1887 in Brazil

← 1886 1885 1884 1887 in Brazil → 1888 1889 1890
Decades:	1860s 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s
See also:	Other events of 1887 Timeline of Brazilian history

Events in the year 1887 in Brazil.

Incumbents

• Head of state - Emperor Pedro II
• Prime Minister - João Alfredo Correia de Oliveira

Events

• 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.^[1]
• Maragogi is granted the status of a town.

Births

• March 5 - Heitor Villa-Lobos, composer (died 1959)^[2]
• 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)^[3]

Deaths

• date unknown - William Hadfield, British writer, specialist in Brazil (born 1806)

References

1. Vinigi Grottanelli, et al. "Ethnology and/or Cultural Anthropology in Italy: Traditions and Development. Current Anthropology 18.4 (1977): 593-614, p. 595
2. Béhague, Gerard. 2001. "Villa-Lobos, Heitor". The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan.
3. Maria Lacerda de Moura, 1887-1944 by Singularidades