1898 in Brazil
Events in the year 1898 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
- President:
- *Prudente de Morais
- *Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales
- Vice-President:
- *Manuel Vitorino,
- *Francisco de Assis Rosa e Silva
Governors
- Alagoas: Manuel Jose Duarte
- Amazonas: Fileto Pires Ferreira, José Cardoso Ramalho Júnior
- Bahia: Luís Viana
- Ceará: Antônio Nogueira Accioli
- Goiás:
- * until July 9: Francisco Leopoldo Rodrigues Jardim
- * July 9 - November 1: Bernardo Albernaz
- * from November 1: Urbano Coelho de Gouveia
- Maranhão:
- * until 1 March: Alfredo Martins
- * 1 March - 11 August: José de Magalhães Braga
- * from 11 August: João Gualberto Torreão da Costa
- Mato Grosso: Manuel José Murtinho, then Antônio Correia da Costa
- Minas Gerais:
- * until 7 September: Bias Fortes
- * from 7 September: Silviano Brandão
- Pará: Pais de Carvalho
- Paraíba: Antônio Alfredo Mello
- Paraná: Santos Andrade
- Pernambuco: Joaquim Correia de Araújo
- Piauí: Raimundo Artur de Vasconcelos
- Rio Grande do Norte: Joaquim Ferreira Chaves
- Rio Grande do Sul:
- * until 25 January: Júlio de Castilhos
- * from 25 January: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros
- Santa Catarina: Hercílio Luz, Philip Schmidt
- São Paulo: Francis of Assisi Peixoto Gomide, Fernando Prestes de Albuquerque
- Sergipe:
Vice governors
- : Meira and Sá
- : Peixoto Gomide
Events
- 1 March - In the presidential election, Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales of the Republican Party of São Paulo, is successful, with 90.9% of the vote, replacing incumbent president Prudente de Morais who, because of ill-health, had already delegated most of his presidential duties to Vice President Manuel Vitorino.
Births
- 3 January - Luís Carlos Prestes, politician
- 14 January - Juarez Távora
- 14 February - Angela Bambace, labor union organizer
- 6 March - Eugênia Álvaro Moreyra, journalist, actress and theater director
- 4 October - João Fahrion, painter, engraver, draughtsman and illustrator
- 28 November - Tyrteu Rocha Vianna, avant-garde poet
- 30 December - Luís da Câmara Cascudo, anthropologist, folklorist, journalist, historian, lawyer, and lexicographer
Deaths
- 27 March - Princess Francisca of Brazil, the Princess of Joinville, daughter of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil
- 9 April - André Rebouças, military engineer, abolitionist and inventor