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1915 in Brazil
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Events in the year 1915 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
- Alagoas: Clodoaldo da Fonseca (until 12 June); João Batista Accioli Jr. (from 12 June)
- Amazonas: Jônatas de Freitas Pedrosa
- Bahia: José Joaquim Seabra
- Ceará: Benjamin Liberato Barroso
- Goiás: Joaquim Augusto da Costa Marques, then Caetano Manuel de Faria e Albuquerque
- until June 30: Salatiel Simões de Lima
- from June 30: Joaquim Rufino Ramos Jubé
- Maranhão: Herculano Nina Parga
- Mato Grosso:
- Minas Gerais: Delfim Moreira
- Pará: Enéas Martins
- ParaÃba:
- until 24 July: João Castro Pinto
- from 24 July: Antônio da Silva Pessoa
- Paraná: Carlos Cavalcanti de Albuquerque
- Pernambuco:
- until 18 December: EmÃdio Dantas Barreto
- from 18 December: Manuel Antônio Pereira Borba
- PiauÃ: Miguel de Paiva Rosa
- Rio Grande do Norte: Joaquim Ferreira Chaves
- Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
- Santa Catarina:
- São Paulo:
- Sergipe:
Vice governors
Events
- 6 August - Brazilian-born Bernardino LuÃs Machado Guimarães becomes President of Portugal.
Culture and the arts
- 29 January - Heitor Villa-Lobos gives the first in a series of chamber concerts; one of the new works he introduces during this year is his Cello Concerto no 1.[1]
Births
- 5 January - Humberto Teixeira, musician (died 1979)
- 15 January - Maria Lenk, swimmer (died 2007)
- 20 April - Aurora Miranda, entertainer (died 2005)[2]
- 18 October - Grande Otelo, Afro-Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician, real name Bernardes de Souza Prata (died 1993)
Deaths
- 18 January - Bernardino José de Campos Júnior, politician, second and sixth governor of the State of São Paulo (born 1841)[3]
- 2 February - João Cardoso de Meneses e Sousa, Baron of Paranapiacaba, poet, translator, journalist, lawyer and politician (born 1827)[4]
- 27 November - Orville Adalbert Derby, American geologist who became a Brazilian citizen (born 1851; suicide)[5]
