1887 in Brazil
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| Year of Constitution: 1824 |
Events in the year 1887 in Brazil.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Emperor Pedro II
- Prime Minister – João Alfredo Correia de Oliveira
Events
- Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, future President of Brazil, becomes president of the province of São Paulo.
- Italian ethnologist Guido Boggiani travels through the interior of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay to document the lives of Indians in the region.[1]
- Maragogi is granted the status of a town.
Births
- March 5 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, composer (died 1959)[2]
- April 19 - Lucílio de Albuquerque, painter (died 1939)
- May 15 - José Joaquim Moniz de Aragão, diplomat (died 1974)
- May 16 - Maria Lacerda de Moura, anarchist, feminist, journalist and writer (died 1945)[3]
Deaths
- date unknown - William Hadfield, British writer, specialist in Brazil (born 1806)
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References
- Vinigi Grottanelli, et al. "Ethnology and/or Cultural Anthropology in Italy: Traditions and Development. Current Anthropology 18.4 (1977): 593-614, p. 595
- Béhague, Gerard. 2001. "Villa-Lobos, Heitor". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
- Maria Lacerda de Moura, 1887-1944 by Singularidades
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