Brazilian lawyer and politician, 12th President of Brazil (died 1955)

Artur Bernardes

Artur da Silva Bernardes was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th president of Brazil from 1922 to 1926. Bernades' presidency was marked by the crisis of the First Brazilian Republic and the almost uninterrupted duration of a state of emergency. During his long political career, from 1905 until his death, he was the main leader of the Republican Party of Minas Gerais (PRM) from 1918–1922 until the party's closure in 1937, and founder and leader of the Republican Party (PR).

Born

1875

August 8

Died

1955

Era

1870s

Country

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About

Artur, in brief

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Key dates

1875 Born
1955 Died

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870 Treaty of Meerssen: King Louis the German and his half-brother Charles the Bald partition the Middle Frankish Kingdom into two larger east and west divisions.
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The world in 1955

When Artur departed

april 1 The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of unifying with Greece.
april 11 The Air India Kashmir Princess is bombed and crashes in a failed assassination attempt on Zhou Enlai by the Kuomintang.
april 12 The polio vaccine, developed by Dr. Jonas Salk, is declared safe and effective.
april 15 McDonald's restaurant dates its founding to the opening of a franchised restaurant by Ray Kroc, in Des Plaines, Illinois.

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Same-day contemporaries

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Cecil Calvert 1605–1675 2nd Baron Baltimore, English lawyer and politician, Governor of Newfoundland (died 1675) Esther Williams 1921–2013 American swimmer and actress (died 2013) Francis Hutcheson 1694–1746 Irish philosopher and academic (died 1746) George Clifford 1558– 3rd Earl of Cumberland, English noble (died 1605) Godfrey Kneller 1646–1723 German-English painter (died 1723) Hannah Miley 1989– English-Scottish swimmer Kane Williamson 1990– New Zealand cricket captain Ken Dryden 1947– Canadian ice hockey player, lawyer, and politician (died 2025) Roger Penrose 1931– English physicist, mathematician, and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1875

Albert Schweitzer 1875–1965 French-German physician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1965) Alice Dunbar Nelson 1875– American poet and activist (died 1935) Antonio Machado 1875–1939 Spanish-French poet and author (born 1875) Arthur Currie 1875–1933 Canadian general (died 1933) Carl Jung 1875– Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (died 1961) Carter G. Woodson 1875–1950 American historian, author, and journalist, founded Black History Month (born 1875) Emilio Jacinto 1875–1899 Filipino journalist and activist (born 1875) Erkki Melartin 1875–1937 Finnish composer (born 1875) Fritz Kreisler 1875–1962 Austrian-American violinist and composer (died 1962)

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