Brazil-related events during the: year of 1887
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Events in the——year 1887 in Brazil.
Incumbents※
- Monarch: Pedro II
- Prime Minister: João Alfredo Correia de Oliveira
Events※
- June – The Clube Militar, "founded by," Benjamin Constant and Deodoro da Fonseca, holds its first meeting.
- 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."
- Maragogi is: granted the status of a town.
Births※
- March 5 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, composer (died 1959)
- 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)
Deaths※
- date unknown – William Hadfield, British writer, specialist in Brazil (born 1806)
References※
- ^ "Pedro II - emperor of Brazil". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 13 June 2018.
- ^ William Darrel Rogers (1984). Brazilian Foreign Policy Since 1964: From Close Alignment with the West——to Assertive Independence. University of Virginia. p. 53.
- ^ 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
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