1914 in Brazil explained

Events in the year 1914 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Alagoas: Clodoaldo da Fonseca
Amazonas: Jônatas de Freitas Pedrosa
Bahia: José Joaquim Seabra
Ceará:
- till 14 March: Marcos Franco Rabelo
- 15 March - 14 June: Fernando Setembrino de Carvalho
- from 14 June: Benjamin Liberato Barroso
Goiás:
- until 6 July: Olegário Herculano da Silva Pinto
- from 6 July: Salatiel Simões de Lima
Maranhão:
- till 1 March: Luís Antônio Domingues da Silva
- 1 March - 26 April: Afonso Gifwning de Matos
- from 26 April: Herculano Nina Parga
Mato Grosso: Joaquim Augusto da Costa Marques
Minas Gerais:
- till 7 September: Júlio Bueno Brandão
- from 7 September: Delfim Moreira
Pará: Enéas Martins
Paraíba: João Castro Pinto
Paraná: Carlos Cavalcanti de Albuquerque
Pernambuco: Emídio Dantas Barreto
Piaui: Miguel de Paiva Rosa
Rio Grande do Norte: Joaquim Ferreira Chaves
Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
Santa Catarina:
São Paulo:
Sergipe:

1 January at 12:00 a.m. Local Mean Time States and territories now observe the four standard time zones, moving clocks forward or backward by a few minutes and seconds according to the then civil time by law since 18 June, 1913.
1 March - In the presidential election, incumbent Vice-President Venceslau Brás, of the Mineiro Republican Party, receives 91.6% of the vote.^[1]
20 May - Brazil participates in the Niagara Falls peace conference, in at attempt to avoid war between the United States and Mexico.^[2]
8 June - The Brazilian Football Confederation is founded, with Álvaro Zamith as its first president. The Brazilian Olympic Committee is founded on the same day.
14 September - The British Royal Navy auxiliary cruiser fought the German off Trindade in the Battle of Trindade. Carmania sank Cap Trafalgar, but sustained severe damage herself.^[3]
15 November - Venceslau Brás is sworn in as Brazil's ninth president.^[4]

14 March - Abdias do Nascimento, Afro-Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician (died 2011)^[5]
18 May - Cacilda Borges Barbosa, pianist, conductor and composer (died 2010)^[6]
26 May - Sister Dulce, Catholic Franciscan Sister (died 1992)
29 May - José Eugênio Corrêa, Bishop of Caratinga 1957-1978 (died 2010)
14 July - Marcelo Damy, physicist (died 2009)

18 June - Sílvio Romero, Condorist" poet, essayist, literary critic, professor and journalist (born 1851)^[7]
12 November - Augusto dos Anjos, poet and academic (born 1884;pneumonia)

[Dieter Nohlen]
News: Bulletins from Peace Meeting Eagerly Read by the Crowds . 'Play Ball' sang out an irreverent voice as Frederick W. Lehmann and Justice Joseph R. Lamar, the two American delegates to the Niagara Falls peace conference, arrived here a few minutes before 3 o'clock this afternoon and went upstairs to the sun parlor for the opening session of the conference. .... . May 21, 1914 . 2014-01-03 .
Web site: 'Carmania' sinking the 'Cap Trafalgar' off Trinidade Island in the South Atlantic, 14 September 1914. Royal Museums Greenwich (Collections). National Maritime Museum. 18 February 2013.
http://memoria.bn.br/DocReader/docreader.aspx?bib=178691_04&PagFis=25410 O novo governo
News: Abdias do Nascimento, Rights Voice, Dies at 97. Bruce Weber. The New York Times. May 30, 2011.
Antonio, Irati (1994). "Barbosa, Cacilda Campos Borges". In Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel. The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Woman Composers (1st American ed.). The Macmillan Press Limited (London); W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. (New York). p. 35. .
http://www.academia.org.br/abl/cgi/cgilua.exe/sys/start.htm?sid=196 Romero's biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters