Events from the year 1871 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Events

  • September 28 - Law of Free Birth, or Rio Branco Law, passed by Brazilian Parliament, intending to provide freedom to all newborn children of slaves, and slaves of the state or crown.[1][2]

Births

  • August 27 - José Monteiro Ribeiro Junqueira, politician from Minas Gerais (died 1946)
  • September 12 - Mário Alves Monteiro Tourinho, general (died 1964)

Deaths

References

  1. ↑ Teresa A. Meade, A Brief History of Brazil (2009), p. 83.
  2. ↑ Robert M. Levine, The History of Brazil (2003), p. 68.
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