1892 in Brazil

Events in the year 1892 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Marshal Floriano Peixoto
• Vice-President: vacant

Governors

• 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

• 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

• 21 May - The French-built monitor Solimoes is wrecked off Cape Polonio, Uruguay, with the loss of 125 lives.
• date unknown
  • Danish botanist Eugenius Warming gives the first detailed description of the Brazilian cerrado in his book Lagoa Santa.
  • The Afro-Brazilian practice of Capoeira is banned (not to be re-legalised until 1937).

Births

• 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)
• 18 July - Arthur Friedenreich, soccer player, regarded by some as the sport's first outstanding black player (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)

Deaths

• 23 August - Deodoro da Fonseca, first president of the Republic of Brazil (born 1827)