1908 in Brazil

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Afonso Pena
• Vice President: Nilo Peçanha

  Governors

• :pt:Lista de governadores de Alagoas|Alagoas:
• Amazonas:
• Bahia:
• Ceará:
• :pt:Lista de governadores de Goiás|Goiás:
• Maranhão:
• Mato Grosso:
• Minas Gerais:
• :pt:Lista de governadores do Pará|Pará:
• :pt:Lista de governadores da Paraíba|Paraíba:
• Paraná:
• :pt:Lista de governadores de Pernambuco|Pernambuco:
• :pt:Lista de governadores do Piauí|Piauí:
• Rio Grande do Norte:
• Rio Grande do Sul:
• :pt:Lista de governadores de Santa Catarina|Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• :pt:Lista de governadores de Sergipe|Sergipe:

  Vice governors

• :pt:Lista de vice-governadores do Rio Grande do Norte|Rio Grande do Norte:
• :pt:Lista de vice-governadores de São Paulo|São Paulo:

  Events

• 23 May - Jerônimo de Sousa Monteiro becomes the 13th president of the state of Espirito Santo.
• 2 July - The Argentina national football team begins a tour of Brazil, winning six and drawing one of the seven friendly games played in 13 days.
• 11 August - 15 November - The Exhibition of the centenary of the opening of the Ports of Brazil was held in Urca, Rio de Janeiro.
• 30 October - Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará, renounces his claim on the Brazilian throne in order to marry Countess Elisabeth Dobržensky de Dobrženicz.

  Births

• 3 February - Dulcina de Moraes, stage actress and director
• 12 February - Olga Benário Prestes, German-Brazilian communist militant
• 27 June - João Guimarães Rosa, novelist
• 14 September - Maria Luisa Monteiro da Cunha, librarian
• 25 October - Blessed Adílio Daronch, student
• 28 November - Vitorino de Brito Freire, politician
• 13 December - Plinio Corrêa de Oliveira, Catholic intellectual and politician

  Deaths

• 29 September - Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, novelist, poet, playwright, short story writer, and monarchist
• 22 October - Artur Azevedo, dramatist, short story writer, chronicler, journalist and poet of the Parnassian school