1907 in Brazil
Events in the year 1907 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
- Alagoas: Euclid Vieira Malta
- Amazonas: Antônio Constantino Néri
- Bahia: José Marcelino de Sousa
- Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
- Goiás: Miguel da Rocha Lima
- Maranhão: Benedito Pereira Leite
- Mato Grosso: Pedro Leite Osório, then Generoso Pais Leme de Sousa Ponce
- Minas Gerais: João Pinheiro da Silva
- Pará: Augusto Montenegro
- Paraíba: Valfredo Leal
- Paraná: João Cândido Ferreira, Joaquim Monteiro de Carvalho e Silva
- Pernambuco: Sigismundo Antônio Gonçalves
- Piauí: Álvaro de Assis Osório Mendes ; Areolino Antônio de Abreu
- Rio Grande do Norte: Manuel Moreira Dias ; Antonio José de Melo e Sousa
- Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
- Santa Catarina:
- São Paulo:
- Sergipe:
Vice governors
- Rio Grande do Norte:
- São Paulo:
Events
- 7 January - Three new battleships on which construction work is in progress are scrapped as a result of changes to the Brazilian government's requirements.
- 20 February - The Brazilian government approves the design for its new battleships.
- 20 April - Brazil annexed land in the East from Colombia through the Vásquez Cobo–Martins treaty.
- 30 April - The keel of Brazil's latest dreadnought battleship "São Paulo" is laid down at the Vickers shipyard, Barrow-in-Furness, UK.
- date unknown
- *Construction of the Madeira-Mamoré Railroad begins, linking the cities of Porto Velho and Guajará-Mirim.
- *The first Brazilian diplomats are officially accredited by the government of Costa Rica.
Arts and culture
- Olavo Bilac is elected the "Prince of Brazilian Poets" by the magazine Fon-Fon.
Births
- 29 January - Clóvis Graciano, artist
- 9 February - Victor Civita, Italian-Brazilian journalist and publisher, in New York, USA
- 29 March - Braguinha, composer
- 4 April - Otávio Fantoni, soccer player
- 18 April - Manoel de Castro Villas Bôas, entrepreneur, writer and journalist
- 22 May - Luiz Gervazoni, footballer
- 12 June - José Reis, scientist and journalist
- 3 August - Ernesto Geisel, military leader and politician
- 15 December - Oscar Niemeyer, architect
Deaths
- 1 October - Geraldo Ribeiro de Sousa Resende, Baron Geraldo of Resende, aristocrat, farmer and politician