1887 in Brazil
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Events in the year 1887 in Brazil.
Incumbents
- Monarch: Pedro II[1]
- Prime Minister: João Alfredo Correia de Oliveira
Events
- June â The Clube Militar, founded by Benjamin Constant and Deodoro da Fonseca, holds its first meeting.[2]
- 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.[3]
- Maragogi is granted the status of a town.
Births
- March 5 â Heitor Villa-Lobos, composer (died 1959)[4]
- April 19 â LucÃlio de Albuquerque, painter (died 1939)
- May 15 â José Joaquim Moniz de Aragão, diplomat (died 1974)
- May 16 â Maria Lacerda de Moura, anarchist, feminist, journalist and writer (died 1945)[5]
Deaths
- date unknown â William Hadfield, British writer, specialist in Brazil (born 1806)