1909 in Brazil
# 1909 in Brazil

Events of the year 1909 in the Brazil.

## 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

* Rio Grande do Norte:
* São Paulo:

## Events

### January

* 17 January: The Federal University of Amazonas is founded.
* 20 January: Brazil's new cruiser, Bahia, is launched.

### 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.
* 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.

## 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)

### September

* 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)

### 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)
* 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)
