1914 in Brazil

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Incumbents

Federal government

President: Marshal Hermes da Fonseca (until 14 November); Venceslau Brás (from 15 November)
Vice President: Venceslau Brás (until 14 November); Urbano Santos da Costa Araújo (from 15 November)

Governors

Alagoas: Clodoaldo da Fonseca
Amazonas: Jônatas de Freitas Pedrosa
Bahia: José Joaquim Seabra
Ceará:
- till 14 March: Marcos Franco Rabelo
- 15 March - 14 June: Fernando Setembrino de Carvalho
- from 14 June: Benjamin Liberato Barroso
Goiás:
- until 6 July: Olegário Herculano da Silva Pinto
- from 6 July: Salatiel Simões de Lima
Maranhão:
- till 1 March: Luís Antônio Domingues da Silva
- 1 March - 26 April: Afonso Gifwning de Matos
- from 26 April: Herculano Nina Parga
Mato Grosso: Joaquim Augusto da Costa Marques
Minas Gerais:
- till 7 September: Júlio Bueno Brandão
- from 7 September: Delfim Moreira
Pará: Enéas Martins
Paraíba: João Castro Pinto
Paraná: Carlos Cavalcanti de Albuquerque
Pernambuco: Emídio Dantas Barreto
Piaui: Miguel de Paiva Rosa
Rio Grande do Norte: Joaquim Ferreira Chaves
Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
Santa Catarina:
São Paulo:
Sergipe:

Vice governors

Events

1 January at 12:00 a.m. Local Mean Time States and territories now observe the four standard time zones, moving clocks forward or backward by a few minutes and seconds according to the then civil time by law since 18 June, 1913.
1 March - In the presidential election, incumbent Vice-President Venceslau Brás, of the Mineiro Republican Party, receives 91.6% of the vote.^[1]
20 May - Brazil participates in the Niagara Falls peace conference, in at attempt to avoid war between the United States and Mexico.^[2]
8 June - The Brazilian Football Confederation is founded, with Álvaro Zamith as its first president. The Brazilian Olympic Committee is founded on the same day.
14 September - The British Royal Navy auxiliary cruiser HMS Carmania fought the German SMS Cap Trafalgar off Trindade in the Battle of Trindade. Carmania sank Cap Trafalgar, but sustained severe damage herself.^[3]
15 November - Venceslau Brás is sworn in as Brazil's ninth president.^[4]

Births

14 March - Abdias do Nascimento, Afro-Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician (died 2011)^[5]
18 May - Cacilda Borges Barbosa, pianist, conductor and composer (died 2010)^[6]
26 May - Sister Dulce, Catholic Franciscan Sister (died 1992)
29 May - José Eugênio Corrêa, Bishop of Caratinga 1957-1978 (died 2010)
14 July - Marcelo Damy, physicist (died 2009)

Deaths

18 June - Sílvio Romero, Condorist" poet, essayist, literary critic, professor and journalist (born 1851)^[7]
12 November - Augusto dos Anjos, poet and academic (born 1884;pneumonia)

Related Research Articles

Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca was a Brazilian field marshal and politician who served as the eighth president of Brazil between 1910 and 1914. He was a nephew of marshal Deodoro da Fonseca, the first president of Brazil, and general João Severiano da Fonseca, patron of the Army Health Service. His parents were the marshal Hermes Ernesto da Fonseca and Rita Rodrigues Barbosa.

Venceslau Brás Pereira Gomes was a Brazilian politician who served as ninth president of Brazil between 1914 and 1918, during the First Brazilian Republic. Brás was born in Brasópolis, Minas Gerais State. He became governor of that state in 1909, and in 1910 he was elected vice-president under Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca. As the sixth vice president of Brazil, he also served as the President of the Senate. He was elected president in 1914 and served until 1918. His government declared war on the Central Powers in October 1917 during World War I. He was the longest-lived Brazilian president, reaching 98 years of age.

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References

↑ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3. p 230
↑ "Bulletins from Peace Meeting Eagerly Read by the Crowds". The New York Times . May 21, 1914. Retrieved 2014-01-03. 'Play Ball' sang out an irreverent voice as Frederick W. Lehmann and Justice Joseph R. Lamar, the two American delegates to the Niagara Falls peace conference, arrived here a few minutes before 3 o'clock this afternoon and went upstairs to the sun parlor for the opening session of the conference. ...
↑ "'Carmania' sinking the 'Cap Trafalgar' off Trinidade Island in the South Atlantic, 14 September 1914". Royal Museums Greenwich (Collections). National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
↑ O novo governo (página 1 do único caderno), O Paiz (16 de novembro de 1914). Ano XXX, n° 10997.
↑ Bruce Weber (May 30, 2011). "Abdias do Nascimento, Rights Voice, Dies at 97". The New York Times .
↑ Antonio, Irati (1994). "Barbosa, Cacilda Campos Borges". In Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel. The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Woman Composers (1st American ed.). The Macmillan Press Limited (London); W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. (New York). p. 35. ISBN 0-393-03487-9.
↑ Romero's biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (in Portuguese)

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[1] Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3. p 230

[2] "Bulletins from Peace Meeting Eagerly Read by the Crowds". The New York Times . May 21, 1914. Retrieved 2014-01-03. 'Play Ball' sang out an irreverent voice as Frederick W. Lehmann and Justice Joseph R. Lamar, the two American delegates to the Niagara Falls peace conference, arrived here a few minutes before 3 o'clock this afternoon and went upstairs to the sun parlor for the opening session of the conference. ...

[3] "'Carmania' sinking the 'Cap Trafalgar' off Trinidade Island in the South Atlantic, 14 September 1914". Royal Museums Greenwich (Collections). National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 18 February 2013.

[4] O novo governo (página 1 do único caderno), O Paiz (16 de novembro de 1914). Ano XXX, n° 10997.

[5] Bruce Weber (May 30, 2011). "Abdias do Nascimento, Rights Voice, Dies at 97". The New York Times .

[6] Antonio, Irati (1994). "Barbosa, Cacilda Campos Borges". In Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel. The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Woman Composers (1st American ed.). The Macmillan Press Limited (London); W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. (New York). p. 35. ISBN 0-393-03487-9.

[7] Romero's biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (in Portuguese)

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