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1915 in Brazil

Brazil-related events during 1915

1915 in Brazil
Years 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917
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Year of Constitution: 1891

Events in the year 1915 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Alagoas: Clodoaldo da Fonseca (until 12 June); João Batista Accioli Jr. (from 12 June)
Amazonas: Jônatas de Freitas Pedrosa
Bahia: José Joaquim Seabra
Ceará: Benjamin Liberato Barroso
Goiás: Joaquim Augusto da Costa Marques, then Caetano Manuel de Faria e Albuquerque
- until June 30: Salatiel Simões de Lima
- from June 30: Joaquim Rufino Ramos Jubé
Maranhão: Herculano Nina Parga
Mato Grosso:
Minas Gerais: Delfim Moreira
Pará: Enéas Martins
Paraíba:
- until 24 July: João Castro Pinto
- from 24 July: Antônio da Silva Pessoa
Paraná: Carlos Cavalcanti de Albuquerque
Pernambuco:
- until 18 December: Emídio Dantas Barreto
- from 18 December: Manuel Antônio Pereira Borba
Piauí: Miguel de Paiva Rosa
Rio Grande do Norte: Joaquim Ferreira Chaves
Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
Santa Catarina:
São Paulo:
Sergipe:

6 August - Brazilian-born Bernardino Luís Machado Guimarães becomes President of Portugal.

29 January - Heitor Villa-Lobos gives the first in a series of chamber concerts; one of the new works he introduces during this year is his Cello Concerto no 1.^[1]

5 January - Humberto Teixeira, musician (died 1979)
15 January - Maria Lenk, swimmer (died 2007)
20 April - Aurora Miranda, entertainer (died 2005)^[2]
18 October - Grande Otelo, Afro-Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician, real name Bernardes de Souza Prata (died 1993)

18 January - Bernardino José de Campos Júnior, politician, second and sixth governor of the State of São Paulo (born 1841)^[3]
2 February - João Cardoso de Meneses e Sousa, Baron of Paranapiacaba, poet, translator, journalist, lawyer and politician (born 1827)^[4]
27 November - Orville Adalbert Derby, American geologist who became a Brazilian citizen (born 1851; suicide)^[5]

^ Appleby, David P. 1988. Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Bio-Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-25346-3
^ Obituary: Aurora Miranda http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/mar/06/guardianobituaries.brazil
^ Santos, José Maria dos, Bernardino de Campos e o Partido Republicano Paulista, Rj, Jose Olympio, 1960
^ A biography of Sousa (in Portuguese)
^ Diniz Gonsalves, A., 1952 - Orville A. Derby's Studies on the Paleontology of Brazil - Published under the direction of the Executive Commission for the 1st Centenary Commemorating the birth of Orville A. Derby, and sponsored by the American Embassy in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro, 1952.

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