1887 in Brazil

Events in the year 1887 in Brazil.

Incumbents

 * Monarch: Pedro II
 * Prime Minister: João Alfredo Correia de Oliveira

Events

 * June – The Clube Militar, founded by Benjamin Constant and Deodoro da Fonseca, holds its first meeting.
 * Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves, future President of Brazil, becomes president of the province of São Paulo.
 * Italian ethnologist Guido Boggiani travels through the interior of Brazil, Bolivia and Paraguay to document the lives of Indians in the region.
 * Maragogi is granted the status of a town.

Births

 * March 5 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, composer (died 1959)
 * April 19 – Lucílio de Albuquerque, painter (died 1939)
 * May 15 – José Joaquim Moniz de Aragão, diplomat (died 1974)
 * May 16 – Maria Lacerda de Moura, anarchist, feminist, journalist and writer (died 1945)

Deaths

 * date unknown – William Hadfield, British writer, specialist in Brazil (born 1806)