| 1909 in Brazil | 
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| Timeline of Brazilian history | 
| First Brazilian Republic | 
| Year of Constitution: 1891 | 
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Afonso Pena (until 14 June); Nilo Peçanha (starting 14 June)
 - Vice President: Nilo Peçanha (until 14 June); vacant (starting 14 June)
 
Governors
- 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
Events
January
- 17 January: The Federal University of Amazonas is founded.
 - 20 January: Brazil's new cruiser, Bahia, is launched.[1]
 
April
- 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
- 17 May: The football club Paulista Futebol Clube is founded.
 
September
- 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
February
- 7 February - Hélder Câmara, Catholic archbishop (died 1999)
 - 21 February - Mário Wallace Simonsen, businessman (died 1965)
 
August
- 4 August - Roberto Burle Marx, landscape architect (died 1994)[5]
 
September
- 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
- 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)[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
- ↑ R.B. Haworth, "6103832 [Bahia]" (subscription required), Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
 - ↑ Antonio Teixeira, Marina Vinaud e Ana Maria Castro, Emerging Chagas Disease (2011), p. 19.
 - ↑ Simone Petraglia Kropf e Luisa Massarani, Carlos Chargas, A Ciência Para Combater Doenças Tropicais (2009), p. 5.
 - ↑ Joel Wolfe. Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search For Modernity (2009), p. 31.
 - ↑ Eliovson, Sima (1991). The gardens of Roberto Burle Marx. Harry N. Abrams. p. 21. ISBN 0810933578. Retrieved 6 September 2013.
 - ↑ 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
 - ↑ Afonso Pena - BrasilEscola (in Portuguese)
 
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