1900 in Brazil

Events in the year 1900 in Brazil.

Federal government

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

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)
 * 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
 * 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:

Vice governors

 * Rio Grande do Norte:
 * São Paulo:

Events

 * 30 January - Luis Gálvez Rodríguez de Arias is restored to the governorship of Acre.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 1 September - Number of deaths from "Plague" in Rio decreases and the outbreak is limited to the city.
 * 24 December - The Brazilians are defeated by the Bolivian military, who dissolve the Republic of Acre.

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)
 * 9 October - Ismael Nery, artist (died 1934)

Deaths

 * 18 May - Karl von Kraatz-Koschlau, German geologist (born 1867; yellow fever)
 * date unknown - Soto Grimshaw, Argentine explorer of the Amazon region of Brazil (born 1833)