Events in the year 2023 in Brazil.
Incumbents Federal government President: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva Vice President: Geraldo Alckmin
Governors 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
Vice governors 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
Events
January 28 December-15 January: Ten members of a family are kidnapped and murdered in the Federal District. 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% Lula declares three days of national mourning for footballer Pelé, who died on 29 December 2022. 3 January: Wake and burial of Pelé at Vila Belmiro in Santos. 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 Poderes in Brasília. A federal intervention in public security in the Federal District is decreed. 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. 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. 18 January: Lula dismisses 13 more military personnel from the presidential cabinet, whom he blames for the attack in Brasília. 19 January: The retail chain Lojas Americanas files for bankruptcy protection after discovering a financial deficit of R$20 million (US$3.88 billion) and blocking part of its accounts due to debts with creditors. 20 January: Footballer Dani Alves is arrested in Spain on charges of sexual assault. The Ministry of Health declares a public health emergency in the Yanomami Indigenous Territory. 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. 28 January: The Press Vehicle Consortium, which was created in 2020 to disseminate data on the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil, officially closes.
February 2 February: Former federal deputy Daniel Silveira is arrested in Petrópolis for failing to comply with precautionary measures defined by the Supreme Federal Court. 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. 5 February: A vessel with 14 people on board sinks in Guanabara Bay, leaving 3 dead and 5 missing. 13 February: Heavy rains cause flooding and landslides in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro. 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.
March 8 March: Part of the roof of the Osasco Plaza Shopping mall in Greater São Paulo collapses, with no one injured. 12 March: At least eight people are killed after a landslide hits homes in the East Zone of Manaus. 14 March: A wave of criminal attacks begin in 14 cities in Rio Grande do Norte. The attacks are believed to have been orchestrated by a local crime syndicate after police killed members of the group. 16 March: Over 220 Brazilian National Guardsmen are deployed to the northeastern states of Rio Grande do Norte and Paraíba after imprisoned gang members riot, causing three deaths and class cancellations in both states. After being away for 66 days, Ibaneis Rocha returns as Governor of the Federal District after authorization from STF justice Alexandre de Moraes. 17 March: A helicopter crashes in Barra Funda (East Zone of São Paulo), killing 4 people. 23 March: 13 people are dead after a police raid in a favela in São Gonçalo, Rio de Janeiro. Two of the Comando Vermelho gang leaders from the northern states of Pará and Sergipe are also captured. 24 March: Heavy rains cause flooding in six states in the North and Northeast regions. 24-26 March: The tenth edition of Lollapalooza. 25 March: The inauguration of the São Paulo ePrix. 26 March: After 32 years, the band Skank perform their last show in front of 50,000 people at the Mineirão Stadium in Belo Horizonte. 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. 28 March: Brazil reaches the 700,000 mark of deaths from COVID-19. 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.
April
5 April: Four children are killed and five others are injured after a man attacks a kindergarten with a hatchet in Blumenau, Santa Catarina. 8 April: A boat carrying tourists sinks in Bertioga, São Paulo, killing two people. Heavy rains cause flooding in 64 municipalities in Maranhão. 18 April: The Public Prosecutor's Office of Goiás opens an investigation against football players, betting houses, and betters from Santos FC, S.C. Corinthians Paulista, Red Bull Bragantino, Esporte Clube Juventude, and Cuiabá Esporte Clube under suspicion of manipulation. Arrest and search and seizure warrants are issued in six states. 19 April: Gonçalves Dias resigns as Secretary of Institutional Security (GSI) after CNN Brazil releases footage of him and GSI employees guiding Bolsonaro supporters inside the Palácio do Planalto during the Brazilian Congress attack on January 8. 26 April: Telegram is blocked again in Brazil after failing to comply with a court ruling by the Espírito Santo Court of Justice (TJES) after failing to hand over evidence of crimes committed by groups considered as neo-Nazi by the Federal Police. The 8 January CPMI is installed in the National Congress of Brazil, which investigates the January 8th attack of the Praça dos Três Poderes. 27 April: A building collapses in Olinda, Pernambuco, killing three people. 28 April: President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva signs a law recognizing six indigenous lands.
May 9-10 May: Football clubs participating in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A remove players who are under investigation per Operation Maximum Penalty. 16 May: By unanimous decision, the Superior Electoral Court revokes Deltan Dallagnol's (Podemos-PR) term as federal deputy due to fraud against the Clean Record Act. The Superior Court of Sports Justice (STJD) suspends eight players investigated in Operation Maximum Penalty for fraud in sports betting. 22 May: The Ministry of Health declares a state of zoosanitary emergency due to an increase in cases of avian influenza. Rio de Janeiro Police find the body of actor Jeff Machado, who has been missing since the end of January. 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.
June 8 June: A tanker truck carrying fuel overturns and catches fire in Serra de Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, killing the driver of the vehicle. 15 June: An extratropical cyclone hits Rio Grande do Sul, killing 16 people and leaving around 14,000 homeless. 16 June: An earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 4.7 hits municipalities on the coast of São Paulo and the Ribeira Valley. 17 June: At least eight people are killed and 19 others are missing after a severe storm in Rio Grande do Sul. 19 June: A gunman kills two people at a public school in Cambé, Paraná. 26 June: A fire breaks out at a landfill in Teresópolis, Rio de Janeiro, covering the city with smoke. 28 June: Data is released from the 2022 Brazilian census, with the country officially having 203,602,512 inhabitants. 30 June: By a vote of 5 to 2, the Superior Electoral Court renders former president Jair Bolsonaro ineligible to run for political office for 8 years.
July 6 July: The Chamber of Deputies approves the basic text of the tax reform bill; goes to the Senate. 8 July: A building collapses in Paulista, Pernambuco, leaving at least 14 people, including four children, dead. 12 July: Rio Grande do Sul is hit again with an extratropical cyclone, also reaching cities in Santa Catarina. 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. Another extratropical cyclone, of lesser intensity, hits the South Region, being the fourth to hit the area since June. 27-31 July: A police operation in Guarujá, São Paulo is launched after the death of a ROTA soldier, resulting in sixteen people being killed.
August
2 August: At least 10 people are killed during a police raid on a favela in Complexo da Penha, Rio de Janeiro. 3 August: Cristiano Zanin, former lawyer of Lula, takes seat as Justice of the Supreme Federal Court. 8 August: A Navy helicopter crashes during training in Formosa, Goiás, leaving 2 dead and 12 injured. 9 August: Former director of the Federal Highway Police, Silvinei Vasques, is arrested in Florianópolis due to an ongoing investigation with interference in the 2022 elections. Luís Roberto Barroso is elected President of the Supreme Federal Court . 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. 17 August: Quilombola leader and ialorixá, Mother Bernadette, is assassinated in Simões Filho, Bahia. 20 August: A bus carrying Corinthians fans overturns on the Fernão Dias Highway (near Igarapé, Minas Gerais), killing seven people.
September
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. 2 September: Actor Kayky Brito has been run 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. 3 September: Ultraje a Rigor member Mingau, is shot in the head during an attempted robbery in Paraty, Rio de Janeiro. 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.