1900 in Brazil

Events in the year 1900 in Brazil.

Incumbents

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)

^ Maria Eugenia Bertarelli (2010), NERY, Silvério José (PDF) (in Portuguese), Centro de Pesquisa e Documentação de História Contemporânea do Brasil, retrieved 2016-07-10
^ "Silviano Francisco de Almeida Brandão". dec.ufcg.edu.br. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved September 28, 2014.
^ Márcio Souza, Galvez – Imperador do Acre (1976)
^ Paul Elliman, "Voices falling through the air", Journal of Conservation & Museum Studies. Accessed 22 December 2013
^ "Acre Seeks Recognition: New South American Republic Sends a Minister to This Country," The New York Times, Nov 24, 1900, p 1
^ W. Havelburg (26 October 1900). "Plague in Rio de Janeiro from September 1 to 12, 1900". Public Health Reports. 15 (43).
^ "My Formative Years". Signal Books. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
^ "About This Recording". Naxos. Retrieved 14 November 2024.
^ Proceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 136, No. 1, 1992). American Philosophical Society. 1992. p. 135. ISBN 9781422370209.
^ (in Portuguese) Filinto Müller Biography at CPDOC FGV Archived 2013-11-16 at the Wayback Machine
^ Cultural, Instituto Itaú. "Ismael Nery". Enciclopédia Itaú Cultural (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 2020-05-13.
^ Museu Paraense de História Natural e Ethnography Archived 2012-06-10 at the Wayback Machine