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Events in the year 1907 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
- Alagoas: Euclid Vieira Malta
- Amazonas: Antônio Constantino Néri
- Bahia: José Marcelino de Sousa
- Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
- Goiás: Miguel da Rocha Lima
- Maranhão: Benedito Pereira Leite
- Mato Grosso: Pedro Leite Osório, then Generoso Pais Leme de Sousa Ponce
- Minas Gerais: João Pinheiro da Silva
- Pará: Augusto Montenegro
- Paraíba: Valfredo Leal
- Paraná: João Cândido Ferreira, Joaquim Monteiro de Carvalho e Silva
- Pernambuco: Sigismundo Antônio Gonçalves
- Piauí: Álvaro de Assis Osório Mendes (until 5 December); Areolino Antônio de Abreu (from 5 December)
- Rio Grande do Norte: Manuel Moreira Dias (until 23 February); Antonio José de Melo e Sousa (from 23 February)
- Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
- Santa Catarina:
- São Paulo:
- Sergipe:
Vice governors
Events
- 7 January - Three new battleships on which construction work is in progress are scrapped as a result of changes to the Brazilian government's requirements.
- 20 February - The Brazilian government approves the design for its new battleships.[1]
- 20 April - Brazil annexed land in the East from Colombia through the Vásquez Cobo–Martins treaty.
- 30 April - The keel of Brazil's latest dreadnought battleship "São Paulo" is laid down at the Vickers shipyard, Barrow-in-Furness, UK.[2]
- date unknown
- Construction of the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad begins, linking the cities of Porto Velho and Guajará-Mirim.[3]
- The first Brazilian diplomats are officially accredited by the government of Costa Rica.
Arts and culture
- Olavo Bilac is elected the "Prince of Brazilian Poets" by the magazine Fon-Fon.[4]
Births
- 29 January - Clóvis Graciano, artist (died 1988)
- 9 February - Victor Civita, Italian-Brazilian journalist and publisher, in New York, USA (died 1990)[5]
- 29 March - Braguinha, composer (died 2006)
- 4 April - Otávio Fantoni, soccer player (died 1935)
- 18 April - Manoel de Castro Villas Bôas, entrepreneur, writer and journalist (d. 1979)
- 22 May - Luiz Gervazoni, footballer (died 1963)
- 12 June - José Reis, scientist and journalist (died 2002)
- 3 August - Ernesto Geisel, military leader and politician (died 1996)
- 15 December - Oscar Niemeyer, architect (died 2012)
Deaths
- 1 October - Geraldo Ribeiro de Sousa Resende, Baron Geraldo of Resende, aristocrat, farmer and politician (born 1847)[6]
See also
References
- ↑ Topliss, David. "The Brazilian Dreadnoughts, 1904–1914." Warship International 25, no. 3 (1988): p 246.
- ↑ "E São Paulo," Navios De Guerra Brasileiros.
- ↑ "Construction Facts: The Sourcebook of Statistics, Records and Resources". Engineering News Record. McGraw Hill. 14: 48–49. November 2003.
- ↑ Bilac's biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (in Portuguese)
- ↑ "Victor Civita" - bio Archived 2010-08-12 at the Wayback Machine, Grupo Abril website, retrieved July 19, 2011
- ↑ Smith, Warney. Barão Geraldo, A Luta pela Autonomia (1920-1980). Centro de Memória da Unicamp, 1996.
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