1893 in Brazil
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Events in the year 1893 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Marshal Floriano Peixoto
- Vice-President: vacant
Governors
- Alagoas: Gabino Besuoro
- Amazonas: Eduardo Gonçalves Ribeiro
- Bahia: Rodrigues Lima
- Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
- Goiás:
- until July 1: Antônio Caiado
- from July 1: José Inácio Xavier de Brito
- Maranhão:
- until October 27: Alfredo Martins
- from October 27: Casimiro Vieira Jr
- Mato Grosso:
- Minas Gerais: Afonso Pena
- Pará: Lauro Sodré
- ParaÃba: Ãlvaro Lopes Machado
- Paraná: Francisco Xavier da Silva, then Vicente Machado da Silva Lima
- Pernambuco: Alexandre José Barbosa Lima
- PiauÃ: Coriolano de Carvalho e Silva
- Rio Grande do Norte: Pedro de Albuquerque Maranhão
- Rio Grande do Sul:
- until September 27: Vitoriano Ribeiro Carneiro Monteiro
- from September 27: Fernando Fernandes Abbott
- Santa Catarina:
- São Paulo:
- Sergipe:
Vice governors
- Rio de Janeiro: Manuel Torres
- Rio Grande do Norte: Silvino Bezerra
- São Paulo: José Alves de Cerqueira César
Events
- September â Revolta da Armada launched by Royalist admiral Custódio José de Melo
- November â beginning of the Federalist Revolution
- 71.2% of the working population of São Paulo is foreign-born.
Births
- January 19 â Magda Tagliaferro, pianist of French parentage (died 1986)[1]
- May 16 â Ronald de Carvalho, poet and diplomat (died 1935)
- October 9 â Mário de Andrade, poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer (died 1945)[2]
Deaths
- July 13 â William Hutchinson Norris, founder of the city of Americana, São Paulo (born 1800)[3]