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1909 in Brazil
Events of the year
1909
in the
Brazil
.
Incumbents
Federal government
President
:
Afonso Pena
(until 14 June); Nilo Peçanha (starting 14 June)
Vice President
:
Nilo Peçanha
(until 14 June); vacant (starting 14 June)
Governors
:
till 3 March:
Euclid Vieira Malta
3 March-12 June:
José Miguel de Vasconcelos
from 12 June:
Euclid Vieira Malta
Amazonas
:
Antônio Clemente Ribeiro Bittencourt
Bahia
:
João Ferreira de Araújo Pinho
Ceará
:
Antônio Nogueira Accioli
:
until March 11:
Miguel da Rocha Lima
March 11 - May 1:
Francisco Bertoldo de Sousa
May 1 - July 24:
José da Silva Batista
From July 24:
Urbano Coelho de Gouveia
Maranhão
:
until February 25:
Arthur Collares
February 25 - June 29:
Mariano Martins Lisboa Neto
from June 29:
Américo Vespúcio dos Reis
Mato Grosso
:
Pedro Celestino Corrêa da Costa
Minas Gerais
:
until 3 April:
Júlio Bueno Brandão
from 3 April:
Venceslau Brás
:
until 1 February:
Augusto Montenegro
from 1 February:
João Antônio LuÃÂs Coelho
:
João Lopes Machado
Paraná
:
Francisco Xavier da Silva
:
Herculano Bandeira de Melo
:
until 5 December:
AnÃÂsio Auto de Abreu
from 5 December:
Manuel Raimundo da Paz
Rio Grande do Norte
:
Alberto Maranhão
Rio Grande do Sul
:
Carlos Barbosa Gonçalves
:
São Paulo
:
:
Vice governors
:
:
Events
January
17 January
: The
Federal University of Amazonas
is founded.
20 January
: Brazil's new
cruiser
,
Bahia
, is launched.
April
14 April
: Physician
Carlos Chagas
discovers a tropical parasitic disease caused by the
flagellated
cinetoplastid
protozoan
Trypanosoma cruzi
, in the mining town of
Lassance
.
19 April
: Brazil's new
battleship
,
São Paulo
, is launched at Barrow-in-Furness, UK, by Regis de Oliveira, the wife of Brazil's minister to Great Britain.
May
17 May
: The football club
Paulista Futebol Clube
is founded.
September
8 September
: The Velarde-RÃÂo Branco treaty between Brazil and Peru is signed, establishing borders south of the
YavarÃÂ
.
19 September
: The country's first automobile race is held at the
São Gonçalo
circuit in Rio de Janeiro.
Births
February
7 February
-
Hélder Câmara
, Catholic archbishop (died
1999
)
21 February
-
Mário Wallace Simonsen
, businessman (died
1965
)
August
4 August
-
Roberto Burle Marx
, landscape architect (died
1994
)
September
13 September
-
Prince Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza
, claimant to the abolished imperial throne of Brazil (in France; died
1981
).
26 September
-
Geraldo de Proença Sigaud
, Archbishop of Diamantina 1960-1980 (died
1999
)
November
21 November
-
OctacÃÂlio Pinheiro Guerra
, footballer (died
1967
)
Deaths
6 March
-
João Barbosa Rodrigues
, botanist and engineer (born
1842
)
14 June
-
Afonso Pena
, lawyer and politician, President of Brazil (born
1847
)
15 August
-
Euclides da Cunha
, journalist, sociologist and engineer (born
1866
)
27 November
-
Prince Luigi, Count of Roccaguglielma
, son of
Princess Januária of Brazil
(born
1845
)
References
See also
1909 in Brazilian football