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1934 in Brazil
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Events in the year 1934 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Getúlio Vargas (Head of the Provisional Government before 20 July)
- Vice President: None
Governors
- Alagoas:
- till 2 March: Alfonso de Carvalho
- 2 March – 1 May: Themistocles Vieira de Azevedo
- from 1 May: Osman Laurel
- Amazonas: Nélson de Melo
- Bahia: Juracy Magalhães
- Ceará: Roberto Carneiro de Mendonça (till 5 September); Filipe Moreira Lima (from 5 September)
- Espírito Santo: João Punaro Bley
- Goiás:
- till 21 June: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
- 21 June – 19 July: Inácio Bento de Loyola
- 19 July – 3 August: Vasco dos Reis Gonçalves
- 3 August – 9 October: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
- 9 October – 18 October: Heitor Morais Fleury
- from 18 October: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
- Maranhão: Benedito Valadares Ribeiro
- Mato Grosso: César de Mesquita Serva then Leônidas Antero de Matos
- Minas Gerais: Benedito Valadares Ribeiro
- Pará: Joaquim de Magalhães Barata
- Paraíba: Gratuliano da Costa Brito (until 26 December); José Marques da Silva Mariz (from 26 December)
- Paraná: Manuel Ribas
- Pernambuco: Carlos de Lima Cavalcanti
- Piauí: Landry Sales
- Rio Grande do Norte: Mario Leopoldo Pereira da Camera
- Rio Grande do Sul: José Antônio Flores da Cunha
- Santa Catarina: Aristiliano Ramos
- São Paulo: Armando de Sales Oliveira
- Sergipe: Augusto Maynard Gomes
Vice governors
- Rio Grande do Norte: no vice governor
- São Paulo: no vice governor
Events
- date unknown
- The University of São Paulo is established.
- The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics is founded under the title of the National Institute of Statistics.
January
- 23 January - President Getúlio Vargas signs decree n° 23,793, which approves the first Brazilian Forest Code.[1]
July
- 16 July - The Vargas government introduces what will be the shortest-lived Constitution of Brazil, lasting only 3 years (until 1937).[2] It is the first time a Brazilian constitution has been written from scratch by directly elected deputies in multi-party elections, and incorporates a number of improvements to Brazilian political, social and economical life.
- 17 July - In the presidential election, carried out by the Constituent Assembly, acting president Getúlio Vargas receives 175 of the 248 votes.[3]
Arts and culture
Books
- Jorge Amado - Suor
- Monteiro Lobato - Emília no País da Gramática and Aritmética da Emília
- Carolina Nabuco - A Sucessora[4]
Films
- O Caçador de Diamantes
Births
January
- 4 January: Elias Gleizer, comedian and actor (died 2015)
- 18 January: Zacarias, comedy actor (died 1990)
February
- 9 February: Ruth Volgl Cardoso, chess grandmaster (died 2000)
June
- 30 June: Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira, economist and social scientist
August
- 8 August: Cláudio Hummes, Roman Catholic cardinal (died 2022)
- 25 August: Zilda Arns, pediatrician and aid worker (died 2010)
- 27 August: Sylvia Telles, singer (died 1966)
October
- 15 October: Flávio Migliaccio, writer, director and screenwriter (died 2020)
Deaths
February
- 5 February: Ernesto Nazareth, composer (born 1863)
April
- 6 April: Ismael Nery, artist (born 1900; tuberculosis)[5]
May
- 29 May: Augusto Pestana, engineer and politician (born 1868)
- 30 May: Júlia Lopes de Almeida, writer (born 1862)
June
- 9 June: Medeiros e Albuquerque, poet, politician and journalist (born 1867)
July
- 6 July: Prince Peter of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, son of Princess Leopoldina of Brazil (born 1866)
- 20 July: Padre Cicero, Catholic priest and spiritual leader (born 1844)
November
- 8 November: Carlos Chagas, sanitary physician and bacteriologist (born 1879)
- 28 November: Coelho Neto, writer and politician (born 1864)
