1920 in Brazil

Events in the year 1920 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Epitácio Pessoa
• Vice President: Delfim Moreira (until 1 July); Francisco Álvaro Bueno de Paiva (from 10 November)

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 April - Opening ceremony of the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, at which Brazil competes for the first time.[1] Sport shooter Guilherme Paraense is the first Brazilian to win a gold medal.

Arts and culture

Books

• Monteiro Lobato[2] writes the first of his Sítio do Picapau Amarelo novel series.

Films

• Coração de Gaúcho, directed by and starring Luiz de Barros
• O Crime de Cravinhos, directed by Arturo Carrari and starring Rodolfo Arena.
• O Garimpeiro, directed by and starring Vittorio Capellaro

Births

• 9 January - João Cabral de Melo Neto, poet and diplomat (died 1999)[3]
• 21 April - Anselmo Duarte, actor, screenwriter and film director (died 2009)[4]
• 26 July - Celso Furtado (died 2004)

Deaths

• 26 March - Prince Luís of Orléans-Braganza, claimant to the Brazilian throne (born 1878; rheumatism)[5]
• 1 July - Delfim Moreira, politician (born 1868)
• 16 October - Alberto Nepomuceno, conductor and composer (born 1864)[6]

References

1. Official Olympic Reports Archived 2006-06-22 at the Wayback Machine
2. Monteiro Lobato - E-Biografias
3. Academia Brasileira de Letras profile of João Cabral de Melo Neto
4. "Anselmo Duarte morre em SP aos 89 anos". Folha de S.Paulo (in Portuguese). November 7, 2009. Archived from the original on December 24, 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-07.
5. Barman, Roderick J. (2002). Princess Isabel of Brazil: gender and power in the nineteenth century. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources. ISBN 0-8420-2846-3. BR História. nº 4, Year 1. Duetto, 2007. p 232
6. Guimarães, Maria Inês (1994). "Nepomuceno Biography, and Program Notes to Marco Polo Recording of Piano Works". Naxos Records. Retrieved 2007-11-28.

See also

• 1920 in Brazilian football