# 1932 in Brazil

Events in the year 1932 in Brazil.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Getúlio Vargas (Head of the Provisional Government)
* 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 (until June 11, 1932); Bertino Dutra da Silva (from June 11, 1932)
* Rio Grande do Sul: José Antônio Flores da Cunha
* Santa Catarina:
* São Paulo: Manuel Rabelo (until March 7, 1932); Pedro Manuel de Toledo (from July 10, 1932)
* 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 (Martins, Miragaia, Dráusio and Camargo) 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 (died 2018)
* 26 April – Agildo Ribeiro, actor and humorist (died 2018)
* 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. (died 1986)
* 25 May – Joaquim Pedro de Andrade, film director and screenwriter (died 1988)
* 21 June – Ilka Soares, actress
* 23 July – Oswaldo Loureiro, Brazilian actor (died 2018)
* 28 July – Carlos Alberto Brilhante Ustra, military officer and politician (died 2015)
* 28 August – Raul Cortez, actor (died 2006)
* 15 September – Antônio Abujamra, theatre and television director and actor (died 2015)
* 14 November – Cláudio Ulpiano, philosopher (died 1999)

## Deaths

date unknown – Evaristo Conrado Engelberg, mechanical engineer and inventor (born 1853)

### July

* 2 July - Rodolfo Teófilo, writer, poet and film-maker (born 1863)
* 23 July – Alberto Santos-Dumont, Franco-Brazilian aviation pioneer (born 1873; apparent suicide by hanging)