1914 in Brazil

Events in the year 1914 in Brazil.

Incumbents

1 January at 12:00 a.m. Local Mean Time States and territories now observe the four standard time zones, moving clocks forward or backward by a few minutes and seconds according to the then civil time by law since 18 June, 1913.
1 March - In the presidential election, incumbent Vice-President Venceslau Brás, of the Mineiro Republican Party, receives 91.6% of the vote.^[1]
20 May - Brazil participates in the Niagara Falls peace conference, in at attempt to avoid war between the United States and Mexico.^[2]
8 June - The Brazilian Football Confederation is founded, with Álvaro Zamith as its first president. The Brazilian Olympic Committee is founded on the same day.
14 September - The British Royal Navy auxiliary cruiser HMS Carmania fought the German SMS Cap Trafalgar off Trindade in the Battle of Trindade. Carmania sank Cap Trafalgar, but sustained severe damage herself.^[3]
15 November - Venceslau Brás is sworn in as Brazil's ninth president.^[4]

14 March - Abdias do Nascimento, Afro-Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician (died 2011)^[5]
18 May - Cacilda Borges Barbosa, pianist, conductor and composer (died 2010)^[6]
26 May - Sister Dulce, Catholic Franciscan Sister (died 1992)
29 May - José Eugênio Corrêa, Bishop of Caratinga 1957-1978 (died 2010)
14 July - Marcelo Damy, physicist (died 2009)

18 June - Sílvio Romero, Condorist" poet, essayist, literary critic, professor and journalist (born 1851)^[7]
12 November - Augusto dos Anjos, poet and academic (born 1884;pneumonia)

^ Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3. p 230
^ "Bulletins from Peace Meeting Eagerly Read by the Crowds". The New York Times. May 21, 1914. Retrieved 2014-01-03. 'Play Ball' sang out an irreverent voice as Frederick W. Lehmann and Justice Joseph R. Lamar, the two American delegates to the Niagara Falls peace conference, arrived here a few minutes before 3 o'clock this afternoon and went upstairs to the sun parlor for the opening session of the conference. ...
^ "'Carmania' sinking the 'Cap Trafalgar' off Trinidade Island in the South Atlantic, 14 September 1914". Royal Museums Greenwich (Collections). National Maritime Museum. Retrieved 18 February 2013.
^ O novo governo (página 1 do único caderno), O Paiz (16 de novembro de 1914). Ano XXX, n° 10997.
^ Bruce Weber (May 30, 2011). "Abdias do Nascimento, Rights Voice, Dies at 97". The New York Times.
^ Antonio, Irati (1994). "Barbosa, Cacilda Campos Borges". In Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel. The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Woman Composers (1st American ed.). The Macmillan Press Limited (London); W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. (New York). p. 35. ISBN 0-393-03487-9.
^ Romero's biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters (in Portuguese)

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