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President of Brazil

head of state and head of government of Brazil

24 dated entries naming President of Brazil, drawn from 21 separate years between 1909 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.

Also written as Brazilian President, Brazilian president in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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20th century

  • 1909June 14 – Afonso Pena, 6th President of Brazil (born 1847)source
  • 1910March 4 – Tancredo Neves, President of Brazil (died 1985)source
  • 1918March 1 – João Goulart, 24th President of Brazil (died 1976)source
  • 1945October 27 – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, 35th President of Brazilsource
  • 1947December 14 – Dilma Rousseff, 36th President of Brazilsource
  • 195220 June: President Getúlio Vargas signs a law, creating the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES, formerly BNDE).source
  • 1953October 3: President Getúlio Vargas signs the law that creates the state-owned multinational corporation Petrobras.source
  • 1954August 24: The military do not accept Vargas' agreement and demand for his resignation. At the Catete Palace, President of Brazil Getúlio Vargas commits suicide by shooting himself in the heart. Vice President Café Filho becomes the 18th President of Brazil.source
  • 1954August 24 – Getúlio Vargas, 14th and 17th President of Brazil (born 1882)source
  • 1955March 21 – Jair Bolsonaro, Brazilian congressman and politician, 38th President of Brazilsource
  • 1955March 23 – Artur Bernardes, 12th President of Brazil (born 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
  • 196613 September: President Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco signs the law establishing the Severance Indemnity Fund, in order to protect dismissed workers, without just cause.source
  • 196931 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.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
  • 198629 July: Argentine President Raúl Alfonsín and Brazilian President José Sarney sign economic agreements in Buenos Aires for mutual integration; the basis for the future creation of the Southern Common Market (Mercosur).source
  • 198712 June: President José Sarney announces the launch of the Bresser Plan, which freezes rents and wages.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

  • 2016May 12 – The Brazilian Senate votes (55-22) to begin the impeachment process against the President of Brazil Dilma Rousseff and suspend her from office while the trial takes place.source
  • 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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