1932 in Brazil

Events in the year 1932 in Brazil.

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.

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 )