1893 in Brazil

Events in the year 1893 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

• September – Revolta da Armada launched by Royalist admiral Custódio José de Melo
• November – beginning of Federalist Riograndense Revolution

Births

• January 19 – Magda Tagliaferro, pianist of French parentage (died 1986)[1]
• May 16 – Ronald de Carvalho, poet and diplomat
• October 9 – Mário de Andrade, poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer[2]

Deaths

• July 13 – William Hutchinson Norris, founder of the city of Americana, São Paulo (born 1800)[3]

References

1. Anne Commire; Deborah Klezmer (2002). Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. Yorkin Publications. p. 106. ISBN 978-0-7876-4074-3.
2. Suárez, José I., and Tomlins, Jack E., Mário de Andrade: The Creative Works (Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 2000).
3. Proceedings of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge Jurisdiction of Alabama, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons: Annual Communication. The Lodge. 1894. p. 67.