1968 in Brazil

Events of the year 1968 in Brazil

Federal government

 * President: Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva
 * Vice-President: Pedro Aleixo

Governors

 * Acre: Vacant
 * Alagoas: Antônio Simeão de Lamenha Filho
 * Amazonas: Danilo Duarte de Matos Areosa
 * Bahia: Luís Viana Filho
 * Ceará: Plácido Castelo
 * Espírito Santo: Cristiano Dias Lopes Filho
 * Goiás: Otávio Lage
 * Guanabara: Francisco Negrão de Lima
 * Maranhão: José Sarney
 * Mato Grosso: Pedro Pedrossian
 * Minas Gerais: Israel Pinheiro da Silva
 * Pará: Alacid Nunes
 * Paraíba: João Agripino Maia
 * Paraná: Pablo Cruz Pimentel
 * Pernambuco: Nilo Coelho
 * Piauí: Helvídio Nunes
 * Rio de Janeiro: Geremias de Mattos Fontes
 * Rio Grande do Norte: Walfredo Gurgel Dantas
 * Rio Grande do Sul: Walter Peracchi Barcelos
 * Santa Catarina: Ivo Silveira
 * São Paulo: Roberto Costa de Abreu Sodré
 * Sergipe: Lourival Baptista

Vice governors

 * Alagoas: Manoel Sampaio Luz
 * Amazonas: Rui Arajuo
 * Bahia: Jutahy Magalhães
 * Ceará: Humberto Ellery
 * Espírito Santo: Isaac Lopes Rubim
 * Goiás: Osires Teixeira
 * Maranhão: Antonio Jorge Dino
 * Mato Grosso: Lenine de Campos Póvoas
 * Minas Gerais: Pio Soares Canedo
 * Pará: João Renato Franco
 * Paraíba: Antônio Juarez Farias
 * Paraná: Plínio Franco Ferreira da Costa
 * Pernambuco: Salviano Machado Filho
 * Piauí: João Clímaco d'Almeida
 * Rio de Janeiro: Heli Ribeiro Gomes
 * Rio Grande do Norte: Clóvis Motta
 * Santa Catarina: Jorge Bornhausen
 * São Paulo: Hilário Torloni
 * Sergipe: Vacant

March

 * 28 March: A 16 year-old student named Edson Luís de Lima Souto, is killed after being shot in the chest by a police officer. This was during a protest between students and the Military Police at the Calabouço restaurant, in the UNE building, in Rio de Janeiro.

April

 * 5 April: The Minister of Justice, Luís Antônio da Gama e Silva, signs an act, prohibiting the functioning of the leftist political movement, known as Frente Ampla.
 * 20 April: A bomb attack destroys the headquarters entrance of the newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, in São Paulo.

May

 * 15 May: A bomb explodes at the door of the São Paulo Stock Exchange.
 * 26 May: Dr. Euryclides de Jesus Zerbini and his team perform the first heart transplant in Latin America.
 * 28 May: A 23rd star representing the state of Acre, established six years before, is added to the flag of Brazil.

June

 * 26 June: The Passeata dos Cem Mil (March of the One Hundred Thousand), a demonstration organized by the student movement against the military regime, takes place in the center of Rio de Janeiro.

July

 * 5 July: The Minister of Justice, Luís Antônio da Gama e Silva bans street demonstrations across the country.
 * 13 July: Martha Vasconcellos becomes the second Brazilian to win the Miss Universe title, in the pageant held in Miami Beach, Florida, United States.

November

 * 1-11 November: Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom arrives in Brazil for an eleven-day visit.
 * 7 November: The new headquarters of the São Paulo Museum of Art on Avenida Paulista is inaugurated with the presence of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.

December

 * 13 December: President Costa e Silva issues Institucional Act Number 5, giving the President powers to intervene on local governments, suspend Congress, ban political meetings, as well as censor the press, music and film.
 * 16 December: Mobster Castor de Andrade is arrested, after Secretary of Public Security of Guanabara, General Luís de França Oliveira, starts one of the biggest attacks against crime.
 * 30 December: The Secretariat of the National Defense Council publishes a list of impeached federal deputies.

January

 * 3 January: Matheus Nachtergaele, actor and director
 * 7 January: Cazé Peçanha, television host
 * 12 January: Mauro Silva, former footballer

July

 * 20 July: Carlos Saldanha, director

November

 * 18 November: Luizianne Lins, politician

December

 * 31 December: Luciano Szafir, actor

April

 * 4 April: Assis Chateaubriand, entrepreneur (b. 1892)

October

 * 13 October: Manuel Bandeira, poet (b. 1886)