1902 in Brazil
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| Year of Constitution: 1891 |
Events in the year 1902 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President:
- Campos Sales (to 14 November)
- Rodrigues Alves (from 15 November)
- Vice President:
- Francisco de Assis Rosa e Silva (to 14 November)
- Afonso Pena (from 15 November)
Governors
- Alagoas: Euclides Vieira Malta
- Amazonas: Silvério José Néri[1]
- Bahia: Severino Vieira
- Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
- Goiás: José Xavier de Almeida
- Maranhão:
- until 1 March: João Gualberto Torreão da Costa
- from 1 March: Manuel Lopes da Cunha
- Mato Grosso: Antônio Pedro Alves de Barros
- Minas Gerais:
- until 21 February: Silviano Brandão
- 21 February - 7 September: Joaquim Cândido da Costa Sena
- from 7 September: Francisco Salles
- Pará: Augusto Montenegro
- Paraíba: José Peregrino de Araújo
- Paraná: Francisco Xavier da Silva
- Pernambuco: Antônio Gonçalves Ferreira
- Piauí: Arlindo Francisco Nogueira
- Rio Grande do Norte: Alberto Maranhão
- Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
- Santa Catarina: Felipe Schmidt (until 28 September); Lauro Müller
- São Paulo:
- Sergipe:
Vice governors
Events
- 1 March - Presidential election: Rodrigues Alves of the Republican Party of São Paulo receives 91.7% of the vote.[2] Francisco Silviano de Almeida Brandão is elected vice-president but dies suddenly before the start of his term of office.
- 26 March – The Prinetti Decree is approved by the Italian General Commissariat of Emigration suspending emigration to Brazil of all Italians not paying their own passage. The decree was named after the then Italian foreign affairs minister, Giulio Prinetti, and approved based on a report denouncing the terrible living conditions experienced by Italian immigrants who had become virtual serfs on the coffee plantations in the state of São Paulo, with no medical care, no school for their children, small houses, no minimum hygiene conditions, and physical violence, even the use of whips.[3][4]
- 26 October - The first season of competitive football in Brazil concludes with a victory for São Paulo Athletic Club.
- 3 December - José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco, is appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. His ten-year tenure would be the longest in the country's history.[5]
Literature
Births
- 22 April - Elsie Houston, singer (died 1943)
- 12 September - Juscelino Kubitschek, politician (died 1976)
- 31 October - Carlos Drummond de Andrade, poet (died 1987)
- 18 December - Moacyr Siqueira de Queiroz ("Russinho"), footballer (died 1992)[6]
Deaths
- 15 March - Custódio José de Melo, monarchist admiral and politician, foreign minister 1892
- 12 May - Augusto Severo de Albuquerque Maranhão, politician and journalist
- 6 July - Leopoldo Miguez, composer (born 1850)[7]
- 3 September - Eduardo Wandenkolk, naval officer and politician
- 25 September - Silviano Brandão, vice-president elect[8]
- 9 November - Manuel Vitorino Pereira, 2nd vice-president of Brazil
- 3 December - Prudente de Morais, politician, President of Brazil 1894-1898 (born 1841)
References
- ↑ Maria Eugenia Bertarelli (2010), NERY, Silvério José (PDF) (in Portuguese), Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil, retrieved 2016-07-10
- ↑ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p173 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3, p229
- ↑ (in Portuguese) Trento (1989), Do outro lado do Atlântico, pp. 52-53
- ↑ Cometti, Elizabeth (December 1958). "Trends in Italian Emigration". The Western Political Quarterly. 11 (4): 820–834. doi:10.2307/443655. JSTOR 443655.
- ↑ FUNAG - International Seminar Baron of Rio Branco - 100 years of memory, September 2012 Archived 2014-03-24 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 24 March 2014
- ↑ "Idolos: R - S" (in Portuguese). Net Vasco. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
- ↑ "Brazilian Music archive". Archived from the original on 2012-02-05. Retrieved 2013-12-23.
- ↑ Portal de Governo de Minas Gerais (Portuguese) Archived 2014-01-09 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 9 January 2014
- (in Portuguese) Trento, Angelo (1989). Do outro lado do Atlântico: um século de imigração italiana no Brasil, São Paulo: Livraria Nobel ISBN 85-213-0563-X
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