1922 - Week of Modern Art, São Paulo; Copacabana Fort rebellion; Universal Exhibition of Rio de Janeiro; foundation of PCB [Brazilian Communist Party].

1924 - Movimento Tenentista (SP), led by Isidoro Dias Lopez.

1925 - Amadeu Amaral founds the Sociedade Demológica in SP; 1st Congresso Regionalista do Nordeste, organized by intellectuals linked to Gilberto Freyre, in which Cascudo participates.

1929 - The folklorist Amadeu Amaral dies.

1930 - 1930 Revolution in Brazil; intervention in the States; dismissal of the president of Rio Grande do Norte (RN), Juvenal Lamartine, removal of the government of RN’s livestock-cotton producing elite; Juarez Távora and José Américo de Almeida visit Natal; lieutenant Irineu Joffily acts as intervener and founds the ill-fated Legião Revolucionária do RN, in December.

1931 - Plínio Salgado publicizes his ideas, "a conclamation to young men throughout the whole country", through the newspaper A Razão, in the column "Notas Políticas". Strong opposition to the intervener from São Paulo, with campaigns in the newspapers of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. In RN, in January, Aluízio Moura takes over (getting close to the "decaídos" [the fallen ones] which were the old livestock-cotton producing oligarchy that fell from power after 1930). Cascudo assumes the directorship of the Imprensa Oficial for two months. In July, a new intervener, Cascardo, takes office, in an attempt by the federal government to attract the local elite.

1932 - Revolução Constitucionalista SP; Plínio Salgado holds conferences at the Faculty of Law SP and at the São Paulo Academy of Literature.

Ação Integralista Brasileira officially created by Plínio Salgado, in 10^th July, through a manifesto read out at a meeting at the Municipal Theatre of São Paulo, entitled Manifesto de Outubro (Nosso Século, p.130).

Publication, in November of 1932, in the Diário de Pernambuco, of the Manifesto de apoio ao Integralismo signed by Otto Guerra and Américo de Oliveira Costa, among others.

1933 - Twenty thousand members are registered to the AIB (Ação Integralista Brasileira); the foundation of AIB-RN, on the 14^th of July, at the Alberto Maranhão Theatre. From this year until 1937, the movement regiments more than 3,000 followers in RN.

Mario Câmara is chosen as intervener in RN.

1934 - Creation of the University of São Paulo; 1^st Congresso Afro-brasileiro, Recife; 1^st Congresso Integralista, held in March in Espírito Santo; The AIB has 180,000 members; Plínio Salgado visits Natal in August; Gustavo Barroso visits Natal, heading an "integralist detachment" (Cascudo’s entry on the last page of Brasil, Colônia de Banqueiros: "Chegado a Natal em 26.10.34")

1935 - The AIB arranges 1,123 organized groups in 538 municipal districts, encompassing 400,000 followers; creation of the Aliança Nacional Libertadora; 2^nd Congresso Integralista, held in Petrópolis in March (as of this date the AIB started to be "a civil association, with headquarters in the city of SP, and a political party, with headquarters wherever its supreme chief might be"); creation of the Federal District University; communist uprising that takes over the city of Natal for some days and invades the AIB-RN headquarters in November.

1936 - Creation of the Clube de Etnografia; the AIB has 918,000 members.

1937 - The Clube de Etnografia of the Departamento de Cultura de São Paulo assumes official character on the 20^th of May, under the name Sociedade de Etnografia e Folclore, to represent Brazil at the Congresso Internacional de Folclore in Paris (July) with financial support from the Departamento de Cultura de São Paulo. It finishes in the same year, after the Estado Novo. Carlos Gondim, Regional Head of Integralism in RN, is arrested by the police in November. Documents of AIB-RN are hidden and lost. In September, the AIB becomes a political party, choosing its leader Plínio Salgado as its candidate for the presidency. With the dissolution of the political parties, in December, the AIB becomes the "Associação Brasileira de Cultura". It has centres all over the country, with more than a million followers.

1938 - "Intentona Integralista" – assassination attempt of Vargas, which unleashed an intense campaign against Integralism with the imprisonment and exile of its leaders.

1941 - Foundation of the Sociedade Brasileira de Folclore, in Natal, by Cascudo; foundation of the Sociedade Brasileira da Antropologia e Etnografia by Arthur Ramos.

1942 - Basílio Magalhães presides over the Instituto Brasileiro de Folclore.

1945 - Death of the writer Mário de Andrade.

1946 - Creation of the Instituto Brasileiro de Educação, Ciência e Cultura on the 13^th of July, adjoined to the Min. das Relações Exteriores as required by UNESCO; the Academia Capixaba de Folclore is organized by Guilherme dos Santos Neves.

1947 - Creation of the Comissão Nacional de Folclore, parapolitical institution based in Rio de Janeiro and belonging to the Instituto Brasileiro de Educação, Ciência e Cultura of the Min. das Relações Exteriores.

1949 - National Folklore week (SP).

1950 - National Folklore week (Porto Alegre).

1951 – I Congresso Brasileiro de Folclore (RJ).

1952 - National Folklore week (Maceió).

1953 - II Congresso Brasileiro de Folclore (Curitiba).

1954 - Congresso Internacional de Folclore (SP).

1958 - Creation of the Campanha de Defesa do Folclore Brasileiro; the National Folklore week (RJ) is held; the Biblioteca Amadeu Amaral is inaugurated.

1959 - IV Congresso Brasileiro de Folclore (Porto Alegre).

1963 - V Congresso Brasileiro de Folclore (Fortaleza).

1976 - The Instituto Nacional do Folclore is created, heir of the Comissão de Defesa do Folclore Brasileiro.