1892 in Brazil

Events in the year 1892 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Marshal Floriano Peixoto
• Vice-President: vacant

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

• 21 May - The French-built monitor Solimoes is wrecked off Cape Polonio, Uruguay, with the loss of 125 lives.
• date unknown
  • Danish botanist Eugenius Warming gives the first detailed description of the Brazilian cerrado in his book Lagoa Santa.
  • The Afro-Brazilian practice of Capoeira is banned (not to be re-legalised until 1937).

Births

• 20 January - Sud Mennucci, journalist and educator (died 1948)
• 20 March - Menotti Del Picchia, poet, journalist and painter (died 1982)
• 23 April - Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda, lawyer and diplomat (died 1979)
• 18 July - Arthur Friedenreich, soccer player, regarded by some as the sport's first outstanding black player (died 1969)
• 23 July - João de Souza Mendes, chess master (died 1969)
• 4 October - Assis Chateaubriand, lawyer, journalist, politician and diplomat (died 1968)
• 27 October - Graciliano Ramos, modernist writer, politician and journalist (died 1953)

Deaths

• 23 August - Deodoro da Fonseca, first president of the Republic of Brazil (born 1827)