The Federal University of Minas Gerais, known as UFMG, is a public university in Belo Horizonte, the capital of the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. It was founded in 1927 as the University of Minas Gerais by combining existing higher-education schools, including the faculties of law, medicine, engineering and dentistry. The federal government took it over in 1949, and it was given its present name. The main campus at Pampulha, designed in part by modernist planners, is one of the largest in the country. UFMG is regularly ranked among the best universities in Brazil and Latin America, and it has been especially strong in research in fields such as biology, physics and medicine.
Before and after
- 5 November 1926Discovery of 32P/Comas Solà
- 19 November 1926Origins of Caodaism
- 5 December 1926Death of Claude Monet
- from 25 December 1926 to 7 January 1989Shōwa era
- 1927Founding of Federal University of Minas Gerais
- 1927Founding of FC Dynamo Kyiv
- 1927Hubble–Lemaître law
- 1927Origins of Super League Greece
- 1927Uncertainty principle
More in Society, economy & sport
- 1919Founding of International Astronomical Union
- 22 March 1928Founding of Muslim Brotherhood
- 1929Origins of Serie B
- from 1932 to 1933Holodomor
- 4 March 1933Roosevelt's New Deal begins
- 7 December 1944Founding of International Civil Aviation Organization
The era
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