1902 in Brazil

Events in the year 1902 in Brazil.

Incumbents

President:
- Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales (to 14 November)
- Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves (from 15 November)
Vice President:
- Francisco de Assis Rosa e Silva (to 14 November)
- Afonso Pena (from 15 November)

Alagoas: Euclides Vieira Malta
Amazonas: Silvério José Néri
Bahia: Severino Vieira
Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
Goiás: José Xavier de Almeida
Maranhão:
- until 1 March: João Gualberto Torreão da Costa
- from 1 March: Manuel Lopes da Cunha
Mato Grosso: Antônio Pedro Alves de Barros
Minas Gerais:
- until 21 February: Silviano Brandão
- 21 February - 7 September: Joaquim Cândido da Costa Sena
- from 7 September: Francisco Salles
Pará: Augusto Montenegro
Paraíba: José Peregrino de Araújo
Paraná: Francisco Xavier da Silva
Pernambuco: Antônio Gonçalves Ferreira
Piauí: Arlindo Francisco Nogueira
Rio Grande do Norte: Alberto Maranhão
Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
Santa Catarina: Felipe Schmidt (until 28 September); Lauro Müller
São Paulo:
Sergipe:

1 March - Presidential election: Rodrigues Alves of the Republican Party of São Paulo receives 91.7% of the vote. Francisco Silviano de Almeida Brandão is elected vice-president but dies suddenly before the start of his term of office.
26 March – The Prinetti Decree is approved by the Italian General Commissariat of Emigration suspending emigration to Brazil of all Italians not paying their own passage. The decree was named after the then Italian foreign affairs minister, Giulio Prinetti, and approved based on a report denouncing the terrible living conditions experienced by Italian immigrants who had become virtual serfs on the coffee plantations in the state of São Paulo, with no medical care, no school for their children, small houses, no minimum hygiene conditions, and physical violence, even the use of whips.
26 October - The first season of competitive football in Brazil concludes with a victory for São Paulo Athletic Club.
3 December - José Paranhos, Baron of Rio Branco, is appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs. His ten-year tenure would be the longest in the country's history.

15 March - Custódio José de Melo, monarchist admiral and politician, foreign minister 1892
12 May - Augusto Severo de Albuquerque Maranhão, politician and journalist
6 July - Leopoldo Miguez, composer (born 1850)
3 September - Eduardo Wandenkolk, naval officer and politician
25 September - Silviano Brandão, Vice-President elect
9 November - Manuel Vitorino Pereira, 2nd vice-president of Brazil
3 December - Prudente de Morais, politician, President of Brazil 1894-1898 (born 1841)

(in Portuguese) Trento, Angelo (1989). Do outro lado do Atlântico: um século de imigração italiana no Brasil, São Paulo: Livraria Nobel ISBN 85-213-0563-X