1904 in Brazil

Events in the year 1904 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves
• Vice President: Francisco Silviano de Almeida Brandão

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

• 17 April - Bangu Atlético Clube is founded at the Fábrica Bangu in Rio de Janeiro.[1]
• 14 December - The National Congress of Brazil approves a large naval acquisition programme.[2]
• date unknown
  • The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil is founded in Rio Grande do Sul.[3]
  • Ford begin selling cars in Brazil.

Births

• 3 January - Carlos Nascimento, football manager (died 1979)[4]
• 7 October - Carlota De Camargo Nascimento (Loty), sculptor and poet (died 1974)[5]
• 2 November - Armando Del Debbio, footballer (died 1984)
• 3 December - Roberto Marinho, publisher, businessman and TV and radio mogul (died 2003)

Deaths

• 10 September - Aparicio Saravia, Uruguayan politician and military leader (born 1856), of wounds received in the Battle of Masoller.
• 20 October - Carolina Novais, wife of the writer Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, after thirty-five years of “perfect married life”.[6]

References

1. "Fundação" (in Portuguese). Bangu.net. Archived from the original on November 2, 2008. Retrieved November 15, 2008.
2. Grant, Jonathan A. Rulers, Guns, and Money: The Global Arms Trade in the Age of Imperialism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-674-02442-7.
3. Official website
4. Napoleão, Antônio Carlos; Roberto Assaf (2006). Seleção Brasileira 1914-2006. Rio de Janeiro: Mauad X. p. 327. ISBN 85-7478-186-X.
5. VIEIRA, Lucia Gouvêa, Salão de 1931. Marco da revelação da arte moderna em nível nacional. Rio de Janeiro; FUNARTE/Instituto de Artes Plásticas, 1984.
6. Enciclopédia Barsa, Volume 10: Judô – Mercúrio. Rio de Janeiro: Encyclopædia Britannica do Brasil, 1987. (in Portuguese) p. 267: “vida conjugal perfeita”.

See also

• 1904 in Brazilian football