1915 in Brazil
overview of Brazil-related events during the year of 1915
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.
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