1892 in Brazil
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| Year of Constitution: 1891 |
Events in the year 1892 in Brazil.
Incumbents[edit]
Federal government[edit]
- President: Marshal Floriano Peixoto
- Vice-President: vacant
Governors[edit]
- Alagoas: Manuel Gomes Riberio (until 24 March), Gabino Besuoro (starting 24 March)
- Amazonas:
- until 27 February: Gregório Taumaturgo Azevedo
- 27 February: José Inácio Borges Machado
- starting 27 February: Eduardo Gonçalves Ribeiro
- Bahia: Leal Ferreira then Rodrigues Lima
- Ceará: José Clarindo de Queirós, until 16 February
- João Nepomuceno de Medeiros Mallet, until 18 February
- Benjamin Liberato Barroso, until 12 July
- Antônio Nogueira Accioli, until 27 August
- José Bezerril Fontenelle
- Goiás:
- until February 19: Constâncio Ribeiro da Maia
- February 19 - July 17: Brás Abrantes
- from July 17: Antônio Caiado
- Maranhão:
- until January 8: Maranhão Governing Board of 1891
- January 8 - November 30: Manuel Belfort Vieira
- from November 30: Alfredo Martins
- Mato Grosso:
- Minas Gerais:
- until February 9: Cesário Alvim
- February 9 - July 13: Eduardo Ernesto da Gama Cerqueira
- from July 14: Afonso Pena
- Pará: Lauro Sodré
- Paraíba:
- until February 18: Paraíba governing board of 1891
- from February 18: Álvaro Lopes Machado
- Paraná:
- until April 7: Antônio Epaminondas de Barros Correia
- April 7 - April 20: Ambrósio Machado da Cunha Cavalcanti
- From April 20: Alexandre José Barbosa Lima
- Pernambuco:
- until April 7: Antônio Epaminondas de Barros Correia
- April 7 - 20: Ambrósio Machado da Cunha Cavalcanti
- from April 20: Alexandre José Barbosa Lima
- Piauí:
- until February 11: Álvaro Lopes Machado
- from February 11: Coriolano de Carvalho e Silva
- Rio Grande do Norte:
- until February 22: Governing board consisting of: Francisco de Lima e Silva, Joaquim Ferreira Chaves, and Manuel do Nascimento Castro and Silva
- February 22-28: Jerome Américo Raposo Chamber
- from February 28: Pedro de Albuquerque Maranhão
- Rio Grande do Sul:
- until June 8: Military Junta of 1891
- June 8-16: José Antônio Correia da Câmara
- June 16-17: Júlio Prates de Castilhos
- from June 17: Vitoriano Ribeiro Carneiro Monteiro
- Santa Catarina:
- São Paulo:
- Sergipe:
Vice governors[edit]
- Rio de Janeiro: Miguel de Carvalho (9 April-3 May), Manuel Torres (starting 3 May)
- Rio Grande do Norte: no vice-governor (until 28 February), Silvino Bezerra (starting 28 February)
- São Paulo: José Alves de Cerqueira César
Events[edit]
- 21 May - The French-built monitor Solimoes is wrecked off Cape Polonio, Uruguay, with the loss of 125 lives.[1]
- date unknown
- Danish botanist Eugenius Warming gives the first detailed description of the Brazilian cerrado in his book Lagoa Santa.[2]
- The Afro-Brazilian practice of Capoeira is banned (not to be re-legalised until 1937).[3]
Births[edit]
- 20 January - Sud Mennucci, journalist and educator (died 1948)
- 20 March - Menotti Del Picchia, poet, journalist and painter (died 1982)
- 23 April - Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda, lawyer and diplomat (died 1979)[4]
- 18 July - Arthur Friedenreich, soccer player, regarded by some as the sport's first outstanding black player[5] (died 1969)
- 23 July - João de Souza Mendes, chess master (died 1969)
- 4 October - Assis Chateaubriand, lawyer, journalist, politician and diplomat (died 1968)
- 27 October - Graciliano Ramos, modernist writer, politician and journalist (died 1953)[6]
Deaths[edit]
- 23 August - Deodoro da Fonseca, first president of the Republic of Brazil (born 1827)
References[edit]
- ^ "Wreck of an ironclad", Launceston Examiner, 24 May 1892. Accessed 21 December 2013
- ^ Warming, E. (1892) Lagoa Santa: Et Bidrag til den biologiske Plantegeografi med en Fortegnelse over Lagoa Santas Hvirveldyr. Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter - Naturvidenskabelig og Mathematisk Afdeling, 6. Rk. vol. 6 (3): 153-488. Later French and Portuguese translations
- ^ "Capoeira Information". Brazilplaces.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2009. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
- ^ Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda's biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (in Portuguese)
- ^ A História não Contada
- ^ Árvore genealógica de Graciliano Ramos Archived 2014-03-28 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
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