Events in the year 1949 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

* President: Marshal Eurico Gaspar Dutra * Vice President: Nereu Ramos

Governors

* Alagoas: Silvestre Pericles * Amazonas: Leopoldo da Silva Amorim Neves * Bahia:

Otávio Mangabeira Otávio Mangabeira (27 August 1886 – 29 November 1960) was a Brazilian politician, professor, and engineer. He served as governor of Bahia, represented Bahia in the Senate of Brazil, and was the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1926 to 1930 ...

Ceará Ceará (, pronounced locally as or ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is the eighth-largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area. It is also one of the ...

: Faustino de Albuquerque * Espírito Santo: Carlos Fernando Monteiro Lindenberg * Goiás: Jerônimo Coimbra Bueno * Maranhão: Sebastian Archer *

Mato Grosso Mato Grosso ( – lit. "Thick Bush") is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian GDP. Neighboring ...

: Arnaldo Estêvão de Figueiredo * Minas Gerais:

Milton Soares Campos Milton may refer to: Names * Milton (surname), a surname (and list of people with that surname) ** John Milton (1608–1674), English poet * Milton (given name) ** Milton Friedman (1912–2006), Nobel laureate in Economics, author of '' Free t ...

* Pará:

Luís de Moura Carvalho Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

Paraíba Paraíba ( Tupi: ''pa'ra a'íba''; ) is a state of Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Northeast, and it is bordered by Rio Grande do Norte to the north, Ceará to the west, Pernambuco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Paraíba ...

Osvaldo Trigueiro Osvaldo may refer to the following people: Given name *Osvaldo Alonso, Cuban football player *Osvaldo Ardiles (born 1952), an Argentine football player and coach *Osvaldo Bagnoli, an Italian football coach *Osvaldo Brandão, a Brazilian football c ...

* Paraná:

Moisés Lupion Moisés Wille Lupion de Troia (March 25, 1908 — August 29, 1991) was a Brazil, Brazilian accountant, businessman, and politician who twice served as governor of the state of Paraná (state), Paraná. References

1908 births 1991 deat ...

* Pernambuco:

Alexandre Barbosa Lima Sobrinho Alexandre may refer to: * Alexandre (given name) * Alexandre (surname) * Alexandre (film) See also * Alexander * Xano (disambiguation) Xano is the name of: * Xano, a Portuguese hypocoristic of the name " Alexandre (disambiguation)" * Idálio ...

Piauí Piaui (, ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region. The state has 1.6% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.7% of the Brazilian GDP. Piaui has the shortest coastline of any coastal Brazilian state at 66&n ...

: José da Rocha Furtado * Rio de Janeiro: Macedo Soares * Rio Grande do Norte:

José Augusto Varela José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...

Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...

: Walter Só Jobim * Santa Catarina: Aderbal Ramos da Silva * São Paulo:

Ademar de Barros Adhemar Pereira de Barros (22 April 1901 – 12 March 1969) was the mayor of São Paulo (1957–1961), and twice elected Governor of São Paulo (1947–1951 & 1963–1966). Barros was born in Piracicaba, Brazil. He was the federal interv ...

* Sergipe: Jose Rollemberg

Vice governors

: Francisco de Menezes Pimentel * Espírito Santo:

José Rodrigues Sette José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced , is an old vernacu ...

* Goiás: Hosanah de Campos Guimarães * Maranhão: Saturnino Bello * Minas Gerais: José Ribeiro Pena *

: José Targino Pereira da Costa *

: Osvaldo da Costa e Silva * Rio Grande do Norte: Tomaz Salustino * São Paulo: Luís Gonzaga Novelli Júnior

Events

*''date unknown'' - The

Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas The Brazilian Center for Research in Physics ( pt, Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas, CBPF) is a physics research center in the Urca neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro sponsored by the Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological ...

is founded by

Cesar Lattes Cesar, César or Cèsar may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media * ''César'' (film), a 1936 film directed by Marcel Pagnol * ''César'' (play), a play by Marcel Pagnolt * César Award, a French film award Places * Cesar, Portugal * C ...

, José Leite Lopes, and Jayme Tiomno.

January

25 January Events Pre-1600 * 41 – After a night of negotiation, Claudius is accepted as Roman emperor by the Senate. * 750 – In the Battle of the Zab, the Abbasid rebels defeat the Umayyad Caliphate, leading to the overthrow of the dynasty. ...

: IEPAC, the forerunner of

UniÍtalo Centro Universitário Ítalo Brasileiro (popularly known as UniÍtalo), is a private Brazilian university located in the Santo Amaro (district of São Paulo), Santo Amaro district of São Paulo. UniÍtalo offers 18 undergraduate and 27 graduate d ...

, is founded by professor and Italian immigrant Pasquale Cascino.

February

1 February Events Pre-1600 *1327 – The teenaged Edward III is crowned King of England, but the country is ruled by his mother Queen Isabella and her lover Roger Mortimer. *1411 – The First Peace of Thorn is signed in Thorn (Toruń), Monas ...

: The

Roman Catholic Diocese of Macapá The Roman Catholic Diocese of Macapá ( la, Dioecesis Macapensis) is a diocese located in the city of Macapá in the ecclesiastical province of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Belém do Pará, Belém do Pará in Brazil. History * February 1, 1949: ...

is established as Territorial Prelature of Macapá from the Territorial Prelature of Santarém.

May

11 May Events 1601–1900 *1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons. *1813 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route across th ...

: Brazil defeats Paraguay 7-0 to win the

1949 South American Championship The 1949 South American Championship was the 21st. edition of the Copa América, the main national team football competition in South America. It was held in, and won by, Brazil. Paraguay finished as runner-up while Argentina withdrew from the t ...

.1949-1975: Brasil, Paraguay, Bolivia y Perú, campeones
on Agencia San Luis, 3 Jun 2015

July

* 12 July: The first issue of the comic '' O Pato Donald'' is launched, giving rise to Editora Abril, founded by Victor Civita.

Arts and culture

Books

* Maria José Dupré - ''Dona Lola''

Films

*''Almas Adversas'' *''Estou Aí'' *''A Escrava Isaura'' *''O Homem que Passa'' *''Inocência'' *''Pinguinho de Gente'' *''Vendaval Maravilhoso''

Music

* Afoxé music is introduced by a group called Filhos de Gandhi.

Births

January

*27 January:

Djavan Djavan Caetano Viana (; born 27 January 1949) is a Brazilian singer-songwriter. Early life and career Djavan was born in Maceió, Brazil to a white father of Dutch descent and a black mother. He later formed the group Luz, Som, Dimensão (LSD ...

, singer-songwriter

April

*18 April: Antônio Fagundes, actor

May

*14 May: Helvécio Ratton, film director, producer and screenwriter

August

*12 August: Fernando Collor de Mello, President of Brazil 1990-1992

September

*21 September:

Odilo Scherer Odilo Pedro Scherer (; born 21 September 1949) is a Brazilian cardinal of the Catholic Church, who has been the Archbishop of São Paulo since March 2007. He was made a cardinal in November 2007. In the international media, he was mentioned as a ...

, Archbishop of São Paulo *25 September: Ronaldo Caiado, politician

Deaths

February

*2 February:

Pedro Paulo Bruno Pedro Paulo Bruno (October 14, 1888 – February 2, 1949) was a Brazilian painter, singer, poet, and landscaper of Italian origin. His best known work is the 1918 painting ''A Pátria'' (''Fatherland''), which depicts the Brazilian flag being e ...

, painter, singer and poet (born

1888 In Germany, 1888 is known as the Year of the Three Emperors. Currently, it is the year that, when written in Roman numerals, has the most digits (13). The next year that also has 13 digits is the year 2388. The record will be surpassed as late ...

)

December

*11 December: Rudolf Komorek, Salesian missionary (born 1890)Salesian Missions
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