1978 in Brazil

Incumbents

Federal government

Governors

• * Divaldo Suruagy
• * Ernandes Lopes Dorvillé
• * Geraldo Mello Amazonas: Henoch da Silva ReisBahia: 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 [List of Governors of List of Governors of Mato Grosso|Mato Grosso do Sul|Mato Grosso do Sul]: VacantMinas 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 LimaRio 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

• *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: VacantMinas 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: VacantRio 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

Deaths

• 17 March - Iracema de Alencar, actress
• 10 October -Hermes Lima, prime minister and foreign minister of Brazil