1887 in Brazil explained

Events in the year 1887 in Brazil.

Incumbents

• Monarch

Pedro II^[1]

• Prime Minister

João Alfredo Correia de Oliveira

Events

• June – The Clube Militar, founded by Benjamin Constant and Deodoro da Fonseca, holds its first meeting.^[2]
• Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, future President of Brazil, becomes president of the province of São Paulo.
• Italian ethnologist Guido Boggiani travels through the interior of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay to document the lives of Indians in the region.^[3]
• Maragogi is granted the status of a town.

Births

• March 5 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, composer (died 1959)^[4]
• April 19 – Lucílio de Albuquerque, painter (died 1939)
• May 15 – José Joaquim Moniz de Aragão, diplomat (died 1974)
• May 16 – Maria Lacerda de Moura, anarchist, feminist, journalist and writer (died 1945)^[5]

Deaths

• date unknown – William Hadfield, British writer, specialist in Brazil (born 1806)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Pedro II - emperor of Brazil . Encyclopedia Britannica . 13 June 2018 . en.
2. Book: William Darrel Rogers. Brazilian Foreign Policy Since 1964: From Close Alignment with the West to Assertive Independence. 1984. University of Virginia. 53.
3. Vinigi Grottanelli, et al. "Ethnology and/or Cultural Anthropology in Italy: Traditions and Development. Current Anthropology 18.4 (1977): 593-614, p. 595
4. Béhague, Gerard. 2001. "Villa-Lobos, Heitor". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
5. http://www.katesharpleylibrary.net/gf1w8f Maria Lacerda de Moura, 1887-1944 by Singularidades