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1925 in Brazil

overview of Brazil-related events during the year of 1925

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ16320438
Source-derived summary

Events in the year 1925 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

President: Artur Bernardes

Vice President: Estácio de Albuquerque Coimbra

Governors

Alagoas: Pedro da Costa Rego

Amazonas: Alfredo Sá

Bahia: Góis Calmon

Ceará: José Moreira da Rocha

Goiás:

till 14 July: Miguel da Rocha Lima

from 14 July: Brasil Caiado

Maranhão: Godofredo Mendes Viana

Mato Grosso: Estêvão Alves Correia

Minas Gerais: Fernando de Mello Viana

Pará:

till 1 February: Antônio Emiliano de Sousa

from 1 February: Dionísio Bentes

Paraíba: João Suassuna

Paraná: Caetano Munhoz da Rocha

Pernambuco: Sérgio Teixeira Lins de Barros Loreto

Piauí: Matias Olímpio de Melo

Rio Grande do Norte: José Augusto Bezerra de Medeiros

Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros

Santa Catarina:

São Paulo:

Sergipe:

Vice governors

Rio Grande do Norte:

São Paulo:

Events

12 April - The Coluna Prestes movement is launched at a meeting in Foz do Iguaçu.

29 May - British explorer Percy Fawcett sent a last telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.

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“1925 in Brazil” enters the record as overview of Brazil-related events during the year of 1925. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Brazil, overview and Brazil-related can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1925—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Brazil, overview and Brazil-related.
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This entry incorporates text from 1925 in Brazil” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.