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Events in the year 2002 in Portugal.

Incumbents

Events

January to April
  • 1 January – Euro banknotes and coins enter circulation with a conversion rate of $200.5 for every €1, with both the escudo and the euro being legal tender until 28 February.[1] The BBC reports that by 5 January the euro is the chosen currency for over half of all transactions.[2]
  • 18 January – Nurse Maria do Ceu Ribeiro is sentenced to eight-and-a-half years in prison after performing more than 100 illegal abortions over fifteen years in the town of Maia. The four-month trial also concludes with Ribeiro being found guilty of the illegal use of anaesthetics and of falsifying prescriptions.[3]
  • 30 January – The European Commission advises that the Portuguese government be formally cautioned over its increasing budget deficit, which grew to 2.2% of GDP in 2001, double the 1.1% that was forecast.[4]
8 February: The Alqueva dam (pictured in 2007) opens

May to July
  • 7 May – The 2002 Globos de Ouro awards ceremony is held with Manoel de Oliveira's Vou Para Casa winning the prize for Best Film.[10][11]
  • 17 May – Proposals to renovate the former Lisbon headquarters of the Estado Novo security agency and secret police PIDE into luxury accommodation attract criticism from anti-fascist campaigners, who express concerns that historic acts of torture committed on-site against political opponents by PIDE's secret police will go unrecognised in the building's new guise.[12]
  • 20 May - The former colony of Portuguese Timor in southeast Asia becomes the independent country of East Timor, bringing to a close 24 years of Indonesian occupation since the end of Portuguese rule in 1975.[13]
  • 13 June – The Portuguese national football team are eliminated from the 2002 FIFA World Cup after a 1–0 loss to co-hosts South Korea in the round of sixteen.[14] Manager Antonio Oliveira is later dismissed from his position on 25 June after failing to perform to expectations.[15]
  • 25 June – Six people are arrested after police raid an address in Albufeira suspected of manufacturing and supplying ecstacy. The culmination of a year-long investigation, almost 83,000 ecstacy tablets are seized in what is Portugal's first instance of police dismantling a drugs factory.[16]

August to December
Track map of Estoril, venue of the 2002 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix
  • 15 August – Denmark's Claus Møller wins the 2002 Volta a Portugal in a time of 47 hours, 51 minutes and 33 seconds, beating his Milaneza–MSS teammate Joan Horrach by a margin of five seconds.[17]
  • 8 September – Italy's Valentino Rossi wins the 2002 Portuguese motorcycle Grand Prix held at the Circuito do Estoril.[18]
  • 21 October – The results of the 2001 census are released, showing a 5.0% rise in the national population since 1991 to 10,356,117.[19]
  • 23 November – Paratrooper Diogo Miguel Ribeirinho Dantas is confirmed as a victim of the terrorist bombings in Bali after being reported missing since the attack on 12 October.[20] Ribeirinho, who was on leave from the United Nations peacekeeping mission in East Timor, is Portugal's sole casualty in the bombings.[21]
  • 10 December – The General Confederation of the Portuguese Workers (CGTP) stages a one-day strike of its 800,000 members in protest over the government's proposed reforms to employment law. Public transport, schools, healthcare facilities, government agencies, and postal services are all impacted, with claims over the proportion of union members striking varying between the 90% announced by CGTP head Manuel Carvalho da Silva and the 13% suggested by Labour Minister Antonio Bagao Felix.[22]

Sports

Arts and entertainment

Literature

Film
Main article: List of Portuguese films of 2002

Births

Deaths

See also

References
  1. "Q&A: Euro cash launch". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. 2 January 2002. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  2. Bloom, Jonty; Coughlin, Geraldine (5 January 2002). "Euro sweeps up old currencies". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
  3. "Nurse jailed for illegal abortions in Portugal". The Guardian. Guardian Media Group. 18 January 2002. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  4. "Germany warned on deficit". CNN. 30 January 2002. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  5. "Portugal opens Europe's largest dam". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. 8 February 2002. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  6. Carregueiro, Nuno (18 February 2002). "Taxa de desemprego em Portugal sobe para 4,1% em 2001". Jornal de Negocios (in Portuguese). Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  7. Freire, A.; Lobo, M.C. (2002). "ELECTION REPORT - The Portuguese 2002 Legislative Elections". West European Politics. 25 (4): 221–228. doi:10.1080/713601634.
  8. "Portugal gets new prime minister". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. 21 March 2002. Retrieved 8 August 2020.
  9. Andrónico, Bruno (28 April 2020). "Há 18 anos o Sporting levantava pela última vez o título de campeão nacional". Sapo (in Portuguese). Sport Informa. Retrieved 21 August 2020.
  10. "Cinema Português 2002" (in Portuguese). Instituto Camões. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  11. "Todos os vencedores da história dos Globos de Ouro". Caras (in Portuguese). 19 May 2017. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  12. Roberts, Alison (17 May 2002). "Lisbon's 'torture' house project sparks row". BBC News. British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  13. Molnar, Andrea Katalin (2010). Timor Leste: Politics, History, and Culture. Abingdon; New York: Routledge. p. 5. ISBN 9781135228859.
  14. "Korea send Portugal home". BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation. 13 June 2002. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
  15. "Portugal sack Oliveira". BBC Sport. British Broadcasting Corporation. 25 June 2002. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  16. "PJ faz apreensão recorde de "ecstasy" e desmantela primeira fábrica em Portugal". Publico (in Portuguese). Lusa News Agency. 25 July 2002. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  17. "Moller, vencedor final en Portugal". El Mundo (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial. 15 August 2002. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  18. Fornet, Óscar (8 September 2002). "La mala suerte aparta a Sete de la victoria en MotoGP". El Mundo (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial. Retrieved 18 August 2020.
  19. "CENSOS 2001 Resultados Definitivos" (PDF). Instituto Nacional de Estatística. 21 October 2002. p. 3. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  20. "Bali: Identificado corpo de soldado português". Correio da Manhã (in Portuguese). 23 November 2002. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  21. Noguera, Andreia (12 October 2012). "Dez anos não chegam para fugir de esperanças ilusórias". Publico (in Portuguese). Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  22. "Strikers bring Portugal to halt". CNN. 10 December 2002. Retrieved 14 August 2020.
  23. "Eduardo Quaresma". soccerway.com. Retrieved 9 August 2020.
  24. Martins, Alexandre (12 February 2002). "Morreu o dirigente comunista Carlos Aboim Inglez". Publico (in Portuguese). Retrieved 8 August 2020.
  25. "Marcelino Vespeira morre aos 77 anos". Publico (in Portuguese). 23 February 2002. Retrieved 11 August 2020.
  26. "Morreu Fernando Pessa". Publico (in Portuguese). 29 April 2002. Retrieved 12 August 2020.
  27. "Bruce Guimaraens". The Telegraph. Telegraph Media Group. 14 September 2002. Retrieved 15 August 2020.
  28. "Morreu Baltazar Rebelo de Sousa". Publico (in Portuguese). Lusa News Agency. 1 December 2002. Retrieved 13 August 2020.
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