1892 in Brazil
Events in the year 1892 in Brazil.
| 1892 in Brazil | 
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| First Brazilian Republic | 
| Year of Constitution: 1891 | 
Incumbents
    
    Federal government
    
- President: Marshal Floriano Peixoto
 - Vice-President: vacant
 
Governors
    
- Alagoas: Manuel Gomes Riberio (until 24 March), Gabino Besuoro (starting 24 March)
 - Amazonas:
- until 27 February: Gregório Taumaturgo Azevedo
 - 27 February: José Inácio Borges Machado
 - starting 27 February: Eduardo Gonçalves Ribeiro
 
 - Bahia: Leal Ferreira then Rodrigues Lima
 - Ceará: José Clarindo de Queirós, until 16 February
- João Nepomuceno de Medeiros Mallet, until 18 February
 - Benjamin Liberato Barroso, until 12 July
 - Antônio Nogueira Accioli, until 27 August
 - José Bezerril Fontenelle
 
 - Goiás:
- until February 19: Constâncio Ribeiro da Maia
 - February 19 - July 17: Brás Abrantes
 - from July 17: Antônio Caiado
 
 - Maranhão:
- until January 8: Maranhão Governing Board of 1891
 - January 8 - November 30: Manuel Belfort Vieira
 - from November 30: Alfredo Martins
 
 - Mato Grosso:
 - Minas Gerais: 
- until February 9: Cesário Alvim
 - February 9 - July 13: Eduardo Ernesto da Gama Cerqueira
 - from July 14: Afonso Pena
 
 - Pará: Lauro Sodré
 - Paraíba:
- until February 18: Paraíba governing board of 1891
 - from February 18: Álvaro Lopes Machado
 
 - Paraná: 
- until April 7: Antônio Epaminondas de Barros Correia
 - April 7 - April 20: Ambrósio Machado da Cunha Cavalcanti
 - From April 20: Alexandre José Barbosa Lima
 
 - Pernambuco:
- until April 7: Antônio Epaminondas de Barros Correia
 - April 7 - 20: Ambrósio Machado da Cunha Cavalcanti
 - from April 20: Alexandre José Barbosa Lima
 
 - Piauí:
- until February 11: Álvaro Lopes Machado
 - from February 11: Coriolano de Carvalho e Silva
 
 - Rio Grande do Norte: 
- until February 22: Governing board consisting of: Francisco de Lima e Silva, Joaquim Ferreira Chaves, and Manuel do Nascimento Castro and Silva
 - February 22-28: Jerome Américo Raposo Chamber
 - from February 28: Pedro de Albuquerque Maranhão
 
 - Rio Grande do Sul: 
- until June 8: Military Junta of 1891
 - June 8-16: José Antônio Correia da Câmara
 - June 16-17: Júlio Prates de Castilhos
 - from June 17: Vitoriano Ribeiro Carneiro Monteiro
 
 - Santa Catarina:
 - São Paulo:
 - Sergipe:
 
Vice governors
    
Events
    
- 21 May - The French-built monitor Solimoes is wrecked off Cape Polonio, Uruguay, with the loss of 125 lives.[1]
 - date unknown
- Danish botanist Eugenius Warming gives the first detailed description of the Brazilian cerrado in his book Lagoa Santa.[2]
 - The Afro-Brazilian practice of Capoeira is banned (not to be re-legalised until 1937).[3]
 
 
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)[4]
 - 18 July - Arthur Friedenreich, soccer player, regarded by some as the sport's first outstanding black player[5] (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)[6]
 
Deaths
    
- 23 August - Deodoro da Fonseca, first president of the Republic of Brazil (born 1827)
 
References
    
- "Wreck of an ironclad", Launceston Examiner, 24 May 1892. Accessed 21 December 2013
 - Warming, E. (1892) Lagoa Santa: Et Bidrag til den biologiske Plantegeografi med en Fortegnelse over Lagoa Santas Hvirveldyr. Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskabs Skrifter - Naturvidenskabelig og Mathematisk Afdeling, 6. Rk. vol. 6 (3): 153-488. Later French and Portuguese translations
 - "Capoeira Information". Brazilplaces.com. Archived from the original on 9 June 2009. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
 - Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda's biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (in Portuguese)
 - A História não Contada
 - Árvore genealógica de Graciliano Ramos Archived 2014-03-28 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
 
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