1900 in Brazil
Events in the year 1900 in Brazil.
| 1900 in Brazil | 
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| Flag | 
| .svg.png.webp) 21 stars (1889–1960) | 
| Timeline of Brazilian history | 
| First Brazilian Republic | 
| Year of Constitution: 1891 | 
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:
- Maranhão:
- Mato Grosso: Antônio Pedro Alves de Barros
- Minas Gerais: Silviano Brandão[2]
- Pará:
- Paraíba:
- Paraná: Santos Andrade; Francisco Xavier da Silva
- Pernambuco:
- Piauí:
- Rio Grande do Norte: Joaquim Ferreira Chaves (till 25 March); Alberto Maranhão (from 25 March)
- Rio Grande do Sul:
- 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.
- 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]
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)[7]
- October 9 - Ismael Nery, artist (died 1934)
Deaths
    
- 18 May - Karl von Kraatz-Koschlau, German geologist (born 1867; yellow fever)[8][9]
- 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," New York Times, Nov 24, 1900, p 1
- "A Short-Lived Republic: Acre, the Land of Rubber, No Longer a Separate Country," New York Times, Nov 30, 1900, p 1
- (in Portuguese) Filinto Müller Biography at CPDOC FGV
- 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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