1899 in Brazil

Events in the year 1899 in Brazil .

Incumbents

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  [ pt ]: Urbano Coelho de Gouveia
• Maranhão: João Gualberto Torreão da Costa
• Mato Grosso: Antônio Cesário de Figueiredo (until 4 July); ^[1] 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  [ pt ]: Pais de Carvalho
• List of governors of Paraíba  [ pt ]: Antônio Alfredo Mello
• Paraná: Santos Andrade; then José Bernardino Bormann; then Santos Andrade
• List of governors of Pernambuco  [ pt ]: Joaquim Correia de Araújo (until 4 April); Sigismundo Antônio Gonçalves (from 4 April)
• List of governors of Piauí  [ pt ]: 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  [ pt ]:
• Lista de Governadores de São Paulo:
• List of governors of Sergipe  [ pt ]:

Vice governors

• List of vice governors of Rio Grande do Norte  [ pt ]:
• List of vice governors of São Paulo  [ pt ]:

Events

January

• 2 January : Bolivia sets up a customs office in Puerto Alonso, leading to the Brazilian settlers there to declare the Republic of Acre in a revolt against Bolivian authorities.

May

• 13 May : Esporte Clube Vitória is founded in Salvador, Bahia. ^[2]

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. ^[3]
• 16 July: Roberto Landell de Moura performs the first public demonstration of his Wave Transmitter.

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) ^[4]
• 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 - Almeida Júnior, painter (born 1850; murdered)

References

1. Fanaia, João Edson (2015). "FIGUEIREDO, Cesário de" (PDF). Dicionário histórico-biográfico da Primeira República (1889-1930). CPDOC FGV. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
2. Vitória Official Website (in Portuguese)
3. "New Republic Founded: The Evolution of a South American No Man's Land," Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov 12, 1899, p 7
4. "FIBA Hall of Fame page on Carneiro". Archived from the original on 2013-12-24. Retrieved 2013-12-22.

External links

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