1893 in Brazil

Events in the year 1893 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Marshal Floriano Peixoto
• Vice-President: vacant

Governors

• : Gabino Besuoro
• Amazonas: Eduardo Gonçalves Ribeiro
• Bahia: Rodrigues Lima
• Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
• :
• until July 1: Antônio Caiado
• from July 1: José Inácio Xavier de Brito
• Maranhão:
• until October 27: Alfredo Martins
• from October 27: Casimiro Vieira Jr
• Mato Grosso:
• Minas Gerais: Afonso Pena
• : Lauro Sodré
• : Álvaro Lopes Machado
• Paraná: Francisco Xavier da Silva, then Vicente Machado da Silva Lima
• : Alexandre José Barbosa Lima
• : Coriolano de Carvalho e Silva
• Rio Grande do Norte: Pedro de Albuquerque Maranhão
• Rio Grande do Sul:
• until September 27: Vitoriano Ribeiro Carneiro Monteiro
• from September 27: Fernando Fernandes Abbott
• :
• São Paulo:
• :

Vice governors

• : Manuel Torres
• : Silvino Bezerra
• : José Alves de Cerqueira César

Events

• September – Revolta da Armada launched by Royalist admiral Custódio José de Melo
• November – beginning of the Federalist Revolution
• 71.2% of the working population of São Paulo is foreign-born.

Births

• January 19 – Magda Tagliaferro, pianist of French parentage (died 1986)
• May 16 – Ronald de Carvalho, poet and diplomat (died 1935)
• October 9 – Mário de Andrade, poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer (died 1945)

Deaths

• July 13 – William Hutchinson Norris, founder of the city of Americana, São Paulo (born 1800)

References