1922 in Brazil

← 1921 1920 1919 1922 in Brazil → 1923 1924 1925
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1922 Timeline of Brazilian history

Events in the year 1922 in Brazil.

Incumbents

• President: Epitácio Pessoa (to 15 November); Artur Bernardes (from 15 November)
• Vice President: Francisco Álvaro Bueno de Paiva (to 15 November); Estácio de Albuquerque Coimbra (from 15 November)

Events

• 11-18 February - Modern Art Week is held in São Paulo, marking the beginning of Brazilian Modernism.^[1]
• 1 March - IN the Brazilian presidential election, Artur Bernardes of the Mineiro Republican Party receives 56.0% of the vote.^[2]
• date unknown - Adalgisa Ferreira marries Ismael Nery.^[3]

Arts and culture

Books

• Os Bruzundangas

Films

• Do Rio a São Paulo Para Casar, directed by José Medina and starring Waldemar Moreno
• O Furto dos 500 Milhões de Réis, directed by Arturo Carrari and starring José Fontana

Births

• 7 January - Leopoldo Nachbin, mathematician (died 1993)
• 4 April - Dionísio Azevedo, actro (as Taufic Jacob; died 1994)
• 1 June - Bibi Ferreira, actress (as Abigail Izquierdo Ferreira)^[4]
• 13 October - Gilberto Mendes, composer^[5]
• 26 October - Darcy Ribeiro, anthropologist, author and politician (died 1997)

Deaths

• date unknown - Graciano dos Santos Neves, physician and politician (born 1868)

See also

• 1922 in Brazilian football

References

1. Amaral, Aracy; Hastings, Kim Mrazek (1995). "Stages in the Formation of Brazil's Cultural Profile". Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts 21.
2. Dieter Nohlen (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p173 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
3. Encyclopaedia Itau Cultural - Bio of Ismael Nery. Accessed 8 March 2014
4. "Biografia de Bibi Ferreira | Brasil Memória das Artes". Funarte.gov.br. Retrieved November 16, 2013.
5. Don Randel, The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Harvard, 1996, p. 576