Events in the year 1970 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government
President: General Emílio Garrastazu Médici 
Vice President: General Augusto Rademaker

Governors 
 Acre: Vacant
 Alagoas: Antônio Simeão de Lamenha Filho 
 Amazonas: Danilo Duarte de Matos Areosa
 Bahia: Luís Viana Filho 
 Ceará: Plácido Castelo
 Espírito Santo: Cristiano Dias Lopes Filho 
 Goiás: Otávio Lage
 Guanabara: 
Francisco Negrão de Lima (until 15 March)
 Antonio de Pádua Chagas Freitas (starting 15 March)
 Maranhão: 
Jose Sarney (until 14 May)
Antônio Jorge Dino (from 14 May)
 Mato Grosso: Pedro Pedrossian 
 Minas Gerais: Israel Pinheiro da Silva 
 Pará: Alacid Nunes 
 Paraíba: João Agripino Maia 
 Paraná: Pablo Cruz Pimentel 
 Pernambuco: Nilo Coelho
 Piauí: 
 Helvídio Nunes (until 14 May)
 João Turíbio Monteiro de Santana (14 May-15 May)
 João Clímaco d'Almeida (from 15 May)
 Rio de Janeiro: Geremias de Mattos Fontes
 Rio Grande do Norte: Walfredo Gurgel Dantas 
 Rio Grande do Sul: Walter Peracchi Barcelos 
 Santa Catarina: Ivo Silveira 
 São Paulo: Roberto Costa de Abreu Sodré 
 Sergipe: 
 Lourival Baptista (until 14 May)
 Wolney Leal de Melo (14 May-4 June)
 João de Andrade Garcez (from 4 June)

Vice governors
 Alagoas: Manoel Sampaio Luz 
 Amazonas: Deoclides de Carvalho Leal 
 Bahia: Jutahy Magalhães 
 Ceará: Humberto Ellery
 Espírito Santo: Isaac Lopes Rubim 
 Goiás: Osires Teixeira 
 Maranhão: 
Antonio Jorge Dino (until 14 May)
Vacant thereafter (from 14 May) 
 Mato Grosso: Lenine de Campos Póvoas 
 Minas Gerais: Pio Soares Canedo 
 Pará: João Renato Franco 
 Paraíba: Antônio Juarez Farias (from 12 September)
 Paraná: Plínio Franco Ferreira da Costa 
 Pernambuco: Salviano Machado Filho 
 Piauí: 
João Clímaco d'Almeida (until 14 May)
Vacant thereafter (from 14 May)
 Rio de Janeiro: Heli Ribeiro Gomes
 Rio Grande do Norte: Clóvis Motta
 Santa Catarina: Jorge Bornhausen 
 São Paulo: Hilário Torloni 
 Sergipe: 
Manoel Paulo Vasconcelos (until 14 May)
Vacant thereafter (from 14 May)

Events

January
January 26: After Leila Diniz's controversial interview to O Pasquim, the government signs Decree-Law Nº 1.077/1970, which censors material "subversive of morals and good customs"

March
March 11: Japanese consul-general in São Paulo, Nobuo Okuchi is kidnapped by the leftist guerrilla group Vanguarda Popular Revolucionária.
March 14: Five political prisoners are released in exchange for the release of Japanese consul Nobuo Okuchi.
March 15: Japanese consul Nobuo Okuchi is released in the early evening, 97 hours and 45 minutes after being kidnapped by members of the VPR.
March 25: President Emílio Garrastazu Médici signs a decree-law, providing for the expansion of the Brazilian territorial sea from 12 to 200 nautical miles.

June
June 11: West German ambassador Ehrenfried von Holleben is kidnapped in Rio de Janeiro, by the Vanguarda Popular Revolucionária and Ação Libertadora Nacional.
June 21: Brazil defeats Italy 4–1 to win the 1970 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. It is the third time Brazil wins the FIFA World Cup.

July
July 1: Four Vanguarda Popular Revolucionária (VPR) members unsuccessfully attempt to hijack a Cruzeiro do Sul plane with 34 passengers and 7 crew on board. The aircraft was stormed and the hijackers arrested.
July 31: Brazilian consul Aloísio Mares Dias Gomide is kidnapped in Montevideo, Uruguay, by the Tupamaros; an Uruguayan urban guerrilla group.

November
November 15: General elections for senators, federal and state deputies, mayors, and councilors are held.

December
December 7: Giovanni Enrico Bucher, the Swiss ambassador to Brazil, is kidnapped by the Ação Libertadora Nacional in Rio de Janeiro; kidnappers demand the release of 70 political prisoners.

Births

January
January 1 – João Miguel, actor
 January 20 – Andrucha Waddington, director and producer

April
April 18 – Patrícia Bastos, singer
April 20 – Adriano Moraes, rodeo performer

June
June 7 – 
Ronaldo da Costa, long-distance runner
Cafu, footballer

August
August 11 – Daniella Perez, actress (died 1992)

Deaths

February
February 20 – João Café Filho, 18th President of Brazil (b. 1899)

See also 
1970 in Brazilian football
1970 in Brazilian television
List of Brazilian films of 1970

References

 
1970s in Brazil
Years of the 20th century in Brazil
Brazil
Brazil