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.R.B. Haworth, "6103832 [Bahia]" (subscription required), Miramar Ship Index. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
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.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. 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.Joel Wolfe. Autos and Progress: The Brazilian Search For Modernity (2009), p. 31.
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).Montgomery-Massingberd, Hugh, ed. (1977). Burke's Royal Families of the World, Volume 1: Europe & Latin America. London: Burke's Peerage. . p 43 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)Afonso Pena - BrasilEscola 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
See also 1909 in Brazilian football