1911 in Brazil

Events in the year 1911 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Marshal Hermes da Fonseca
• Vice President: Venceslau Brás

Governors

• Alagoas: Euclid Vieira Malta
• Amazonas: Antônio Clemente Ribeiro Bittencourt
• Bahia: João Ferreira de Araújo Pinho, then Aurélio Rodrigues Viana
• Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
• Goiás: Urbano Coelho de Gouveia
• Maranhão: Luís Antônio Domingues da Silva
• Mato Grosso: Pedro Celestino Corrêa da Costa, then Joaquim Augusto da Costa Marques
• Minas Gerais: Júlio Bueno Brandão
• Pará: João Antônio Luís Coelho
• Paraíba: João Lopes Machado
• Paraná: Francisco Xavier da Silva
• Pernambuco: Herculano Bandeira de Melo(till 6 September); Estácio Coimbra (6 September - 13 December); João da Costa Bezerra de Carvalho (13 December - 19 December); Emídio Dantas Barreto (from 19 December)
• Piauí: Antonino Freire da Silva
• 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

• 10 January - The cargo ship SS São Luiz runs aground off the coast of Rio Grande do Norte.^[1]
• March - Future President Getúlio Vargas marries Darcy Lima Sarmanho.
• 5 March - The Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, one of the earliest medical schools in the country, is founded in Belo Horizonte.^[2]
• 1 April - Guarani Futebol Clube is founded in Campinas, São Paulo, by a group of 12 students.^[3]
• 15 November - Clube 15 de Novembro is founded at Campo Bom in Rio Grande do Sul.

Arts and culture

Books

• Lima Barreto - Triste Fim de Policarpo Quaresma

Films

• O conde de Luxemburgo

Births

• 8 February - Lélia Abramo, Italian-Brazilian actress and political activist (died 2004)
• 19 February - Prince Luiz Gastão of Orléans-Braganza, descendant of the Brazilian Imperial Family (died 1931)
• 15 March - Afrânio Coutinho, literary critic and essayist (died 2000)
• 12 May - Charles Sergel, surgeon, missionary doctor and Olympic rower (died 1980)^[4]
• 14 August - Bernardo Segall, film composer (died in 1993)
• 21 August - Golbery do Couto e Silva, military leader (died 1987)
• 24 October - Manuel Martins, artist (died 1979)^[5]
• 5 December - Carlos Marighella, Marxist revolutionary and writer (died 1969)^[6]

Deaths

• 26 July - José Alves de Cerqueira César, politician (born 1835)
• 13 September - Raimundo Correia, poet, judge and magistrate (born 1859)