1978 in Brazil

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: General Ernesto Geisel
• President of Brazil|Vice President]: General Adalberto Pereira dos Santos

  Governors

• Acre: Vacant
• Alagoas:
• * Divaldo Suruagy
• * Ernandes Lopes Dorvillé
• * Geraldo Mello
• Amazonas: Henoch da Silva Reis
• Bahia: Roberto Santos
• Ceará:
• *José Adauto Bezerra
• * Waldemar Alcântara
• Espírito Santo: Élcio Álvares
• Goiás: Irapuan Costa Jr.
• Maranhão: Oswaldo da Costa Nunes Freire
• Mato Grosso:
• *Jose Garcia Neto
• *Cássio Leite de Barros
• Mato Grosso do Sul|Mato Grosso do Sul]: Vacant
• Minas Gerais:
• *Aureliano Chaves
• * Levindo Ozanan Coelho
• Pará:
• *Aloysio Chaves
• *Clóvis Rego
• Paraíba:
• *Ivan Bichara
• * Dorgival Terceiro Neto
• Paraná: Jaime Canet Júnior
• Pernambuco: Francisco Moura Cavalcanti
• Piauí:
• *Dirceu Arcoverde
• *Djalma Veloso
• Rio de Janeiro: Floriano P. Faria Lima
• Governors of [Rio Grande do Norte|Rio Grande do Norte]: Tarcisio de Vasconcelos Maia
• Rio Grande do Sul: Sinval Sebastião Duarte Guazzelli
• Santa Catarina: Antônio Carlos Konder Reis
• São Paulo: Paulo Egídio Martins
• Sergipe: José Rollemberg

  Vice governors

• Acre: Omar Sabino de Paula
• Alagoas: Antônio Guedes Amaral
• Amazonas: João [Bosco Ramos de Lima]
• Bahia: Edvaldo Brandão Correia
• Ceará:
• *José Waldemar de Alcântara e Silva
• *Vacant thereafter
• Espírito Santo: Carlos Alberto Lindenberg von Schilgen
• Goiás: José Luís Bittencourt
• Maranhão: José Duailibe Murad
• Mato Grosso:
• *Cássio Leite de Barros
• *Vacant thereafter
• Mato Grosso do Sul: Vacant
• Minas Gerais:
• *Levindo Ozanam Coelho
• *Vacant thereafter
• Pará:
• *Clovis Silva de Morais Rego
• *Vacant thereafter
• Paraíba:
• *Dorgival Terceiro Neto
• *Vacant thereafter
• Paraná: Octávio Cesário Pereira Júnior
• Pernambuco: Paulo Gustavo de Araújo Cunha
• Piauí:
• *Djalma Martins Veloso
• *Vacant thereafter
• Rio de Janeiro: Vacant
• Rio Grande do Norte: Geraldo Melo
• Rio Grande do Sul: José Augusto Amaral de Sousa
• Santa Catarina: Marcos Henrique Büechler
• São Paulo: Ferreira Filho
• Sergipe: 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
• 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

  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
• 10 October -Hermes Lima, prime minister and foreign minister of Brazil