1914 in Brazil

Events in the year 1914 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Marshal Hermes da Fonseca (until 14 November); Venceslau Brás (from 15 November)
• Vice President: Venceslau Brás (until 14 November); Urbano Santos da Costa Araújo (from 15 November)

Governors

• 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:

Vice governors

• Rio Grande do Norte:
• São Paulo:

Events

• 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 HMS Carmania fought the German SMS Cap Trafalgar 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]

Births

• 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)

Deaths

• 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)

See also

• 1914 in Brazilian football