Copacabana Fort Revolt

Date: July 5, 1922 • Location: Niterói, Brazil

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 1922.

Brazilian Army rebels took over Fort Copacabana and launched a rebellion in Rio de Janeiro against President Epitácio Pessoa and President-elect Artur Bernardes.

Tenentism was a political philosophy of junior army officers, generally from the burgeoning middle-class and unsatisfied with the oligarchic structure of the republic who significantly contributed to the Revolution of 1930 that ended the First Brazilian Republic.