1892 in Brazil

Events in the year 1892 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

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

Governors

• Alagoas:
• Amazonas:
• Bahia:
• Ceará:
• Goiás:
• Maranhão:
• Mato Grosso:
• Minas Gerais:
• Pará:
• Paraíba:
• Paraná:
• Pernambuco:
• Piauí:
• Rio Grande do Norte:
• Rio Grande do Sul:
• Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• Sergipe:

Vice governors

• Rio Grande do Norte:
• São Paulo:

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)