1896 in Brazil

Events in the year 1896 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Prudente de Morais
• Vice-President: Manuel Vitorino

Governors

• Alagoas:
• Amazonas:
• Bahia:
• Ceará:
• Goiás:
• Maranhão:
• Mato Grosso:
• Minas Gerais:
• Pará:
• Paraíba:
• Paraná:
• Pernambuco:
• Piauí:
• Rio Grande do Norte:
• Rio Grande do Sul:
• Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• Sergipe:

Vice governors

• Rio Grande do Norte:
• São Paulo:

Events

• 4 November - The Brazilian government sends 100 men under the command of Lieutenant Manuel da Silva Pires Ferreira to intervene in the Canudos region.
• 21 November - The War of Canudos begins with an attack by the small force led by Pires Ferreira. They are fiercely counter-attacked by a band of 500 armed men; the Brazilian force retreats, after incurring severe losses and killing 150 of the attackers, many of whom are armed only with machetes, primitive lances and axes.
• Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales becomes governor of São Paulo.

Births

• 16 August - Cyro de Freitas Valle, lawyer (died 1969)
• 19 August - Alda Garrido, actress (died 1970)
• 20 September - Eduardo Gomes, politician and military figure (died 1981)
• 17 December - Gustavo Corção, Roman Catholic writer (died 1978)

Deaths

• 16 September - Antônio Carlos Gomes, composer (born 1836)