1933 in Brazil

Events in the year 1933 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Getúlio Vargas (Head of the Provisional Government)
• Vice President: none

Governors

• Alagoas: Louis de France Albuquerque (till 10 January); Alfonso de Carvalho (from 10 January)
• Amazonas: Álvaro Botelho Maia (till 10 October); Nélson de Melo (from 10 October)
• Bahia: Juracy Magalhães
• Ceará: Roberto Carneiro de Mendonça
• Goiás:
  • till 31 July: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
  • 31 July - 8 September: José Carvalho dos Santos Azevedo
  • from 8 September: Pedro Ludovico Teixeira
• Maranhão:
  • till 10 February: Lourival Seroa da Mota
  • 10 February - 30 April: Américo Wanick
  • 30 April - 29 June: Álvaro Saldanha
  • from 29 June: Antônio Martins de Almeida
• Mato Grosso: Leônidas Antero de Matos
• Minas Gerais:
  • till 5 September: Olegário Maciel
  • 5 September - 15 December: Gustavo Capanema
  • from 15 December: Benedito Valadares
• Pará: Joaquim de Magalhães Barata
• Paraíba: Gratuliano da Costa Brito
• Paraná: Manuel Ribas
• Pernambuco: Carlos de Lima Cavalcanti
• Piauí: Landry Sales
• Rio Grande do Norte:
  • till 2 August: Bertino Dutra da Silva
  • from 2 August: Mario Leopoldo Pereira da Camera
• Rio Grande do Sul: José Antônio Flores da Cunha
• Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• Sergipe:

Vice governors

• Rio Grande do Norte:
• São Paulo:

Events

• 19 April – Octávio Barbosa marries Beatriz de Lima Viana, at Belo Horizonte.
• 1 June – The Federal University of São Paulo is founded in São Paulo, Brazil.^[1]
• 20 July – New airline Aerolloyd Iguassu goes into operation, with flights between Curitiba and São Paulo.^[2]
• 10 October – The Anti-war Treaty of Non-aggression and Conciliation, an inter-American treaty, is signed in Rio de Janeiro by representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay.^[3]
• 24 October – The city of Goiânia, capital of Goiás, is founded.^[4]

Arts and culture

Books

• Peter Fleming – Brazilian Adventure
• Gilberto Freyre – Casa-Grande e Senzala^[5]

Films

• A Voz do Carnaval
• Ganga Bruta
• Honra e Ciúmes
• Onde a Terra Acaba

Births

• 7 January - Nicette Bruno, actress (died 2020)
• 9 January – Paulo Goulart, actor (died 2014)
• 27 January – Ary Fontoura, actor, writer, director, poet and TV-presenter^[6]
• 14 March – Manoel Carlos, novelist
• 8 July – Paulo Tarso Flecha de Lima, diplomat (died 2021)
• 28 October – Garrincha, footballer (died 1983)^[7]
• 5 November – Paulo César Saraceni, film director and screenwriter (died 2012)^[8]
• 14 December – Eva Wilma, actress (died 2021)

Deaths

• 25 March – João de Deus Mena Barreto, a member of the junta that temporarily governed Brazil when Washington Luís was deposed.
• 19 April – Vital Soares, lawyer and politician (born 1874)
• 2 May – Juliano Moreira, psychiatrist (born 1872)^[9]
• 23 October – Jerônimo de Sousa Monteiro, politician (born 1870)^[10]