# 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
* Alagoas:
** 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
* Goiás: 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)
* Pará:
** Aloysio Chaves (until 1 August)
** Clóvis Rego (from 1 August)
* Paraíba:
** Ivan Bichara (until 14 August)
** Dorgival Terceiro Neto (from 14 August)
* Paraná: Jaime Canet Júnior
* Pernambuco: Francisco Moura Cavalcanti
* Piauí:
** 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
* 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 (from 14 September)
* Amazonas: João Bosco Ramos de Lima
* Bahia: Edvaldo Brandão Correia
* Ceará:
** José Waldemar de Alcântara e Silva (until 1 March)
** Vacant thereafter (from 1 March)
* Espírito Santo: Carlos Alberto Lindenberg von Schilgen
* Goiás: José Luís Bittencourt
* Maranhão: José Duailibe Murad
* Mato Grosso:
** Cássio Leite de Barros (until 14 August)
** Vacant thereafter (from 14 August)
* Mato Grosso do Sul: Vacant
* Minas Gerais:
** Levindo Ozanam Coelho (until 5 July)
** Vacant thereafter (from 5 July)
* Pará:
** Clovis Silva de Morais Rego (until 1 August)
** Vacant thereafter (from 1 August)
* Paraíba:
** Dorgival Terceiro Neto (until 14 August)
** Vacant thereafter (from 14 August)
* Paraná: Octávio Cesário Pereira Júnior
* Pernambuco: Paulo Gustavo de Araújo Cunha
* Piauí:
** Djalma Martins Veloso (until 14 August)
** Vacant thereafter (from 14 August)
* 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 (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)