1934 in Brazil

Events in the year 1934 in Brazil.

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.

Books

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

Films

 * O Caçador de Diamantes

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)

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)