1909 in Brazil
Events of the year 1909 in the Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President: Afonso Pena ; Nilo Peçanha
- [Vice President of Brazil|President of Brazil|Vice President]: Nilo Peçanha ; vacant
Governors
- Alagoas:
- * till 3 March: Euclid Vieira Malta
- * 3 March-12 June: José Miguel de Vasconcelos
- * from 12 June: Euclid Vieira Malta
- Amazonas: Antônio Clemente Ribeiro Bittencourt
- Bahia: João Ferreira de Araújo Pinho
- Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
- Goiás:
- * until March 11: Miguel da Rocha Lima
- * March 11 - May 1: Francisco Bertoldo de Sousa
- * May 1 - July 24: José da Silva Batista
- * From July 24: Urbano Coelho de Gouveia
- Maranhão:
- * until February 25: Arthur Collares
- * February 25 - June 29: Mariano Martins Lisboa Neto
- * from June 29: Américo Vespúcio dos Reis
- Mato Grosso: Pedro Celestino Corrêa da Costa
- Minas Gerais:
- * until 3 April: Júlio Bueno Brandão
- * from 3 April: Venceslau Brás
- Pará:
- * until 1 February: Augusto Montenegro
- * from 1 February: João Antônio Luís Coelho
- Paraíba: João Lopes Machado
- Paraná: Francisco Xavier da Silva
- Pernambuco: Herculano Bandeira de Melo
- Piauí:
- * until 5 December: Anísio Auto de Abreu
- * from 5 December: Manuel Raimundo da Paz
- Rio Grande do Norte: Alberto Maranhão
- Rio Grande do Sul: Carlos Barbosa Gonçalves
- Santa Catarina:
- São Paulo:
- Sergipe:
Vice governors
- Rio Grande do Norte:
- São Paulo:
Events
January
- 17 January: The Federal University of Amazonas is founded.
- 20 January: Brazil's new cruiser, Bahia, is launched.
April
- 14 April: Physician Carlos Chagas discovers a tropical parasitic disease caused by the flagellated cinetoplastid protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, in the mining town of Lassance.
- 19 April: Brazil's new battleship, São Paulo, is launched at Barrow-in-Furness, UK, by Regis de Oliveira, the wife of Brazil's minister to Great Britain.
May
- 17 May: The football club Paulista Futebol Clube is founded.
September
- 8 September: The Velarde-Río Branco treaty between Brazil and Peru is signed, establishing borders south of the Yavarí.
- 19 September: The country's first automobile race is held at the São Gonçalo circuit in Rio de Janeiro.
Births
February
- 7 February - Hélder Câmara, Catholic archbishop
- 21 February - Mário Wallace Simonsen, businessman
August
- 4 August - Roberto Burle Marx, landscape architect
September
- 13 September - Prince Pedro Henrique of Orléans-Braganza, claimant to the abolished imperial throne of Brazil.
- 26 September - Geraldo de Proença Sigaud, Archbishop of Diamantina 1960-1980
November
- 21 November - Octacílio Pinheiro Guerra, footballer
Deaths
- 6 March - João Barbosa Rodrigues, botanist and engineer
- 14 June - Afonso Pena, lawyer and politician, President of Brazil
- 15 August - Euclides da Cunha, journalist, sociologist and engineer
- 27 November - Prince Luigi, Count of Roccaguglielma, son of Princess Januária of Brazil