1900 in Brazil explained

Events in the year 1900 in Brazil.

Incumbents

Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales

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^[1]
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:

30 January - Luis Gálvez Rodríguez de Arias is restored to the governorship of Acre.^[2]
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.^[3]
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.^[4]
1 September - Number of deaths from "Plague" in Rio decreases and the outbreak is limited to the city.^[5]
24 December - The Brazilians are defeated by the Bolivian military, who dissolve the Republic of Acre.

25 February – Madame Satã, drag performer and capoeirista (died 1976)
15 March – Gilberto Freyre, sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (died 1987)^[8]
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]
9 October – Ismael Nery, artist (died 1934)^[10]

18 May - Karl von Kraatz-Koschlau, German geologist (born 1867; yellow fever)^[11]
date unknown - Soto Grimshaw, Argentine explorer of the Amazon region of Brazil (born 1833)

Web site: Silviano Francisco de Almeida Brandão . dec.ufcg.edu.br . September 28, 2014 . September 24, 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924121214/http://www.dec.ufcg.edu.br/biografias/FrancSAB.html . dead .
Márcio Souza, Galvez – Imperador do Acre (1976)
http://www.jcms-journal.com/article/view/jcms.1011211/55 Paul Elliman, "Voices falling through the air", Journal of Conservation & Museum Studies
"Acre Seeks Recognition: New South American Republic Sends a Minister to This Country," The New York Times, Nov 24, 1900, p 1
W. Havelburg. Plague in Rio de Janeiro from September 1 to 12, 1900. Public Health Reports. 15. 43. 26 October 1900.
Web site: My Formative Years. Signal Books. 14 November 2024.
Web site: About This Recording. Naxos. 14 November 2024.
Book: Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 136, No. 1, 1992). American Philosophical Society. 1992. 135. 9781422370209.
Filinto Müller Biography at CPDOC FGV
Web site: Ismael Nery. Cultural. Instituto Itaú. Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural. pt-br. 2020-05-13.
http://www.dichistoriasaude.coc.fiocruz.br/iah/P/verbetes/muspareg.htm Museu Paraense de História Natural e Ethnography