1915 in Brazil

Events in the year 1915 in Brazil.

Federal government

 * President: Venceslau Brás
 * Vice President: Urbano Santos da Costa Araújo

Governors

 * Alagoas: Clodoaldo da Fonseca (until 12 June); João Batista Accioli Jr. (from 12 June)
 * Amazonas: Jônatas de Freitas Pedrosa
 * Bahia: José Joaquim Seabra
 * Ceará: Benjamin Liberato Barroso
 * Goiás: Joaquim Augusto da Costa Marques, then Caetano Manuel de Faria e Albuquerque
 * until June 30: Salatiel Simões de Lima
 * from June 30: Joaquim Rufino Ramos Jubé
 * Maranhão: Herculano Nina Parga
 * Mato Grosso:
 * Minas Gerais: Delfim Moreira
 * Pará: Enéas Martins
 * Paraíba:
 * until 24 July: João Castro Pinto
 * from 24 July: Antônio da Silva Pessoa
 * Paraná: Carlos Cavalcanti de Albuquerque
 * Pernambuco:
 * until 18 December: Emídio Dantas Barreto
 * from 18 December: Manuel Antônio Pereira Borba
 * Piauí: 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

 * 6 August - Brazilian-born Bernardino Luís Machado Guimarães becomes President of Portugal.

Culture and the arts

 * 29 January - Heitor Villa-Lobos gives the first in a series of chamber concerts; one of the new works he introduces during this year is his Cello Concerto no 1.

Births

 * 5 January - Humberto Teixeira, musician (died 1979)
 * 15 January - Maria Lenk, swimmer (died 2007)
 * 20 April - Aurora Miranda, entertainer (died 2005)
 * 18 October - Grande Otelo, Afro-Brazilian scholar, artist, and politician, real name Bernardes de Souza Prata (died 1993)

Deaths

 * 18 January - Bernardino José de Campos Júnior, politician, second and sixth governor of the State of São Paulo (born 1841)
 * 2 February - João Cardoso de Meneses e Sousa, Baron of Paranapiacaba, poet, translator, journalist, lawyer and politician (born 1827)
 * 27 November - Orville Adalbert Derby, American geologist who became a Brazilian citizen (born 1851; suicide)