1893 in Brazil explained

Events in the year 1893 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President

Marshal Floriano Peixoto

• Vice-President

vacant

Governors

• Alagoas: Gabino Besuoro
• Amazonas: Eduardo Gonçalves Ribeiro
• Bahia: Rodrigues Lima
• Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
• Goiás:
  • until July 1: Antônio Caiado
  • from July 1: José Inácio Xavier de Brito
• Maranhão:
  • until October 27: Alfredo Martins
  • from October 27: Casimiro Vieira Jr
• Mato Grosso:
• Minas Gerais: Afonso Pena
• Pará: Lauro Sodré
• Paraíba: Álvaro Lopes Machado
• Paraná: Francisco Xavier da Silva, then Vicente Machado da Silva Lima
• Pernambuco: Alexandre José Barbosa Lima
• Piauí: Coriolano de Carvalho e Silva
• Rio Grande do Norte: Pedro de Albuquerque Maranhão
• Rio Grande do Sul:
  • until September 27: Vitoriano Ribeiro Carneiro Monteiro
  • from September 27: Fernando Fernandes Abbott
• Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• Sergipe:

Vice governors

• Rio de Janeiro: Manuel Torres
• Rio Grande do Norte: Silvino Bezerra
• São Paulo: José Alves de Cerqueira César

Events

• September – Revolta da Armada launched by Royalist admiral Custódio José de Melo
• November – beginning of the Federalist Revolution
• 71.2% of the working population of São Paulo is foreign-born.

Births

• January 19 – Magda Tagliaferro, pianist of French parentage (died 1986)^[1]
• May 16 – Ronald de Carvalho, poet and diplomat (died 1935)
• October 9 – Mário de Andrade, poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer (died 1945)^[2]

Deaths

• July 13 – William Hutchinson Norris, founder of the city of Americana, São Paulo (born 1800)^[3]

Notes and References

1. Book: Anne Commire. Deborah Klezmer. Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. 2002. Yorkin Publications. 978-0-7876-4074-3. 106.
2. Suárez, José I., and Tomlins, Jack E., Mário de Andrade: The Creative Works (Cranbury, New Jersey: Associated University Presses, 2000).
3. Book: Proceedings of the Most Worshipful Grand Lodge Jurisdiction of Alabama, Ancient Free and Accepted Masons: Annual Communication. 1894. The Lodge. 67.