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.
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.
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.
1 September - Number of deaths from "Plague" in Rio decreases and the outbreak is limited to the city.
24 December - The Brazilians are defeated by the Bolivian military, who dissolve the Republic of Acre.

25 February – Madame Satã, drag performer and capoeirista
15 March – Gilberto Freyre, sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman
11 April – Teóphilo Bettencourt Pereira, footballer
19 April – Iracema de Alencar, actress
4 June – Alfredo Le Pera, journalist, dramatist and lyricist
11 July – Filinto Müller, military-associated politician
9 October – Ismael Nery, artist

18 May - Karl von Kraatz-Koschlau, German geologist
date unknown - Soto Grimshaw, Argentine explorer of the Amazon region of Brazil