1915 in Brazil

Events in the year 1915 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Venceslau Brás
• Vice President: Urbano Santos da Costa Araújo

Governors

• Alagoas: Clodoaldo da Fonseca (until 12 June); João Batista Accioli Jr. (from 12 June)
• Amazonas: Jônatas de Freitas Pedrosa
• Bahia: José Joaquim Seabra
• Ceará: Benjamin Liberato Barroso
• Goiás: Joaquim Augusto da Costa Marques, then Caetano Manuel de Faria e Albuquerque
  • until June 30: Salatiel Simões de Lima
  • from June 30: Joaquim Rufino Ramos Jubé
• Maranhão: Herculano Nina Parga
• Mato Grosso:
• Minas Gerais: Delfim Moreira
• Pará: Enéas Martins
• Paraíba:
  • until 24 July: João Castro Pinto
  • from 24 July: Antônio da Silva Pessoa
• Paraná: Carlos Cavalcanti de Albuquerque
• Pernambuco:
  • until 18 December: Emídio Dantas Barreto
  • from 18 December: Manuel Antônio Pereira Borba
• Piauí: 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

• 6 August - Brazilian-born Bernardino Luís Machado Guimarães becomes President of Portugal.

Culture and the arts

• 29 January - Heitor Villa-Lobos gives the first in a series of chamber concerts; one of the new works he introduces during this year is his Cello Concerto no 1.^[1]

Births

Maria Lenk (born 1915) with then-Brazilian Minister of Sports Agnelo Queiroz

• 5 January - Humberto Teixeira, musician (died 1979)
• 15 January - Maria Lenk, swimmer (died 2007)
• 20 April - Aurora Miranda, entertainer (died 2005)^[2]
• 18 October - Grande Otelo, Afro-Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician, real name Bernardes de Souza Prata (died 1993)

Deaths

• 18 January - Bernardino José de Campos Júnior, politician, second and sixth governor of the State of São Paulo (born 1841)^[3]
• 2 February - João Cardoso de Meneses e Sousa, Baron of Paranapiacaba, poet, translator, journalist, lawyer and politician (born 1827)^[4]
• 27 November - Orville Adalbert Derby, American geologist who became a Brazilian citizen (born 1851; suicide)^[5]