Events in the year 1915 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

Federal government

* President of Brazil, President: Venceslau Brás * Vice President of Brazil, Vice President: Urbano Santos da Costa Araújo

Governors

* :pt:Lista de governadores de Alagoas, Alagoas: Clodoaldo da Fonseca (until 12 June); João Batista Accioli Jr. (from 12 June) * List of Governors of Amazonas, Amazonas: Jônatas de Freitas Pedrosa * List of Governors of Bahia, Bahia: José Joaquim Seabra * List of Governors of Ceará, Ceará: Benjamin Liberato Barroso * :pt:Lista de governadores de Goiás, Goiás: Joaquim Augusto da Costa Marques, then Caetano Manuel de Faria e Albuquerque ** until June 30: Salatiel Simões de Lima ** from June 30: Joaquim Rufino Ramos Jubé * List of Governors of Maranhão, Maranhão: Herculano Nina Parga * List of Governors of Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso: * List of Governors of Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais: Delfim Moreira * :pt:Lista de governadores do Pará, Pará: Enéas Martins * :pt:Lista de governadores da Paraíba, Paraíba: ** until 24 July: João Castro Pinto ** from 24 July: Antônio da Silva Pessoa * List of Governors of Paraná, Paraná: Carlos Cavalcanti de Albuquerque * :pt:Lista de governadores de Pernambuco, Pernambuco: ** until 18 December: Dantas Barreto, Emídio Dantas Barreto ** from 18 December: Manuel Antônio Pereira Borba * :pt:Lista de governadores do Piauí, Piauí: Miguel de Paiva Rosa * Governors of Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Norte: Joaquim Ferreira Chaves * List of Governors of Rio Grande do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros * :pt:Lista de governadores de Santa Catarina, Santa Catarina: * List of Governors of São Paulo, São Paulo: * :pt:Lista de governadores de Sergipe, Sergipe:

Vice governors

* :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Rio Grande do Norte, Rio Grande do Norte: * :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de São Paulo, São Paulo:

Events

*6 August - Brazilian-born Bernardino Luís Machado Guimarães becomes President of Portugal.

Culture and the arts

*29 January - Heitor Villa-Lobos gives the first in a series of chamber concerts; one of the new works he introduces during this year is his ''Cello Concerto no 1''.

Births

*5 January - Humberto Teixeira, musician (died 1979 in Brazil, 1979) *15 January - Maria Lenk, swimmer (died 2007 in Brazil, 2007) *20 April - Aurora Miranda, entertainer (died 2005 in Brazil, 2005) *18 October - Grande Otelo, Afro-Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician, real name Bernardes de Souza Prata (died 1993 in Brazil, 1993)

Deaths

*18 January - Bernardino José de Campos Júnior, politician, second and sixth governor of the State of São Paulo (born 1841 in Brazil, 1841) *2 February - João Cardoso de Meneses e Sousa, Baron of Paranapiacaba, poet, translator, journalist, lawyer and politician (born 1827 in Brazil, 1827) *27 November - Orville Adalbert Derby, American geologist who became a Brazilian citizen (born 1851; suicide)Diniz Gonsalves, A., 1952 - Orville A. Derby's Studies on the Paleontology of Brazil - Published under the direction of the Executive Commission for the 1st Centenary Commemorating the birth of Orville A. Derby, and sponsored by the American Embassy in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro, 1952.