1908 in Brazil

Events in the year 1908 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Afonso Pena, President

Nilo Peçanha, Vice President

• President: Afonso Pena
• Vice President: Nilo Peçanha

Events

• 23 May - Jerônimo de Sousa Monteiro becomes the 13th president (governor) of the state of Espirito Santo.
• 2 July - The Argentina national football team begins a tour of Brazil, winning six and drawing one of the seven friendly games played in 13 days.
• 30 October - Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, renounces his claim on the Brazilian throne in order to marry Countess Elisabeth Dobržensky de Dobrženicz.^[1]

Births

• 3 February - Dulcina de Moraes, stage actress and director (died 1996)
• 12 February - Olga Benário Prestes, German-Brazilian communist militant (in Munich;^[2] died 1942)
• 27 June - João Guimarães Rosa, novelist (died 1967)
• 14 September - Maria Luisa Monteiro da Cunha, librarian (died 1980)
• 25 October - Blessed Adílio Daronch, student
• 28 November - Vitorino de Brito Freire, politician (died 1977)^[3]
• 13 December - Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Catholic intellectual and politician (died 1995)

Deaths

• 29 September - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, novelist, poet, playwright, short story writer, and monarchist (born 1839)^[4]
• 22 October - Artur Azevedo, dramatist, short story writer, chronicler, journalist and poet of the Parnassian school (born 1855)^[5]

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to 1908 in Brazil.