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Events in the year 1900 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
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) [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
Events
- 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] [6]
- 1 September - Number of deaths from "Plague" in Rio decreases and the outbreak is limited to the city. [7]
- 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) [8]
- 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) [9]
- 9 October - Ismael Nery, artist (died 1934)
Deaths
- 18 May - Karl von Kraatz-Koschlau, German geologist (born 1867; yellow fever) [10] [11]
- date unknown - Soto Grimshaw, Argentine explorer of the Amazon region of Brazil (born 1833)
References
- ^ Maria Eugenia Bertarelli (2010), NERY, Silvério José (PDF) (in Portuguese), Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil, retrieved 2016-07-10
- ^ "Silviano Francisco de Almeida Brandão". dec.ufcg.edu.br. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
- ^ Márcio Souza, Galvez – Imperador do Acre (1976)
- ^ Paul Elliman, "Voices falling through the air", Journal of Conservation & Museum Studies. Accessed 22 December 2013
- ^ "Acre Seeks Recognition: New South American Republic Sends a Minister to This Country," The New York Times, Nov 24, 1900, p 1
- ^ "A Short-Lived Republic: Acre, the Land of Rubber, No Longer a Separate Country," The New York Times, Nov 30, 1900, p 1
- ^ W. Havelburg (26 October 1900). "Plague in Rio de Janeiro from September 1 to 12, 1900". Public Health Reports. 15 (43).
- ^ Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 136, No. 1, 1992). American Philosophical Society. 1992. p. 135. ISBN 9781422370209.
- ^ (in Portuguese) Filinto Müller Biography at CPDOC FGV Archived 2013-11-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Museu Paraense de História Natural e Ethnography Archived 2012-06-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ The American naturalist, Volume 34 by American Society of Naturalists
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