1909 in Brazil

Events of the year 1909 in the Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Afonso Pena (until 14 June); Nilo Peçanha (starting 14 June)
• Vice President: Nilo Peçanha (until 14 June); vacant (starting 14 June)

Governors

• Alagoas:
  • till 3 March: Euclid Vieira Malta
  • 3 March-12 June: José Miguel de Vasconcelos
  • from 12 June: Euclid Vieira Malta
• Amazonas: Antônio Clemente Ribeiro Bittencourt
• Bahia: João Ferreira de Araújo Pinho
• Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
• Goiás:
  • until March 11: Miguel da Rocha Lima
  • March 11 - May 1: Francisco Bertoldo de Sousa
  • May 1 - July 24: José da Silva Batista
  • From July 24: Urbano Coelho de Gouveia
• Maranhão:
  • until February 25: Arthur Collares
  • February 25 - June 29: Mariano Martins Lisboa Neto
  • from June 29: Américo Vespúcio dos Reis
• Mato Grosso: Pedro Celestino Corrêa da Costa
• Minas Gerais:
  • until 3 April: Júlio Bueno Brandão
  • from 3 April: Venceslau Brás
• Pará:
  • until 1 February: Augusto Montenegro
  • from 1 February: João Antônio Luís Coelho
• Paraíba: João Lopes Machado
• Paraná: Francisco Xavier da Silva
• Pernambuco: Herculano Bandeira de Melo
• Piauí:
  • until 5 December: Anísio Auto de Abreu
  • from 5 December: Manuel Raimundo da Paz
• Rio Grande do Norte: Alberto Maranhão
• Rio Grande do Sul: Carlos Barbosa Gonçalves
• Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• Sergipe:

Vice governors

• Rio Grande do Norte:
• São Paulo:

Events

January

• 17 January: The Federal University of Amazonas is founded.
• 20 January: Brazil's new cruiser, Bahia, is launched.^[1]

April

• 14 April: Physician Carlos Chagas discovers a tropical parasitic disease caused by the flagellated cinetoplastid protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, in the mining town of Lassance.^[2][3]
• 19 April: Brazil's new battleship, São Paulo, is launched at Barrow-in-Furness, UK, by Regis de Oliveira, the wife of Brazil's minister to Great Britain.

May

• 17 May: The football club Paulista Futebol Clube is founded.

September

• 8 September: The Velarde-Río Branco treaty between Brazil and Peru is signed, establishing borders south of the Yavarí.
• 19 September: The country's first automobile race is held at the São Gonçalo circuit in Rio de Janeiro.^[4]

Births

February

• 7 February - Hélder Câmara, Catholic archbishop (died 1999)
• 21 February - Mário Wallace Simonsen, businessman (died 1965)

August

• 4 August - Roberto Burle Marx, landscape architect (died 1994)^[5]

September

• 13 September - Prince Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza, claimant to the abolished imperial throne of Brazil (in France; died 1981).^[6]
• 26 September - Geraldo de Proença Sigaud, Archbishop of Diamantina 1960-1980 (died 1999)

November

• 21 November - Octacílio Pinheiro Guerra, footballer (died 1967)

Deaths

• 6 March - João Barbosa Rodrigues, botanist and engineer (born 1842)
• 14 June - Afonso Pena, lawyer and politician, President of Brazil (born 1847)^[7]
• 15 August - Euclides da Cunha, journalist, sociologist and engineer (born 1866)
• 27 November - Prince Luigi, Count of Roccaguglielma, son of Princess Januária of Brazil (born 1845)