1920 in Brazil
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First Brazilian Republic |
Year of Constitution: 1891 |
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
Vice governors
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
- Official Olympic Reports Archived 2006-06-22 at the Wayback Machine
- Monteiro Lobato - E-Biografias
- Academia Brasileira de Letras profile of João Cabral de Melo Neto
- "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.
- 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
- Guimarães, Maria Inês (1994). "Nepomuceno Biography, and Program Notes to Marco Polo Recording of Piano Works". Naxos Records. Retrieved 2007-11-28.
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