1969 in Brazil

Events in the year 1969 in Brazil.

Federal government

 * President:
 * Marshal Artur da Costa e Silva (until 31 August)
 * Pedro Aleixo (from 31 August to 30 October, de jure)
 * Admiral Augusto Rademaker, General Aurélio de Lira Tavares and General Márcio Melo (from 31 August to 30 October, de facto)
 * General Emílio Garrastazu Médici (starting 30 October)
 * Vice President:
 * Pedro Aleixo (until 31 August)
 * Vacant (from 31 August to October)
 * General Augusto Rademaker (from October 30)

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 (until 26 July)
 * Vacant thereafter (from 26 July)
 * 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

February

 * February 26: President Artur da Costa e Silva issues AI-7, which suspends elections for governors and mayors.

March

 * March 20: The Brazilian Company of Posts and Telegraphs (ECT) is founded; a public company that replaces the Department of Posts and Telegraphs (DCT).

April

 * 16 April: Mobster Castor de Andrade is arrested for the second time.

May

 * Unknown Date: Castor de Andrade is released in the beginning of the month, after being detained on Ilha das Flores. This is the last time he's detained by the military regime.

August

 * 16 August: Embraer is founded as an aerospace technology company to manufacture both civil and military aircraft.
 * 31 August: A military junta rules the country following the sudden illness of President Artur da Costa e Silva. The junta is made up of ministers Aurélio de Lira Tavares from the Army, Augusto Rademaker from the Navy, and Márcio de Sousa e Melo from the Air Force.

September

 * September 1: The newscast Jornal Nacional on Rede Globo de Televisão premieres.
 * September 4: The US Ambassador to Brazil, Charles Burke Elbrick, is kidnapped by two armed members of the revolutionary group MR-8 and the ALN, in Rio de Janeiro.
 * September 7: US Ambassador to Brazil Charles Burke Elbrick is freed by armed members of the revolutionary group MR-8 in Rio de Janeiro.
 * September 18: In Rio de Janeiro, the Provisional Governing Board signs a decree-law, establishing the new National Security Law.

October

 * October 15: The three military ministers sign the Complementary Acts in Rio de Janeiro, which order the reopening of the National Congress of Brazil.
 * October 17: The military junta promulgates Constitutional Amendment n°1, known as the 1969 Constitution.
 * October 25: ARENA candidate Emílio Garrastazu Médici is elected President of Brazil by a joint session of Congress, specially reopened by AI-16.
 * October 30: Emílio Garrastazu Médici takes office as the 28th president of Brazil.

November

 * November 4: Ação Libertadora Nacional leader Carlos Marighella is shot to death by DOPS agents in São Paulo.
 * November 19: Pelé scores his 1,000th goal for Santos, beating Vasco da Gama 2–1 at the Maracanã Stadium.

January

 * 16 January: Daniela Escobar, actress and television presenter

April

 * 30 April: Paulo Jr., bassist

June

 * 30 June: Dira Paes, actress

July

 * 25 July: David Brazil, promoter and actor

September

 * 5 September: Leonardo, footballer
 * 18 September: Gralak, footballer
 * 26 September: Dan Stulbach, actor, television presenter, director and artistic director

November

 * 11 November: Bismarck Barreto Faria, footballer

December

 * 5 December: Jean Elias, footballer

March

 * 12 March: Adhemar de Barros, politician

July

 * 10 July: João de Souza Mendes, chess master

September

 * 6 September: Arthur Friedenreich, soccer player

November

 * 4 November: Carlos Marighella, Marxist revolutionary and writer
 * 7 November: Cyro de Freitas Valle, lawyer

December

 * 17 December: Artur da Costa e Silva, former president, heart attack