1897 in Brazil

Events in the year 1897 in Brazil.

Incumbents

6 January – An expeditionary force, consisting of 557 soldiers and officers under the command of Major Febrônio de Brito, who attacks the well-defended village of Canudos. The troops are eventually forced to retreat when confronted with more than 4,000 insurrectionists.^[1]
7 August – Euclides da Cunha goes to the Sertão ("backland"), as war correspondent for O Estado de S. Paulo.
2 October – the War of Canudos comes to a brutal end, when a large Brazilian army force overruns the village and kills nearly all the inhabitants.^[2]
12 October – The city of Belo Horizonte is created and its construction is completely successfully.

1 January – Adolfo Caminha, Naturalist novelist (born 1867; tuberculosis)^[5]
4 March – Antônio Moreira César, army colonel, killed in action
22 September – Antônio Conselheiro, religious leader, preacher, and founder of the village of Canudos (born 1830; dysentery)^[6]
13 November – Francisco de Paula Ney, poet and journalist (born 1858)

^ Cunha, Euclides da. Rebellion in the Backlands. Translated from Portuguese Os Sertões. University Of Chicago Press, 1957. ISBN 0-226-12444-4.
^ Levine, R.M. Vale of Tears: Revisiting the Canudos Massacre in Northeastern Brazil, 1893–1897. University of California Press, 1995. ISBN 0-520-20343-7. Review Archived 17 February 2008 at the Wayback Machine.
^ Drew, William M. Humberto Mauro (1897–1983). Accessed 8 December 2013
^ Chandler, Billy Jaynes (1978). The Bandit King: Lampião of Brazil. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 0-89096-194-8.
^ Caminha's biography Archived 28 May 2007 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
^ CUNHA, Euclides da. Rebellion in the Backlands. Transl. Samuel Putnam. Chicago: Phoenix Books, 1944