1897 in Brazil

Events in the year 1897 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

• 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.
• 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.

Births

• 6 February - Alberto Cavalcanti, film director and producer (died 1982)
• 30 April - Humberto Mauro, film director (died 1983)
• 7 June - Lampião, bandit (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)
• 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)
• 13 November - Francisco de Paula Ney, poet and journalist (born 1858)