1934 in Brazil
Years 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936
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Year of Constitution: 1934

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)