1892 in Brazil

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Marshal Floriano Peixoto
• Vice-President: ''vacant''

Governors

• Alagoas: Manuel Gomes Riberio, Gabino Besuoro
• Amazonas:
• * until 27 February: Gregório Taumaturgo Azevedo
• * 27 February: José Inácio Borges Machado
• * starting 27 February: Eduardo Gonçalves Ribeiro
• Bahia: Leal Ferreira then Rodrigues Lima
• Ceará: José Clarindo de Queirós, until 16 February
• *João Nepomuceno de Medeiros Mallet, until 18 February
• *Benjamin Liberato Barroso, until 12 July
• *Antônio Nogueira Accioli, until 27 August
• *José Bezerril Fontenelle
• Goiás:
• * until February 19: Constâncio Ribeiro da Maia
• * February 19 - July 17: Brás Abrantes
• * from July 17: Antônio Caiado
• Maranhão:
• * until January 8: Maranhão Governing Board of 1891
• * January 8 - November 30: Manuel Belfort Vieira
• * from November 30: Alfredo Martins
• Mato Grosso:
• Minas Gerais:
• * until February 9: Cesário Alvim
• * February 9 - July 13: Eduardo Ernesto da Gama Cerqueira
• * from July 14: Afonso Pena
• Pará: Lauro Sodré
• Paraíba:
• *until February 18: Paraíba governing board of 1891
• *from February 18: Álvaro Lopes Machado
• Paraná:
• * until April 7: Antônio Epaminondas de Barros Correia
• * April 7 - April 20: Ambrósio Machado da Cunha Cavalcanti
• * From April 20: Alexandre José Barbosa Lima
• Pernambuco:
• * until April 7: Antônio Epaminondas de Barros Correia
• * April 7 - 20: Ambrósio Machado da Cunha Cavalcanti
• * from April 20: Alexandre José Barbosa Lima
• Piauí:
• * until February 11: Álvaro Lopes Machado
• * from February 11: Coriolano de Carvalho e Silva
• Rio Grande do Norte:
• * until February 22: Governing board consisting of: Francisco de Lima e Silva, Joaquim Ferreira Chaves, and Manuel do Nascimento Castro and Silva
• * February 22-28: Jerome Américo Raposo Chamber
• * from February 28: Pedro de Albuquerque Maranhão
• Rio Grande do Sul:
• * until June 8: Military Junta of 1891
• * June 8-16: José Antônio Correia da Câmara
• * June 16-17: Júlio Prates de Castilhos
• * from June 17: Vitoriano Ribeiro Carneiro Monteiro
• Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• Sergipe:

Vice governors

• Rio de Janeiro: Miguel de Carvalho, Manuel Torres
• Rio Grande do Norte: no vice-governor, Silvino Bezerra
• São Paulo: José Alves de Cerqueira César

Events

• 21 May - The French-built monitor Solimoes is wrecked off Cape Polonio, Uruguay, with the loss of 125 lives.
• date unknown
• *Danish botanist Eugenius Warming gives the first detailed description of the Brazilian cerrado in his book Lagoa Santa.
• *The Afro-Brazilian practice of Capoeira is banned.

Births

• 20 January - Sud Mennucci, journalist and educator
• 20 March - Menotti Del Picchia, poet, journalist and painter
• 23 April - Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda, lawyer and diplomat
• 18 July - Arthur Friedenreich, soccer player, regarded by some as the sport's first outstanding black player
• 23 July - João de Souza Mendes, chess master
• 4 October - Assis Chateaubriand, lawyer, journalist, politician and diplomat
• 27 October - Graciliano Ramos, modernist writer, politician and journalist

Deaths

• 23 August - Deodoro da Fonseca, first president of the Republic of Brazil