# 1892 in Brazil

Events in the year 1892 in Brazil.

## Incumbents
### Federal government

* President: Marshal Floriano Peixoto
* Vice-President: vacant

### Governors

* Alagoas: Manuel Gomes Riberio (until 24 March), Gabino Besuoro (starting 24 March)
* Amazonas:
** until 27 February: Gregório Taumaturgo Azevedo
** 27 February: José Inácio Borges Machado
** starting 27 February: Eduardo Gonçalves Ribeiro
* Bahia: Leal Ferreira then Rodrigues Lima
* Ceará: José Clarindo de Queirós, until 16 February
** João Nepomuceno de Medeiros Mallet, until 18 February
** Benjamin Liberato Barroso, until 12 July
** Antônio Nogueira Accioli, until 27 August
** José Bezerril Fontenelle
* Goiás:
** until February 19: Constâncio Ribeiro da Maia
** February 19 - July 17: Brás Abrantes
** from July 17: Antônio Caiado
* Maranhão:
** until January 8: Maranhão Governing Board of 1891
** January 8 - November 30: Manuel Belfort Vieira
** from November 30: Alfredo Martins
* Mato Grosso:
* Minas Gerais:
** until February 9: Cesário Alvim
** February 9 - July 13: Eduardo Ernesto da Gama Cerqueira
** from July 14: Afonso Pena
* Pará: Lauro Sodré
* Paraíba:
** until February 18: Paraíba governing board of 1891
** from February 18: Álvaro Lopes Machado
* Paraná:
** until April 7: Antônio Epaminondas de Barros Correia
** April 7 - April 20: Ambrósio Machado da Cunha Cavalcanti
** From April 20: Alexandre José Barbosa Lima
* Pernambuco:
** until April 7: Antônio Epaminondas de Barros Correia
** April 7 - 20: Ambrósio Machado da Cunha Cavalcanti
** from April 20: Alexandre José Barbosa Lima
* Piauí:
** until February 11: Álvaro Lopes Machado
** from February 11: Coriolano de Carvalho e Silva
* Rio Grande do Norte:
** until February 22: Governing board consisting of: Francisco de Lima e Silva, Joaquim Ferreira Chaves, and Manuel do Nascimento Castro and Silva
** February 22-28: Jerome Américo Raposo Chamber
** from February 28: Pedro de Albuquerque Maranhão
* Rio Grande do Sul:
** until June 8: Military Junta of 1891
** June 8-16: José Antônio Correia da Câmara
** June 16-17: Júlio Prates de Castilhos
** from June 17: Vitoriano Ribeiro Carneiro Monteiro
* Santa Catarina:
* São Paulo:
* Sergipe:

### Vice governors

* Rio de Janeiro: Miguel de Carvalho (9 April-3 May), Manuel Torres (starting 3 May)
* Rio Grande do Norte: no vice-governor (until 28 February), Silvino Bezerra (starting 28 February)
* São Paulo: José Alves de Cerqueira César

## Events

* 21 May - The French-built monitor Solimoes is wrecked off Cape Polonio, Uruguay, with the loss of 125 lives.
* date unknown
** Danish botanist Eugenius Warming gives the first detailed description of the Brazilian cerrado in his book Lagoa Santa.
** The Afro-Brazilian practice of Capoeira is banned (not to be re-legalised until 1937).

## Births

* 20 January - Sud Mennucci, journalist and educator (died 1948)
* 20 March - Menotti Del Picchia, poet, journalist and painter (died 1982)
* 23 April - Francisco Cavalcanti Pontes de Miranda, lawyer and diplomat (died 1979)
* 18 July - Arthur Friedenreich, soccer player, regarded by some as the sport's first outstanding black player (died 1969)
* 23 July - João de Souza Mendes, chess master (died 1969)
* 4 October - Assis Chateaubriand, lawyer, journalist, politician and diplomat (died 1968)
* 27 October - Graciliano Ramos, modernist writer, politician and journalist (died 1953)

## Deaths

* 23 August - Deodoro da Fonseca, first president of the Republic of Brazil (born 1827)