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1631 – 2024

Country in South America

  1. Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907

    29 September 2006

    On September 29, 2006, Gol Transportes Aéreos Flight 1907, a Boeing 737-800 on a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Manaus, Amazonas, to Brasília and Rio de Janeiro, collided mid-air with an Embraer Legacy 600 business jet flying on an opposite heading over the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso. The winglet of the Legacy sliced off about half of the 737's left wing, causing the 737 to break up and crash into an area of dense jungle, killing all 154 passengers and crew on board.

  2. TAM Airlines Flight 3054

    17 July 2007

    TAM Airlines Flight 3054 was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight operated by TAM Airlines from Porto Alegre to São Paulo, Brazil. On the evening of 17 July 2007, the Airbus A320 serving the flight from Porto Alegre overran runway 35L at São Paulo's Congonhas Airport after touching down during moderate rain and crashed into a nearby TAM Express warehouse adjacent to a gas station.

  3. 2008 Santa Catarina floods

    November 2008

    The 2008 Santa Catarina floods were floods in Santa Catarina, Brazil in November 2008. They occurred after a period of heavy rainfall, most significantly from 20-23 of November.

  4. January 2011 Rio de Janeiro floods and mudslides

    17 January 2011

    A series of floods and mudslides took place in January 2011 in several towns of the Mountainous Region (Região Serrana), in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Casualties occurred in the cities of Nova Friburgo, Teresópolis, Petrópolis, Bom Jardim, Sumidouro and São José do Vale do Rio Preto.

  5. Kiss nightclub fire

    27 January 2013

    On 27 January 2013, 242 people were killed and at least 630 others injured in a fire in the Kiss nightclub in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. The fire started between 2:00 and 2:30 a.m.

  6. 2013 protests in Brazil

    June 2013

    The 2013 Brazilian protests were public demonstrations in several Brazilian cities, initiated mainly by the Movimento Passe Livre (Free Fare Movement), a local entity that advocates for free public transportation. The demonstrations were initially organized to protest against increases in bus, train, and metro ticket prices in some Brazilian cities, but grew to include other issues such as the high corruption in the government and police brutality used against some demonstrators.

  7. 2015 protests in Brazil

    2015

    In 2015 and 2016, a series of protests in Brazil denounced corruption and the government of President Dilma Rousseff, triggered by revelations that numerous politicians allegedly accepted bribes connected to contracts at state-owned energy company Petrobras between 2003 and 2010 and connected to the Workers' Party, while Rousseff chaired the company's board of directors. The first protests on 15 March 2015 numbered between one and nearly three million protesters against the scandal and the country's poor economic situation.

  8. 2015–16 Zika virus epidemic

    April 2015 – November 2016

    An epidemic of Zika fever, caused by Zika virus, began in Brazil and affected other countries in the Americas from April 2015 to November 2016. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the end of the epidemic in November 2016, but noted that the virus still represents "a highly significant and long term problem".

  9. COVID-19 pandemic

    1 December 2019

    The global COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. It spread to other parts of Asia and then worldwide in early 2020.

  10. 2020 Brazilian floods and mudslides

    17 January 2020 – 29 January 2020

    From 17 to 29 January 2020, heavy rainstorms associated with Subtropical Storm Kurumí caused widespread flooding and landslides in Brazil's Southeast Region states of Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo and Rio de Janeiro. The state capital of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, reported it was the highest rainfall in over 110 years.

  11. 2021 Palmas FR plane crash

    24 January 2021

    The 2021 Palmas FR plane crash took place on 24 January 2021, when a private Beechcraft Baron belonging to the Palmas Futebol e Regatas, a Brazilian association football team, crashed on takeoff from Associação Tocantinense de Aviação Aerodrome, a private airfield near Porto Nacional, Tocantins, Brazil. All six people on board were killed: four footballers, the team's owner, and the pilot.

  12. 2021 Amazonas earthquake

    28 November 2021

    A major earthquake struck northern Peru on November 28, 2021, 5:52 a.m. local time with a magnitude of 7.5 on the moment magnitude scale between the Amazonas and Loreto departments of Peru.

  13. Late December 2021 Bahia floods

    7 December 2021 – 2022

    Beginning on 24 December 2021, record rainfall across the northeastern Brazilian state Bahia resulted in severe floods, which caused the death of 21 people, injured another 358 and displaced 62,800. In a tweet, Rui Costa, the Governor of Bahia, declared the floods to be "the worst disaster that has ever occurred in the history of Bahia".

  14. Capitólio rockfall

    8 January 2022

    On 8 January 2022, a rockfall occurred in a canyon of Furnas Lake in Capitólio, Minas Gerais, Brazil. A cliff face collapsed onto tourist pleasure boats on the lake, killing 10 people and leaving 32 others injured.

  15. 2022 Petrópolis floods

    15 February 2022 – 21 March 2022

    On 15 February 2022, intense rainfall in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil caused mudslides and flooding that destroyed parts of the city. At least 231 people died in the disaster.

  16. Floods and landslides on the northeast coast of Brazil in 2022

    27 May 2022 – 29 May 2022

    Floods and mudslides occurred in the Northeast Region of Brazil in 2022. Its cause was the rains that hit mainly the state of Pernambuco, but also Sergipe, Alagoas, Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte.

  17. 2023 Brazilian Congress attack

    2023

    On 8 January 2023, following the defeat of president Jair Bolsonaro in the 2022 Brazilian general election and the inauguration of his successor Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, a mob of Bolsonaro's supporters attacked Brazil's federal government buildings in the capital, Brasília. The mob invaded and caused deliberate damage to the Supreme Federal Court, the National Congress Palace and the Planalto Presidential Palace in the Praça dos Três Poderes (English: Three Powers Square or Three Branches of Government), seeking to violently overthrow the democratically elected president Lula, who had…

  18. 2023 São Paulo floods and landslides

    18 February 2023 – 19 February 2023

    During the 2023 Brazilian Carnival holiday weekend, record-breaking rainfall—reaching 682 mm (26.9 in) in 24 hours—caused deadly floods and landslides across the state of São Paulo. 65 people were killed, of which 64 were in São Sebastião.

  19. 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods

    28 April 2024 – May 2024

    The 2024 Rio Grande do Sul floods were severe floods caused by heavy rains and storms that hit the Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, and the adjacent Uruguayan cities of Treinta y Tres, Paysandú, Cerro Largo, and Salto. From 29 April through to May, it resulted in 181 fatalities (as of 7 July 2024), widespread landslides, and a dam collapse.

  20. Voepass Linhas Aéreas Flight 2283

    9 August 2024

    Voepass Flight 2283 was a scheduled domestic Brazilian passenger flight from Cascavel to Guarulhos. On August 9, 2024, the ATR 72 serving the flight crashed in Vinhedo, São Paulo State.