1930 in Brazil
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| Year of Constitution: 1891 |
Events in the year 1930 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President:
- (until 24 October) Washington Luís
- (from 24 October to 3 November) General Tasso Fragoso, Admiral Isaías de Noronha, General Mena Barreto
- (from 3 November) Getúlio Vargas (Head of the Provisional Government)
- Vice President: Fernando de Melo Viana (until 24 October), vacant after 24 October.
Governors
- Alagoas:
- till 10 October: Álvaro Correia Pais
- 10 October-14 October: Pedro Reginaldo Teixeira
- from 14 October: Hermilo de Freitas Blackbird
- Amazonas:
- till 1 January: Ifigênio Ferreira de Sales
- 1 January-24 October: Dorval Pires Porto
- 24 October-1 November: Government Junta
- 1 November-20 November: Floriano da Silva Machado
- from 20 November: Álvaro Botelho Maia
- Bahia: Vital Soares, then Frederico Augusto Rodrigues da Costa, then Leopoldo Afrânio Bastos do Amaral
- Ceará:
- till 8 October: José Carlos de Matos Peixoto
- from 8 October: Manuel Fernandes Távora
- Goiás:
- till 11 August: Alfredo Lopes de Morais
- 11 August - 27 October: Humberto Martins Ribeiro
- 27 - 30 October: Carlos Pinheiro Chagas
- 30 October - 23 November: Goiana Governing Board of 1930
- from 23 November: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
- Maranhão:
- till 1 March: José Magalhães de Almeida
- 1 March - 8 October: José Pires Sexto
- 8 October - 14 November: Maranhão Governing Board of 1930
- 15 November - 27 November: Luso Torres
- from 27 November: José Maria Perdigão
- Mato Grosso: Mário Correia da Costa, then Aníbal Benício de Toledo, then Sebastião Rabelo Leite, then Antonino Mena Gonçalves
- Minas Gerais:
- until 7 September: Antônio Carlos Ribeiro de Andrada
- from 7 September: Olegário Maciel
- Pará:
- until 24 October: Eurico de Freitas Vale
- 24 October - 26 October: Pará Governing Board of October 1930
- 26 October - 28 October: Landry Sales Gonçalves
- 28 October - 12 November: Pará Governing Board of 1930
- from 12 November: Joaquim de Magalhães Barata
- Paraíba:
- until 26 July: João Pessoa Cavalcanti
- 26 July - 4 October: Álvaro Pereira de Carvalho
- 4 October - 26 November: José Américo de Almeida
- from 26 November: Antenor de França Navarro
- Paraná:
- Afonso Camargo
- Mário Alves Monteiro Tourinho
- Pernambuco:
- until 28 May: Estácio Coimbra
- 28 May - 6 October: Júlio Celso de Albuquerque Belo
- from 6 October: Carlos de Lima Cavalcanti
- Piauí:
- till 4 October: João de Deus Pires Leal
- from 4 October: Humberto de Areia Leão
- Rio Grande do Norte:
- till 5 October: Juvenal Lamartine de Faria
- 5-12 October: Military Governing Board, consisting of: Luis Tavares Guerreiro, Abelardo Torres da Silva Castro, and Julius Perouse Bridges
- from 12 October: Irenaeus Jofili
- Rio Grande do Sul:
- till 9 October: Getúlio Dornelles Vargas
- 9-27 October: Osvaldo Euclides de Sousa Aranha
- 27-28 October: Sinval Saldanha
- from 28 October: José Antônio Flores da Cunha
- Santa Catarina: Adolfo Konder (until 29 September), Fulvius Aducci (29 September-25 October)
- São Paulo: Julio Prestes (until 24 October)
- Sergipe: Manuel Correia Dantas (until 17 October)
Vice governors
- Rio Grande do Norte: Joaquim Inácio (until 5 October)
- São Paulo: Heitor Teixeira Penteado (until 21 May)
Events
- 1 March - A general election is held; Júlio Prestes of the Republican Party of São Paulo, receives 57.7% of the vote and is elected president.[1] Vital Soares is elected vice-president, but never takes office.
- 16 July - Our Lady of Aparecida is proclaimed the Patroness of Brazil, by decree of Pope Pius XI.
- 26 July - The assassination of João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque, governor of Paraíba, by João Duarte Dantas, stirs up a wave of bad feeling toward the federal government and the outgoing president Washington Luís, who is accused of bearing the "moral responsibility".[2]
- 13 August - 1930 Curuçá River event: The area of Curuçá River near latitude 5° S and longitude 71.5° W experiences a meteoric air burst (also known as the Brazilian Tunguska event).[3]
- September - The state capital of Paraíba, formerly Parahyba, is renamed João Pessoa, in memory of its assassinated governor.[4]
- 3 October - Brazilian Revolution of 1930.
- 24 October - Incumbent President Washington Luís is deposed.[5] A military junta, led by General Augusto Tasso Fragoso, temporarily takes control of the country.
- 1 November - Beginning of the Vargas Era: the ruling junta hands power and the presidential palace to Getúlio Vargas.
- 18 November - A decree is signed creating the Brazilian Bar Association.[6]
- date unknown - The National Institute of Metrology Standardization and Industrial Quality (INMETRO) is founded.
Arts and culture
Films
- As Armas, directed by Octavio Gabus Mendes
Births
- 29 March - Lima Duarte, actor
- 21 April - Mário Covas, politician (died 2003)
- 24 April - José Sarney, 31st President of Brazil
- 7 June - Dolores Duran, Brazilian singer, songwriter (died 1959)
- 10 July - Jacques Klein, composer (died 1982)
- 22 August - Gylmar dos Santos Neves, footballer (died 2013)[7]
- 28 August - Walmor Chagas, actor (died 2013)
- 16 August - Glauce Rocha, actress (died 1971)
- 2 September - Paulo Francis, journalist, novelist and critic (died 1997)
- 10 September - Ferreira Gullar (José Ribamar Ferreira), poet, playwright, essayist, art critic, and television writer
- 15 September - Odette Vidal de Oliveira, candidate for beatification (died 1939)
- 19 September - Ruth Cardoso, anthropologist, educator and public figure (died 2008)[8]
- 29 October - Geraldo Del Rey, actor (died 1993)
- 12 December - Silvio Santos, television presenter (died 2024)
Deaths
- 26 July - João Pessoa Cavalcânti de Albuquerque, politician (born 1878; assassinated)
References
- ^ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p173 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
- ^ Font, Mauricio A. (9 July 2010). Coffee and Transformation in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Lexington Books. pp. 225–6. ISBN 9781461633167.
- ^ Reza, Ramiro de la. O evento do Curuçá: bólidos caem no Amazonas (The Curuçá Event: Bolides Fall in the Amazon) (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: National Observatory. Retrieved from the Universidade Estadual de Campinas website.
- ^ "João Pessoa" (in Portuguese). Netsaber. Retrieved July 13, 2013.
- ^ http://www.infoescola.com/historia-do-brasil/governo-de-washington-luis/ (Portuguese language)
- ^ "A reorganização da Côrte de Appellação" (página 7 do 1° caderno), Jornal do Brasil (19 de novembro de 1930).
- ^ Who's who in Brazil. 1971. p. 1298.
- ^ "Ruth Cardoso | Brazilian anthropologist and educator". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
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