1900 in Brazil

Events in the year 1900 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Federal government

• President: Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales
• Vice President: Francisco de Assis Rosa e Silva

Governors

• : Francisco Manuel dos Santos Pacheco (till 12 June); Euclides Vieira Malta (from 12 June)
• Amazonas: José Cardoso Ramalho Júnior (till 23 July); Silvério José Néri (from 23 July)
• Bahia: Luís Viana; Rodrigues Lima
• Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli (till 12 July); Pedro Augusto Borges (from 12 July)
• : Urbano Coelho de Gouveia
• Maranhão: João Gualberto Torreão da Costa
• Mato Grosso: Antônio Pedro Alves de Barros
• Minas Gerais: Silviano Brandão
• : Pais de Carvalho
• : Antônio Alfredo Mello (till 22 October); José Peregrino de Araújo (from 22 October)
• Paraná: Santos Andrade; Francisco Xavier da Silva
• : Sigismundo Antônio Gonçalves (till 7 April); Antônio Gonçalves Ferreira (from 7 April)
• : Raimundo Artur de Vasconcelos (till 1 July); Arlindo Francisco Nogueira (from 1 July)
• Rio Grande do Norte: Joaquim Ferreira Chaves (till 25 March); Alberto Maranhão (from 25 March)
• Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
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• São Paulo: Fernando Prestes de Albuquerque (till 1 May); Rodrigues Alves (from 1 May)
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Vice governors

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Events

• 30 January - Luis Gálvez Rodríguez de Arias is restored to the governorship of Acre.
• 15 March - The Brazilian government sends troops to arrest rebel leader Luis Gálvez Rodríguez de Arias and restore the Republic of Acre to Bolivia.
• 7 May - The first line of electric trams in São Paulo starts operating.
• 3 June - Priest and inventor Landell de Moura publicly demonstrates a radio broadcast of the human voice.
• 11 August - The football club Associação Atlética Ponte Preta is founded.
• November - An attempt is made to create a Second Acre Republic with Rodrigo de Carvalho as president; it fails.
• 1 September - Number of deaths from "Plague" in Rio decreases and the outbreak is limited to the city.
• 24 December - The Brazilians are defeated by the Bolivian military, who dissolve the Republic of Acre.

Literature

• Joaquim Nabuco – Minha formação (autobiography)

Music

• Heitor Villa-Lobos – Panqueca

Births

• 25 February – Madame Satã, drag performer and capoeirista (died 1976)
• 15 March – Gilberto Freyre, sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (died 1987)
• 11 April – Teóphilo Bettencourt Pereira, footballer (died 1988)
• 19 April – Iracema de Alencar, actress (died 1978)
• 4 June – Alfredo Le Pera, journalist, dramatist and lyricist (died 1935)
• 11 July – Filinto Müller, military-associated politician (died 1973)
• 9 October – Ismael Nery, artist (died 1934)

Deaths

• 18 May - Karl von Kraatz-Koschlau, German geologist (born 1867; yellow fever)
• date unknown - Soto Grimshaw, Argentine explorer of the Amazon region of Brazil (born 1833)

References