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1909 in Brazil

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Decades:
  
1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s

See also:
  
Other events of 1909 Timeline of Brazilian history

The following lists events that happened during 1909 in the Republic of the United States of Brazil.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 20 January - Brazil's new cruiser, Bahia, is launched.
  • 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.
  • 17 May - The football club Paulista Futebol Clube is founded.

    • Births

  • 21 February - Mário Wallace Simonsen, businessman (died 1965)
  • 4 August - Roberto Burle Marx, landscape architect (died 1994)
  • 13 September - Prince Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza, claimant to the abolished imperial throne of Brazil (in France; died 1981).
  • 26 September - Geraldo de Proença Sigaud, Archbishop of Diamantina 1960-1980 (died 1999)
  • 21 November - Octacílio Pinheiro Guerra, footballer (died 1967)

    • Deaths

  • 6 March - João Barbosa Rodrigues, botanist and engineer (born 1842)
  • 14 June - Afonso Pena, lawyer and politician, President of Brazil (born 1847)
  • 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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