1887 in Brazil

Events in the year 1887 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Head of state - Emperor Pedro II
Prime Minister - João Alfredo Correia de Oliveira

Events

Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, future President of Brazil, becomes president of the province of São Paulo.
Italian ethnologist Guido Boggiani travels through the interior of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay to document the lives of Indians in the region.^[1]
Maragogi is granted the status of a town.

Births

March 5 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, composer (died 1959)^[2]
April 19 - Lucílio de Albuquerque, painter (died 1939)
May 15 - José Joaquim Moniz de Aragão, diplomat (died 1974)
May 16 - Maria Lacerda de Moura, anarchist, feminist, journalist and writer (died 1945)^[3]

Deaths

date unknown - William Hadfield, British writer, specialist in Brazil (born 1806)

References

↑ Vinigi Grottanelli, et al. "Ethnology and/or Cultural Anthropology in Italy: Traditions and Development. Current Anthropology 18.4 (1977): 593-614, p. 595
↑ Béhague, Gerard. 2001. "Villa-Lobos, Heitor". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
↑ Maria Lacerda de Moura, 1887-1944 by Singularidades

Years in Brazil

1887 in South America

Sovereign states	Argentina Bolivia Brazil Chile Colombia Ecuador Guyana Paraguay Peru Suriname Uruguay Venezuela

Dependencies and other territories	Falkland Islands French Guiana South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands