1898 in Brazil

Events in the year 1898 in Brazil.

Federal government

 * President:
 * Prudente de Morais (until 14 November)
 * Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales (starting 15 November)
 * Vice-President:
 * Manuel Vitorino, (until 14 November)
 * Francisco de Assis Rosa e Silva (starting 15 November)

Governors

 * Alagoas: Manuel Jose Duarte
 * Amazonas: Fileto Pires Ferreira (until 4 April), José Cardoso Ramalho Júnior (starting 4 April)
 * Bahia: Luís Viana
 * Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
 * Goiás:
 * until July 9: Francisco Leopoldo Rodrigues Jardim
 * July 9 - November 1: Bernardo Albernaz
 * from November 1: Urbano Coelho de Gouveia
 * Maranhão:
 * until 1 March: Alfredo Martins
 * 1 March - 11 August: José de Magalhães Braga
 * from 11 August: João Gualberto Torreão da Costa
 * Mato Grosso: Manuel José Murtinho, then Antônio Correia da Costa
 * Minas Gerais:
 * until 7 September: Bias Fortes
 * from 7 September: Silviano Brandão
 * Pará: Pais de Carvalho
 * Paraíba: Antônio Alfredo Mello
 * Paraná: Santos Andrade
 * Pernambuco: Joaquim Correia de Araújo
 * Piauí: Raimundo Artur de Vasconcelos
 * Rio Grande do Norte: Joaquim Ferreira Chaves
 * Rio Grande do Sul:
 * until 25 January: Júlio Prates de Castilhos
 * from 25 January: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
 * Santa Catarina: Hercilio Luz (until 28 September), Philip Schmidt (starting 28 September)
 * São Paulo: Francis of Assisi Peixoto Gomide (until 10 November), Fernando Prestes de Albuquerque (starting 10 November)
 * Sergipe:

Vice governors

 * List of Vice Governors of Rio Grande do Norte: Meira and Sá
 * List of Vice Governors of São Paulo: Peixoto Gomide

Events

 * 1 March - In the presidential election, Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales of the Republican Party of São Paulo, is successful, with 90.9% of the vote, replacing incumbent president Prudente de Morais who, because of ill-health, had already delegated most of his presidential duties to Vice President Manuel Vitorino.

Births

 * 3 January - Luís Carlos Prestes, politician (died 1990)
 * 14 January - Juarez Távora (died 1975)
 * 14 February - Angela Bambace, labor union organizer (died 1975)
 * 6 March - Eugênia Álvaro Moreyra, journalist, actress and theater director (died 1948)
 * 4 October - João Fahrion, painter, engraver, draughtsman and illustrator (died 1970)
 * 28 November - Tyrteu Rocha Vianna, avant-garde poet (died 1963)
 * 30 December - Luís da Câmara Cascudo, anthropologist, folklorist, journalist, historian, lawyer, and lexicographer (died 1986)

Deaths

 * 27 March - Princess Francisca of Brazil, the Princess of Joinville, daughter of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil (born 1824)
 * 9 April - André Rebouças, military engineer, abolitionist and inventor (born 1838)