2023 in Brazil

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Events in the year 2023 in Brazil .

Incumbents

Federal government

• President
  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
• Vice President
  • Geraldo Alckmin

Governors

• Acre: Gladson Cameli
• Alagoas: Paulo Dantas
• Amapá: Clécio Luís
• Amazonas: Wilson Lima
• Bahia: Jerônimo Rodrigues
• Ceará: Elmano de Freitas
• Espírito Santo: Renato Casagrande
• Federal District: Ibaneis Rocha
• Goiás: Ronaldo Caiado
• Maranhão: Carlos Brandão
• Mato Grosso: Mauro Mendes
• Mato Grosso do Sul: Eduardo Riedel
• Minas Gerais: Romeu Zema
• Pará: Helder Barbalho
• Paraíba: João Azevêdo
• Paraná: Ratinho Júnior
• Pernambuco: Raquel Lyra
• Piauí: Rafael Fonteles
• Rio de Janeiro: Cláudio Castro
• Rio Grande do Norte: Fátima Bezerra
• Rio Grande do Sul: Eduardo Leite
• Rondônia: Marcos Rocha
• Roraima: Antonio Denarium
• Santa Catarina: Jorginho Mello
• São Paulo: Tarcísio de Freitas
• Sergipe: Fábio Mitidieri
• Tocantins: Wanderlei Barbosa

Vice governors

• Acre: Mailza Gomes
• Alagoas: Ronaldo Lessa
• Amapá: Antonio Teles Júnior
• Amazonas: Tadeu de Souza
• Bahia: Geraldo Júnior
• Ceará: Jade Romero
• Espírito Santo: Ricardo Ferraço
• Federal District: Celina Leão
• Goiás: Daniel Vilela
• Maranhão: Felipe Camarão
• Mato Grosso: Otaviano Pivetta
• Mato Grosso do Sul: José Carlos Barbosa
• Minas Gerais: Mateus Simões
• Pará: Hana Ghassan
• Paraíba: Lucas Ribeiro
• Paraná: Darci Piana
• Pernambuco: Priscila Krause
• Piaui: Themístocles Filho
• Rio de Janeiro: Thiago Pampolha
• Rio Grande do Norte: Walter Alves
• Rio Grande do Sul: Gabriel Souza
• Rondônia: Sérgio Gonçalves
• Roraima: Edilson Damião
• Santa Catarina: Marilisa Boehm
• São Paulo: Felicio Ramuth
• Sergipe: Zezinho Sobral
• Tocantins: Laurez Moreira

Events

See also: COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil

January

• 1 January:
  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is sworn in as the next president after defeating incumbent president Jair Bolsonaro in a runoff election held on 30 October 2022, receiving 50.90% of the total votes to Bolsonaro's 49.10% ^[1]
  • Lula declares three days of national mourning for footballer Pelé, who died on 29 December 2022. ^{[2] [3]}
• 8 January:
  • Supporters of the previous president, Jair Bolsonaro, attack the Supreme Court of Brazil, National Congress of Brazil, and the Planalto Presidential Palace in the Praça dos Três Poderes in the federal capital Brasília. ^[4]
• 18 January: Lula dismisses 13 more military personnel from the presidential cabinet, whom he blames for the attack in Brasília. ^[5]
• 21 January: Commander of the Brazilian Army Júlio César de Arruda is fired by Lula in the aftermath of the Brasília attack and is replaced by Tomás Miguel Ribeiro Paiva. ^[6]

February

• 3 February: The navy scuttles the decommissioned aircraft carrier São Paulo into the Atlantic Ocean, following the rejections of injunctions from the Ministry of the Environment and the Federal Public Ministry. ^[7]
• 18–21 February: floods and landslides kill at least 44 people in São Sebastião. ^[8]

March

• 16 March: Over 220 Brazilian National Guardsmen are deployed to the northeastern states of Rio Grande do Norte and Paraíba after riots caused by imprisoned gang members result in three deaths and class cancellations in both states. ^[9]
• 23 March: A police raid in a favela in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, results in the deaths of 13 people and the capture of two Comando Vermelho gang leaders from the northern states of Pará and Sergipe. ^[10]
• 25 March: São Paulo ePrix ^{[11] [12]}
• 27 March: One person is killed and five others are injured in a mass stabbing at a school in São Paulo. ^[13]
• 29 March: Brazil and China sign an agreement to trade in their own currencies, ceasing the usage of the United States dollar as an intermediary. ^[14]

April

• 5 April: Blumenau school attack: Four children are killed and four others are injured in a hatchet attack at a kindergarten in Blumenau, Santa Catarina. ^[15]

June

• 17 June: At least eight people are killed and 19 others are missing after a winter storm in Rio Grande do Sul. ^[16]

July

• 7 July: At least 11 people, including four children, killed after a building collapsed in Pernambuco. ^[17]
• 26 July: At a grain cooperative in Palotina, Paraná, exploded, and caused 9 casualties and 11 injuries.

August

• 2 August: At least 10 people are killed during a police raid on a favela in Rio de Janeiro, days after 19 people in Bahia and 14 in São Paulo State were also killed during police raids. ^[18]
• 15 August: 2023 Brazil blackout: Brazil is affected by a nationwide blackout, with all of the states connected to the national energy system impacted. The state of Roraima is unaffected as it has its own energy system. The cause of the outage is still unknown. ^[19]

September

• 1 September: Two people are killed and at least 12 others are injured in an explosion at a metal factory in Cabreuva, São Paulo. ^[20]

• 4 September: Cyclone hits the state of Rio Grande do Sul and Santa Catarina, leaving 42 dead, 43 injured, 25 missing, 2,944 homeless and 7,607 displaced
  • A historic bridge located between cities of Farroupilha and Nova Roma do Sul is destroyed by currents

• 7 September: A 3-year-old child is shot in a car in the city of Seropédica, Baixada Fluminense, Rio de Janeiro

• 8 September: The player Neymar, from Al-Hilal, scores his 78th goal and becomes the top scorer of the Brazilian Team in the game Brazil 5-1 Bolivia, surpassing Pelé
• 13 September: The Brazilian Supreme Court holds the first trials of supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro who took part in the January 8 attacks on government buildings at the Praça dos Três Poderes in Brasília.
• 16 September: The death of Heloísa, a 3-year-old girl who was shot by the Federal Highway Police in Rio de Janeiro
• 17 September: Fourteen people are killed in a plane crash in Barcelos, Amazonas. ^[21]

October

• 2 October: The government of Brazil begins expelling non-indigenous residents off of the Apyterewa and Trincheira Bacajá indigenous territories in Pará state. ^[22]
• 14 October: An annular solar eclipse will be visible in the Western U.S., Mexico, Central America, Colombia, and Brazil and will be the 44th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 134. ^[23]

• 17 October: In the 43rd minute of the first half, the player Neymar injured his knee in the Uruguay 2-0 Brazil game.
• 29 October: 2023 Rio Branco plane crash: A plane crash in Rio Branco, Acre, Brazil, kills 12 people. ^[24]

November

• 18 November: A fan dies during Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour concert in Rio de Janeiro amid the November 2023 Brazil heat wave. ^[25]

December

• 10 December: A fire at a work camp in Pará kills nine workers. ^[26]

Sport

• 2023 in Brazilian football

Deaths

January

• 8 January
  • Walter Tosta, 66, politician, deputy (2011–2015). ^[27]
  • Roberto Dinamite, 68, footballer (Vasco da Gama, national team) and politician, deputy (1995–2015). ^[28]
• 12 January – Claudio Willer, 82, poet and translator. ^[29]
• 31 January
  • Ilya São Paulo, 59, actor. ^[30]
  • Cleonice Berardinelli, 106, scholar. ^[31]

February

• 2 February – Glória Maria, 73, journalist, reporter, and television host. ^{[32] [33]}
• 3 February – José Luiz de Magalhães Lins, 93, banker. ^[34]
• 12 February – Amazonino Mendes, 83, politician. ^[35]

March

• 3 March – Sueli Costa, 79, singer-songwriter and composer. ^[36]
• 4 March
  • Paulo Caruso, 73, satirical cartoonist. ^[37]
  • Romualdo Arppi Filho, 84, football referee. ^[38]
• 12 March – Antônio Pedro, 82, actor, comedian, stage director and playwright. ^[39]
• 13 March – Eliseu Padilha, 77, lawyer and politician. ^[40]
• 15 March – Théo de Barros, 80, composer. ^[41]
• 25 March – Juca Chaves, 85, comedian, singer and writer. ^[42]
• 31 March – Palmério Dória, 74, journalist and writer. ^[43]

April

• 8 April – Paulo de Tarso Sanseverino, 63, jurist, magistrate, and academic. ^[44]
• 17 April – Ivan Conti, 76, drummer (Azymuth). ^[45]
• 26 April – Alzira Rufino, 73, feminist and black activist. ^[46]

May

• 1 May – Felipe Colares, 29, mixed martial artist. ^[47]
• 7 May – Palmirinha Onofre, 91, cook and TV presenter. ^{[48] [49]}
• 8 May – Rita Lee, 75, rock singer and composer. ^[50]
• 9 May – David Michael dos Santos Miranda, 37, politician. ^[51]
• 16 May – Nelsinho Rosa, 85, football coach and player. ^[52]

June

• 5 June – Astrud Gilberto, 83, samba and bossa nova singer. ^[53]

December

• 3 December – Gil Brother, 66, humorist (Hermes & Renato) and Internet personality. ^[54]
• 27 December – PC Siqueira, 37, vlogger, television personality and comic book colorist. ^[55]
• 29 December – Gil de Ferran, 56, French-born professional racing driver. ^[56]

See also

• COVID-19 pandemic in South America
• Mercosur
• Organization of American States
• Organization of Ibero-American States
• Community of Portuguese Language Countries

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