• Source: 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.
      20 May - Brazil participates in the Niagara Falls peace conference, in at attempt to avoid war between the United States and Mexico.
      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.
      15 November - Venceslau Brás is sworn in as Brazil's ninth president.


      Births


      14 March - Abdias do Nascimento, Afro-Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician (died 2011)
      18 May - Cacilda Borges Barbosa, pianist, conductor and composer (died 2010)
      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)
      12 November - Augusto dos Anjos, poet and academic (born 1884;pneumonia)


      See also


      1914 in Brazilian football


      References

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