Events in the year 1889 in Brazil.
Governors
- Alagoas: Government Junta (18 November-21), Tiburcio Valerio de Araujo (21 November-2 December), Pedro Paulino da Fonseca (starting 2 December)
- Amazonas: Government Junta (starting 21 November)
- Bahia: Virginio Climaco Damasio then Manuel Vitorino Pereira
- Ceará: Luis Antonio Ferraz (starting 16 November)
- Goiás: Government Junta (starting 7 December)
- Maranhão:
- Mato Grosso: Antonio Maria Coelho
- Minas Gerais: Antonio Olinto dos Santos Pires
- Pará: Justo Chermont (starting 17 December)
- Paraíba: Venancio Neiva (starting 17 November)
- Paraná: Francisco José Cardoso Júnior then José Marques Guimarães
- Pernambuco: José Cerqueira de Aguiar Lima (16 November-12 December), José Simeão de Oliveira (starting 12 December)
- Piauí: Gregório Taumaturgo de Azevedo (starting 26 December)
- Rio Grande do Norte: Pedro de Albuquerque Maranhão (17 November-6 December), Adolfo Afonso da Silva Gordo (starting 6 December)
- Rio Grande do Sul: Government Junta (starting 17 November)
- Santa Catarina: Lauro Müller (starting 2 December)
- São Paulo: Government Junta (starting 14 December)
- Sergipe: Junta Governativa Sergipana (starting 14 November), Felisbelo Firmo de Oliveira Freire (starting 2 December)
June
- 7 June – Afonso Celso de Assis Figuereido, Viscount of Ouro Preto, is appointed to replace Correia de Oliveira as prime minister.[1]
July
- July – Emperor Dom Pedro II travels to Minas Gerais, demonstrating both that he is still actively engaged in government and the depth of support for the monarchy in the province.[2][3]
December
- 24 December – The former royal family receive official notice that they will never be allowed to return to Brazil.
- 29 March – Teófilo Dias, poet, journalist and lawyer (b. 1854)[9]
- 26 June – Tobias Barreto, poet, philosopher, jurist and critic (b. 1839)[10]
- 28 June – Francisco Otaviano, poet, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician (b. 1825)
- 21 October – Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, Viscount of Mauá, entrepreneur, industrialist, banker and politician (b. 1813)
- 28 December – Empress Teresa Cristina, wife of Emperor Dom Pedro II (b. 1822)[11]
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Carvalho, José Murilo de (2007). D. Pedro II: ser ou não ser (in Portuguese). São Paulo: Companhia das Letras. p. 220. ISBN 978-85-359-0969-2.
Barman, Roderick J. (1999). Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825–1891. Stanford: Stanford University Press. p. 371. ISBN 978-0-8047-3510-0.