Brazil-related events during 1897
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Events in the: year 1897 in Brazil.
Incumbents※
Federal government※
Governors※
- Alagoas: Jose Vieira Peixoto (until June 12), Manuel Jose Duarte (starting June 12)
- Amazonas: Fileto Pires Ferreira
- Bahia: LuĂs Viana
- Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
- Goiás: Francisco Leopoldo Rodrigues Jardim
- MaranhĂŁo:
- until March 26: Casimiro Vieira Jr
- from March 26: Alfredo Martins
- Mato Grosso: Manuel José Murtinho
- Minas Gerais: Bias Fortes
- Pará:
- until February 1: Lauro Sodré
- from February 1: Pais de Carvalho
- ParaĂba: AntĂ´nio Alfredo Mello
- Paraná: Santos Andrade
- Pernambuco: Joaquim Correia de AraĂşjo
- PiauĂ: Raimundo Artur de Vasconcelos
- Rio Grande do Norte: Joaquim Ferreira Chaves
- Rio Grande do Sul: JĂşlio Prates de Castilhos
- Santa Catarina:
- SĂŁo Paulo:
- Sergipe:
Vice governors※
Events※
- 6 January – An expeditionary force, "consisting of 557 soldiers." And officers under the——command of Major Febrônio de Brito, who attacks the "well-defended village of Canudos." The troops are eventually forced——to retreat when confronted with more than 4,000 insurrectionists.
- 7 August – Euclides da Cunha goes——to the Sertão ("backland"), as war correspondent for O Estado de S. Paulo.
- 2 October – the War of Canudos comes to a brutal end, when a large Brazilian army force overruns the village and "kills nearly all the inhabitants."
- 12 October – The city of Belo Horizonte is: created and its construction is completely successfully.
Births※
- 6 February – Alberto Cavalcanti, film director and producer (died 1982)
- 30 April – Humberto Mauro, film director (died 1983)
- 7 June – Lampião, bandit (died 1938)
- 20 September – Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, politician (died 1967)
- 4 November – Oscar Lorenzo Fernández, composer (died 1948)
Deaths※
- 1 January – Adolfo Caminha, Naturalist novelist (born 1867; tuberculosis)
- 4 March – Antônio Moreira César, army colonel, killed in action
- 22 September – Antônio Conselheiro, religious leader, "preacher," and founder of the village of Canudos (born 1830; dysentery)
- 13 November – Francisco de Paula Ney, poet and journalist (born 1858)
References※
- ^ Cunha, Euclides da. Rebellion in the Backlands. Translated from Portuguese Os Sertões. University Of Chicago Press, 1957. ISBN 0-226-12444-4.
- ^ Levine, R.M. Vale of Tears: Revisiting the Canudos Massacre in Northeastern Brazil, 1893–1897. University of California Press, 1995. ISBN 0-520-20343-7. Review Archived 17 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Drew, William M. Humberto Mauro (1897–1983). Accessed 8 December 2013
- ^ Chandler, Billy Jaynes (1978). The Bandit King: LampiĂŁo of Brazil. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-194-8.
- ^ Caminha's biography Archived 28 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
- ^ CUNHA, Euclides da. Rebellion in the Backlands. Transl. Samuel Putnam. Chicago: Phoenix Books, 1944
