Events in the year 1922 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

* President: Epitácio Pessoa (to 14 November); Artur Bernardes (from 15 November) * Vice President:

Francisco Álvaro Bueno de Paiva Francisco Álvaro Bueno de Paiva (17 September 1861 – 4 August 1928) was a Brazilian politician who was Vice President of Brazil from 11 November 1920 to 14 November 1922 under Epitácio Pessoa. As the ninth vice president of Brazil, he also se ...

(to 14 November); Estácio de Albuquerque Coimbra (from 15 November)

Governors

* Alagoas: José Fernandes de Barros Lima * Amazonas: César do Rego Monteiro * Bahia:

José Joaquim Seabra José is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese language, Portuguese form of the given name Joseph. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced differently in each language: Spanish ; Portuguese (or ). In French, the name ''José'', pronounced ...

Ceará Ceará (, pronounced locally as or ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is the eighth-largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area. It is also one of the ...

: Justiniano de Serpa * Goiás: Eugênio Rodrigues Jardim * Maranhão:

Urbano Santos Urbano Santos is a municipality in the state of Maranhão in the Northeast region of Brazil. The municipality contains part of the Upaon-Açu/Miritiba/Alto Preguiças Environmental Protection Area The Upaon-Açu/Miritiba/Alto Preguiças Enviro ...

(to 25 February); Raul da Cunha Machado (from 25 February) *

Mato Grosso Mato Grosso ( – lit. "Thick Bush") is one of the states of Brazil, the third largest by area, located in the Central-West region. The state has 1.66% of the Brazilian population and is responsible for 1.9% of the Brazilian GDP. Neighboring ...

Francisco de Aquino Correia Francisco de Aquino Correia (April 2, 1885March 22, 1956) was a Brazilian Catholic priest, poet, and politician. He was the tenth Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cuiabá, archbishop of Cuiabá, president (governor) of the Federative units of Brazil ...

, then

Pedro Celestino Corrêa da Costa Pedro is a masculine given name. Pedro is the Spanish, Portuguese, and Galician name for ''Peter''. Its French equivalent is Pierre while its English and Germanic form is Peter. The counterpart patronymic surname of the name Pedro, meaning " ...

* Minas Gerais: ** until 7 September: Artur Bernardes ** from 7 September:

Raul Soares Raul Soares is a Brazilian municipality located in the state of Minas Gerais. The city belongs to the mesoregion of Zona da Mata and extends to the microregion of Ponte Nova. As of 2020, the estimated population was 23,711. History The Bo ...

* Pará:

Antônio Emiliano de Sousa Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular male ...

Paraíba Paraíba ( Tupi: ''pa'ra a'íba''; ) is a state of Brazil. It is located in the Brazilian Northeast, and it is bordered by Rio Grande do Norte to the north, Ceará to the west, Pernambuco to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Paraíba ...

: Sólon Barbosa de Lucena * Paraná:

Caetano Munhoz da Rocha Caetano is a Portuguese given name and surname derived from Latin ''Caietanus''. It also appears in Lusophone place names named after Saint Cajetan (''São Caetano'' in Portuguese). People with the given name Caetano * Caetano Prósperi Calil, Br ...

* Pernambuco: ** until 18 October: Severino Marques de Queirós Pinheiro ** from 18 October: Sérgio Teixeira Lins de Barros Loreto *

Piauí Piaui (, ) is one of the states of Brazil, located in the country's Northeast Region. The state has 1.6% of the Brazilian population and produces 0.7% of the Brazilian GDP. Piaui has the shortest coastline of any coastal Brazilian state at 66&n ...

: João Luís Ferreira * Rio Grande do Norte:

Antonio José de Melo e Sousa Antonio is a masculine given name of Etruscan origin deriving from the root name Antonius. It is a common name among Romance language-speaking populations as well as the Balkans and Lusophone Africa. It has been among the top 400 most popular mal ...

Rio Grande do Sul Rio Grande do Sul (, , ; "Great River of the South") is a Federative units of Brazil, state in the South Region, Brazil, southern region of Brazil. It is the Federative_units_of_Brazil#List, fifth-most-populous state and the List of Brazilian st ...

Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros (19 November 1863 – 25 April 1961) was a Brazilian lawyer and politician, and the President of Rio Grande do Sul for a total of 25 years (1898–1908 and 1913–1928), during the period of Brazilian history k ...

* Santa Catarina: * São Paulo: * Sergipe:

Vice governors

* Rio Grande do Norte: * São Paulo:

Events

* 11-

18 February Events Pre-1600 * 1229 – The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy. *1268 &nda ...

Modern Art Week The Modern Art Week ( pt, Semana de Arte Moderna) was an arts festival in São Paulo, Brazil, that ran from February 10 to February 17, 1922. Historically, the Week marked the start of Brazilian Modernism; though a number of individual Brazilian ...

is held in São Paulo, marking the beginning of Brazilian Modernism. *

1 March Events Pre-1600 *509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia. * 293 – Emperor Diocletian and ...

- In the Brazilian presidential election, Artur Bernardes of the

Mineiro Republican Party The Minas Republican Party ( pt, Partido Republicano Mineiro, PRM) was a Brazilian political party founded on 4 June 1888 and active during the First Brazilian Republic. It represented the republican ideology of the agrarian elite of the state of ...

receives 56.0% of the vote. *

5 July Events Pre-1600 * 328 – The official opening of Constantine's Bridge built over the Danube between Sucidava (Corabia, Romania) and Oescus (Gigen, Bulgaria) by the Roman architect Theophilus Patricius. * 1316 – The Burgundian and ...

- The 18 of the Copacabana Fort revolt occurs in Rio de Janeiro, then Federal District of Brazil. It is the first revolt of the ''tenentista'' movement, in the context of the Brazilian Old Republic. *''date unknown'' - Adalgisa Ferreira marries Ismael Nery.

Arts and culture

Books

*'' Os Bruzundangas''

Films

*'' Do Rio a São Paulo Para Casar'', directed by José Medina and starring Waldemar Moreno *''

O Furto dos 500 Milhões de Réis ''O Furto dos 500 Milhões de Réis'' is a 1922 Brazilian silent crime film directed by Arturo Carrari. The film premiered on 18 December 1922 in Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro ( , , ; literally 'River of January'), or simply Rio, is the c ...

'', directed by

Arturo Carrari Arturo Carrari (1867–1935) was an early Italian-Brazilian film director, film producer, screenwriter and occasional actor best known for his work in the Brazilian cinema Brazilian cinema was introduced early in the 20th century but took so ...

and starring José Fontana

Births

7 January Events Pre-1600 *49 BC – The Senate of Rome says that Caesar will be declared a public enemy unless he disbands his army. This prompts the tribunes who support him to flee to Ravenna, where Caesar is waiting. * 1325 – Alfonso IV ...

Leopoldo Nachbin Leopoldo Nachbin (7 January 1922 – 3 April 1993) was a Jewish-Brazilian mathematician who dealt with topology, and harmonic analysis. Nachbin was born in Recife, and is best known for Nachbin's theorem. He died, aged 71, in Rio de Janeiro. ...

, mathematician (died

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

) *

4 April Events Pre-1600 *503 BC – Roman consul Agrippa Menenius Lanatus celebrates a triumph for a military victory over the Sabines. * 190 – Dong Zhuo has his troops evacuate the capital Luoyang and burn it to the ground. * 611 – ...

Dionísio Azevedo Dionísio Azevedo, stage name of Taufic Jacob (4 April 1922 – 11 December 1994) was a Brazilian television, theatre, and film actor, director, and writer. Career He started his career as an actor in Rádio Record in 1942. He moved to televi ...

, actor (as Taufic Jacob; died

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

) *

8 May Events Pre-1600 * 453 BC – Spring and Autumn period: The house of Zhao defeats the house of Zhi, ending the Battle of Jinyang, a military conflict between the elite families of the State of Jin. * 413 – Emperor Honorius signs ...

–

Dona Neuma Neuma Gonçalves da Silva (8 May 1922 – 17 July 2000) was a Brazilian samba dancer. She began dancing samba in a small group at age seven and was president of the Mangueira samba school for multiple terms, establishing the institution's children' ...

, samba dancer (died

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

) *

1 June Events Pre-1600 *1215 – Zhongdu (now Beijing), then under the control of the Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Zhongdu. *1252 – Alfonso X is proclaimed king o ...

Bibi Ferreira Abigail Izquierdo Ferreira (1 June 1922 – 13 February 2019), known as Bibi Ferreira, was a Brazilian actress, singer, and director. In a career spanning more than 75 years, Ferreira directed and performed in numerous theatrical productions and ...

, actress (as Abigail Izquierdo Ferreira) (died

2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...

) *

Hélio Bicudo Hélio Pereira Bicudo (5 July 1922 – 31 July 2018) was a Brazilian jurist and politician. Biography During the term of Carvalho Pinto as Governor of São Paulo, Bicudo was the first president of the Urubupungá Electric Centrals, builders of th ...

, Brazilian jurist and politician (died

2018 File:2018 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2018 Winter Olympics opening ceremony in PyeongChang, South Korea; Protests erupt following the Assassination of Jamal Khashoggi; March for Our Lives protests take place across the United ...

) *

7 September Events Pre-1600 * 70 – A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem. * 878 – Louis the Stammerer is crowned as king of West Francia by Pope John VIII. * 1159 – Pope Alexander III is chosen. *1191 – Third C ...

- Paulo Autran, actor (died

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

) *

13 October Events Pre-1600 * 54 – Roman emperor Claudius dies from poisoning under mysterious circumstances. He is succeeded by his adoptive son Nero, rather than by Britannicus, his son with Messalina. * 409 – Vandals and Alans cross the Pyr ...

- Gilberto Mendes, composer (died

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

)Don Randel, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard, 1996, p. 576 *

26 October Events Pre-1600 *1185 – The Uprising of Asen and Peter begins on the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki and ends with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire. * 1341 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 formally beg ...

Darcy Ribeiro Darcy Ribeiro (October 26, 1922 – February 17, 1997) was a Brazilian anthropologist, historian, sociologist, author and politician. His ideas have influenced several scholars of Brazilian and Latin American studies. As Minister of Educat ...

, anthropologist, author and politician (died

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

)

Deaths

*''date unknown'' -

Graciano dos Santos Neves Graciano dos Santos Neves (June 12, 1868 – 1922) was a Brazilian physician and politician. Santos Neves was born in São Mateus, Espírito Santo. He graduated as physician in Rio de Janeiro in 1889 and was one of the most affluent Brazil ...

, physician and politician (born

1868 Events January–March * January 2 – British Expedition to Abyssinia: Robert Napier leads an expedition to free captive British officials and missionaries. * January 3 – The 15-year-old Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Jap ...

) * May 7 -

Urbano Santos da Costa Araújo Urbano Santos da Costa Araújo (February 3, 1859 – May 7, 1922) was a Brazilian politician who was Vice President of Brazil from November 15, 1914, to November 14, 1918, under Venceslau Brás. As the seventh vice president of Brazil, he also ...

, vice president (born

1859 Events January–March * January 21 – José Mariano Salas (1797–1867) becomes Conservative interim President of Mexico. * January 24 ( O. S.) – Wallachia and Moldavia are united under Alexandru Ioan Cuza (Romania since 1866, final u ...

)