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)
• 27 July – António de Oliveira Salazar, professor and politician (born 1889)

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