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:
• Amazonas:
• Bahia:
• Ceará:
• Goiás:
• Maranhão:
• Mato Grosso:
• Minas Gerais:
• Pará:
• Paraíba:
• Paraná:
• Pernambuco:
• Piauí:
• Rio Grande do Norte:
• Rio Grande do Sul:
• Santa Catarina:
• São Paulo:
• Sergipe:

Vice governors

• Rio Grande do Norte:
• São Paulo:

Events

• 30 January - Luis Gálvez Rodríguez de Arias is restored to the governorship of Acre.[1]
• 15 March - The Brazilian government sends troops to arrest rebel leader Luis Gálvez Rodríguez de Arias and restore the "Republic of Acre" to Bolivia.
• 3 June - Priest and inventor Landell de Moura publicly demonstrates a radio broadcast of the human voice.[2]
• 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.[3][4]

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)[5]
• October 9 - Ismael Nery, artist

Deaths

• 18 May - Karl von Kraatz-Koschlau, German geologist (born 1867; yellow fever)[6][7]
• date unknown - Soto Grimshaw, Argentine explorer of the Amazon region of Brazil (born 1833)

References

1. Márcio Souza, Galvez – Imperador do Acre (1976)
2. Paul Elliman, "Voices falling through the air", Journal of Conservation & Museum Studies. Accessed 22 December 2013
3. "Acre Seeks Recognition: New South American Republic Sends a Minister to This Country," New York Times, Nov 24, 1900, p 1
4. "A Short-Lived Republic: Acre, the Land of Rubber, No Longer a Separate Country," New York Times, Nov 30, 1900, p 1
5. (in Portuguese) Filinto Müller Biography at CPDOC FGV
6. Museu Paraense de História Natural e Ethnography Archived 2012-06-10 at the Wayback Machine
7. The American naturalist, Volume 34 by American Society of Naturalists