1915 in Brazil
| 1915 in Brazil |
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| Year of Constitution: 1891 |
Events in the year 1915 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
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
Events
- 6 August - Brazilian-born Bernardino Luís Machado Guimarães becomes President of Portugal.
Culture and the arts
- 29 January - Heitor Villa-Lobos gives the first in a series of chamber concerts; one of the new works he introduces during this year is his Cello Concerto no 1.[1]
Births
- 5 January - Humberto Teixeira, musician (died 1979)
- 15 January - Maria Lenk, swimmer (died 2007)
- 20 April - Aurora Miranda, entertainer (died 2005)[2]
- 18 October - Grande Otelo, Afro-Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician, real name Bernardes de Souza Prata (died 1993)
Deaths
- 18 January - Bernardino José de Campos Júnior, politician, second and sixth governor of the State of São Paulo (born 1841)[3]
- 2 February - João Cardoso de Meneses e Sousa, Baron of Paranapiacaba, poet, translator, journalist, lawyer and politician (born 1827)[4]
- 27 November - Orville Adalbert Derby, American geologist who became a Brazilian citizen (born 1851; suicide)[5]
References
- ^ Appleby, David P. 1988. Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Bio-Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-25346-3
- ^ Obituary: Aurora Miranda http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/mar/06/guardianobituaries.brazil
- ^ Santos, José Maria dos, Bernardino de Campos e o Partido Republicano Paulista, Rj, Jose Olympio, 1960
- ^ A biography of Sousa (in Portuguese)
- ^ Diniz Gonsalves, A., 1952 - Orville A. Derby's Studies on the Paleontology of Brazil - Published under the direction of the Executive Commission for the 1st Centenary Commemorating the birth of Orville A. Derby, and sponsored by the American Embassy in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro, 1952.
See also
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