1897 in Brazil

Events in the year 1897 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Prudente de Morais
• Vice-President: Manuel Vitorino

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

• 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

1. Cunha, Euclides da. Rebellion in the Backlands. Translated from Portuguese Os Sertões. University Of Chicago Press, 1957. ISBN 0-226-12444-4.
2. 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.
3. Drew, William M. Humberto Mauro (1897-1983). Accessed 8 December 2013
4. Chandler, Billy Jaynes (1978). The Bandit King: Lampião of Brazil. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-194-8.
5. Caminha's biography (in Portuguese)
6. CUNHA, Euclides da. Rebellion in the Backlands. Transl. Samuel Putnam. Chicago: Phoenix Books, 1944