1900 in Brazil

← 1899 1898 1897 1900 in Brazil → 1901 1902 1903
Decades:	1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s
See also:	Other events of 1900 Timeline of Brazilian history

Events in the year 1900 in Brazil.

Incumbents

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

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

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