1912 - The writer Oswald de Andrade returns from Paris bringing Marinetti’s Futurist Manifesto.

The painter Lasar Segall has his first exhibition in São Paulo.

1914 - Beginning of the First World War.

Anita Malfatti has her first exhibition.

1917 - Anita Malfatti has her second exhibition in São Paulo (12/1917 - 1/1918). Monteiro Lobato reacts, writing "Paranóia ou Mistificação".

1922 - The Semana de Arte Moderna [Week of Modern Art] takes place in the Municipal Theatre of São Paulo, in February. The atmosphere of controversies and insults generated by the movement can be felt on Mario’s writings of the period that just follows the Semana.

The magazine Klaxon appears in May and is published until January 1923.

"Levante do Forte" [Lieutenants’ Uprising], Rio de Janeiro.

Foundation of Brazilian Communist Party.

Foundation of the magazine Ordem, by intellectuals linked to Catholic thinking.

International Exhibition of the Centennial of Independence, in Rio de Janeiro.

1924 - Levante Tenentista in São Paulo, headed by Isidoro Dias Lopes.

1927 - The various groups, "clãs", within the Modernist Movement are formed: Anta, Jabuti, Pau-Brasil, Verde-Amarelo, Antropofagia.

1930 - 1930 Revolution in Brazil.

1934 - About the "routinizing" of the Modernism, during the 1930’s, Antônio Cândido says: "In literature, what seemed like a joke begun to be recognized as the norm of the new times, until it penetrated in the closed and under surveillance garden of teaching. We, who had started high school with the old, and, nonetheless, well done anthology of Fausto Barreto and Carlos de Laet (which ends with Bilac and Coelho Neto), saw the rise, in 1933 or 1934, of that one by Estêvão Cruz, who quotes in its beginning, an essay by Tristão de Athaíde about the Modernism, side by side of an extract of Graça Aranha about the carioca carnival and which is just followed by an episode of Macunaíma."(Paulo DUARTE: Mário de Andrade por Ele Mesmo. São Paulo, HUCITEC, 1985, p. xvi).