1901 in Brazil

Events in the year 1901 in Brazil .

Incumbents

Federal government

• President : Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales
• Vice President : Francisco de Assis Rosa e Silva

Governors

• Alagoas: Euclides Vieira Malta
• Amazonas: Silvério José Néri
• Bahia: Severino Vieira
• Ceará: Pedro Augusto Borges
• Goiás:
  • until June 10: Urbano Coelho de Gouveia
  • June 10 - August 12: Bernardo Albernaz
  • from August 12: José Xavier de Almeida
• Maranhão: João Gualberto Torreão da Costa
• Mato Grosso: Antônio Pedro Alves de Barros
• Minas Gerais: Silviano Brandão
• Pará:
  • until February 1: Pais de Carvalho
  • from February 1: Augusto Montenegro
• Paraíba: José Peregrino de Araújo
• Paraná: Francisco Xavier da Silva
• Pernambuco: Antônio Gonçalves Ferreira
• Piauí: Arlindo Francisco Nogueira
• Rio Grande do Norte: Alberto Maranhão
• Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
• Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• Sergipe:

Vice governors

• Rio Grande do Norte:
• São Paulo:

Events

• 23 February - The Instituto Butantan is launched by biomedical scientist Vital Brazil.
• 24 February - The Expointer agricultural show is launched in Porto Alegre. ^[1]
• 5 June - The Correio da Manhã newspaper is published for the first time. ^[2]
• 19 October - Aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont wins the Deutsch de la Meurthe prize with a flight that rounds the Eiffel Tower, ^[3]

Births

• 22 April - Adhemar de Barros, politician (died 1969)
• 25 May - Antônio Castilho de Alcântara Machado, journalist, politician and writer (died 1935) ^[4]
• 11 June - José Maria Alkmin, politician (died 1974)
• August 1 - Pedro Aleixo, Vice President 1967-1969, de jure President Aug-Oct 1969 (died 1975)
• 9 September - Agostinho Fortes Filho, footballer (died 1966)

Deaths

• 13 March - Princess Januária of Brazil (born 1822) ^[5]
• 15 December - Elias Álvares Lobo, composer (born 1834)

References

1. "Expointer - Official website". Archived from the original on 2009-09-18. Retrieved 2019-02-14.
2. "DICIONÁRIO HISTÓRICO-BIOGRÁFICO BRASILEIRO". Fundação Getúlio Vargas. Archived from the original on 2007-05-20. Retrieved 2007-04-24.
3. "M. Santos Dumont Rounds Eiffel Tower." The New York Times, 20 October 1901. Retrieved: 12 January 2009.
4. Antônio de Alcântara Machado Novelas paulistanas -1999 Page 6 "Bibliografia sobre António de Alcântara Machado : Amado, Jorge. Mana Maria. In: Boletim de Ariel. Rio de Janeiro, V/11, agosto 1936, pp. 292-293. Andrade, Mário de. O túmulo na neblina. In: António de Alcântara Machado. Em memória"
5. Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, ed. (1977). Burke's Royal Families of the World, Volume 1: Europe & Latin America. London: Burke's Peerage. p. 49. ISBN   0-85011-023-8.