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Events in the year 1915 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Venceslau Brás
• Vice President: Urbano Santos da Costa Araújo

Governors

• Alagoas: Clodoaldo da Fonseca (until 12 June); João Batista Accioli Jr. (from 12 June)
• Amazonas: Jônatas de Freitas Pedrosa
• Bahia: José Joaquim Seabra
• Ceará: Benjamin Liberato Barroso
• Goiás: Joaquim Augusto da Costa Marques, then Caetano Manuel de Faria e Albuquerque
  • until June 30: Salatiel Simões de Lima
  • from June 30: Joaquim Rufino Ramos Jubé
• Maranhão: Herculano Nina Parga
• Mato Grosso:
• Minas Gerais: Delfim Moreira
• Pará: Enéas Martins
• Paraíba:
  • until 24 July: João Castro Pinto
  • from 24 July: Antônio da Silva Pessoa
• Paraná: Carlos Cavalcanti de Albuquerque
• Pernambuco:
  • until 18 December: Emídio Dantas Barreto
  • from 18 December: Manuel Antônio Pereira Borba
• Piauí: Miguel de Paiva Rosa
• Rio Grande do Norte: Joaquim Ferreira Chaves
• Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
• Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• Sergipe:

Vice governors

• Rio Grande do Norte:
• São Paulo:

Events

• 6 August - Brazilian-born Bernardino Luís Machado Guimarães becomes President of Portugal.

Culture and the arts

• 29 January - Heitor Villa-Lobos gives the first in a series of chamber concerts; one of the new works he introduces during this year is his Cello Concerto no 1.

Births

• 5 January - Humberto Teixeira, musician (died 1979)
• 15 January - Maria Lenk, swimmer (died 2007)
• 20 April - Aurora Miranda, entertainer (died 2005)
• 18 October - Grande Otelo, Afro-Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician, real name Bernardes de Souza Prata (died 1993)

Deaths

• 18 January - Bernardino José de Campos Júnior, politician, second and sixth governor of the State of São Paulo (born 1841)
• 2 February - João Cardoso de Meneses e Sousa, Baron of Paranapiacaba, poet, translator, journalist, lawyer and politician (born 1827)
• 27 November - Orville Adalbert Derby, American geologist who became a Brazilian citizen (born 1851; suicide)

References

1. Appleby, David P. 1988. Heitor Villa-Lobos: A Bio-Bibliography. New York: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-25346-3
2. Obituary: Aurora Miranda http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2006/mar/06/guardianobituaries.brazil
3. Santos, José Maria dos, Bernardino de Campos e o Partido Republicano Paulista, Rj, Jose Olympio, 1960
4. A biography of Sousa (in Portuguese)
5. Diniz Gonsalves, A., 1952 - Orville A. Derby's Studies on the Paleontology of Brazil - Published under the direction of the Executive Commission for the 1st Centenary Commemorating the birth of Orville A. Derby, and sponsored by the American Embassy in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro, 1952.

See also

• 1915 in Brazilian football

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