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Events in the year 2023inBrazil.

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

• 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

• 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

• 28 December-15 January: Ten members of a family are kidnapped and murdered in the Federal District.^[1][2][3]
• 1 January:
  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is sworn in as the 39th President of Brazil 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% ^[4]
  • Lula declares three days of national mourning for footballer Pelé, who died on 29 December 2022.^[5][6]
• 3 January: Wake and burial of Pelé at Vila BelmiroinSantos. ^[7]
• 8 January: Supporters of the previous president, Jair Bolsonaro, invade the Supreme Court of Brazil, National Congress of Brazil, and the Planalto Presidential Palace in the Praça dos Três PoderesinBrasília. A federal intervention in public security in the Federal District is decreed.^[8][9]
• 9 January: STF justice Alexandre de Moraes suspends Ibaneis Rocha, Governor of the Federal District, for 90 days for allowing the invasion of government buildings by Bolsonaro supporters. ^[10]
• 14 January: Former Minister of Justice and Public Security, Anderson Torres, is arrested in Brasília on charges of facilitating the actions of Bolsonaro supporters during the invasion of the Praça dos Três Poderes. ^[11]
• 18 January: Lula dismisses 13 more military personnel from the presidential cabinet, whom he blames for the attack in Brasília.^[12]
• 19 January: The retail chain Lojas Americanas files for bankruptcy protection after discovering a financial deficit of R$20 million ($3.88 billion USD) and blocking part of its accounts due to debts with creditors.^[13]
• 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.^[14]

• 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.^[15]
• 5 February: A vessel with 14 people on board sinks in Guanabara Bay, leaving 3 dead and 5 missing.^[16]
• 13 February: Heavy rains cause flooding and landslides in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro.^[17]
• 18–23 February: Heavy rains cause flooding and landslides in the coastal municipalities of São Paulo. At least 65 people have been killed, of which 64 were in São Sebastião.^[18][19]

• 8 March: Part of the roof of the Osasco Plaza Shopping mall in Greater São Paulo collapses, with no one injured.^[20]
• 12 March: At least eight people are killed after a landslide hits homes in the East Zone of Manaus.^[21]
• 16 March:
  • Over 220 Brazilian National Guardsmen are deployed to the northeastern statesofRio Grande do Norte and Paraíba after imprisoned gang members riot, causing three deaths and class cancellations in both states.^[22]
  • After being away for 66 days, Ibaneis Rocha returns as Governor of the Federal District after authorization from STF justice Alexandre de Moraes.^[23]
• 17 March: A helicopter crashes in Barra Funda (East Zone of São Paulo), killing 4 people.^[24]
• 23 March: 13 people are dead after a police raid in a favelainSão Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro. Two of the Comando Vermelho gang leaders from the northern statesofPará and Sergipe are also captured.^[25]
• 24 March: Heavy rains cause flooding in six states in the North and Northeast regions.^[26]
• 25 March: The inauguration of the São Paulo ePrix.^[27][28]
• 27 March: A 13-year-old student carries out a knife attack at a public school in Vila Sônia, São Paulo, resulting in a teacher being killed and five others injured.^[29][30]
• 28 March: Brazil reaches the 700,000 mark of deaths from COVID-19.^[31]
• 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.^[32]

• 5 April: Four children are killed and five others are injured after a man attacks a kindergarten with a hatchetinBlumenau, Santa Catarina.^[33][34]
• 27 April: A building collapses in Olinda, Pernambuco, killing three people.^[35]

• 31 May: The Supreme Federal Court sentences former President Fernando Collor to 8 years and 10 months in prison for passive corruption and money laundering.^[36]

• 8 June: A tanker truck carrying fuel overturns and catches fire in Serra de Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, killing the driver of the vehicle. ^[37]
• 16 June: An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 4.7 hits municipalities on the coast of São Paulo and the Ribeira Valley.^[38]
• 17 June: At least eight people are killed and 19 others are missing after a severe storm in Rio Grande do Sul.^[39]

• 8 July: A building collapses in Paulista, Pernambuco, leaving at least 14 people, including four children, dead.^[40][41]
• 12 July: Rio Grande do Sul is hit again with an extratropical cyclone, also reaching cities in Santa Catarina.^[42]
• 26 July:
  • A silo of a grain cooperative in Palotina, Paraná, explodes, leaving 8 dead, 11 injured, and one missing. Among the fatal victims are 7 Haitians.^[43][44]
  • Another extratropical cyclone, of lesser intensity, hits the South Region, being the fourth to hit the area since June.^[45]

• 2 August: At least 10 people are killed during a police raid on a favelainComplexo da Penha, Rio de Janeiro.^[46][47]
• 8 August: A Navy helicopter crashes during training in Formosa, Goiás, leaving 2 dead and 12 injured.^[48]
• 15 August: A nationwide blackout ensues, as all of the states are connected to the national energy system. Roraima is the only state that is unaffected, due to its own energy system. The cause of the outage is still unknown.^[49]

• 1 September: Four people are killed and at least 30 others are injured in a boiler explosion at a metal factory in Cabreuva, São Paulo.^[50][51]
• 2 September: Actor Kayky Brito has been ran over by a car while crossing a street in Rio de Janeiro. The actor has been hospitalized and is said to be in serious condition after suffering multiple fractures.^[52]
• 4 September: A disastrous extratropical cyclone hits the state of Rio Grande do Sul (for the third time) and Santa Catarina, leaving at least 47 dead, 940 injured, 46 missing, 3,800 homeless, and 25,855 displaced. ^[53][54]
• 8 September: Neymar Jr. surpasses Pelé as the top scorer of the Brazilian national team after scoring his 78th goal against Bolivia.^[55]
• 14 September: The Supreme Federal Court sentences three people to at least 14 years in prison, for their involvement in storming the buildings of all three branches of government on January 8.^[56][57]
• 16 September: A plane crashinBarcelos, Amazonas kills 14 people.^[58][59]
• 17 September:
  • Astrong heat wave begins in Brazil, with temperatures recorded at above 40ºC in several states. ^[60]
  • A 3-year-old girl, named Heloisa, dies from irreversible cardiorespiratory arrest after being shot nine days prior by a Federal Highway PoliceinRio de Janeiro.^[61]

• 2 October: The Brazilian government begins expelling non-indigenous residents off the Apyterewa and Trincheira Bacajá indigenous territoriesinPará.^[62]
• 3 October: Employees of CPTM, São Paulo Metro, and Sabesp go on strike for 24 hours, to protest the privatization of the companies.^[63]
• 14 October: The annular solar eclipse occurs in Brazil and other countries in the Americas. This is the 44th solar eclipse of Solar Saros 134.^[64][65]
• 29 October: A plane crashes in Rio Branco, Acre, killing all 12 people on board.^[66][67]

• 4 November: Fluminense FC win their first ever Copa Libertadores after defeating Boca Juniors 2-1inextra time.^[68][69][70]
• 17 November: Around a thousand people fainted due to intense heat during the first concert of Taylor Swift's The Eras Tour at the Estádio Olímpico Nilton SantosinRio de Janeiro. A fan named Ana Clara Benevides Machado suffers cardiorespiratory arrest and dies during the concert.^{[71][72][73][74]}

• 10 December:
  • A fire caused by a short circuit in the electrical grid of a camp of the Landless Workers' Movement in Parauapebas, Pará, leaves nine dead.^[75][76]
  • A part of the Braskem mine collapses in Maceió.^[77]
• 17 December: Former soccer player Marcelinho Carioca is kidnapped in Itaquaquecetuba, São Paulo. Later in the afternoon, police find and rescue him. Five people are arrested, suspected of being involved in the crime.^[78][79]
• 23 December: A small plane crashes in Jaboticabal, São Paulo, killing five people (three adults, a teenager, and child).^[80]

• 2023 in Brazilian football

• 8 January
  • Walter Tosta, 66, politician, deputy (2011–2015).^[81]
  • Roberto Dinamite, 68, footballer (Vasco da Gama, national team) and politician, deputy (1995–2015).^[82]
• 12 January – Claudio Willer, 82, poet and translator.^[83]
• 25 January – José Reis Pereira, 79, teacher and politician.^[84]
• 28 January – Paulo Roberto de Souza Matos, 78, politician.^[85]
• 29 January – Adriana Dias, 52, feminist anthropologist.^[86]
• 31 January
  • Ilya São Paulo, 59, actor.^[87]
  • Cleonice Berardinelli, 106, scholar.^[88]

• 2 February – Glória Maria, 73, journalist, reporter, and television host.^[89][90]
• 3 February – José Luiz de Magalhães Lins, 93, banker.^[91]
• 12 February – Amazonino Mendes, 83, politician.^[92]

• 3 March – Sueli Costa, 79, singer-songwriter and composer.^[93]
• 4 March
  • Paulo Caruso, 73, satirical cartoonist.^[94]
  • Romualdo Arppi Filho, 84, football referee.^[95]
• 12 March – Antônio Pedro, 82, actor, comedian, stage director and playwright.^[96]
• 13 March – Eliseu Padilha, 77, lawyer and politician.^[97]
• 15 March – Théo de Barros, 80, composer.^[98]
• 25 March – Juca Chaves, 85, comedian, singer and writer.^[99]
• 31 March – Palmério Dória, 74, journalist and writer.^[100]

• 8 April – Paulo de Tarso Sanseverino, 63, jurist, magistrate, and academic.^[101]
• 17 April – Ivan Conti, 76, drummer (Azymuth).^[102]
• 26 April – Alzira Rufino, 73, feminist and black activist.^[103]

• 1 May – Felipe Colares, 29, mixed martial artist.^[104]
• 7 May – Palmirinha Onofre, 91, cook and TV presenter.^[105][106]
• 8 May – Rita Lee, 75, rock singer and composer.^[107]
• 9 May – David Michael dos Santos Miranda, 37, politician.^[108]
• 16 May – Nelsinho Rosa, 85, football coach and player.^[109]

• 5 June – Astrud Gilberto, 83, samba and bossa nova singer.^[110]

• 7 July – Neusa Maria Faro, 78, actress.^[111]

• 7 August – Aracy Balabanian, 83, actress.^[112]
• 15 August – Léa Garcia, 90, actress.^[113][114]
• 25 August – Carlos Gonzaga, 99, singer.^[115]

• 5 September – José Gregori, 92, lawyer and politician.^[116][117]
• 7 September – Raimundo Varela, 75, television presenter.^[118]
• 21 September – Walewska Oliveira, 43, volleyball player.^[119]
• 30 September – Eurico dos Santos Veloso, 90, Roman Catholic prelate.^[120]

• 4 October – Murílio de Avellar Hingel, 90, geographer and politician.^[121]
• 6 October – Moreira Alves, 90, academic and magistrate.^[122]
• 9 October – Mauro Morelli, 88, Catholic prelate.^[123]

• 23 November – Rubens Minelli, 94, football player and manager.^[124]

• 3 December – Gil Brother, 66, humorist (Hermes & Renato) and Internet personality.^[125]
• 16 December – Carlos Lyra, 90, singer and composer.^[126]
• 27 December – PC Siqueira, 37, vlogger, television personality and comic book colorist.^[127]
• 29 December – Gil de Ferran, 56, French-born professional racing driver.^[128]

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