1909 in Brazil

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Year of Constitution: 1891

Events of the year 1909 in the Brazil.

## Incumbents

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### Federal government

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* President: Afonso Pena (until 14 June); Nilo Peçanha (starting 14 June)
* Vice President: Nilo Peçanha (until 14 June); vacant (starting 14 June)

### Governors

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* Alagoas:
* till 3 March: Euclid Vieira Malta
* 3 March-12 June: José Miguel de Vasconcelos
* from 12 June: Euclid Vieira Malta
* Amazonas: Antônio Clemente Ribeiro Bittencourt
* Bahia: João Ferreira de Araújo Pinho
* Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
* Goiás:
* until March 11: Miguel da Rocha Lima
* March 11 - May 1: Francisco Bertoldo de Sousa
* May 1 - July 24: José da Silva Batista
* From July 24: Urbano Coelho de Gouveia
* Maranhão:
* until February 25: Arthur Collares
* February 25 - June 29: Mariano Martins Lisboa Neto
* from June 29: Américo Vespúcio dos Reis
* Mato Grosso: Pedro Celestino Corrêa da Costa
* Minas Gerais:
* until 3 April: Júlio Bueno Brandão
* from 3 April: Venceslau Brás
* Pará:
* until 1 February: Augusto Montenegro
* from 1 February: João Antônio Luís Coelho
* Paraíba: João Lopes Machado
* Paraná: Francisco Xavier da Silva
* Pernambuco: Herculano Bandeira de Melo
* Piauí:
* until 5 December: Anísio Auto de Abreu
* from 5 December: Manuel Raimundo da Paz
* Rio Grande do Norte: Alberto Maranhão
* Rio Grande do Sul: Carlos Barbosa Gonçalves
* Santa Catarina:
* São Paulo:
* Sergipe:

### Vice governors

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* Rio Grande do Norte:
* São Paulo:

## Events

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### January

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* 17 January: The Federal University of Amazonas is founded.
* 20 January: Brazil's new cruiser, Bahia, is launched.[1]

### April

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* 14 April: Physician Carlos Chagas discovers a tropical parasitic disease caused by the flagellated cinetoplastid protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, in the mining town of Lassance.[2][3]
* 19 April: Brazil's new battleship, São Paulo, is launched at Barrow-in-Furness, UK, by Regis de Oliveira, the wife of Brazil's minister to Great Britain.

### May

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* 17 May: The football club Paulista Futebol Clube is founded.

### September

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* 8 September: The Velarde-Río Branco treaty between Brazil and Peru is signed, establishing borders south of the Yavarí.
* 19 September: The country's first automobile race is held at the São Gonçalo circuit in Rio de Janeiro.[4]

## Births

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### February

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* 7 February \- Hélder Câmara, Catholic archbishop (died 1999)
* 21 February \- Mário Wallace Simonsen, businessman (died 1965)

### August

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* 4 August \- Roberto Burle Marx, landscape architect (died 1994)[5]

### September

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* 13 September \- Prince Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza, claimant to the abolished imperial throne of Brazil (in France; died 1981).[6]
* 26 September \- Geraldo de Proença Sigaud, Archbishop of Diamantina 1960-1980 (died 1999)

### November

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* 21 November \- Octacílio Pinheiro Guerra, footballer (died 1967)

## Deaths

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* 6 March \- João Barbosa Rodrigues, botanist and engineer (born 1842)
* 14 June \- Afonso Pena, lawyer and politician, President of Brazil (born 1847)[7]
* 15 August \- Euclides da Cunha, journalist, sociologist and engineer (born 1866)
* 27 November \- Prince Luigi, Count of Roccaguglielma, son of Princess Januária of Brazil (born 1845)

## References

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1. ^ R.B. Haworth, "6103832 [Bahia]" (subscription required), Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
2. ^ Antonio Teixeira, Marina Vinaud e Ana Maria Castro, Emerging Chagas Disease (2011), p. 19.
3. ^ Simone Petraglia Kropf e Luisa Massarani, Carlos Chargas, A Ciência Para Combater Doenças Tropicais (2009), p. 5.
4. ^ Joel Wolfe. Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search For Modernity (2009), p. 31.
5. ^ Eliovson, Sima (1991). The gardens of Roberto Burle Marx. Harry N. Abrams. p. 21\. ISBN 0810933578. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
6. ^ Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, ed. (1977). Burke's Royal Families of the World, Volume 1: Europe & Latin America. London: Burke's Peerage. ISBN 0-85011-023-8. p 43
7. ^ Afonso Pena - BrasilEscola (in Portuguese)

## See also

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* 1909 in Brazilian football

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