1908 in Brazil

1908 in Brazil
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Year of Constitution: 1891

Events in the year 1908 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

Afonso Pena, President
Nilo Peçanha, Vice President
  • President: Afonso Pena
  • Vice President: Nilo Peçanha

Governors

  • 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

Events

June

  • 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

  • 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 (died 2025)
  • 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

  • 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

  1. ^ "Columns "The Ship Kasato-maru"". www.ndl.go.jp. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
  2. ^ Baily, Samuel L.; Míguez, Eduardo José (2016-12-09). Mass Migration to Modern Latin America. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780842028318.
  3. ^ <BARMAN, Roderick J., Princesa Isabel do Brasil: gênero e poder no século XIX, UNESP, 2005
  4. ^ "5 curiosidades sobre a religião Umbanda".
  5. ^ Morais, Fernando (December 2004). Olga. ISBN 9780802141897.
  6. ^ 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.
  7. ^ Scarano, Júlia Maria Leonor. Grandes Personagens da Nossa História. São Paulo: Abril Cultural, 1969. (Portuguese)
  8. ^ Biography of Artur Azevedo (in Portuguese)

See also

  • 1908 in Brazilian football
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