1889 in Brazil
Events in the year 1889 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal Government
- Monarch: Pedro II
- President: Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca
- Vice-President: nonePrime Minister:
- *João Alfredo Correia de Oliveira
- *Afonso Celso, Viscount of Ouro Preto
- *''none''
Governors
- Alagoas: Government Junta, Tiburcio Valerio de Araujo, Pedro Paulino da Fonseca
- Amazonas: Government Junta
- Bahia: Virginio Climaco Damasio then Manuel Vitorino Pereira
- Ceará: Luis Antonio Ferraz
- Goiás: Government Junta
- Maranhão:
- Mato Grosso: Antonio Maria Coelho
- Minas Gerais: Antonio Olinto dos Santos Pires
- Pará: Justo Chermont
- Paraíba: Venancio Neiva
- Paraná: Francisco José Cardoso Júnior then José Marques Guimarães
- Pernambuco: José Cerqueira de Aguiar Lima, José Simeão de Oliveira
- Piauí: Gregório Taumaturgo de Azevedo
- Rio Grande do Norte: Pedro de Albuquerque Maranhão, Adolfo Afonso da Silva Gordo
- Rio Grande do Sul: Government Junta
- Santa Catarina: Lauro Müller
- São Paulo: Government Junta
- Sergipe: Junta Governativa Sergipana, Felisbelo Firmo de Oliveira Freire
Vice governors
- Rio Grande do Norte: No vice governor
- São Paulo: No vice governor
Events
May
June
- 7 June - Afonso Celso de Assis Figuereido, Viscount of Ouro Preto, is appointed to replace Correia de Oliveira as prime minister.
July
- July - Emperor Dom Pedro II travels to Minas Gerais, demonstrating both that he is still actively engaged in government and the depth of support for the monarchy in the province.
November
- 11 November - Republicans meet at the home of Rui Barbosa to plan a coup. The chief organizers are Benjamin Constant, Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca, Quintino Bocaiuva and Aristides Lobo.
- 15 November - A coup d'état institutes the First Brazilian Republic.
- 17 November - Emperor Dom Pedro II and his family are sent into exile in Europe.
- 19 November - A new national flag, devised by Raimundo Teixeira Mendes, is adopted by the republic.
- 20 November - Argentina becomes the first nation to recognize the new government of Deodoro da Fonseca.
December
- 24 December - The former royal family receive official notice that they will never be allowed to return to Brazil.
Arts and culture
Books
- Osório Duque-Estrada – ''A Aristocracia do Espírito''
Births
- 2 December - Anita Malfatti, artist unknown date - José Maria de Santo Agostinho, mystic
Deaths
- 29 March - Teófilo Dias, poet, journalist and lawyer
- 26 June - Tobias Barreto, poet, philosopher, jurist and critic
- 28 June - Francisco Otaviano, poet, lawyer, diplomat, journalist and politician
- 21 October - Irineu Evangelista de Sousa, Viscount of Mauá, entrepreneur, industrialist, banker and politician
- 28 December - Empress Teresa Cristina, wife of Emperor Dom Pedro II