1900 in Brazil
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Timeline of Brazilian history
First Brazilian Republic
Year of Constitution: 1891

Incumbents

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:

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]
24 December - The Brazilians are defeated by the Bolivian military, who dissolve the Republic of Acre.

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)

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)

^ 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
^ (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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