1900 in Brazil
# 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

* Alagoas: 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)
* Goiás: Urbano Coelho de Gouveia
* Maranhão: João Gualberto Torreão da Costa
* Mato Grosso: Antônio Pedro Alves de Barros
* Minas Gerais: Silviano Brandão
* Pará: Pais de Carvalho
* Paraíba: Antônio Alfredo Mello (till 22 October); José Peregrino de Araújo (from 22 October)
* Paraná: Santos Andrade; Francisco Xavier da Silva
* Pernambuco: Sigismundo Antônio Gonçalves (till 7 April); Antônio Gonçalves Ferreira (from 7 April)
* Piauí: 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
* Santa Catarina:
* São Paulo: Fernando Prestes de Albuquerque (till 1 May); Francisco de Paula Rodrigues Alves (from 1 May)
* Sergipe:

### Vice governors

* Rio Grande do Norte:
* São Paulo:

## 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.
* 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

* 15 March - Gilberto Freyre, sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (died 1987)
* 11 April - Teóphilo Bettencourt Pereira, footballer (died 1988)
* 4 June - Alfredo Le Pera, journalist, dramatist and lyricist (died 1935)
* 11 July - Filinto Müller, military-associated politician (died 1973)
* October 9 - 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)
