1908 in Brazil
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| Year of Constitution: 1891 |
Events in the year 1908 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
Afonso Pena, President
Nilo Peçanha, Vice President
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
Events
- 23 May - Jerônimo de Sousa Monteiro becomes the 13th president (governor) of the state of Espirito Santo.
- 2 July - The Argentina national football team begins a tour of Brazil, winning six and drawing one of the seven friendly games played in 13 days.
- 11 August - 15 November - The Exhibition of the centenary of the opening of the Ports of Brazil was held in Urca, Rio de Janeiro.
- 30 October - Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, renounces his claim on the Brazilian throne in order to marry Countess Elisabeth Dobržensky de Dobrženicz.[1]
Births
- 3 February - Dulcina de Moraes, stage actress and director (died 1996)
- 12 February - Olga Benário Prestes, German-Brazilian communist militant (in Munich;[2] died 1942)
- 27 June - João Guimarães Rosa, novelist (died 1967)
- 14 September - Maria Luisa Monteiro da Cunha, librarian (died 1980)
- 25 October - Blessed Adílio Daronch, student
- 28 November - Vitorino de Brito Freire, politician (died 1977)[3]
- 13 December - Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Catholic intellectual and politician (died 1995)
Deaths
- 29 September - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, novelist, poet, playwright, short story writer, and monarchist (born 1839)[4]
- 22 October - Artur Azevedo, dramatist, short story writer, chronicler, journalist and poet of the Parnassian school (born 1855)[5]
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References
- <BARMAN, Roderick J., Princesa Isabel do Brasil: gênero e poder no século XIX, UNESP, 2005
- Buzar, Benedito (December 11, 2008). "100 anos de Vitorino Freire" (PDF). Diário da Assembleia (in Portuguese). Assembleia Legislativa do Estado do Maranhão. pp. 33–36. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2014-01-09.
- Scarano, Júlia Maria Leonor. Grandes Personagens da Nossa História. São Paulo: Abril Cultural, 1969. (Portuguese)
- Biography of Artur Azevedo (in Portuguese)
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