1914 in Brazil

Events in the year 1914 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Marshal Hermes da Fonseca (until 15 November); Venceslau Brás (from 15 November)
• Vice President: Venceslau Brás (until 15 November); Urbano Santos da Costa Araújo (from 15 November)

Governors

• Alagoas:
• Amazonas:
• Bahia:
• Ceará:
• Goiás:
• Maranhão:
• Mato Grosso:
• Minas Gerais:
• Pará:
• Paraíba:
• Paraná:
• Pernambuco:
• Piaui:
• Rio Grande do Norte:
• Rio Grande do Sul:
• Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• Sergipe:

Vice governors

• Rio Grande do Norte:
• São Paulo:

Events

• 1 March - In the presidential election, incumbent Vice-President Venceslau Brás, of the Mineiro Republican Party, receives 91.6% of the vote.[1]
• 20 May - Brazil participates in the Niagara Falls peace conference, in at attempt to avoid war between the United States and Mexico.[2]
• 8 June - The Brazilian Football Confederation is founded, with Álvaro Zamith as its first president. The Brazilian Olympic Committee is founded on the same day.

Births

• 14 March - Abdias do Nascimento, Afro-Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician (died 2011)[3]
• 18 May - Cacilda Borges Barbosa, pianist, conductor and composer (died 2010)[4]
• 29 May - José Eugênio Corrêa, Bishop of Caratinga 1957-1978 (died 2010)
• 14 July - Marcelo Damy, physicist (died 2009)

Deaths

• 18 June - Sílvio Romero, Condorist" poet, essayist, literary critic, professor and journalist (born 1851)[5]
• 12 November - Augusto dos Anjos, poet and academic (born 1884;pneumonia)

See also

• 1914 in Brazilian football

References

1. Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3. p 230
2. "Bulletins from Peace Meeting Eagerly Read by the Crowds". The New York Times. May 21, 1914. Retrieved 2014-01-03. 'Play Ball' sang out an irreverent voice as Frederick W. Lehmann and Justice Joseph R. Lamar, the two American delegates to the Niagara Falls peace conference, arrived here a few minutes before 3 o'clock this afternoon and went upstairs to the sun parlor for the opening session of the conference. ...
3. Bruce Weber (May 30, 2011). "Abdias do Nascimento, Rights Voice, Dies at 97". The New York Times.
4. Antonio, Irati (1994). "Barbosa, Cacilda Campos Borges". In Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel. The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Woman Composers (1st American ed.). The Macmillan Press Limited (London); W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. (New York). p. 35. ISBN 0-393-03487-9.
5. Romero's biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (in Portuguese)