Events in the year 1974 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

* President: **General Emílio Garrastazu Médici (until 14 March) **General Ernesto Geisel (starting 15 March) * Vice President: **General

Augusto Rademaker Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald (11 May 1905 – 13 September 1985) was a Brazilian admiral, of German and Danish descent, in the Brazilian Navy. Rademaker was one of the leaders of the Military Junta (30 August 1969 – 30 October 1969) that ...

(until 14 March) **General

Adalberto Pereira dos Santos Adalberto Pereira dos Santos (11 April 1905 – 2 April 1984) was a Brazilian general and politician. A veteran of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force during World War II, he served as the Army Chief of Staff during Costa e Silva's Presidency and ...

(starting 15 March)

Governors

Acre The acre is a unit of land area used in the imperial Imperial is that which relates to an empire, emperor, or imperialism. Imperial or The Imperial may also refer to: Places United States * Imperial, California * Imperial, Missouri * Imp ...

: ''Vacant'' * Alagoas: Afrânio Lages * Amazonas: João Walter de Andrade * Bahia:

Antônio Carlos Magalhães Antônio Carlos Peixoto de Magalhães (4 September 1927 – 20 July 2007), also known by his initials ACM, was a Brazilian politician. He served as Governor of Bahia three times and represented Bahia in the Senate of Brazil three times. Magalhãe ...

Ceará Ceará (, pronounced locally as or ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is the eighth-largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area. It is also one of the ...

: César Cals * Espírito Santo: Artur Carlos Gerhardt Santos * Goiás: Leonino Caiado * Guanabara:

Antonio de Pádua Chagas Freitas Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular mal ...

* Maranhão:

Pedro Neiva de Santana Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for '' Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meani ...

Mato Grosso Mato Grosso ( – lit. "Thick Bush") is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian GDP. Neighboring ...

José Fragelli José Manuel Fontanillas Fragelli (31 December 1915 – 30 April 2010) was a Brazilian politician, lawyer and academic. Fragelli served as the Governor of Mato Grosso from 1970 until 1974 and the President of the Senate of Brazil from ...

* Minas Gerais: Rondon Pacheco * Pará: Fernando Guilhon *

Paraíba Paraíba ( Tupi: ''pa'ra a'íba''; ) is a state of Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Northeast, and it is bordered by Rio Grande do Norte to the north, Ceará to the west, Pernambuco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Paraíba ...

: Ernâni Sátiro * Paraná: Emílio Hoffmann Gomes * Pernambuco: Eraldo Gueiros *

Piauí Piaui (, ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region. The state has 1.6% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.7% of the Brazilian GDP. Piaui has the shortest coastline of any coastal Brazilian state at 66&n ...

Alberto Silva Alberto is the Romance version of the Latinized form (''Albertus'') of Germanic ''Albert''. It is used in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. The diminutive forms are ''Albertito'' in Spain or ''Albertico'' in some parts of Latin America, Albe ...

* Rio de Janeiro: Raimundo Padhila * Rio Grande do Norte: Jose Pereira de Araújo Cortez *

Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...

: Euclides Triches * Santa Catarina: Colombo Salles * São Paulo: Laudo Natel * Sergipe: Paulo Barreto de Menezes

Vice governors

: Alberto Barbosa da Costa * Alagoas:

José de Medeiros Tavares José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...

* Amazonas: Deoclides de Carvalho Leal * Bahia: Menandro Minahim *

: Francisco Humberto Bezerra * Espírito Santo: Henrique Pretti * Goiás: Ursulino Tavares Leão * Maranhão: Alexandre Sá Colares Moreira *

: José Monteiro de Figueiredo * Minas Gerais: Celso Porfírio de Araújo Machado * Pará: Newton Burlamaqui Barreira *

: Clóvis Bezerra Cavalcanti * Paraná:

Jaime Canet Júnior Jaime is a common Spanish and Portuguese male given name for Jacob (name), James (name), Jamie, or Jacques. In Occitania Jacobus became ''Jacome'' and later ''Jacme''. In east Spain, ''Jacme'' became ''Jaime'', in Aragon it became ''Chaime'', and i ...

* Pernambuco: José Antônio Barreto Guimarães *

: Sebastião Rocha Leal * Rio de Janeiro: Teotônio Araújo * Rio Grande do Norte: Tertius Rebelo *

: Edmar Fetter * Santa Catarina: Atílio Francisco Xavier Fontana * São Paulo: Antonio José Rodrigues Filho * Sergipe: Adalberto Moura

Establishments

* Construction of the

Basilica of the Eternal Father, Trindade The Basilica of the Eternal Father ( pt, Basílica do Divino Pai Eterno) Also Basilica of the Divine Eternal Father It is a Catholic church and sanctuary located in the city of Trindade, Goiás, Trindade in the state of Goiás, in Brazil, the only ...

was completed.

Events

January

15 January Events Pre-1600 * 69 – Otho seizes power in Rome, proclaiming himself Emperor of Rome, beginning a reign of only three months. * 1541 – King Francis I of France gives Jean-François Roberval a commission to settle the province of ...

: General Ernesto Geisel is elected President of Brazil by the electoral college in an indirect presidential election. Geisel obtains 400 votes against 76 given to the opposition candidate, Ulysses Guimarães.

February

1 February Events Pre-1600 *1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. *1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Monas ...

: A fire at the

Joelma Building ''Edifício Praça da Bandeira'', formerly known as the Joelma Building, is a 25-story building in downtown São Paulo, Brazil, completed in 1971, located at Avenida 9 de Julho, 225. On 1 February 1974, an air conditioning unit on the twelfth flo ...

in São Paulo kills 177 people and injures 293; 11 die later of their injuries.

March

4 March Events Pre-1600 *AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title ''princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth). * 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. * 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a statute, ...

: President Emílio Garrastazu Médici officially opens up the Rio-Niterói Bridge, located in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro. *

15 March Events Pre-1600 * 474 BC – Roman consul Aulus Manlius Vulso celebrates an ovation for concluding the war against Veii and securing a forty years' truce. *44 BC – The assassination of Julius Caesar takes place. * 493 – Odoa ...

: General Ernesto Geisel replaces General Emílio Garrastazu Médici and becomes the 29th President of Brazil. * 24-

27 March Events Pre-1600 *1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom. * 1329 – Pope John XXII ...

: The

Tubarão River The Tubarão River is a river in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. Geographical aspects It originates from the confluence of the Rocinha river and Bonito river in the municipality of Lauro Müller. The Tubarão River flows from the Serra ...

waters flood about 80% of the urban area in Tubarão, Santa Catarina. The flood causes 199 fatalities and leaves about 45,000 people homeless.

May

17 May Events Pre-1600 *1395 – Battle of Rovine: The Wallachians defeat an invading Ottoman army. * 1521 – Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, is executed for treason. * 1527 – Pánfilo de Narváez departs Spain to explore Flo ...

: Presidents Ernesto Geisel of Brazil and Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay create Itaipu Binacional to manage the construction of the power plant. *

31 May Events Pre-1600 * 455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome. *1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kieva ...

: Former

Portuguese Prime Minister The prime minister of the Portuguese Republic ( pt, primeiro-ministro da República Portuguesa) is the head of the Government of Portugal. They coordinate the actions of all ministers, represent the Government as a whole, report their actions ...

Marcelo Caetano is granted political asylum by President Ernesto Geisel in Brazil. Caetano fled after Portugal's ''

Carnation Revolution The Carnation Revolution ( pt, Revolução dos Cravos), also known as the 25 April ( pt, 25 de Abril, links=no), was a military coup by left-leaning military officers that overthrew the authoritarian Estado Novo regime on 25 April 1974 in Lisbo ...

'', which ended 41 years of the Estado Novo dictatorship.

July

1 July Events Pre-1600 * 69 – Tiberius Julius Alexander orders his Roman legions in Alexandria to swear allegiance to Vespasian as Emperor. * 552 – Battle of Taginae: Byzantine forces under Narses defeat the Ostrogoths in Italy, and the ...

: President Ernesto Geisel signs a law that determines the union of the states of Guanabara and Rio de Janeiro. *

29 July Events Pre-1600 *587 BC – The Neo-Babylonian Empire sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple. * 615 – Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12. * 904 – Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of ...

: A collision between a bus carrying 90 passengers and a truck kills 69 people and injures 11 on the Belém- Brasília highway.

Births

January

*9 January:

Sávio Sávio Bortolini Pimentel (born 9 January 1974), known simply as Sávio (), is a Brazilian retired footballer who played as a left winger. Known as ''"Anjo Loiro"'' ("Blonde Angel") and ''"Diabo Loiro"'' ("Blonde Devil"), he played most ...

, footballer *16 January: Tatiana Issa, director and producer

March

*13 March: Vampeta, footballer and pundit *27 March:

Fernando Diniz Fernando Diniz Silva (born 27 March 1974), known as Fernando Diniz, is a Brazilian professional football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the current head coach of Fluminense. Diniz is well known for his style of play a ...

, coach and retired footballer

April

* 12 April:

Sylvinho Sylvio Mendes Campos Júnior (born 12 April 1974), commonly known as Sylvinho (sometimes alternatively spelled Silvinho), is a Brazilian football manager and former player, currently managing Albania. Formerly a left back, he began his career ...

, footballer and manager

May

*3 May: Pedro Rizzo, mixed martial arts fighter

July

* 5 July:

Márcio Amoroso Márcio Amoroso dos Santos (born 5 July 1974) is a Brazilian football pundit and former professional player who mainly played as a forward. He played for several teams in his home country as well as in Japan, Italy, Germany, Spain and Greece wh ...

, footballer

December

*31 December: Tony Kanaan, racecar driver

Deaths

January

* 14 January:

Cassiano Ricardo Cassiano Ricardo (July 26, 1895 – January 14, 1974) was a Brazilian journalist, literary critic, and poet. An exponent of the nationalistic tendencies of Brazilian modernism, he was associated with the ''Green-Yellow'' and ''Anta'' groups ...

, journalist and poet (b.

1894 Events January–March * January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire. * January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...

) *16 January:

Aldo Bonadei Aldo Cláudio Felipe Bonadei, also known as Aldo Bonadei (June 17, 1906 in São Paulo – January 16, 1974 in São Paulo) was a Brazilian painter of Italian descent. Early life Between 1923 and 1928, Aldo studied with Brazilian academic painter ...

, painter (b.

1906 Events January–February * January 12 – Persian Constitutional Revolution: A nationalistic coalition of merchants, religious leaders and intellectuals in Persia forces the shah Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar to grant a constitution, ...

)

July

* 16 July:

Oduvaldo Vianna Filho Oduvaldo Vianna Filho, known as Vianinha (4 June 1936 – 16 July 1974), was a Brazilian playwright. Vianinha was born in São Paulo. He started in theater as an actor, in 1955, with the Teatro Paulista do Estudante (São Paulo Students Theatre) ...

, playwright (b.

1936 Events January–February * January 20 – George V of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India, dies at his Sandringham Estate. The Prince of Wales succeeds to the throne of the United Kingdom as King E ...

)

Incumbents

Federal government

Governors

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Establishments

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Births

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References

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