1907 in Brazil

Brazil-related events during 1907

1907 in Brazil
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Year of Constitution: 1891

Events in the year 1907 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Alagoas: Euclid Vieira Malta
Amazonas: Antônio Constantino Néri
Bahia: José Marcelino de Sousa
Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
Goiás: Miguel da Rocha Lima
Maranhão: Benedito Pereira Leite
Mato Grosso: Pedro Leite Osório, then Generoso Pais Leme de Sousa Ponce
Minas Gerais: João Pinheiro da Silva
Pará: Augusto Montenegro
Paraíba: Valfredo Leal
Paraná: João Cândido Ferreira, Joaquim Monteiro de Carvalho e Silva
Pernambuco: Sigismundo Antônio Gonçalves
Piauí: Álvaro de Assis Osório Mendes (until 5 December); Areolino Antônio de Abreu (from 5 December)
Rio Grande do Norte: Manuel Moreira Dias (until 23 February); Antonio José de Melo e Sousa (from 23 February)
Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
Santa Catarina:
São Paulo:
Sergipe:

7 January - Three new battleships on which construction work is in progress are scrapped as a result of changes to the Brazilian government's requirements.
20 February - The Brazilian government approves the design for its new battleships.^[1]
20 April - Brazil annexed land in the East from Colombia through the Vásquez Cobo–Martins treaty.
30 April - The keel of Brazil's latest dreadnought battleship "São Paulo" is laid down at the Vickers shipyard, Barrow-in-Furness, UK.^[2]
date unknown
- Construction of the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad begins, linking the cities of Porto Velho and Guajará-Mirim.^[3]
- The first Brazilian diplomats are officially accredited by the government of Costa Rica.

Olavo Bilac is elected the "Prince of Brazilian Poets" by the magazine Fon-Fon.^[4]

29 January - Clóvis Graciano, artist (died 1988)
9 February - Victor Civita, Italian-Brazilian journalist and publisher, in New York, USA (died 1990)^[5]
29 March - Braguinha, composer (died 2006)
4 April - Otávio Fantoni, soccer player (died 1935)
18 April - Manoel de Castro Villas Bôas, entrepreneur, writer and journalist (d. 1979)
22 May - Luiz Gervazoni, footballer (died 1963)
12 June - José Reis, scientist and journalist (died 2002)
3 August - Ernesto Geisel, military leader and politician (died 1996)
15 December - Oscar Niemeyer, architect (died 2012)

^ Topliss, David. "The Brazilian Dreadnoughts, 1904–1914." Warship International 25, no. 3 (1988): p 246.
^ "E São Paulo," Navios De Guerra Brasileiros.
^ "Construction Facts: The Sourcebook of Statistics, Records and Resources". Engineering News Record. 14. McGraw Hill: 48–49. November 2003.
^ Bilac's biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (in Portuguese)
^ "Victor Civita" - bio Archived 2010-08-12 at the Wayback Machine, Grupo Abril website, retrieved July 19, 2011
^ Smith, Warney. Barão Geraldo, A Luta pela Autonomia (1920-1980). Centro de Memória da Unicamp, 1996.

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