1899 in Brazil

1899 in Brazil
Years 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901
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Year of Constitution: 1891

Events in the year 1899 in Brazil.

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

• 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]:

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

• 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.

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

• 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]

• 26 August: Campo Grande, the current capital of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, is founded.

• Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis - Dom Casmurro

• 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)

• 25 January - Alfredo Maria Adriano d'Escragnolle Taunay, Viscount of Taunay, writer, musician, professor, military engineer, historian and politician (born 1843)
• 13 November - José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior, painter (born 1850; murdered)

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