1892 in Brazil
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| Year of Constitution: 1891 |
Events in the year 1892 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Marshal Floriano Peixoto
- Vice-President: vacant
Governors
Vice governors
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
- "Wreck of an ironclad", Launceston Examiner, 24 May 1892. Accessed 21 December 2013
- 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
- "Capoeira Information". Brazilplaces.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2009. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
- Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda's biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (in Portuguese)
- A História não Contada
- Árvore genealógica de Graciliano Ramos Archived 2014-03-28 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
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