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[110] [140] Given permission to leave, Pedro II disembarked in Rio Grande do Sul in July and proceeded from there by land. [141] He travelled overland by horse and wagon, sleeping at night in a campaign tent. [142] In September, Pedro II arrived in Uruguaiana, a Brazilian town occupied by a besieged Paraguayan army. [143] [144]
Pedro II's coffin leaving the Church of Madeleine, 1891. On the following day, thousands of mourners attended the ceremony at La Madeleine. Aside from Pedro II's family, these included: Francis II, former king of the Two Sicilies; Isabella II, former queen of Spain; Philippe, comte de Paris; and other members of European royalty.
The early life of Pedro II of Brazil covers the period from his birth on 2 December 1825 until 18 July 1841, when he was crowned and consecrated. Born in Rio de Janeiro, the Brazilian Emperor Dom Pedro II was the youngest and only surviving male child of Dom Pedro I, first emperor of Brazil, and his wife Dona Leopoldina, archduchess of Austria.
Search for a bride. Pedro II had grown and matured by 1843. He was considered a Handsome man, at 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) tall with blue eyes and brown hair. He had, however, two physical flaws: a protunding jaw (inherited from his Habsburg mother's family, which in the later 1840s he would try to conceal by letting his beard grow), and a high-pitched, childish voice.
Pedro II, around age 26, c. 1852. At the beginning of the 1850s, Brazil was enjoying internal stability and economic prosperity. [1] [2] The nation was being interconnected through railroad, electric telegraph and steamship lines, uniting it into a single entity. [1]
The legacy of Pedro II of Brazil became apparent soon after his death. Emperor Pedro II was the second and last monarch of the Empire of Brazil , whose long 58-year reign (1831–1889) represented a time of remarkable prosperity and progress for his country.
The Declaration of majority of Pedro II (Portuguese: Declaração da Maioridade de D. Pedro II ) was a document signed by the General Assembly of Brazil on 23 July 1840 which invested 14-year old Emperor Pedro II of Brazil with legal majority before the normal age of 18, in order to end the troublesome regency that ruled on his behalf and was mired in crises.
The Imperial House of Brazil (Brazilian Portuguese: Casa Imperial Brasileira) is a Brazilian dynasty of Portuguese origin, a branch of the House of Braganza, that ruled the Brazilian Empire from 1822 to 1889, from the time when the then Prince Royal Dom Pedro of Braganza (later known as Emperor Pedro I of Brazil) declared Brazil's independence, until Dom Pedro II was deposed during the ...