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.^[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

• 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

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

References

1. "Wreck of an ironclad", Launceston Examiner, 24 May 1892. Accessed 21 December 2013
2. 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
3. "Capoeira Information". Brazilplaces.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2009. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
4. Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda's biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (in Portuguese)
5. A História não Contada
6. Árvore genealógica de Graciliano Ramos Archived 2014-03-28 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)