1887 in Brazil
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Events in the year 1887 in Brazil.
Incumbents
[edit]- Monarch: Pedro II[1]
- Prime Minister: João Alfredo Correia de Oliveira
Events
[edit]- June – The Clube Militar, founded by Benjamin Constant and Deodoro da Fonseca, holds its first meeting.[2]
- Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, future President of Brazil, becomes president of the province of São Paulo.
- Italian ethnologist Guido Boggiani travels through the interior of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay to document the lives of Indians in the region.[3]
- Maragogi is granted the status of a town.
Births
[edit]- March 5 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, composer (died 1959)[4]
- April 19 – Lucílio de Albuquerque, painter (died 1939)
- May 15 – José Joaquim Moniz de Aragão, diplomat (died 1974)
- May 16 – Maria Lacerda de Moura, anarchist, feminist, journalist and writer (died 1945)[5]
Deaths
[edit]- date unknown – William Hadfield, British writer, specialist in Brazil (born 1806)
References
[edit]- ^ "Pedro II - emperor of Brazil". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
- ^ William Darrel Rogers (1984). Brazilian Foreign Policy Since 1964: From Close Alignment with the West to Assertive Independence. University of Virginia. p. 53.
- ^ Vinigi Grottanelli, et al. "Ethnology and/or Cultural Anthropology in Italy: Traditions and Development. Current Anthropology 18.4 (1977): 593-614, p. 595
- ^ Béhague, Gerard. 2001. "Villa-Lobos, Heitor". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
- ^ Maria Lacerda de Moura, 1887-1944 by Singularidades
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