1905 in Brazil
# 1905 in Brazil

Events in the year 1905 in Brazil.

## Incumbents

### Federal government

* President: Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves
* Vice President: Afonso Pena

### Governors

* Alagoas: Antônio Máximo da Cunha Rego (till 1 November), Antônio Máximo da Cunha Rego (from 1 November)
* Amazonas: Antônio Constantino Néri
* Bahia: José Marcelino de Sousa
* Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
* Goiás:
   * until July 14: José Xavier de Almeida
   * from July 14: Miguel da Rocha Lima
* Maranhão: Manuel Lopes da Cunha
* Mato Grosso: Antônio Pais de Barros
* Minas Gerais: Francisco Salles
* Pará: Augusto Montenegro
* Paraíba:
   * until 28 October: Álvaro Lopes Machado
   * from 28 October: Valfredo Leal
* Paraná: Vicente Machado da Silva Lima
* Pernambuco: Sigismundo Antônio Gonçalves
* Piauí: Álvaro de Assis Osório Mendes
* Rio Grande do Norte: Augusto Tavares Lira
* Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
* Santa Catarina:
* São Paulo:
* Sergipe:

### Vice governors

* Rio Grande do Norte:
* São Paulo:

## Events

* 5 February - The football club Clube do Remo is established in Belém.
* 30 December - Law no. 1452 is passed by the National Congress of Brazil, authorizing expenditure of £4,214,550 for new warship construction (£1,685,820 in 1906).

## Arts and culture

### Books

* Lima Barreto - O Subterrâneo do Morro do Castelo

## Births

* 8 February - Preguinho, footballer (died 1979)
* 15 February - Waldemar Henrique, pianist and composer (died 1995)
* 11 May - Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald, admiral (died 1985)
* 10 August - Evandro Chagas, physician and biomedical scientist (died 1940)
* 17 December - Erico Verissimo, writer (died 1975)

## Deaths

* 29 January - José do Patrocínio, writer, journalist, activist, orator and pharmacist (born 1854; suffered hemoptysis just after making a speech in honour of Alberto Santos-Dumont)
* 22 September - Suresh Biswas, Indian adventurer (born 1861;
