Events in the year 1925 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

* President: Artur Bernardes * Vice President: Estácio de Albuquerque Coimbra

Governors

* Alagoas: Pedro da Costa Rego * Amazonas: Alfredo Sá * Bahia: Góis Calmon *

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 ...

: José Moreira da Rocha * Goiás: ** till 14 July:

Miguel da Rocha Lima --> Miguel is a given name and surname, the Portuguese and Spanish form of the Hebrew name Michael. It may refer to: Places *Pedro Miguel, a parish in the municipality of Horta and the island of Faial in the Azores Islands *São Miguel (disambi ...

** from 14 July: Brasil Caiado * Maranhão: Godofredo Mendes Viana *

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 ...

Estêvão Alves Correia Estêvão is a Portuguese male given name, derived from Greek Στέφανος (Stéphanos) and related to the English names Steven and Stephen. It may refer to: * Estevão Martins de Leomil (fl. 13th century), Portuguese nobleman, Lord of Cout ...

* Minas Gerais:

Fernando de Mello Viana Fernando is a Spanish and Portuguese given name and a surname common in Spain, Portugal, Italy, France, Switzerland, former Spanish or Portuguese colonies in Latin America, Africa, the Philippines, India, and Sri Lanka. It is equivalent to the G ...

* Pará: ** till 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 ...

** from 1 February: Dionísio Bentes *

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 ...

: João Suassuna * 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: 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 ...

: Matias Olímpio de Melo * Rio Grande do Norte: José Augusto Bezerra de Medeiros *

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

12 April Events Pre-1600 * 240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I. * 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to ...

- The

Coluna Prestes The ''Coluna Prestes'', also known as ''Coluna Miguel Costa-Prestes'', in English Prestes Column, was a social rebel movement that broke out in Brazil between 1925 and 1927, with links to the Tenente revolts. The rebellion's ideology was diffuse, ...

movement is launched at a meeting in Foz do Iguaçu. *

29 May Events Pre-1600 * 363 – The Roman emperor Julian defeats the Sasanian army in the Battle of Ctesiphon, under the walls of the Sasanian capital, but is unable to take the city. *1108 – Battle of Uclés: Almoravid troops under th ...

- British explorer

Percy Fawcett Percy Harrison Fawcett (18 August 1867 during or after 1925) was a British geographer, artillery officer, cartographer, archaeologist, and explorer of South America. Fawcett disappeared in 1925 (along with his eldest son, Jack, and one of J ...

sent a last telegram to his wife, before he disappears in the Amazon.

Arts and culture

Films

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Aitaré da Praia ''Aitaré da Praia'' ("Aitaré of the Beach") is a 1925 Brazilian silent film directed by Gentil Roiz in the city of Recife. The romantic drama is also known as ''Raft of Death''. Synopsis A young man called Aitaré falls in love with a gi ...

'', directed by

Gentil Roiz Gentil may refer to: People: *Jean-Paul Alaux, called Gentil, French landscape painter and lithographer * Émile Gentil, a French colonial administrator *Guillaume Le Gentil, a French astronomer *Jean-François Gentil, a French colonial officer *Jo ...

and starring José Amaro *'' Quando Elas Querem'', directed by

Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan William Gauthier better known as Eugenio Centenaro Kerrigan (1878 – December 25, 1956) was an Italian Brazilian film director and screenwriter best known for his work in the Cinema of Brazil in the 1920s. In Campinas, SP, he used to introduce ...

and starring

Luiz de Barros Luiz de Barros (September 12, 1893 – 1982) was a prominent Brazilian film director, film producer, film editor, screenwriter, cinematographer, film actor and set designer and manager who played a key role in Brazilian film production from the e ...

*'' La Mujer de medianoche'', directed by

Carlo Campogalliani Carlo Campogalliani (10 October 1885 – 10 August 1974) was an Italian screenwriter, actor and film director. Campogalliani directed around eighty films during his career and acted in another fifty. He directed the 1934 sports film '' Stadio''.R ...

and starring Paulo Benedetti

Births

*23 October: Cardinal José Freire Falcão (died

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)

Deaths

May

*28 May: João Pinheiro Chagas, journalist and politician, Prime Minister of Portugal (born

1863 Events January–March * January 1 – Abraham Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation during the third year of the American Civil War, making the abolition of slavery in the Confederate states an official war goal. It proclaims t ...

)

August

*28 August: João Ghelfi, painter (born

1890 Events January–March * January 1 ** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa. ** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River. * January 2 ** The steamship ...

)

December

*8 December:

Mário de Alencar Mário Cochrane de Alencar (30 January 1872 – 8 December 1925) was a Brazilian poet, short story writer, journalist, lawyer and novelist. He was one of the children of famous novelist José de Alencar. He occupied the 21st chair of the Brazil ...

, poet, short story writer, journalist, lawyer and novelist (born

1872 Events January–March * January 12 – Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first ruler crowned in that city in over 500 years. * February 2 – The government of the United Kingdom buys a number of forts on ...

)Mário de Alencar's biography at the official site of the Brazilian Academy of Letters