1897 in Brazil

Events in the year 1897 in Brazil.

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 de Castilhos
• Santa Catarina: Hercílio Luz
• São Paulo:
• Sergipe:

Vice governors

• Rio de Janeiro:
• Rio Grande do Norte:
• São Paulo:

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)

References

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