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| Timeline of Brazilian history |
| First Brazilian Republic |
| Year of Constitution: 1891 |
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Afonso Pena (until 14 June); Nilo Peçanha (starting 14 June)
- Vice President: Nilo Peçanha (until 14 June); vacant (starting 14 June)
Governors
- Alagoas:
- till 3 March: Euclid Vieira Malta
- 3 March-12 June: José Miguel de Vasconcelos
- from 12 June: Euclid Vieira Malta
- Amazonas: Antônio Clemente Ribeiro Bittencourt
- Bahia: João Ferreira de Araújo Pinho
- Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
- Goiás:
- until March 11: Miguel da Rocha Lima
- March 11 - May 1: Francisco Bertoldo de Sousa
- May 1 - July 24: José da Silva Batista
- From July 24: Urbano Coelho de Gouveia
- Maranhão:
- until February 25: Arthur Collares
- February 25 - June 29: Mariano Martins Lisboa Neto
- from June 29: Américo Vespúcio dos Reis
- Mato Grosso: Pedro Celestino Corrêa da Costa
- Minas Gerais:
- until 3 April: Júlio Bueno Brandão
- from 3 April: Venceslau Brás
- Pará:
- until 1 February: Augusto Montenegro
- from 1 February: João Antônio Luís Coelho
- Paraíba: João Lopes Machado
- Paraná: Francisco Xavier da Silva
- Pernambuco: Herculano Bandeira de Melo
- Piauí:
- until 5 December: Anísio Auto de Abreu
- from 5 December: Manuel Raimundo da Paz
- Rio Grande do Norte: Alberto Maranhão
- Rio Grande do Sul: Carlos Barbosa Gonçalves
- Santa Catarina:
- São Paulo:
- Sergipe:
Vice governors
Events
January
- 17 January: The Federal University of Amazonas is founded.
- 20 January: Brazil's new cruiser, Bahia, is launched.[1]
April
- 14 April: Physician Carlos Chagas discovers a tropical parasitic disease caused by the flagellated cinetoplastid protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, in the mining town of Lassance.[2][3]
- 19 April: Brazil's new battleship, São Paulo, is launched at Barrow-in-Furness, UK, by Regis de Oliveira, the wife of Brazil's minister to Great Britain.
May
- 17 May: The football club Paulista Futebol Clube is founded.
September
- 8 September: The Velarde-Río Branco treaty between Brazil and Peru is signed, establishing borders south of the Yavarí.
- 19 September: The country's first automobile race is held at the São Gonçalo circuit in Rio de Janeiro.[4]
Births
February
- 7 February - Hélder Câmara, Catholic archbishop (died 1999)
- 21 February - Mário Wallace Simonsen, businessman (died 1965)
August
- 4 August - Roberto Burle Marx, landscape architect (died 1994)[5]
September
- 13 September - Prince Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza, claimant to the abolished imperial throne of Brazil (in France; died 1981).[6]
- 26 September - Geraldo de Proença Sigaud, Archbishop of Diamantina 1960-1980 (died 1999)
November
- 21 November - Octacílio Pinheiro Guerra, footballer (died 1967)
Deaths
- 6 March - João Barbosa Rodrigues, botanist and engineer (born 1842)
- 14 June - Afonso Pena, lawyer and politician, President of Brazil (born 1847)[7]
- 15 August - Euclides da Cunha, journalist, sociologist and engineer (born 1866)
- 27 November - Prince Luigi, Count of Roccaguglielma, son of Princess Januária of Brazil (born 1845)
References
- ↑ R.B. Haworth, "6103832 [Bahia]" (subscription required), Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
- ↑ Antonio Teixeira, Marina Vinaud e Ana Maria Castro, Emerging Chagas Disease (2011), p. 19.
- ↑ Simone Petraglia Kropf e Luisa Massarani, Carlos Chargas, A Ciência Para Combater Doenças Tropicais (2009), p. 5.
- ↑ Joel Wolfe. Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search For Modernity (2009), p. 31.
- ↑ Eliovson, Sima (1991). The gardens of Roberto Burle Marx. Harry N. Abrams. p. 21. ISBN 0810933578. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
- ↑ Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, ed. (1977). Burke's Royal Families of the World, Volume 1: Europe & Latin America. London: Burke's Peerage. ISBN 0-85011-023-8. p 43
- ↑ Afonso Pena - BrasilEscola (in Portuguese)
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