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See also:	List of years in Portugal

Events in the year 1943 in Portugal.

Incumbents

• President: Óscar Carmona
• Prime Minister: António de Oliveira Salazar

Events

• August – Luso-British agreement is signed, leasing air basis in the Azores to the UK.^[1]

Arts and entertainment

• 28 November – First issue of the weekly newspaper O Benfica

Sports

• GD Bragança founded
• Santa Maria FC founded

Births

• 5 February – Manuel Luís dos Santos, footballer
• 19 February – Amandio Malta da Silva, footballer
• 22 February – Antônio Lino da Silva Dinis, Bishop of Itumbiara (died 2013).^[2]
• 20 March – Alice Vieira, children's writer.^[3]
• 25 June – Serafim Pereira, footballer (died 1994)
• 3 September – Marinho, footballer
• 2 October – Eduardo Serra, cinematographer
• 28 October – João Aguiar, journalist and novelist (died 2010)
• 18 November – Manuel António Pina, journalist and poet (died 2012)

Deaths

• 10 January – Manuel Maria Coelho, military officer and politician (born 1857)
• 11 March – Infanta Maria Josepha of Portugal (born 1857)
• May – Dom Aleixo, war hero of East Timor (born 1886)