1923 in Brazil

1923 in Brazil
Years 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925
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Year of Constitution: 1891

Events in the year 1923 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• Artur Bernardes
• Estácio de Albuquerque Coimbra

Governors

• Alagoas: José Fernandes de Barros Lima
• Amazonas: César do Rego Monteiro
• Bahia: José Joaquim Seabra
• Ceará
  :
  • till 12 July: Justiniano de Serpa
  • from 12 July: Ildefonso Albano
• Goiás:
  • till 27 July: Eugênio Rodrigues Jardim
  • from 27 July: Miguel da Rocha Lima
• Maranhão
  :
  • till 20 January: Raul da Cunha Machado
  • from 20 January: Godofredo Mendes Viana
• Mato Grosso: Pedro Celestino Corrêa da Costa
• Minas Gerais: Raul Soares
• Pará: Antônio Emiliano de Sousa
• Paraíba: Sólon Barbosa de Lucena
• Paraná: Caetano Munhoz da Rocha
• Pernambuco: Sérgio Teixeira Lins de Barros Loreto
• Piauí: João Luís Ferreira
• Rio Grande do Norte: Antonio José de Melo e Sousa
• Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
• Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo
  :
• Sergipe:

Vice governors

• Rio Grande do Norte:
• São Paulo:

Events

• 3 May - Brazil sign the Pan-American Treaty.^[1]
• 13 August - Grand opening of the Copacabana Palace
  hotel in Rio de Janeiro.

• date unknown
  • The Brazilian Society of Chemistry is founded.
  • Brazil's first radio broadcasting station, the Radio Society of Rio de Janeiro, is founded; it is still working under the name Rádio MEC.
  • Medeiros e Albuquerque becomes President of the Academia Brasileira de Letras.
  • Construction of the Basilica of Our Lady of Lourdes, Belo Horizonte was completed.

Arts and culture

Films

• A Canção da Primavera, directed by Igino Bonfioli and Cyprien Segur.
• Augusto Anibal quer casar, directed by Luiz de Barros
• Amilar Alves

Births

• 11 January – Sérgio Porto, writer (died 1968
  )
• 22 January – Marcus Vinícius Dias, basketball player (died 1992
  )
• 19 April – Lygia Fagundes Telles, novelist and writer (died 2022)^[2]
• 16 August – Millôr Fernandes, journalist, cartoonist, humorist and playwright (died 2012)^[3]
• 30 October – Lourdinha Bittencourt, actress (died 1979)^[4]
• 1 November – Newton Holanda Gurgel, Bishop of Crato 1993-2001 (died 2017
  )
• 14 November – Cleyde Yáconis, actress (died 2013
  )

Deaths

• Rui Barbosa, writer and politician (born 1849)^[5]
• 11 March – Júlia da Silva Bruhns, mother of Thomas Mann (born 1851)^[6]

References

1. ^ League of Nations Treaty Series, vol. 33, pp. 26-45.
2. ^ Acclaimed Brazilian writer Telles dies at 98
3. ^ "Millôr Online"
4. ^ Bonventti, Rodolfo Carlos. "Lourdinha Bittencourt" (in Portuguese). Dramaturgia in Memorian.com.br. Archived from the original on 2014-10-26. Retrieved 2014-06-23.
5. ISBN 1-419-10424-1
   .
6. ^ Miskolci, Richard. Thomas Mann: Artista Mestiço. São Paulo: Annablume/FAPESP, 2003.

See also

• 1923 in Brazilian football

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