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President of Brazil

head of state and head of government of Brazil

17 dated entries naming President of Brazil, drawn from 16 separate years between 1902 CE and 2025 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1902December 3 – Prudente de Morais, 3rd President of Brazil (b. 1841)source
  • 1902September 12 – Juscelino Kubitschek, 21st President of Brazil (d. 1976)source
  • 1909June 14 – Afonso Pena, 6th President of Brazil (b. 1847)source
  • 1910March 4 – Tancredo Neves, President of Brazil (d. 1985)source
  • 1919January 16 – Rodrigues Alves, Brazilian politician, 5th President of Brazil; Spanish flu (b. 1848)source
  • 1924March 31 – Nilo Peçanha, Brazilian politician and 7th President of Brazil (b. 1867)source
  • 1940September 23 – Michel Temer, Brazilian politician, President of Brazil between 2016 and 2018.source
  • 1947December 14 – Dilma Rousseff, 36th President of Brazilsource
  • 1955March 23 – Artur Bernardes, 12th President of Brazil (b. 1875)source
  • 1961August 25 – João Goulart replaces Jânio Quadros as President of Brazil (he is ousted in 1964).source
  • 1964March 31 – The military overthrows Brazilian President João Goulart in a coup, starting 21 years of dictatorship in Brazil, lasting until 1985.source
  • 1974April 25 – Carnation Revolution: A left-wing military coup in Portugal restores democracy, ending 41 years of the Estado Novo dictatorship in the country. Portuguese Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano flees to Brazil and is granted political asylum by Brazilian President Ernesto Geisel.source
  • 1990March 15 – Fernando Collor de Mello takes office as President of Brazil, Brazil's first democratically elected president since Jânio Quadros in 1961. The next day, he announces a currency freeze and freezes large bank accounts for 18 months.source

21st century

  • 2016August 31 – The Brazilian Senate votes (61–20) to impeach the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff. The Vice President of Brazil, Michel Temer, who had assumed the presidential powers and duties as Acting President of Brazil during Rousseff's suspension, takes office for the remainder of her term.source
  • 2018October 28 – The right-wing Jair Bolsonaro is elected as the next President of Brazil, with 55% of the vote.source
  • 2023January 8 – Following the 2022 Brazilian general election and the inauguration of Lula da Silva as president of Brazil, supporters of former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro storm the Brazilian National Congress, the Supreme Federal Court and the Presidential Palace of Planalto.source
  • 2025September 11 – The Supreme Federal Court convicts former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and sentences him to 27 years in prison for his involvement in the 2022 Brazilian coup plot.source

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