1970 in Portugal

Events in the year 1970 in Portugal.

Incumbents

 * President: Américo Tomás
 * Prime Minister: Marcelo Caetano

Events

 * 22 November – Operation Green Sea, an attack on Conakry, the capital of Guinea

Undated

 * Operation Gordian Knot, a military campaign in Portuguese Mozambique, part of the Portuguese Colonial War (1961–1974).
 * The Portuguese Workers' Communist Party, a Maoist political party, founded

Deaths

 * 26 April – Francisco Cunha Leal, politician (born 1888)
 * 3 June – Aníbal Milhais, the most decorated Portuguese soldier of World War I (born 1895).
 * 27 July – António de Oliveira Salazar, professor and politician (born 1889)
 * 22 November – Casimiro de Oliveira, racing driver (born 1907)