1921 in Brazil

← 1920 1919 1918 1921 in Brazil → 1922 1923 1924
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1921 Timeline of Brazilian history

Events in the year 1921 in Brazil.

Incumbents

• President: Epitácio Pessoa
• Vice President: Francisco Álvaro Bueno de Paiva

Events

• February - Antoun Saadeh arrives in Brazil with his father, a prominent Arabic-language journalist.^[1]
• October - The government implements a new policy in defense of coffee, for the third time in the history of the Republic.^[2]
• date unknown - The Correio da Manhã publishes letters supposedly sent by Artur Bernardes and Raul Soares de Moura, containing insults towards the Armed Forces and Marshal Hermes da Fonseca.
• date unknown - The Estádio Antônio R. Guimarães is constructed at Santa Bárbara d'Oeste.^[3]

Arts and culture

Films

• Um Crime no Parque Paulista, directed by Arturo Carrari and starring Nicola Tartaglione
• Carlitinhos and Perversidade, short films directed by José Medina

Births

• 13 April - Dona Ivone Lara, singer
• 5 June - Zuzu Angel, fashion designer and political campaigner (died 1976)^[4]
• 19 September - Paulo Freire, philosopher (died 1997)^[5]
• 26 September - Carlos Zéfiro, artist (died 1992)

Deaths

• 28 January - Luis Soares Horta Barbosa, Deputy Grand Master of Brazil's Freemasons.^[6]
• 26 March - Leonel Martiniano de Alencar, Baron of Alencar, lawyer and diplomat (born 1832)^[7]
• 14 November - Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil, nicknamed "the Redemptress", heiress presumptive to the throne of the Empire of Brazil (born 1846)^[8]

See also

• 1921 in Brazilian football

References

1. "Antun Saadeh". Syrian Social Nationalist Party. Retrieved 22 May 2012.
2. Presidential Library: Biography of Pessoa. Accessed 14 February 2014
3. Templos do Futebol
4. "Zuzu Angel" (Portuguese). UOL Educação. Retrieved July 15, 2013.
5. Sima Barmania (2011-10-26). "Why Paulo Freire's "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" is just as relevant today as ever". Blogs.independent.co.uk. Retrieved 2012-11-12.
6. A Short History of Freemasonry in Brazil – William Almeida de Carvalho. Accessed 14 February 2014
7. Luciara Silveira de Aragão e Frota. "History of the regional foreign policy of the Brazilian Empire". Retrieved October 9, 2012.
8. Barman, Roderick J. (2002). Princess Isabel of Brazil: gender and power in the nineteenth century. Wilmington, Delaware: Scholarly Resources. ISBN 0-8420-2846-3. BR História. nº 4, Year 1. Duetto, 2007. p 232