1932 in Brazil

Events in the year 1932 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

President: Getúlio Vargas
Vice President: ''none''

Governors

Alagoas: Tasso de Oliveira Tinoco; Louis de France Albuquerque
Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia
Bahia: Juracy Magalhães
Ceará: Manuel Fernandes Távora
Goiás:
* till 3 November: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
* 3 November - 20 December: Mário de Alencastro Caiado
from 20 December: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
Maranhão: Lourival Seroa da Mota
Mato Grosso: Artur Antunes Maciel; Leônidas Antero de Matos
Minas Gerais: Olegário Dias Maciel
Pará: Joaquim de Magalhães Barata
Paraíba:
* till 26 April: Antenor de França Navarro
* from 26 April: Gratuliano da Costa Brito
Pernambuco: Carlos de Lima Cavalcanti
Piauí: Landry Sales
Paraná:
* João Perneta
* Manuel Ribas
Rio Grande do Norte: Hercolino Cascardo ; Bertino Dutra da Silva
Rio Grande do Sul: José Antônio Flores da Cunha
Santa Catarina:
São Paulo: Manuel Rabelo ; Pedro Manuel de Toledo
Sergipe:

Vice governors

Rio Grande do Norte:
São Paulo:

Events

24 February
*The Justiça Eleitoral do Brasil is created by Decreto nº 21.076.
* Women win the right to vote.
April – Peter Fleming joins the expedition to find missing Englishman Colonel Percy Fawcett; the following year he publishes an account of the expedition, entitled Brazilian Adventure.
23 May – Four protesting students are killed by government troops, sparking off the "Paulista War".
June – Paulista rebels take control of the state of São Paulo.
9 July – Constitutionalist Revolution: The population of the state of São Paulo revolt against the 1930 coup d'état.
July–August – 82 athletes from Brazil travel on board the Itaquicê to Los Angeles for the Summer Olympic Games, selling coffee along the way to fund the trip. The team wins no medals.
2 October – The São Paulo rebels are defeated by government forces.
October – Brazilian Integralism, a Fascist movement, is founded by Plínio Salgado.

Arts and culture

Books

Afonso Schmidt – ''Garoa''

Films

Ao Redor do Brasil
Anchieta Entre o Amor e a Religião
''O Pecado da Vaidade''

Births

26 January – Kilza Setti, ethnomusicologist, composer, and pianist
19 February – Alberto Dines, journalist and writer
26 April – Agildo Ribeiro, actor and humorist
28 April – Stênio Garcia, actor
6 May – José Maria Marin, politician and sports administrator
12 May – Walter Wanderley, organist and pianist, best known for his lounge and bossa nova music.
25 May – Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, film director and screenwriter
21 June – Ilka Soares, actress
23 July – Oswaldo Loureiro, Brazilian actor
28 July – Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, military officer and politician
28 August – Raul Cortez, actor
15 September – Antônio Abujamra, theatre and television director and actor
14 November – Cláudio Ulpiano, philosopher

Deaths

date unknown – Evaristo Conrado Engelberg, mechanical engineer and inventor

July

2 July - Rodolfo Teófilo, writer, poet and film-maker
23 July – Alberto Santos-Dumont, Franco-Brazilian aviation pioneer