Events in the year 1974 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: General Emílio Garrastazu Médici (until 14 March) General Ernesto Geisel (starting 15 March) Vice President: General Augusto Rademaker (until 14 March) General Adalberto Pereira dos Santos (starting 15 March)
Governors
Acre: Vacant
Alagoas: Afrânio Lages
Amazonas: João Walter de Andrade
Bahia: Antônio Carlos Magalhães
Ceará: César Cals
Espírito Santo: Artur Carlos Gerhardt Santos
Goiás: Leonino Caiado
Guanabara: Antonio de Pádua Chagas Freitas
Maranhão: Pedro Neiva de Santana
Mato Grosso: José Fragelli
Minas Gerais: Rondon Pacheco
Pará: Fernando Guilhon
Paraíba: Ernâni Sátiro
Paraná: Emílio Hoffmann Gomes
Pernambuco: Eraldo Gueiros
Piauí: Alberto Silva
Rio de Janeiro: Raimundo Padhila
Rio Grande do Norte: Jose Pereira de Araújo Cortez
Rio Grande do Sul: Euclides Triches
Santa Catarina: Colombo Salles
São Paulo: Laudo Natel
Sergipe: Paulo Barreto de Menezes
Vice governors
Acre: Alberto Barbosa da Costa
Alagoas: José de Medeiros Tavares
Amazonas: Deoclides de Carvalho Leal
Bahia: Menandro Minahim
Ceará: Francisco Humberto Bezerra
Espírito Santo: Henrique Pretti
Goiás: Ursulino Tavares Leão
Maranhão: Alexandre Sá Colares Moreira
Mato Grosso: José Monteiro de Figueiredo
Minas Gerais: Celso Porfírio de Araújo Machado
Pará: Newton Burlamaqui Barreira
Paraíba: Clóvis Bezerra Cavalcanti
Paraná: Jaime Canet Júnior
Pernambuco: José Antônio Barreto Guimarães
Piauí: Sebastião Rocha Leal
Rio de Janeiro: Teotônio Araújo
Rio Grande do Norte: Tertius Rebelo
Rio Grande do Sul: Edmar Fetter
Santa Catarina: Atílio Francisco Xavier Fontana
São Paulo: Antonio José Rodrigues Filho
Sergipe: Adalberto Moura
Establishments
Construction of the Basilica of the Eternal Father, Trindade was completed.
Events
January
15 January: General Ernesto Geisel is elected President of Brazil by the electoral college in an indirect presidential election. Geisel obtains 400 votes against 76 given to the opposition candidate, Ulysses Guimarães.
February
1 February: A fire at the Joelma Building in São Paulo kills 177 people and injures 293; 11 die later of their injuries.
March
4 March: President Emílio Garrastazu Médici officially opens up the Rio-Niterói Bridge, located in Guanabara Bay, Rio de Janeiro. 15 March: General Ernesto Geisel replaces General Emílio Garrastazu Médici and becomes the 29th President of Brazil. 24-27 March: The Tubarão River waters flood about 80% of the urban area in Tubarão, Santa Catarina. The flood causes 199 fatalities and leaves about 45,000 people homeless.
May
17 May: Presidents Ernesto Geisel of Brazil and Alfredo Stroessner of Paraguay create Itaipu Binacional to manage the construction of the power plant. 31 May: Former Portuguese Prime Minister Marcelo Caetano is granted political asylum by President Ernesto Geisel in Brazil. Caetano fled after Portugal's Carnation Revolution, which ended 41 years of the Estado Novo dictatorship.
July
1 July: President Ernesto Geisel signs a law that determines the union of the states of Guanabara and Rio de Janeiro. 29 July: A collision between a bus carrying 90 passengers and a truck kills 69 people and injures 11 on the Belém-Brasília highway.
Births
January
9 January: Sávio, footballer
16 January: Tatiana Issa, director and producer
March
13 March: Vampeta, footballer and pundit
27 March: Fernando Diniz, coach and retired footballer
April
12 April: Sylvinho, footballer and manager
May
3 May: Pedro Rizzo, mixed martial arts fighter
July
5 July: Márcio Amoroso, footballer
6 July:
December
31 December: Tony Kanaan, racecar driver
Deaths
January
14 January: Cassiano Ricardo, journalist and poet (b. 1894) 16 January: Aldo Bonadei, painter (b. 1906)
July
16 July: Oduvaldo Vianna Filho, playwright (b. 1936)