Events in the year 1899 in Brazil.
Incumbents edit
Federal government edit
Governors edit
- 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: 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: Pais de Carvalho
- List of governors of Paraíba: Antônio Alfredo Mello
- Paraná: Santos Andrade; then José Bernardino Bormann; then Santos Andrade
- List of governors of Pernambuco: Joaquim Correia de Araújo (until 4 April); Sigismundo Antônio Gonçalves (from 4 April)
- List of governors of Piauí: 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:
- Lista de Governadores de São Paulo:
- List of governors of Sergipe:
Vice governors edit
Events edit
May edit
- 13 May: Esporte Clube Vitória is founded in Salvador, Bahia.[2]
July edit
- 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]
August edit
- 26 August: Campo Grande, the current capital of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, is founded.
Literature edit
Births edit
- 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)
Deaths edit
- 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)
References edit
- ^ 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.
External links edit
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