1914 in Brazil

Events in the year 1914 in Brazil.

Federal government

 * President: Marshal Hermes da Fonseca (until 14 November); Venceslau Brás (from 15 November)
 * Vice President: Venceslau Brás (until 14 November); Urbano Santos da Costa Araújo (from 15 November)

Governors

 * Alagoas: Clodoaldo da Fonseca
 * Amazonas: Jônatas de Freitas Pedrosa
 * Bahia: José Joaquim Seabra
 * Ceará:
 * till 14 March: Marcos Franco Rabelo
 * 15 March - 14 June: Fernando Setembrino de Carvalho
 * from 14 June: Benjamin Liberato Barroso
 * Goiás:
 * until 6 July: Olegário Herculano da Silva Pinto
 * from 6 July: Salatiel Simões de Lima
 * Maranhão:
 * till 1 March: Luís Antônio Domingues da Silva
 * 1 March - 26 April: Afonso Gifwning de Matos
 * from 26 April: Herculano Nina Parga
 * Mato Grosso: Joaquim Augusto da Costa Marques
 * Minas Gerais:
 * till 7 September: Júlio Bueno Brandão
 * from 7 September: Delfim Moreira
 * Pará: Enéas Martins
 * Paraíba: João Castro Pinto
 * Paraná: Carlos Cavalcanti de Albuquerque
 * Pernambuco: Emídio Dantas Barreto
 * Piaui: Miguel de Paiva Rosa
 * Rio Grande do Norte: Joaquim Ferreira Chaves
 * Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
 * Santa Catarina:
 * São Paulo:
 * Sergipe:

Vice governors

 * Rio Grande do Norte:
 * São Paulo:

Events

 * 1 January at 12:00 a.m. Local Mean Time States and territories now observe the four standard time zones, moving clocks forward or backward by a few minutes and seconds according to the then civil time by law since 18 June, 1913.
 * 1 March - In the presidential election, incumbent Vice-President Venceslau Brás, of the Mineiro Republican Party, receives 91.6% of the vote.
 * 20 May - Brazil participates in the Niagara Falls peace conference, in at attempt to avoid war between the United States and Mexico.
 * 8 June - The Brazilian Football Confederation is founded, with Álvaro Zamith as its first president. The Brazilian Olympic Committee is founded on the same day.
 * 14 September - The British Royal Navy auxiliary cruiser HMS Carmania fought the German SMS Cap Trafalgar off Trindade in the Battle of Trindade. Carmania sank Cap Trafalgar, but sustained severe damage herself.
 * 15 November - Venceslau Brás is sworn in as Brazil's ninth president.

Births

 * 14 March - Abdias do Nascimento, Afro-Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician (died 2011)
 * 18 May - Cacilda Borges Barbosa, pianist, conductor and composer (died 2010)
 * 26 May - Sister Dulce, Catholic Franciscan Sister (died 1992)
 * 29 May - José Eugênio Corrêa, Bishop of Caratinga 1957-1978 (died 2010)
 * 14 July - Marcelo Damy, physicist (died 2009)

Deaths

 * 18 June - Sílvio Romero, Condorist" poet, essayist, literary critic, professor and journalist (born 1851)
 * 12 November - Augusto dos Anjos, poet and academic (born 1884;pneumonia)