1887 in Brazil

Events in the year 1887 in Brazil.

Incumbents

• Monarch: Pedro II
• Prime Minister: João Alfredo Correia de Oliveira

Events

• June – The Clube Militar, founded by Benjamin Constant and Deodoro da Fonseca, holds its first meeting.
• Rodrigues Alves, future President of Brazil, becomes president of the province of São Paulo.
• Italian ethnologist Guido Boggiani travels through the interior of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay to document the lives of Indians in the region.
• Maragogi is granted the status of a town.

Births

• March 5 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, composer (died 1959)
• April 19 – Lucílio de Albuquerque, painter (died 1939)
• May 15 – José Joaquim Moniz de Aragão, diplomat (died 1974)
• May 16 – Maria Lacerda de Moura, anarchist, feminist, journalist and writer (died 1945)

Deaths

• date unknown – William Hadfield, British writer, specialist in Brazil (born 1806)

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