1897 in Brazil

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Incumbents

Federal government

President : Prudente de Morais
Vice-President : Manuel Vitorino

Governors

Alagoas: Jose Vieira Peixoto (until June 12), Manuel Jose Duarte (starting June 12)
Amazonas: Fileto Pires Ferreira
Bahia: Luís Viana
Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
Goiás: Francisco Leopoldo Rodrigues Jardim
Maranhão:
- until March 26: Casimiro Vieira Jr
- from March 26: Alfredo Martins
Mato Grosso: Manuel José Murtinho
Minas Gerais: Bias Fortes
Pará:
- until February 1: Lauro Sodré
- from February 1: Pais de Carvalho
Paraíba: Antônio Alfredo Mello
Paraná: Santos Andrade
Pernambuco: Joaquim Correia de Araújo
Piauí: Raimundo Artur de Vasconcelos
Rio Grande do Norte: Joaquim Ferreira Chaves
Rio Grande do Sul: Júlio Prates de Castilhos
Santa Catarina:
São Paulo:
Sergipe:

Vice governors

Events

6 January – An expeditionary force, consisting of 557 soldiers and officers under the command of Major Febrônio de Brito, who attacks the well-defended village of Canudos. The troops are eventually forced to retreat when confronted with more than 4,000 insurrectionists.^[1]
7 August – Euclides da Cunha goes to the Sertão ("backland"), as war correspondent for O Estado de S. Paulo .
2 October – the War of Canudos comes to a brutal end, when a large Brazilian army force overruns the village and kills nearly all the inhabitants.^[2]
12 October – The city of Belo Horizonte is created and its construction is completely successfully.

Births

6 February – Alberto Cavalcanti, film director and producer (died 1982)
30 April – Humberto Mauro, film director (died 1983)^[3]
7 June – Lampião, bandit^[4] (died 1938)
20 September – Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, politician (died 1967)
4 November – Oscar Lorenzo Fernández, composer (died 1948)

Deaths

1 January – Adolfo Caminha, Naturalist novelist (born 1867; tuberculosis)^[5]
4 March – Antônio Moreira César, army colonel, killed in action
22 September – Antônio Conselheiro, religious leader, preacher, and founder of the village of Canudos (born 1830; dysentery)^[6]
13 November – Francisco de Paula Ney, poet and journalist (born 1858)

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Euclides da Cunha</span> Brazilian journalist, sociologist and engineer

Euclides da Cunha was a Brazilian journalist, sociologist and engineer. His most important work is Os Sertões, a non-fictional account of the military expeditions promoted by the Brazilian government against the rebellious village of Canudos, known as the War of Canudos.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">War of Canudos</span> 1896–1897 internal conflict in Brazil

The War of Canudos was a conflict between the First Brazilian Republic and the residents of Canudos in the northeastern state of Bahia. It was waged in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery in Brazil (1888) and the overthrow of the monarchy (1889). The conflict arose from a millenarian cult led by Antônio Conselheiro, who began attracting attention around 1874 by preaching spiritual salvation to the poor population of the sertão, a region which suffered from severe droughts. Conselheiro and his followers came into attrition with the local authorities after founding the village of Canudos. The situation soon escalated, with Bahia's government requesting assistance from the federal government, who sent military expeditions against the settlement.

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References

↑ Cunha, Euclides da. Rebellion in the Backlands. Translated from Portuguese Os Sertões. University Of Chicago Press, 1957. ISBN 0-226-12444-4.
↑ Levine, R.M. Vale of Tears: Revisiting the Canudos Massacre in Northeastern Brazil, 1893–1897. University of California Press, 1995. ISBN 0-520-20343-7. Review Archived 17 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine .
↑ Drew, William M. Humberto Mauro (1897–1983). Accessed 8 December 2013
↑ Chandler, Billy Jaynes (1978). The Bandit King: Lampião of Brazil. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-194-8.
↑ Caminha's biography Archived 28 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
↑ CUNHA, Euclides da. Rebellion in the Backlands . Transl. Samuel Putnam. Chicago: Phoenix Books, 1944

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[1] Cunha, Euclides da. Rebellion in the Backlands. Translated from Portuguese Os Sertões. University Of Chicago Press, 1957. ISBN 0-226-12444-4.

[2] Levine, R.M. Vale of Tears: Revisiting the Canudos Massacre in Northeastern Brazil, 1893–1897. University of California Press, 1995. ISBN 0-520-20343-7. Review Archived 17 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine .

[3] Drew, William M. Humberto Mauro (1897–1983). Accessed 8 December 2013

[4] Chandler, Billy Jaynes (1978). The Bandit King: Lampião of Brazil. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-194-8.

[5] Caminha's biography Archived 28 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)

[6] CUNHA, Euclides da. Rebellion in the Backlands . Transl. Samuel Putnam. Chicago: Phoenix Books, 1944

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