2024 in Brazil

2024 in Brazil
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Year of Constitution: 1988

Events in the year 2024 in Brazil.

• President
  • Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva
• Vice President
  • Geraldo Alckmin
• President of the Chamber of Deputies
  • Arthur Lira
• President of the Federal Senate
  • Rodrigo Pacheco
• President of the Supreme Federal Court
  • Luís Roberto Barroso

• 8 January – Twenty-five people are killed and six others are injured in a crash involving a truck and a tourist minibus on a highway near São José do Jacuípe, Bahia.^[1]
• 15 January – Heavy rains kill 11 people in Rio de Janeiro.^[2]
• 29 January – A Piper PA-46 crashes in the rural area of Itapeva, Minas Gerais, killing seven people on board.^[3]

• 22 February – At least eight people are killed during floods and landslides in Rio de Janeiro State.^[4]
• 21 February – 8 May – 2024 Copa Verde football competition is held.^[5]

• 24 March – Twenty-three people are killed in a rainstorm in Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro states.^[6]

• 26 April – A fire at a guesthouse in Porto Alegre kills at least ten people.^[7]

• 2-13 May – 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods - At least 147 people are killed from flooding caused by heavy rains in Rio Grande do Sul. At least 127 others are listed as missing and 372 injured, while more than two million people in the state are affected and 600,000 others displaced.^{[8][9][10][11][12][13]}
• 3 May – The 14 de Julho Dam fails after heavy rainfall in Rio Grande do Sul.^[14]
• 17 May – Brazil is awarded the hosting rights for the 2027 FIFA Women's World Cup.^[15]
• 29 May – Brazil withdraws its ambassador to Israel amid criticism over the latter's war in Gaza.^[16]

• 10 June – 2024 Brazil wildfires: 32,000 hectares (79,000 acres) of tropical wetland in the Pantanal are affected, a 935% increase in the number of fires over the same period last year.^[17] A state of emergency is subsequently declared in the region on 25 June.^[18]
• 25 June – The Supreme Federal Court rules in favor of decriminalising possession of marijuana for personal use.^[19]

• 1 July – Air Europa Flight UX045 makes an emergency landing at Natal Airport after encountering severe turbulence near the Brazilian coast on its way from Madrid to Montevideo. Thirty of the aircraft's 325 passengers and crew are injured.^[20]
• 5 July – Ten people are killed and 42 others are injured after a bus crashes into a bridge near Itapetininga, São Paulo state.^[21]
• 9 July – 2024 Brazil wildfires: Wildfires burn 760,000 hectares (1.8 million acres) of the Pantanal, destroying over 4% of Brazil's largest wetland.^[22]
• 17 July – A massive fishkill suspected to have been caused by the dumping of industrial waste from a sugar and ethanol plant results in the deaths of between 10-20 tons of fish in the Piracicaba River in São Paulo state.^[23]
• 23 July – A study by the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation finds the first incidence of cocaine discovered in sharks following tests on 13 Brazilian sharpnose sharks off the coast of Rio de Janeiro, in what is believed to be caused by waste from illegal laboratories and users.^[24]
• 25 July –
  • The Brazilian government formally issues an apology for the persecution and detention of Japanese immigrants from 1946 to 1948.^[25]
  • The Ministry of Health reports the world's first Oropouche fever deaths from two women in Bahia.^[26]

• 2 August –
  • Leticia Carvalho of Brazil is elected as secretary-general of the International Seabed Authority.^[27]
  • Judoka Beatriz Souza wins gold in the over 78 kg category at the Paris Summer Olympics.^[28]
• 3 August – Eight people are killed in an attack by farmers on members of the indigenous Guarani Kaiowa community in Douradina, Mato Grosso do Sul.^[29]
• 5 August – Gymnast Rebeca Andrade wins gold on floor exercise at the Paris Summer Olympics.^[30]
• 7 August – The Government reports that deforestation in the Amazon Rainforest is at its lowest level since 2016.^[31]
• 8 August – Brazil orders the expulsion of the Nicaraguan ambassador in retaliation for the expulsion of its ambassador in Managua amid a diplomatic row over criticism by President Lula da Silva of the authoritarian regime of President Daniel Ortega.^[32]
• 9 August – Voepass Linhas Aéreas Flight 2283 in Vinhedo, São Paulo State, killing all 61 people on board.^[33]

• 6 October:
  • 2024 Brazilian municipal elections (first round)
    • 2024 São Paulo mayoral election^[34]
    • 2024 Rio de Janeiro mayoral election
    • 2024 Salvador mayoral election
• 27 October – 2024 Brazilian municipal elections (second round)
• 18–19 November – 2024 G20 Rio de Janeiro summit^[35]

• List of 2024 box office number-one films in Brazil
• List of Brazilian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Source:^[36]

• 1 January – New Year's Day
• 12–13 February – Carnival
• 29 March – Good Friday
• 21 April – Tiradentes's Day
• 1 May – Labour Day
• 30 May – Feast of Corpus Christi
• 7 September – Independence Day
• 12 October – Our Lady of Aparecida
• 2 November – All Souls' Day
• 15 November – Republic Day
• 20 November – Black Consciousness Day
• 25 December – Christmas Day

• 4 January – Denise Assunção, 67, actress (Hoje É Dia de Maria), singer and songwriter.^[37]
• 5 January – Mário Zagallo, 92, football player (Flamengo, Botafogo) and manager (national team).^[38]
• 6 January – Campos Machado, 84, lawyer and politician.^[39]
• 10 January – Walmir Amaral, 84, comic artist (The Phantom).^[40]
• 12 January – Paulo Roberto, 71, footballer (Fluminense de Feira, Vasco da Gama, Goiás).^[41]
• 13 January – Edemar Cid Ferreira, 80, economist, banker, and art collector.^[42]
• 21 January – Sérgio Rodrigues da Costa Silva, 44, militia leader.^[43]
• 22 January – Antônio Henrique Cunha Bueno, 74, politician, deputy (1975–2003)^[44]
• 25 January – Deodoro, 74, footballer (Portuguesa, Clube Atlético Juventus, Coritiba).^[45]
• 28 January:
  • Walter Ivan de Azevedo, 97, Roman Catholic prelate, bishop of São Gabriel da Cachoeira (1986–2002).^[46]
  • Marcelo Cecé, 88, politician.^[47]
• 29 January – Samuel Pinheiro Guimarães, 84, diplomat, secretary-general of foreign affairs (2003–2009).^[48]
• 30 January – Jandira Martini, 78, actress (O Clone, América, Caminho das Índias).^[49]

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