1908 in Brazil
Events in the year 1908 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
Governors
- Alagoas: Euclid Vieira Malta
- Amazonas: Antônio Constantino Néri ; Antônio Clemente Ribeiro Bittencourt
- Bahia: José Marcelino de Sousa, then João Ferreira de Araújo Pinho
- Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli ; Antônio Nogueira Accioli
- Goiás: Miguel da Rocha Lima
- Maranhão: Benedito Pereira Leite ; Arthur Collares
- Mato Grosso: Generoso Pais Leme de Sousa Ponce, then Pedro Celestino Corrêa da Costa
- Minas Gerais: João Pinheiro da Silva ; Júlio Bueno Brandão
- Pará: Augusto Montenegro
- Paraíba: Valfredo Leal ; João Lopes Machado
- Paraná: Joaquim Monteiro de Carvalho e Silva; Manuel de Alencar Guimarães; Francisco Xavier da Silva
- Pernambuco: Sigismundo Antônio Gonçalves ; Herculano Bandeira de Melo
- Piauí: Areolino Antônio de Abreu ; José Lourenço de Morais e Silva ; Anísio Auto de Abreu
- Rio Grande do Norte: Antonio José de Melo e Sousa ; Alberto Maranhão
- Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros ; Carlos Barbosa Gonçalves
- Santa Catarina:
- São Paulo:
- Sergipe:
Vice governors
- Rio Grande do Norte:
- São Paulo:
Events
- 23 May - Jerônimo de Sousa Monteiro becomes the 13th president of the state of Espírito Santo.
June
- 16 June: The Kasato Maru arrives at the Port of Santos with the first official group of Japanese immigrants to Brazil.
- 2 July - The Argentina national football team begins a tour of Brazil, winning six and drawing one of the seven friendly games played in 13 days.
- 11 August - 15 November - The Exhibition of the centenary of the opening of the Ports of Brazil was held in Urca, Rio de Janeiro.
- 10 September - The first Minas Geraes-class Dreadnought battleship for Brazil, Minas Geraes, is launched at Armstrong Whitworth's yard on the River Tyne in England, catalysing the "South American dreadnought race".
- 30 October - Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, renounces his claim on the Brazilian throne in order to marry Countess Elisabeth Dobržensky de Dobrženicz.
- 15 November - The emergence of Umbanda through Zélio Fernandino de Moraes.
Births
- 3 February - Dulcina de Moraes, stage actress and director
- 12 February - Olga Benário Prestes, German-Brazilian communist militant
- 8 June - Inah Canabarro Lucas, supercentenarian and nun
- 27 June - João Guimarães Rosa, novelist
- 5 September - Josué de Castro, activist
- 14 September - Maria Luisa Monteiro da Cunha, librarian
- 25 October - Blessed Adílio Daronch, student
- 28 November - Vitorino de Brito Freire, politician
- 13 December - Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Catholic intellectual and politician
Deaths
- 29 September - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, novelist, poet, playwright, short story writer, and monarchist
- 22 October - Artur Azevedo, dramatist, short story writer, chronicler, journalist and poet of the Parnassian school