title: 1905 in Brazil
text: # 1905 in Brazil
  
  Events in the year 1905 in Brazil.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  ### Federal government
  
  * President: Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves
  * Vice President: Afonso Pena
  
  ### Governors
  
  * Alagoas: Antônio Máximo da Cunha Rego (till 1 November), Antônio Máximo da Cunha Rego (from 1 November)
  * Amazonas: Antônio Constantino Néri
  * Bahia: José Marcelino de Sousa
  * Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
  * Goiás:
     * until July 14: José Xavier de Almeida
     * from July 14: Miguel da Rocha Lima
  * Maranhão: Manuel Lopes da Cunha
  * Mato Grosso: Antônio Pais de Barros
  * Minas Gerais: Francisco Salles
  * Pará: Augusto Montenegro
  * Paraíba:
     * until 28 October: Álvaro Lopes Machado
     * from 28 October: Valfredo Leal
  * Paraná: Vicente Machado da Silva Lima
  * Pernambuco: Sigismundo Antônio Gonçalves
  * Piauí: Álvaro de Assis Osório Mendes
  * Rio Grande do Norte: Augusto Tavares Lira
  * Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
  * Santa Catarina:
  * São Paulo:
  * Sergipe:
  
  ### Vice governors
  
  * Rio Grande do Norte:
  * São Paulo:
  
  ## Events
  
  * 5 February - The football club Clube do Remo is established in Belém.
  * 30 December - Law no. 1452 is passed by the National Congress of Brazil, authorizing expenditure of £4,214,550 for new warship construction (£1,685,820 in 1906).
  
  ## Arts and culture
  
  ### Books
  
  * Lima Barreto - O Subterrâneo do Morro do Castelo
  
  ## Births
  
  * 8 February - Preguinho, footballer (died 1979)
  * 15 February - Waldemar Henrique, pianist and composer (died 1995)
  * 11 May - Augusto Hamann Rademaker Grünewald, admiral (died 1985)
  * 10 August - Evandro Chagas, physician and biomedical scientist (died 1940)
  * 17 December - Erico Verissimo, writer (died 1975)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 29 January - José do Patrocínio, writer, journalist, activist, orator and pharmacist (born 1854; suffered hemoptysis just after making a speech in honour of Alberto Santos-Dumont)
  * 22 September - Suresh Biswas, Indian adventurer (born 1861;
  