1897 in Brazil
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Events in the year 1897 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
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Events
- 6 January – An expeditionary force, consisting of 557 soldiers and officers under the command of Major Febrônio de Brito, who attacks the well-defended village of Canudos. The troops are eventually forced to retreat when confronted with more than 4,000 insurrectionists.[1]
- 7 August – Euclides da Cunha goes to the Sertão ("backland"), as war correspondent for O Estado de S. Paulo.
- 2 October – the War of Canudos comes to a brutal end, when a large Brazilian army force overruns the village and kills nearly all the inhabitants.[2]
Births
- 6 February – Alberto Cavalcanti, film director and producer (died 1982)
- 30 April – Humberto Mauro, film director (died 1983)[3]
- 7 June – Lampião, bandit[4] (died 1938)
- 20 September – Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, politician (died 1967)
- 4 November – Oscar Lorenzo Fernández, composer (died 1948)
Deaths
- 1 January – Adolfo Caminha, Naturalist novelist (born 1867; tuberculosis)[5]
- 4 March – Antônio Moreira César, army colonel, killed in action
- 22 September – Antônio Conselheiro, religious leader, preacher, and founder of the village of Canudos (born 1830; dysentery)[6]
- 13 November – Francisco de Paula Ney, poet and journalist (born 1858)
References
- Cunha, Euclides da. Rebellion in the Backlands. Translated from Portuguese Os Sertões. University Of Chicago Press, 1957. ISBN 0-226-12444-4.
- Levine, R.M. Vale of Tears: Revisiting the Canudos Massacre in Northeastern Brazil, 1893–1897. University of California Press, 1995. ISBN 0-520-20343-7. Review Archived 17 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
- Drew, William M. Humberto Mauro (1897–1983). Accessed 8 December 2013
- Chandler, Billy Jaynes (1978). The Bandit King: Lampião of Brazil. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-194-8.
- Caminha's biography (in Portuguese)
- CUNHA, Euclides da. Rebellion in the Backlands. Transl. Samuel Putnam. Chicago: Phoenix Books, 1944
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