1908 in Brazil
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Events in the year 1908 in Brazil.
Incumbents
[edit]Federal government
[edit]Governors
[edit]- Alagoas: Euclid Vieira Malta
- Amazonas: Antônio Constantino Néri (till 23 July); Antônio Clemente Ribeiro Bittencourt (from 23 July)
- Bahia: José Marcelino de Sousa, then João Ferreira de Araújo Pinho
- Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli (till 12 July); Antônio Nogueira Accioli (from 12 July)
- Goiás: Miguel da Rocha Lima
- Maranhão: Benedito Pereira Leite (till 25 May); Arthur Collares (from 25 May)
- Mato Grosso: Generoso Pais Leme de Sousa Ponce, then Pedro Celestino Corrêa da Costa
- Minas Gerais: João Pinheiro da Silva (till 25 October); Júlio Bueno Brandão (from 27 October)
- Pará: Augusto Montenegro
- Paraíba: Valfredo Leal (till 28 October); João Lopes Machado (from 28 October)
- Paraná: Joaquim Monteiro de Carvalho e Silva; Manuel de Alencar Guimarães; Francisco Xavier da Silva
- Pernambuco: Sigismundo Antônio Gonçalves (till 7 April); Herculano Bandeira de Melo (from 7 April)
- Piauí: Areolino Antônio de Abreu (till 31 March); José Lourenço de Morais e Silva (31 March - 1 July); Anísio Auto de Abreu (from 1 July)
- Rio Grande do Norte: Antonio José de Melo e Sousa (till 25 March); Alberto Maranhão (from 25 March)
- Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros (till 25 January); Carlos Barbosa Gonçalves (from 25 January)
- Santa Catarina:
- São Paulo:
- Sergipe:
Vice governors
[edit]Events
[edit]- 23 May - Jerônimo de Sousa Monteiro becomes the 13th president (governor) of the state of Espírito Santo.
June
[edit]- 16 June: The Kasato Maru arrives at the Port of Santos with the first official group of Japanese immigrants to Brazil.[1][2]
- 2 July - The Argentina national football team begins a tour of Brazil, winning six and drawing one of the seven friendly games played in 13 days.
- 11 August - 15 November - The Exhibition of the centenary of the opening of the Ports of Brazil was held in Urca, Rio de Janeiro.
- 10 September - The first Minas Geraes-class Dreadnought battleship for Brazil, Minas Geraes, is launched at Armstrong Whitworth's yard on the River Tyne in England, catalysing the "South American dreadnought race".
- 30 October - Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, renounces his claim on the Brazilian throne in order to marry Countess Elisabeth Dobržensky de Dobrženicz.[3]
- 15 November - The emergence of Umbanda through Zélio Fernandino de Moraes.[4]
Births
[edit]- 3 February - Dulcina de Moraes, stage actress and director (died 1996)
- 12 February - Olga Benário Prestes, German-Brazilian communist militant (in Munich;[5] died 1942)
- 8 June - Inah Canabarro Lucas, Supercentenarian and Nun
- 27 June - João Guimarães Rosa, novelist (died 1967)
- 5 September - Josué de Castro, activist (died 1973)
- 14 September - Maria Luisa Monteiro da Cunha, librarian (died 1980)
- 25 October - Blessed Adílio Daronch, student (died 1924)
- 28 November - Vitorino de Brito Freire, politician (died 1977)[6]
- 13 December - Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Catholic intellectual and politician (died 1995)
Deaths
[edit]- 29 September - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, novelist, poet, playwright, short story writer, and monarchist (born 1839)[7]
- 22 October - Artur Azevedo, dramatist, short story writer, chronicler, journalist and poet of the Parnassian school (born 1855)[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Columns "The Ship Kasato-maru"". www.ndl.go.jp. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
- ^ Baily, Samuel L.; Míguez, Eduardo José (2016-12-09). Mass Migration to Modern Latin America. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780842028318.
- ^ <BARMAN, Roderick J., Princesa Isabel do Brasil: gênero e poder no século XIX, UNESP, 2005
- ^ "5 curiosidades sobre a religião Umbanda".
- ^ Morais, Fernando (December 2004). Olga. ISBN 9780802141897.
- ^ Buzar, Benedito (December 11, 2008). "100 anos de Vitorino Freire" (PDF). Diário da Assembleia (in Portuguese). Assembleia Legislativa do Estado do Maranhão. pp. 33–36. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2014-01-09.
- ^ Scarano, Júlia Maria Leonor. Grandes Personagens da Nossa História. São Paulo: Abril Cultural, 1969. (Portuguese)
- ^ Biography of Artur Azevedo (in Portuguese)
See also
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