1905 in Brazil

Events in the year 1905 in Brazil.

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).

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;