1938 in Brazil

Brazil-related events during the year of 1938

1938 in Brazil
Years 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940
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Year of Constitution: 1937

Events in the year 1938 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Alagoas: Osman Laurel
Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia
Bahia: Antônio Fernandes Dantas then Landulfo Alves
Ceará: Francisco de Meneses Pimentel
Espírito Santo: João Punaro Bley
Goiás: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
Maranhão:
Mato Grosso: Júlio Strübing Müller
Minas Gerais: Benedito Valadares Ribeiro
Pará: José Carneiro da Gama Malcher
Paraíba: Argemiro de Figueiredo
Paraná: Manuel Ribas
Pernambuco: Agamenon Magalhães
Piauí: Leônidas Melo
Rio Grande do Norte: Rafael Fernandes Gurjão
Rio Grande do Sul:
- till 19 January: Manuel de Cerqueira Daltro Filho
- 19 January-4 March: Joaquim Maurício Cardoso
- from 4 March: Osvaldo Cordeiro de Farias
Santa Catarina: Nereu Ramos
São Paulo:
- till 25 April: José Joaquim Cardoso de Melo Neto
- 25 April-27 April: Francisco José da Silva Júnior
- from 27 April: Ademar de Barros
Sergipe: Erônides de Carvalho

2 January - The governmental radio program Hora do Brasil begins to be broadcast throughout the country.^[1]
3 January - The presidential election is not held due to Getúlio Vargas' coup d'état.
May – The Brazilian integralist movement attempt a coup d'état, supported by the Axis powers. The failure of the "Pajama Putsch" leads to the dissolution of the AIB.^[2]
28 July – Folk hero Lampião and his band are ambushed in one of his hideouts, the Angicos farm, in the state of Sergipe.
date unknown
- Michel Bernanos visits Brazil for the first time.^[3]
- Mário de Andrade takes up a post at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.^[4]

6 June: Prince Luiz of Orléans-Braganza, pretender to the Brazilian throne (died 2022)

28 July:
- Lampião, bandit (born 1897; killed in a police ambush)^[7]
- Maria Bonita, bandit (born 1911; killed along with her boyfriend Lampião)

^ A "Hora do Brasil" passou a ser transmittida às 20 horas (página 3 do 1° caderno), Folha da Manhã (4 de janeiro de 1938).
^ R.S. Rose (2000), One of the Forgotten Things: Getúlio Vargas and Brazilian Social Control, 1930–1954, Westport: Greenwood, p. 86.
^ "Michel Bernanos". Pages Françaises de Science-Fiction (in French). Retrieved March 31, 2012.
^ Suárez, José I., and Tomlins, Jack E., Mário de Andrade: The Creative Works (Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 2000). p 21
^ Menalton Braff, leitor de Cecília Meireles
^ Allmusic
^ Chandler, Billy Jaynes (1978). The Bandit King: Lampião of Brazil. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-194-8.

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