1909 in Brazil

Events of the year 1909 in the Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Afonso Pena (until 14 June); Nilo Peçanha (starting 14 June)
• Vice President: Nilo Peçanha

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

• 20 January - Brazil's new cruiser, Bahia, is launched.[1]
• 19 April - Brazil's new battleship, São Paulo, is launched at Barrow-in-Furness, UK, by Regis de Oliveira, the wife of Brazil's minister to Great Britain.
• 17 May - The football club Paulista Futebol Clube is founded.

Births

• 21 February - Mário Wallace Simonsen, businessman (died 1965)
• 4 August - Roberto Burle Marx, landscape architect (died 1994)[2]
• 13 September - Prince Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza, claimant to the abolished imperial throne of Brazil (in France; died 1981).[3]
• 26 September - Geraldo de Proença Sigaud, Archbishop of Diamantina 1960-1980 (died 1999)
• 21 November - Octacílio Pinheiro Guerra, footballer (died 1967)

Deaths

• 6 March - João Barbosa Rodrigues, botanist and engineer (born 1842)
• 14 June - Afonso Pena, lawyer and politician, President of Brazil (born 1847)[4]
• 15 August - Euclides da Cunha, journalist, sociologist and engineer (born 1866)
• 27 November - Prince Luigi, Count of Roccaguglielma, son of Princess Januária of Brazil (born 1845)

References

1. R.B. Haworth, "6103832 [Bahia]" (subscription required), Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
2. Eliovson, Sima (1991). The gardens of Roberto Burle Marx. Harry N. Abrams. p. 21. ISBN 0810933578. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
3. Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, ed. (1977). Burke's Royal Families of the World, Volume 1: Europe & Latin America. London: Burke's Peerage. ISBN 0-85011-023-8. p 43
4. Afonso Pena - BrasilEscola (in Portuguese)

See also

• 1909 in Brazilian football