1900 in Brazil

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Events in the year 1900 in Brazil.

## Incumbents

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### Federal government

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

### Governors

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* 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)[1]
* 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[2]
* 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

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* Rio Grande do Norte:
* São Paulo:

## Events

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* 30 January \- Luis Gálvez Rodríguez de Arias is restored to the governorship of Acre.[3]
* 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.[4]
* 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.[5]
* 1 September \- Number of deaths from "Plague" in Rio decreases and the outbreak is limited to the city.[6]
* 24 December \- The Brazilians are defeated by the Bolivian military, who dissolve the Republic of Acre.

## Literature

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* Joaquim Nabuco – Minha formação (autobiography)[7]

## Music

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* Heitor Villa-Lobos – Panqueca[8]

## Births

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* 25 February – Madame Satã, drag performer and capoeirista (died 1976)
* 15 March – Gilberto Freyre, sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (died 1987)[9]
* 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)[10]
* 9 October – Ismael Nery, artist (died 1934)[11]

## Deaths

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* 18 May \- Karl von Kraatz-Koschlau, German geologist (born 1867; yellow fever)[12]
* date unknown \- Soto Grimshaw, Argentine explorer of the Amazon region of Brazil (born 1833)

## References

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1. ^ Maria Eugenia Bertarelli (2010), NERY, Silvério José (PDF) (in Portuguese), Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil, retrieved 2016-07-10
2. ^ "Silviano Francisco de Almeida Brandão". dec.ufcg.edu.br. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
3. ^ Márcio Souza, Galvez – Imperador do Acre (1976)
4. ^ Paul Elliman, "Voices falling through the air", Journal of Conservation & Museum Studies. Accessed 22 December 2013
5. ^ "Acre Seeks Recognition: New South American Republic Sends a Minister to This Country," The New York Times, Nov 24, 1900, p 1
6. ^ W. Havelburg (26 October 1900). "Plague in Rio de Janeiro from September 1 to 12, 1900". Public Health Reports. 15 (43).
7. ^ "My Formative Years". Signal Books. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
8. ^ "About This Recording". Naxos. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
9. ^ Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 136, No. 1, 1992). American Philosophical Society. 1992. p. 135\. ISBN 9781422370209.
10. ^ (in Portuguese) Filinto Müller Biography at CPDOC FGV Archived 2013-11-16 at the Wayback Machine
11. ^ Cultural, Instituto Itaú. "Ismael Nery". Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-05-13.
12. ^ Museu Paraense de História Natural e Ethnography Archived 2012-06-10 at the Wayback Machine

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