Events in the year 1899 in Brazil.
Incumbents
Federal government
President: Manuel Ferraz de Campos Sales
Vice President: Francisco de Assis Rosa e Silva
Governors
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 : Urbano Coelho de Gouveia Maranhão: João Gualberto Torreão da Costa Mato Grosso: Antônio Cesário de Figueiredo (until 4 July); João Pedro Xavier Câmara; Antônio Leite de Figueiredo; Antônio Pedro Alves de Barros (from 15 August) Minas Gerais: Silviano Brandão : Pais de Carvalho : Antônio Alfredo Mello Paraná: Santos Andrade; then José Bernardino Bormann; then Santos Andrade : Joaquim Correia de Araújo (until 4 April); Sigismundo Antônio Gonçalves (from 4 April) : Raimundo Artur de Vasconcelos Rio Grande do Norte: Joaquim Ferreira Chaves Rio Grande do Sul: Antônio Augusto Borges de Medeiros : Lista de Governadores de São Paulo: :
Vice governors
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Events
May
13 May: Esporte Clube Vitória is founded in Salvador, Bahia.
July
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.
August
26 August: Campo Grande, the current capital of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, is founded.
Literature
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis - Dom Casmurro
Births
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) 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
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)