November – A Communist insurrection, the "Red Revolt of 35", fails to unseat President Vargas. Olga Benário Prestes and her husband Luís Carlos Prestes are among the conspirators arrested.
Mário de Andrade and writer and archaeologist Paulo Duarte, who had for many years desired to promote cultural research and activity in the city through a municipal agency, create a unified São Paulo Department of Culture (Departamento de Cultura e Recreação da Prefeitura Municipal de São Paulo), with Andrade as founding director.[4]
^Antônio de Alcântara Machado Novelas paulistanas −1999 Page 6 "Bibliografia sobre António de Alcântara Machado : Amado, Jorge. Mana Maria. In: Boletim de Ariel. Rio de Janeiro, V/11, agosto 1936, pp. 292–293. Andrade, Mário de. O túmulo na neblina. In: António de Alcântara Machado. Em memória"