Events in the year 1956 in Portugal.
Incumbents President: Francisco Craveiro Lopes Prime Minister: António de Oliveira Salazar (National Union)
Events 11–12 February – A cold spell across the country causes four deaths and sees Lisbon experience its coldest day of the 20th century, with the newspaper Diário de Lisboa reporting temperatures of −2 °C in the early hours of 12 February.
Births
23 March – José Manuel Barroso, politician 29 June – Pedro Santana Lopes, politician 15 October – Maria da Assunção Esteves, politician, Member of the European Parliament.
Deaths 27 October – Domingos Leite Pereira, politician (b. 1880). 11 November – António Ferro, writer and politician (b. 1895).
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