1971 in Brazil

Incumbents

Federal government

Governors

• *Antônio Simeão de Lamenha Filho
• *Afrânio Lages Amazonas:
• *Danilo Duarte de Matos Areosa
• *João Walter de Andrade Bahia:
• *Luís Viana Filho
• *Antônio Carlos Magalhães Ceará:
• *Plácido Castelo
• *César Cals Espírito Santo:
• *Cristiano Dias Lopes Filho
• *Artur Carlos Gerhardt Santos Goiás:
• *Otávio Lage
• *Leonino Caiado Guanabara: Antonio de Pádua Chagas FreitasMaranhão:
• *Antônio Jorge Dino
• *Pedro Neiva de Santana Mato Grosso:
• *Pedro Pedrossian
• *José Fragelli Minas Gerais:
• *Israel Pinheiro da Silva
• *Rondon Pacheco Pará:
• *Alacid Nunes
• *Fernando Guilhon Paraíba:
• *João Agripino Maia
• *Ernâni Sátiro Paraná:
• *Paulo Pimentel
• *Haroldo Leon Peres
• *Pedro Viriato Parigot de Sousa Pernambuco:
• *Nilo Coelho
• *Eraldo Gueiros Piauí:
• *João Clímaco d'Almeida
• *Alberto Silva Rio de Janeiro:
• *Geremias de Mattos Fontes
• *Raimundo Padilha Rio Grande do Norte:
• *Walfredo Gurgel Dantas
• *Jose Pereira de Araújo Cortez Rio Grande do Sul:
• *Walter Peracchi Barcelos
• *Euclides Triches Santa Catarina:
• *Ivo Silveira
• *Colombo Salles São Paulo:
• *Roberto Costa de Abreu Sodré
• *Laudo Natel Sergipe:
• *João de Andrade Garcez
• *Paulo Barreto de Menezes

Vice governors

• *Manoel Sampaio Luz
• *José de Medeiros Tavares Amazonas: Deoclides de Carvalho Leal Bahia:
• *Jutahy Magalhães
• *Menandro Minahim Ceará:
• *Humberto Ellery
• *Francisco Humberto Bezerra Espírito Santo:
• *Isaac Lopes Rubim
• *Henrique Pretti Goiás:
• *Osires Teixeira
• *Ursulino Tavares Leão Maranhão: Alexandre Sá Colares Moreira Mato Grosso:
• *Lenine de Campos Póvoas
• *José Monteiro de Figueiredo Minas Gerais:
• *Pio Soares Canedo
• *Celso Porfírio de Araújo Machado Pará:
• *João Renato Franco
• *Newton Burlamaqui Barreira Paraíba:
• *Antônio Juarez Farias
• *Clóvis Bezerra Cavalcanti Paraná:
• *Plínio Franco Ferreira da Costa
• *Pedro Viriato Parigot de Souza Pernambuco:
• *Salviano Machado Filho
• *José Antônio Barreto Guimarães Piauí:
• *Sebastião Rocha Leal Rio de Janeiro:
• *Heli Ribeiro Gomes
• *Teotônio Araújo Rio Grande do Norte:
• *Clóvis Motta
• *Tertius Rebelo Rio Grande do Sul: Edmar Fetter
• Santa Catarina:
• *Jorge Bornhausen
• *Atílio Francisco Xavier Fontana São Paulo:
• *Hilário Torloni
• *Antonio José Rodrigues Filho Sergipe:
• *Manoel Paulo Vasconcelos
• *Adalberto Moura

Events

January

• 14 January: Seventy Brazilian political prisoners are released in Santiago, Chile.
• 16 January: Giovanni Enrico Bucher, the Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is released by the Ação Libertadora Nacional, 40 days after his kidnapping.

February

• February 1: Brazil leaves the meeting of the Organization of American States for failing to reach a joint plan of action against terrorism.

May

• May 19: The Ministry of Mines and Energy, Antônio Dias Leite Júnior, announces in Brasília that the American company Westinghouse Electric Company, has been chosen to build the first Brazilian nuclear power plant in Angra dos Reis.

July

• July 18: Pelé plays his last game for the Brazil national football team, in a 2–2 draw against Yugoslavia at the Maracanã Stadium, in Rio de Janeiro.

September

• September 17: Former Captain Carlos Lamarca, leader of the VPR '''', is killed after an ambush set up by security forces in Pintadas, Bahia.

November

• 20 November: 29 people die when a section of the Elevado Engenheiro Freyssinet, a bridge under construction, falls on traffic at an intersection in Rio de Janeiro.

December

• December 18: The Orthographic Reform of 1971 is signed into law by President Emílio Garrastazu Médici, which approves changes in the spelling of the Brazilian Portuguese language.
• Dr. Roberto Farina performs the first male-to-female gender-affirming surgery in Brazil.

Births

January

• 18 January - Christian Fittipaldi, racing driver

February

April

May

Deaths

January

• January 11 - Zé Arigó, faith healer

February

• February 18 - Jaime de Barros Câmara, archbishop