1938 in Brazil

← 1937 1936 1935 1938 in Brazil → 1939 1940 1941
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1938 Timeline of Brazilian history

Events in the year 1938 in Brazil.

Incumbents

• President: Getúlio Vargas

Events

• 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.^[1]
• 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.^[2]
  • Mário de Andrade takes up a post at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.^[3]

Arts and culture

Films

• Alma e Corpo de uma Raça
• Aruanã
• Maridinho de Luxo
• Tererê Não Resolve

Births

• 18 August - Orestes Quércia, politician (died 2010)
• 23 July - Menalton Braff, novelist and short story writer^[4]
• 25 July - Sérgio Ferro, painter
• 25 November - Luiz Henrique Rosa, musician and soccer player (died 1985)^[5]

Deaths

• 28 July
  • Lampião, bandit (born 1897; killed in a police ambush)^[6]
  • Maria Bonita, bandit (born 1911; killed along with her boyfriend Lampião)

See also

1938 in Brazilian football

References

1. R.S. Rose (2000), One of the Forgotten Things: Getúlio Vargas and Brazilian Social Control, 1930-1954, Westport: Greenwood, p. 86.
2. "Michel Bernanos". Pages Françaises de Science-Fiction (in French). Retrieved March 31, 2012.
3. Suárez, José I., and Tomlins, Jack E., Mário de Andrade: The Creative Works (Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 2000). p 21
4. Menalton Braff, leitor de Cecília Meireles
5. Allmusic
6. Chandler, Billy Jaynes (1978). The Bandit King: Lampião of Brazil. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-194-8.