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Year1929

  1. 1929

    The new town hall of Machico was opened.

  2. 1929

    Clado Ribeiro de Lessa published a biographical sketch of his uncle, Padre António João de Lessa.

  3. 1929–1932

    Annual statistics recorded cane, sugar and alcohol production in the archipelago.

  4. 1929

    Peres Trancoso published 'O Trabalho Português, I, Madeira', an estimate of Madeira's economic wealth.

  5. 1929

    São Vicente's municipal administrative commission chose a new site and sketched a plan for moving the municipal seat.

  6. 17 January 1929

    Madre Virgínia da Paixão died at Lombo dos Aguiares.

  7. 21 February 1929

    D. Marta Celina Sauvayre da Câmara died in Portugal.

  8. 4 March 1929

    A landslide into the sea near the Ribeira do Vigário, Câmara de Lobos, caused waves that killed twenty people.

  9. 6 March 1929

    A landslide after heavy rain destroyed houses and killed 32 people near the Rosário chapel in São Vicente.

  10. June 1929

    José Augusto Fragoso presented his forestry report to the Junta Geral.

  11. 14 June 1929

    Decree 16.956 authorised a 7,000-conto loan for Funchal's sanitation works.

  12. 23 June 1929

    The Diário de Notícias of Funchal published an article on Jean Jacques Brousson's account of Anatole France.

  13. December 1929

    Baron Charles Van Beneden died in Belgium.

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