# 1934 in Brazil

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.

### July

* 16 July - The Vargas government introduces what will be the shortest-lived Constitution of Brazil, lasting only 3 years (until 1937). 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.

## Arts and culture
### Books

* Jorge Amado - Suor
* Monteiro Lobato - Emília no País da Gramática and Aritmética da Emília
* Carolina Nabuco - A Sucessora

### 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)

### 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)