1978 in Brazil

Events in the year 1978 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: General Ernesto Geisel
• Vice President: General Adalberto Pereira dos Santos

Governors

• Acre: Vacant
• :
• Divaldo Suruagy (until 14 August)
• Ernandes Lopes Dorvillé (14 August-14 September)
• Geraldo Mello (from 14 September)
• Amazonas: Henoch da Silva Reis
• Bahia: Roberto Santos
• Ceará:
• José Adauto Bezerra (until 28 February)
• Waldemar Alcântara (from 28 February)
• Espírito Santo: Élcio Álvares
• : Irapuan Costa Jr.
• Maranhão: Oswaldo da Costa Nunes Freire
• Mato Grosso:
• Jose Garcia Neto (until 14 August)
• Cássio Leite de Barros (from 14 August)
• Mato Grosso do Sul: Vacant
• Minas Gerais:
• Aureliano Chaves (until 9 July)
• Levindo Ozanan Coelho (from 9 July)
• :
• Aloysio Chaves (until 1 August)
• Clóvis Rego (from 1 August)
• :
• Ivan Bichara (until 14 August)
• Dorgival Terceiro Neto (from 14 August)
• Paraná: Jaime Canet Júnior
• : Francisco Moura Cavalcanti
• :
• Dirceu Arcoverde (until 14 August)
• Djalma Veloso (from 14 August)
• Rio de Janeiro: Floriano P. Faria Lima
• Rio Grande do Norte: Tarcisio de Vasconcelos Maia
• Rio Grande do Sul: Sinval Sebastião Duarte Guazzelli
• : Antônio Carlos Konder Reis
• São Paulo: Paulo Egídio Martins
• : José Rollemberg

Vice governors

• : Omar Sabino de Paula
• : Antônio Guedes Amaral (from 14 September)
• : João Bosco Ramos de Lima
• : Edvaldo Brandão Correia
• :
• José Waldemar de Alcântara e Silva (until 1 March)
• Vacant thereafter (from 1 March)
• : Carlos Alberto Lindenberg von Schilgen
• : José Luís Bittencourt
• : José Duailibe Murad
• :

• Cássio Leite de Barros (until 14 August)
• Vacant thereafter (from 14 August)
• : Vacant
• :
• Levindo Ozanam Coelho (until 5 July)
• Vacant thereafter (from 5 July)
• :
• Clovis Silva de Morais Rego (until 1 August)
• Vacant thereafter (from 1 August)
• :
• Dorgival Terceiro Neto (until 14 August)
• Vacant thereafter (from 14 August)
• : Octávio Cesário Pereira Júnior
• : Paulo Gustavo de Araújo Cunha
• :
• Djalma Martins Veloso (until 14 August)
• Vacant thereafter (from 14 August)
• : Vacant
• : Geraldo Melo
• : José Augusto Amaral de Sousa
• : Marcos Henrique Büechler
• : Ferreira Filho
• : Antônio Ribeiro Sotelo

Events

March

• March 29-31: United States President Jimmy Carter makes his three-day visit to Brazil and is the fifth US president to visit the country.

July

• July 8: A fire destroys the art collection at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro.

August

• August 4: President Ernesto Geisel signs a national decree, that prohibits strikes in the sectors of national security and public services.

September

• September 6: Dr. Roberto Farina is sentenced to two years in prison for performing Brazil's first male-to-female gender-affirming surgery.

October

• October 13: The National Congress of Brazil grants Constitutional Amendment No. 11, which would repeal the Institutional Act No. 5.
• October 16: General João Batista Figueiredo is elected President of Brazil by the electoral college.
• October 27: A federal judge delivers a judgement, establishing that journalist Vladimir Herzog was wrongfully detained and tortured under the premises of the DOI-CODI.

December

• December 29: President Ernesto Geisel signs a decree that lifts the banning of over a hundred Brazilians living abroad as political exiles. The decree also extinguishes the General Commission of Investigations.

Births

January

• January 4: André Neles, footballer (died 2020)
• January 19: Eryk Rocha, director and screenwriter
• January 29: Joice Hasselmann, journalist, writer, activist and conservative political commentator

March

• March 7: Jaqueline Jesus, psychologist and activist
• March 18: Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2014)

May

• May 8: Lúcio, footballer
• May 18: Helton, football manager and former player
• May 10: Marcelo Moretto, footballer
• May 30: Lyoto Machida, mixed martial artist

June

• June 23: Leandro Firmino, actor
• June 28: Baiano, footballer

July

• July 4: Marcos Daniel, tennis player
• July 17: Ricardo Arona, mixed martial artist
• July 20: André Bankoff, actor

August

• August 31: Regiane Alves, actress

September

• September 16: Emerson Sheik, association footballer
• September 16: Carolina Dieckmann, actress

November

• 6 November: Daniella Cicarelli, Brazilian model
• 25 November: Taís Araújo, actress

Deaths

• 17 March - Iracema de Alencar, actress (born 1900)
• 10 October -Hermes Lima, prime minister and foreign minister of Brazil (born 1902)

References

See also

• 1978 in Brazilian football
• 1978 in Brazilian television