Events in the year 1921 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

* President: Epitácio Pessoa * 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 ...

Governors

* Alagoas: ** till 1 March: José Fernandes de Barros Lima ** 1 March-12 June: Manuel Capitolino da Rocha Carvalho ** from 12 June: 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: ** till 14 July:

João Alves de Castro João is the Portuguese equivalent of the given name John. The diminutive is Joãozinho and the feminine is Joana. It is widespread in Portuguese-speaking countries. Notable people with the name are enumerated in the sections below. Kings * ...

** from 14 July: 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 ...

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 ...

* Minas Gerais: Artur Bernardes * Pará: ** till 1 February: Lauro Sodré ** from 1 February

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: ** till 3 June: Otávio Hamilton Tavares Barreto ** from 3 June: Severino Marques de Queirós Pinheiro *

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

*February – Antoun Saadeh arrives in Brazil with his father, a prominent Arabic-language journalist. *

May 22 Events Pre-1600 * 192 – Dong Zhuo is assassinated by his adopted son Lü Bu. * 760 – Fourteenth recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 853 – A Byzantine fleet sacks and destroys undefended Damietta in Egypt. * 11 ...

– The Estádio Antônio R. Guimarães is opened at Santa Bárbara d'Oeste. *October - The government implements a new policy in defense of coffee, for the third time in the history of the Republic. *''date unknown'' – The '' Correio da Manhã'' publishes letters supposedly sent by Artur Bernardes and Raul Soares de Moura, containing insults towards the Armed Forces and Marshal

Hermes da Fonseca Hermes Rodrigues da Fonseca (; 12 May 1855 – 9 September 1923) was a Brazilian field marshal and politician who served as the eighth President of Brazil between 1910 and 1914. He was a nephew of marshal Deodoro da Fonseca, the first president ...

Arts and culture

Films

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Um Crime no Parque Paulista ''Um Crime no Parque Paulista'' is a 1921 Brazilian mystery film directed by Arturo Carrari and starring Nicola Tartaglione in his first role. It would also be the first film cinematographer José Carrari José is a predominantly Spanish an ...

'', 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

Nicola Tartaglione Nicola may refer to: People * Nicola (name), including a list of people with the given name or, less commonly, the surname **Nicola (artist) or Nicoleta Alexandru, singer who represented Romania at the 2003 Eurovision Song Contest * Nicola people ...

*''

Carlitinhos ''Carlitinhos'' is a 1921 Brazilian short film comedy directed by José Medina. Cast *José Vassalo Jr. *Carlos Ferreira *Antônio Degani External links * References 1921 films Brazilian black-and-white films 1921 short films Brazili ...

'' and '' Perversidade'', short films directed by José Medina

Births

13 April Events Pre-1600 *1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. * 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. 1601–1900 *1612 – In one of the epic samurai ...

–

Dona Ivone Lara Yvonne Lara da Costa (April 13, 1921 – April 16, 2018), better known as Dona Ivone Lara, was a Brazilian singer and composer. Biography Dona Ivone Lara was born as Yvonne Lara da Costa in Rio de Janeiro. She graduated in nursing, with speci ...

, singer (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 ...

) *

12 May Events Pre-1600 * 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism. * 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the Tang ...

–

Ruth de Souza Ruth Pinto de Souza (May 12, 1921 – July 28, 2019) was a Brazilian actress. Biography As a member of the Black Experimental Theater (''Teatro Experimental do Negro,'' TEN), she is one of the first Black actresses in dramatic theater in Brazi ...

, actress (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 ...

) *

5 June Events Pre-1600 *1257 – Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights. * 1283 – Battle of the Gulf of Naples: Roger of Lauria, admiral to King Peter III of Aragon, destroys the Neapolitan fleet and captures Charles of Salerno. *1288 ...

–

Zuzu Angel SNI document on Stuart, 1971 Zuleika Angel Jones (June 5, 1921 – April 14, 1976), better known as Zuzu Angel, was a Brazilian-American fashion designer, who became famous for opposing the Brazilian military dictatorship after the forced d ...

, fashion designer and political campaigner (died

1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...

) *

19 September Events Pre-1600 * 85 – Nerva, suspected of complicity of the death of Domitian, is declared emperor by Senate. The Senate then annuls laws passed by Domitian and orders his statues to be destroyed. * 634 – Siege of Damascus: Th ...

– Paulo Freire, philosopher (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 ...

) *

26 September Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to Venus Genetrix, fulfilling a vow he made at the Battle of Pharsalus. * 715 – Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne. * 1087 – William II is crow ...

Carlos Zéfiro Carlos Zéfiro is the pseudonym of Alcides Aguiar Caminha (September 26, 1921 - July 5, 1992), a Brazilian comic artist who drew pornographic minicomics. Biography Alcides Aguiar Caminha was born in São Cristóvão, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. ...

, artist (died

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

)

Deaths

28 January Events Pre-1600 * 98 – On the death of Nerva, Trajan is declared Roman emperor in Cologne, the seat of his government in lower Germany. * 814 – The death of Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, brings about the accession of ...

– Luis Soares Horta Barbosa, Deputy Grand Master of Brazil's Freemasons. *

26 March Events Pre-1600 * 590 – Emperor Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire. * 1021 – On the feast of Eid al-Adha, the death of the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, kept secret for six weeks, is ...

– Leonel Martiniano de Alencar, Baron of Alencar, lawyer and diplomat (born

1832 Events January–March * January 6 – Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison founds the New-England Anti-Slavery Society. * January 13 – The Christmas Rebellion of slaves is brought to an end in Jamaica, after the island's white plan ...

) *

14 November Events Pre-1600 1601–1900 *1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope. *1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile. *1 ...

– Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, nicknamed "the Redemptress",

heiress presumptive An heir presumptive is the person entitled to inherit a throne, peerage, or other hereditary honour, but whose position can be displaced by the birth of an heir apparent or a new heir presumptive with a better claim to the position in question. ...

to the throne of the Empire of Brazil (born

1846 Events January–March * January 5 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Country with the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom. * January 13 – The Milan–Venice railway' ...

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