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
• Paraíba: Álvaro Lopes Machado
• Paraná: Francisco Xavier da Silva, then Vicente Machado da Silva Lima
• Pernambuco: Alexandre José Barbosa Lima
• Piauí: 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 – Revolta da Armada launched by Royalist admiral Custódio José de Melo
• November – beginning of the Federalist Revolution
• 71.2% of the working population of São Paulo is foreign-born.

Births

• January 19 – Magda Tagliaferro, pianist of French parentage
• May 16 – Ronald de Carvalho, poet and diplomat
• October 9 – Mário de Andrade, poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer

Deaths

• July 13 – William Hutchinson Norris, founder of the city of Americana, São Paulo