1900 in Brazil

Events in the year 1900 in Brazil.

Incumbents

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)^[1]
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^[2]
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); Rodrigues Alves (from 1 May)
Sergipe:

30 January - Luis Gálvez Rodríguez de Arias is restored to the governorship of Acre.^[3]
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.^[4]
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.^[5]
1 September - Number of deaths from "Plague" in Rio decreases and the outbreak is limited to the city.^[6]
24 December - The Brazilians are defeated by the Bolivian military, who dissolve the Republic of Acre.

25 February – Madame Satã, drag performer and capoeirista (died 1976)
15 March – Gilberto Freyre, sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman (died 1987)^[9]
11 April – Teóphilo Bettencourt Pereira, footballer (died 1988)
19 April – Iracema de Alencar, actress (died 1978)
4 June – Alfredo Le Pera, journalist, dramatist and lyricist (died 1935)
11 July – Filinto Müller, military-associated politician (died 1973)^[10]
9 October – Ismael Nery, artist (died 1934)^[11]

18 May - Karl von Kraatz-Koschlau, German geologist (born 1867; yellow fever)^[12]
date unknown - Soto Grimshaw, Argentine explorer of the Amazon region of Brazil (born 1833)