1907 in Brazil explained

Events in the year 1907 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President

Afonso Pena

• Vice President

Nilo Peçanha

Governors

• 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:

Vice governors

• Rio Grande do Norte:
• São Paulo:

Events

• 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.

Arts and culture

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

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• 1 October - Geraldo Ribeiro de Sousa Resende, Baron Geraldo of Resende, aristocrat, farmer and politician (born 1847)^[6]

See also

• 1907 in Brazilian football

Notes and References

1. Topliss, David. "The Brazilian Dreadnoughts, 1904–1914." Warship International 25, no. 3 (1988): p 246.
2. "E São Paulo," Navios De Guerra Brasileiros.
3. Construction Facts: The Sourcebook of Statistics, Records and Resources . Engineering News Record . 14 . 48–49 . November 2003 . McGraw Hill .
4. http://www.academia.org.br/abl/cgi/cgilua.exe/sys/start.htm?sid=184 Bilac's biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters
5. http://www.centenariovictorcivita.com.br/biografia/ "Victor Civita" - bio
6. Smith, Warney. Barão Geraldo, A Luta pela Autonomia (1920–1980). Centro de Memória da Unicamp, 1996.