1906 in Brazil
Events in the year 1906 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves ; Afonso Pena
- Vice President: Afonso Pena ; Nilo Peçanha
Governors
- Alagoas: Antônio Máximo da Cunha Rego ; Euclid Vieira Malta
- Amazonas: Antônio Constantino Néri
- Bahia: José Marcelino de Sousa
- Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
- Goiás: Miguel da Rocha Lima
- Maranhão: Manuel Lopes da Cunha ; Benedito Pereira Leite
- Mato Grosso: Antônio Pais de Barros, then Pedro Leite Osório
- Minas Gerais: Francisco Salles ; João Pinheiro da Silva
- Pará: Augusto Montenegro
- Paraíba: Valfredo Leal
- Paraná: Vicente Machado da Silva Lima; João Cândido Ferreira
- Pernambuco: Sigismundo Antônio Gonçalves
- Piauí: Álvaro de Assis Osório Mendes
- Rio Grande do Norte: Augusto Tavares Lira ; Manuel Moreira Dias
- Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
- Santa Catarina:
- São Paulo:
- Sergipe:
Vice governors
- Rio Grande do Norte:
- São Paulo:
Events
January
- 21 January: The Brazilian battleship Aquidabã sinks, after its powder magazines explode near the Jacuacanga strait, in Angra dos Reis bay. A total of 212 people are killed, including three admirals and most of the ship's officers; 98 survive.
March
- 1 March: In the presidential election, Afonso Pena of the Mineiro Republican Party receives 97.9% of the vote.
May
- 5 May: The Treaty of Limits between Brazil and the Netherlands is signed in Rio de Janeiro, establishing the international boundary between Brazil and the Dutch colony of Suriname.
October
- 23 October: An aeroplane of Alberto Santos-Dumont takes off at Bagatelle in France and flies 60 meters. This is the first officially recorded powered flight in Europe.
November
- 9 November: The Brazilian Flag Anthem, with lyrics by Olavo Bilac and music by Francisco Braga, is performed for the first time.
- 15 November: Afonso Pena becomes the sixth president of Brazil.
Births
- 27 January - Radamés Gnattali, conductor and composer
- 23 June - Lima Barreto, film director and screenwriter
- 30 July - Mário Quintana, writer and translator
- 14 September - Flávio Costa, football player and manager