1892 in Brazil

Events in the year 1892 in Brazil.

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)