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1883
April19Birth of Get?lio Vargas who will rule Brazil between 1930 and 1954 with a break of 5 years.
1926
January26 Get?lio Vargas is elected federal deputy for Rio Grande do Sul.
1928
January25 Get?lio Vargas is elected president of Rio Grande do Sul.
1930
March1 Get?lio Vargas loses the election to J?lio Prestes. This will start the 1930 revolution that brings him to power.
October3Start of the revolution that will bring Get?lio Vargas to the presidency.
5In the revolution that will bring Get?lio Vargas to the presidency, Recife is taken, signifying control of Northern Brazil.
24The 1930 revolution ends in victory for the rebelious faction led by Get?lio Vargas.
November3 Get?lio Vargas takes office as leader of a provisional government.
1931
May2415.000 workers protest in Rio de Janeiro in support of president Get?lio Vargas as a response to the Marcha da Fome (hunger march).
1934
July17 Get?lio Vargas is elected president by the Constituent Assembly.
1935
July11The communist orriented opposition party ANL is declared illegal by Get?lio Vargas.
1937
September32 Get?lio Vargas and General Dutra reveal the Cohen Plan. A supposed communist plot to take power.
November10A new constitution is granted by Get?lio Vargas starting the Estado Novo. The constitution is nicknamed a polaca.
1939
January9Roosevelt writes a flattering letter to Get?lio Vargas.
1940
June11 Get?lio Vargas delivers a pro-Nazi speach aboard a marine ship.
1941
July10Roosevelt writes a letter to Get?lio Vargas asking for Brazil?s help in defending the Western Hemisphere.
1942
March11 Get?lio Vargas decrees the confiscation of porperty of German and Italian immigrants.
May1 Get?lio Vargas has a car accident. While he recovers his daughter Alzira and Foreign Minister Aranha take over.
Augustus31 Get?lio Vargas declares war on the Axes.
1943
January29 Get?lio Vargas and Roosevelt meet in Natal.
November10In an interview Get?lio Vargas promises to hold elections after the war.
1944
September7Inauguration of one of Rio de Janeiro's main arteries Avenida Presidente Vargas.
December20Creation of the Get?lio Vargas foundation.
1945
May15With the support of Get?lio Vargas the PTB (Partido Trabalhista Brasileiro) is founded.
October29 Get?lio Vargas leaves office under pressure from the army to hold elections. Later he will return as elected president.
31 Get?lio Vargas returns to his homestate Rio Grande do Sul.
1946
January31Dutra takes office after winning the lections following Get?lio Vargas' dismissal.
1950
June15 Get?lio Vargas' presidential candidacy is launched at a big meeting in Sao Paulo hosted by Ademar Barros.
July26The convention of the PTB supports Get?lio Vargas' presidential candidacy.
October3 Get?lio Vargas is elected presidente with 49% of the votes.
1951
February6 Get?lio Vargas sends a decree to Congress for the foundation Petrobras, the state oil company.
1954
Augustus5In a failed assassination attemp on Carlos Lacerda, airforce officer Rubens Vaz is killed. This event will eventually lead to Get?lio Vargas? suicide.
6In an article in the Tribuna da Imprensa Carlos Lacerda accuses Get?lio Vargas of responsibilty for the failed attempt on his life.
24 Get?lio Vargas commits suicide.
26 Get?lio Vargas is buried in S?o Borja (Rio Grande do Sul). Speeches by Tancredo Neves, Jo?o Goulart (Jango) e Osvaldo Aranha.
1962
October23Greg?rio Fortunato bodyguard of president Get?lio Vargas and the man behind the failed attempt to murder Carlos Lacerda dies.
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