriz . Morreu a escritora Ana Luísa Amaral, aos 66 anos . 2022-08-29 . Observador . pt-PT.
33. Web site: Borges . Liliana . Morreu o general Almeida Bruno, militar de Abril . 2022-08-29 . PÚBLICO . 10 August 2022 . pt.
34. Web site: Morreu Fernando Chalana . 2022-08-29 . www.slbenfica.pt . pt.
35. Web site: Bishop António de Sousa Braga [Catholic-Hierarchy] ]. 2022-08-29 . www.catholic-hierarchy.org.
36. Web site: FC Porto - Notícias - Faleceu Carlos Duarte . 2022-08-29 . fcporto.pt.
37. Web site: Caetano . Carolina . Homem é executado com tiros na cabeça na cozinha de casa em Vespasiano . Man executed by five headshots in kitchen at home in Vespasiano . Jornal O Tempo . 2013-11-08 . pt . 2019-09-09.