1921 in Brazil

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Year of Constitution: 1891

Events in the year 1921 in Brazil.

## Incumbents

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### Federal government

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* President: Epitácio Pessoa
* Vice President: Francisco Álvaro Bueno de Paiva

### Governors

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* Alagoas:
* till 1 March: José Fernandes de Barros Lima
* 1 March-12 June: Manuel Capitolino da Rocha Carvalho
* from 12 June: José Fernandes de Barros Lima
* Amazonas: César do Rego Monteiro
* Bahia: José Joaquim Seabra
* Ceará: Justiniano de Serpa
* Goiás:
* till 14 July: João Alves de Castro
* from 14 July: Eugênio Rodrigues Jardim
* Maranhão: Urbano Santos
* Mato Grosso: Francisco de Aquino Correia
* Minas Gerais: Artur Bernardes
* Pará:
* till 1 February: Lauro Sodré
* from 1 February Antônio Emiliano de Sousa
* Paraíba: Sólon Barbosa de Lucena
* Paraná: Caetano Munhoz da Rocha
* Pernambuco:
* till 3 June: Otávio Hamilton Tavares Barreto
* from 3 June: Severino Marques de Queirós Pinheiro
* Piauí: João Luís Ferreira
* Rio Grande do Norte: Antonio José de Melo e Sousa
* Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
* Santa Catarina:
* São Paulo:
* Sergipe:

### Vice governors

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* Rio Grande do Norte:
* São Paulo:

## Events

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* February – Antoun Saadeh arrives in Brazil with his father, a prominent Arabic-language journalist.[1]
* May 22 – The Estádio Antônio R. Guimarães is opened at Santa Bárbara d'Oeste.[2]
* October - The government implements a new policy in defense of coffee, for the third time in the history of the Republic.[3]
* date unknown – The Correio da Manhã publishes letters supposedly sent by Artur Bernardes and Raul Soares de Moura, containing insults towards the Armed Forces and Marshal Hermes da Fonseca.

## Arts and culture

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### Films

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* Um Crime no Parque Paulista, directed by Arturo Carrari and starring Nicola Tartaglione
* Carlitinhos and Perversidade, short films directed by José Medina

## Births

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* 13 April – Dona Ivone Lara, singer (died 2018)
* 12 May – Ruth de Souza, actress (died 2019)
* 5 June – Zuzu Angel, fashion designer and political campaigner (died 1976)[4]
* 19 September – Paulo Freire, philosopher (died 1997)[5]
* 26 September \- Carlos Zéfiro, artist (died 1992)

## Deaths

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* 28 January – Luis Soares Horta Barbosa, Deputy Grand Master of Brazil's Freemasons.[6]
* 26 March – Leonel Martiniano de Alencar, Baron of Alencar, lawyer and diplomat (born 1832)[7]
* 14 November – Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, nicknamed "the Redemptress", heiress presumptive to the throne of the Empire of Brazil (born 1846)[8]

## References

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1. ^ "Antun Saadeh". Syrian Social Nationalist Party. Archived from the original on 26 February 2012. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
2. ^ "Toca do Leão, casa do União Barbarense, completa 99 anos; conheça a origem do nome". Globo Esporte (in Portuguese). 22 May 2020. Retrieved 11 January 2021.
3. ^ Presidential Library: Biography of Pessoa. Accessed 14 February 2014
4. ^ "Zuzu Angel" (in Portuguese). UOL Educação. Retrieved July 15, 2013.
5. ^ Sima Barmania (26 October 2011). "Why Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" is just as relevant today as ever". Blogs.independent.co.uk. Archived from the original on 30 April 2012. Retrieved 11 December 2012.
6. ^ A Short History of Freemasonry in Brazil – William Almeida de Carvalho. Accessed 14 February 2014
7. ^ Luciara Silveira de Aragão e Frota. "History of the regional foreign policy of the Brazilian Empire". Archived from the original on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 9 October 2012.
8. ^ Barman, Roderick J. (2002). Princess Isabel of Brazil: gender and power in the nineteenth century. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources. ISBN 0-8420-2846-3. BR História. nº 4, Year 1. Duetto, 2007. p 232

## See also

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* 1921 in Brazilian football

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