1899 in Brazil

Events in the year 1899 in Brazil.

Federal government

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

Governors

 * List of governors of Alagoas: Manuel Jose Duarte (until 17 June), Francisco Manuel dos Santos (starting 17 June)
 * Amazonas: José Cardoso Ramalho Júnior
 * Bahia: Luís Viana
 * Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
 * List of governors of Goiás: Urbano Coelho de Gouveia
 * Maranhão: João Gualberto Torreão da Costa
 * Mato Grosso: Antônio Cesário de Figueiredo (until 4 July); João Pedro Xavier Câmara; Antônio Leite de Figueiredo; Antônio Pedro Alves de Barros (from 15 August)
 * Minas Gerais: Silviano Brandão
 * List of governors of Pará: Pais de Carvalho
 * List of governors of Paraíba: Antônio Alfredo Mello
 * Paraná: Santos Andrade; then José Bernardino Bormann; then Santos Andrade
 * List of governors of Pernambuco: Joaquim Correia de Araújo (until 4 April); Sigismundo Antônio Gonçalves (from 4 April)
 * List of governors of Piauí: Raimundo Artur de Vasconcelos
 * Rio Grande do Norte: Joaquim Ferreira Chaves
 * Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
 * List of governors of Santa Catarina:
 * Lista de Governadores de São Paulo:
 * List of governors of Sergipe:

Vice governors

 * List of vice governors of Rio Grande do Norte:
 * List of vice governors of São Paulo:

May

 * 13 May: Esporte Clube Vitória is founded in Salvador, Bahia.

July

 * 14 July: Luis Gálvez Rodríguez de Arias proclaims the First Republic of Acre, breaching the terms of the Treaty of Ayacucho between Brazil and Bolivia.

August

 * 26 August: Campo Grande, the current capital of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, is founded.

Literature

 * Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis - Dom Casmurro

Births

 * 1 January - Nonô (footballer) (died 1931)
 * 3 February - Café Filho, politician (died 1970)
 * 16 June - Dante Milano, modernist poet (died 1991)
 * 19 June - Antonio dos Reis Carneiro, basketball administrator (date of death unknown)
 * 3 October - Artur da Costa e Silva, President 1967-1969 (died 1969)
 * 23 November - Manuel dos Reis Machado, master practitioner of capoeira (died 1974)

Deaths

 * 25 January - Alfredo Maria Adriano d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay, writer, musician, professor, military engineer, historian and politician (born 1843)
 * 13 November - José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, painter (born 1850; murdered)