1977 in Brazil
Years 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979
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Year of Constitution: 1967

Events in the year 1977 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: General Ernesto Geisel
• Vice President: General Adalberto Pereira dos Santos

Governors

• Acre: Vacant
• Alagoas: Divaldo Suruagy
• Amazonas: Henoch da Silva Reis
• Bahia: Roberto Santos
• Ceará: José Adauto Bezerra
• Espírito Santo: Élcio Álvares
• Goiás: Irapuan Costa Jr.
• Maranhão: Oswaldo da Costa Nunes Freire
• Mato Grosso: Jose Garcia Neto
• Mato Grosso do Sul: Vacant
• Minas Gerais: Aureliano Chaves
• Pará: Aloysio Chaves
• Paraíba: Ivan Bichara
• Paraná: Jaime Canet Júnior
• Pernambuco: Francisco Moura Cavalcanti
• Piauí: Dirceu Arcoverde
• Rio de Janeiro: Floriano P. Faria Lima
• Rio Grande do Norte: Tarcisio de Vasconcelos Maia
• Rio Grande do Sul: Sinval Sebastião Duarte Guazzelli
• Santa Catarina: Antônio Carlos Konder Reis
• São Paulo: Paulo Egídio Martins
• Sergipe: José Rollemberg

Vice governors

• Acre: Omar Sabino de Paula
• Alagoas: Vacant
• Amazonas: João Bosco Ramos de Lima
• Bahia: Edvaldo Brandão Correia
• Ceará: José Waldemar de Alcântara e Silva
• Espírito Santo: Carlos Alberto Lindenberg von Schilgen
• Goiás: José Luís Bittencourt
• Maranhão: José Duailibe Murad
• Mato Grosso: Cássio Leite de Barros
• Mato Grosso do Sul: Vacant
• Minas Gerais: Levindo Ozanam Coelho
• Pará: Clovis Silva de Morais Rego
• Paraíba: Dorgival Terceiro Neto
• Paraná: Octávio Cesário Pereira Júnior
• Pernambuco: Paulo Gustavo de Araújo Cunha
• Piauí: Djalma Martins Veloso
• Rio de Janeiro: Vacant
• Rio Grande do Norte: Geraldo Melo
• Rio Grande do Sul: José Augusto Amaral de Sousa
• Santa Catarina: Marcos Henrique Büechler
• São Paulo: Ferreira Filho
• Sergipe: Antônio Ribeiro Sotelo

Events

April

• April 1: President Ernesto Geisel closes the National Congress of Brazil to control presidential succession as conflict erupts between him, the duristas, Congress, the Church, and the media.^[1][2]
• April 14: President Geisel signs constitutional amendment n°8 and reopens the National Congress of Brazil.^[3]

June

• June 23: In a second ballot by 226 votes in favor and 159 against; the National Congress of Brazil approves a constitutional amendment by Senators Nelson Carneiro and Acioli Filho, that legalizes divorce.^[4]

August

• August 3: Writer Rachel de Queiroz becomes the first woman elected to the Brazilian Academy of Letters.^[5]
• August 17: Jorge Amado's novel Tieta do Agreste is published, which becomes one of his best-selling works.^[6]

October

• October 1: Pelé, playing for the New York Cosmos, scores his last goal to defeat Santos FC 2-1, at Giants Stadium, in East Rutherford, New Jersey, United States. This would be his last official game, thus saying goodbye to his professional football career.^[7]
• October 11: President Ernesto Geisel signs a law, creating the state of Mato Grosso do Sul.^[8]

December

• December 26: President Ernesto Geisel signs a law that legalizes and regulates divorce.^[9]

Births

March

• 27 March: Vítor Meira race car driver

April

• 1 April: Vitor Belfort, MMA fighter

June

• 8 June: Falcão, footballer

July

• 20 July: Susana Werner, model and actress
• 30 July: Fabrício Werdum, Jiu-Jitsu practitioner

August

• 24 August: Denílson, footballer

September

• 14 September: Alex, footballer

October

• 31 October: Larissa Maciel, actress

November

• 6 November: Demian Maia, mixed martial artist
• 8 November: João Rodrigo Silva Santos soccer player (d. 2013)

December

• December 12: Evangelista Santos, mixed martial arts fighter

Deaths

January

• 22 January: Maysa Matarazzo, singer (b. 1936)

February

• 13 February: Carolina Maria de Jesus, memorialist (b. 1914)

March

• 18 March: Carlos Pace, racing driver,(b. 1944)

July

• 21 July: Zózimo, World Cup-winning footballer (b. 1932)

December

• 9 December: Clarice Lispector, writer (b. 1920)