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1898
January3Communist leader Luis Carlos Prestes is born.
1924
October28 Luis Carlos Prestes leads the revolt of army officers (tenentismo) in Rio Grande do Sul.
1925
April11Rebels from Sao Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul join forces to form the Prestes March.
December28The Prestes Mrach attacks Teresina (Piaui).
1927
February4The Prestes March receives asylum in Bolivia after a march of 25.000 kilometres across Brazil.
March24Lieutenant Siqueira Campos and 65 survivors of the Prestes March receive asylum in Paraguay.
1930
March1 Get?lio Vargas loses the election to J?lio Prestes. This will start the 1930 revolution that brings him to power.
May29 Luis Carlos Prestes declares himself a communist and repudes the Alian?a Liberal.
1934
Augustus1During his exile in Moscow Luis Carlos Prestes affiliates himself with the Brazilian Communist Party (PCB).
1935
April11 Luis Carlos Prestes arrives in Brazil accompanied by Olga Ben?rio.
1936
March5Fifty soldiers fence the safe-house of communist leader Luis Carlos Prestes and arrest him together with his wife Olga Ben?rio.
November27Anita Prestes, daughter of Luis Carlos Prestes e Olga Ben?rio is born in a German prison. Her mother will die in a concentration camp. Anita now lives in Rio de Janeiro.
1937
May7Leader of the failed communist coup Luis Carlos Prestes is sentenced to 16 years in prison.
1945
April18Political prisoners, including Luis Carlos Prestes, are freed.
1947
January5A preventive prison sentence is declared for communist leader Luis Carlos Prestes.
1979
October20Communist leader Luis Carlos Prestes returns to Brazil after 10 years in exile.
1980
May19The Brazilian Communist Party remove Luis Carlos Prestes form its leadership.
1990
March7Communist leader Luis Carlos Prestes dies. His dramatic lifestory is the subject of the documentary The Comrade (1997).
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