1940 in Paraguay

← 1939 1938 1937 1940 in Paraguay → 1941 1942 1943
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	Other events of 1940 Timeline of Paraguayan history

Events in the year 1940 in Paraguay.

Incumbents

• Higinio Moríñigo
• Minister of War and Navy: Higinio Moríñigo until September 7, then Paulino Ántola

Events

• February 19 - President Estigarribia dissolves the legislature and suspends the Constitution^[1]
• August 4 -
  Paraguayan constitutional referendum, 1940
• September 7 - President Estigarribia and his wife are killed in a plane crash in Agapuey while on a tour of the interior.^[2]

Births

Deaths

• September 7 - Jose Felix Estigarribia, general and President, plane crash

References