1938 in Brazil

Events in the year 1938 in Brazil.

Incumbents

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]

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

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

1938 in South America

Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela

Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands