1956 in Portugal

Events in the year 1956 in Portugal.

Incumbents

 * President: Francisco Craveiro Lopes
 * Prime Minister: António de Oliveira Salazar

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).