1898 in Brazil

Events in the year 1898 in Brazil.

Incumbents

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,^[1] replacing incumbent president Prudente de Morais who, because of ill-health, had already delegated most of his presidential duties to Vice President Manuel Vitorino.

3 January - Luís Carlos Prestes, politician (died 1990)
14 January - Juarez Távora (died 1975)
14 February - Angela Bambace, labor union organizer (died 1975)^[2]
6 March - Eugênia Álvaro Moreyra, journalist, actress and theater director (died 1948)
4 October - João Fahrion, painter, engraver, draughtsman and illustrator (died 1970)
28 November - Tyrteu Rocha Vianna, avant-garde poet (died 1963)^[3]
30 December - Luís da Câmara Cascudo, anthropologist, folklorist, journalist, historian, lawyer, and lexicographer (died 1986)

27 March - Princess Francisca of Brazil, the Princess of Joinville, daughter of Emperor Dom Pedro I of Brazil (born 1824)^[4]
9 April - André Rebouças, military engineer, abolitionist and inventor (born 1838)^[5]

^ Nohlen, D (2005) Elections in the Americas: A data handbook, Volume II, p173 ISBN 978-0-19-928358-3
^ Judy Barrett Litoff; Judith McDonnell (1994). European Immigrant Women in the United States: A Biographical Dictionary. Garland Pub. p. 12. ISBN 9780824053062.
^ Tyrteu Rocha Vianna poems in Spanish by Adrian'dos Delima. RIM&VIA Poesia Nova. Canoas. Rio Grande do Sul. 11/25/2010.
^ Barman, Roderick J. (1999). Citizen Emperor: Pedro II and the Making of Brazil, 1825–1891. Stanford: Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-3510-0.
^ Joseph A. Page (1995), The Brazilians. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-201-44191-8.