1978 in Brazil

Events in the year 1978 in Brazil.

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

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.

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