1907 in Brazil

Events in the year 1907 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Afonso Pena
• Vice President: Nilo Peçanha

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

• 7 January - Three new battleships on which construction work is in progress are scrapped as a result of changes to the Brazilian government's requirements.
• 20 February - The Brazilian government approves the design for its new battleships.[1]
• 30 April - The keel of Brazil's latest dreadnought battleship "São Paulo" is laid down at the Vickers shipyard, Barrow-in-Furness, UK.[2]
• date unknown
  • Construction of the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad begins, linking the cities of Porto Velho and Guajará-Mirim.[3]
  • The first Brazilian diplomats are officially accredited by the government of Costa Rica.

Arts and culture

• Olavo Bilac is elected the "Prince of Brazilian Poets" by the magazine Fon-Fon.[4]

Births

• 29 January - Clóvis Graciano, artist (died 1988)
• 9 February - Victor Civita, Italian-Brazilian journalist and publisher, in New York, USA (died 1990)[5]
• 29 March - Braguinha, composer (died 2006)
• 4 April - Otávio Fantoni, soccer player (died 1935)
• 22 May - Luiz Gervazoni, footballer (died 1963)
• 12 June - José Reis, scientist and journalist (died 2002)
• 3 August - Ernesto Geisel, military leader and politician (died 1996)
• 15 December - Oscar Niemeyer, architect (died 2012)

Deaths

• 1 October - Geraldo Ribeiro de Sousa Resende, Baron Geraldo of Resende, aristocrat, farmer and politician (born 1847)[6]

See also

• 1907 in Brazilian football

References

1. Topliss, David. "The Brazilian Dreadnoughts, 1904–1914." Warship International 25, no. 3 (1988): p 246.
2. "E São Paulo," Navios De Guerra Brasileiros.
3. "Construction Facts: The Sourcebook of Statistics, Records and Resources". Engineering News Record. McGraw Hill. 14: 48–49. November 2003.
4. Bilac's biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (in Portuguese)
5. "Victor Civita" - bio Archived 2010-08-12 at the Wayback Machine, Grupo Abril website, retrieved July 19, 2011
6. Smith, Warney. Barão Geraldo, A Luta pela Autonomia (1920-1980). Centro de Memória da Unicamp, 1996.