- Source: 1920 in Brazil
Events in the year 1920 in Brazil.
Incumbents
= Federal government
=President: Epitácio Pessoa
Vice President: Delfim Moreira (until 1 July); vacant (1 July to 10 November); Francisco Álvaro Bueno de Paiva (from 10 November)
= Governors
=Alagoas: José Fernandes de Barros Lima
Amazonas: Pedro de Alcântara Bacelar
Bahia: Antônio Ferrão Muniz de Aragão, then José Joaquim Seabra
Ceará:
till 12 July: João Tomé de Sabóia e Silva
from 12 12 July: Justiniano de Serpa
Goiás: João Alves de Castro
Maranhão: Urbano Santos
Mato Grosso: Francisco de Aquino Correia
Minas Gerais: Artur Bernardes
Pará: Lauro Sodré
Paraíba:
till 22 October: Francisco Camilo de Holanda
from 22 October: Sólon Barbosa de Lucena
Paraná:
Afonso Camargo
Caetano Munhoz da Rocha
Pernambuco:
till 28 October: José Rufino Bezerra Cavalcanti
from 28 October: Otávio Hamilton Tavares Barreto
Piauí:
till 1 July: Eurípedes Clementino de Aguiar
from 1 July: João Luís Ferreira
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
20 April - Opening ceremony of the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, at which Brazil competes for the first time. Sport shooter Guilherme Paraense is the first Brazilian to win a gold medal.
Arts and culture
= Books
=Monteiro Lobato writes the first of his Sítio do Picapau Amarelo novel series.
= Films
=Coração de Gaúcho, directed by and starring Luiz de Barros
O Crime de Cravinhos, directed by Arturo Carrari and starring Rodolfo Arena.
O Garimpeiro, directed by and starring Vittorio Capellaro
Births
9 January - João Cabral de Melo Neto, poet and diplomat (died 1999)
21 April - Anselmo Duarte, actor, screenwriter and film director (died 2009)
26 July - Celso Furtado (died 2004)
Deaths
26 March - Prince Luís, claimant to the Brazilian throne (born 1878; rheumatism)
1 July - Delfim Moreira, politician (born 1868)
16 October - Alberto Nepomuceno, conductor and composer (born 1864)
References
See also
1920 in Brazilian football
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Real Madrid C.F.
- Kendaraan bermotor
- Universitas Federal Rio de Janeiro
- Soekarno
- Fluminense FC
- CR Flamengo
- Majapahit
- Pardo
- International Pageant of Pulchritude
- Eugênio Sales
- 1920 in Brazil
- Brazil at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- 1920 South American Championship
- 1920
- 1920 in Brazilian football
- Luís of Orléans-Braganza (1878–1920)
- Brazil national football team
- Italian Brazilians
- Racism in Brazil
- English Brazilians
