1899 in Brazil

Brazil-related events during 1899

1899 in Brazil
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Year of Constitution: 1891

Events in the year 1899 in Brazil.

Incumbents

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]:

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.

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.

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)

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

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