1907 in Brazil
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Events in the year1907 inBrazil.
Incumbents
[edit]Federal government
[edit]Governors
[edit]- Alagoas:Euclid Vieira Malta
- Amazonas:Antônio Constantino Néri
- Bahia:José Marcelino de Sousa
- Ceará:Antônio Nogueira Accioli
- Goiás:Miguel da Rocha Lima
- Maranhão:Benedito Pereira Leite
- Mato Grosso:Pedro Leite Osório,thenGeneroso Pais Leme de Sousa Ponce
- Minas Gerais:João Pinheiro da Silva
- Pará:Augusto Montenegro
- Paraíba:Valfredo Leal
- Paraná:João Cândido Ferreira,Joaquim Monteiro de Carvalho e Silva
- Pernambuco:Sigismundo Antônio Gonçalves
- Piauí:Álvaro de Assis Osório Mendes(until 5 December);Areolino Antônio de Abreu(from 5 December)
- Rio Grande do Norte:Manuel Moreira Dias(until 23 February);Antonio José de Melo e Sousa(from 23 February)
- Rio Grande do Sul:Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
- Santa Catarina:
- São Paulo:
- Sergipe:
Vice governors
[edit]Events
[edit]- 7 January- Three new battleships on which construction work is in progress are scrapped as a result of changes to the Brazilian government's requirements.
- 20 February- The Brazilian government approves the design for its new battleships.[1]
- 20 April- Brazil annexed land in the East fromColombiathrough theVásquez Cobo–Martins treaty.
- 30 April- The keel of Brazil's latest dreadnought battleship "São Paulo"is laid down at the Vickers shipyard, Barrow-in-Furness, UK.[2]
- date unknown
- Construction of theMadeira-Mamoré Railroadbegins, linking the cities of Porto Velho and Guajará-Mirim.[3]
- The first Brazilian diplomats are officially accredited by the government ofCosta Rica.
Arts and culture
[edit]- Olavo Bilacis elected the "Prince of Brazilian Poets" by the magazineFon-Fon.[4]
Births
[edit]- 29 January-Clóvis Graciano,artist (died1988)
- 9 February-Victor Civita,Italian-Brazilian journalist and publisher, in New York, USA (died1990)[5]
- 29 March-Braguinha,composer (died2006)
- 4 April -Otávio Fantoni,soccer player (died1935)
- 18 April -Manoel de Castro Villas Bôas,entrepreneur, writer and journalist (d. 1979)
- 22 May-Luiz Gervazoni,footballer (died1963)
- 12 June-José Reis,scientist and journalist (died2002)
- 3 August-Ernesto Geisel,military leader and politician (died1996)
- 15 December-Oscar Niemeyer,architect (died2012)
Deaths
[edit]- 1 October-Geraldo Ribeiro de Sousa Resende, Baron Geraldo of Resende,aristocrat, farmer and politician (born1847)[6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Topliss, David. "The Brazilian Dreadnoughts, 1904–1914." Warship International 25, no. 3 (1988): p 246.
- ^"E São Paulo,"Navios De Guerra Brasileiros.
- ^"Construction Facts: The Sourcebook of Statistics, Records and Resources".Engineering News Record.14.McGraw Hill: 48–49. November 2003.
- ^Bilac's biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters(in Portuguese)
- ^"Victor Civita" - bioArchived2010-08-12 at theWayback Machine,Grupo Abril website, retrieved July 19, 2011
- ^Smith, Warney. Barão Geraldo, A Luta pela Autonomia (1920–1980). Centro de Memória da Unicamp, 1996.
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