Events in the year 1857 in

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority and power i ...

: Pedro II *

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister i ...

: **

Marquis of Caxias A marquess (; french: marquis ), es, marqués, pt, marquês. is a nobleman of high hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The German language equivalent is Markgraf (margrave). A woman w ...

(until 4 May) **

Marquis of Olinda A marquess (; french: marquis ), es, marqués, pt, marquês. is a nobleman of high hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The German language equivalent is Markgraf (margrave). A woman w ...

(starting 4 May)

Events

* Establishment of banks including the Commercial and Agricultural Bank of Rio de Janeiro; the Bank of the Province of Rio Grande do Sul; the New Bank of Pernambuco, the Savings Bank of Pernambuco,;and the Bank of Maranhao

Births

October

October 4:

Francisco de Assis Rosa e Silva Francisco de Assis Rosa e Silva (4 October 1857 – 1 July 1929) was a Brazilian politician who was the third vice president of Brazil from 15 November 1898 to 15 November 1902 under Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales Manoel Ferraz de Campos ...

, 3rd

Vice President of Brazil The Vice President of Brazil ( pt, Vice-Presidente do Brasil), officially the Vice President of the Federative Republic of Brazil (''Vice-Presidente da República Federativa do Brasil''), or simply the ''Vice President of the Republic'' (''Vice-P ...

(d.

1929 This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic ...

)

Deaths

References

1850s in Brazil Years of the 19th century in Brazil

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