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1898 in Brazil
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Events in the year 1898 in Brazil.
Incumbents
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 de Castilhos
- from 25 January: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
- Santa Catarina: Hercílio 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,[1] 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)[2]
- 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)[3]
- 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)[4]
- 9 April - André Rebouças, military engineer, abolitionist and inventor (born 1838)[5]
