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The First Reign was the period of Brazilian history in which Pedro I ruled Brazil as Emperor. It began on September 7, 1822, when Brazil's independence was proclaimed, and ended on April 7, 1831, when Pedro I abdicated the Brazilian throne. [1]
Sport shooter Guilherme Paraense is the first Brazilian to win a gold medal. 1921: October: The government implements a new policy in defense of coffee, for the third time in the history of the Republic. [174] 1922: 11–18 February: Modern Art Week is held in São Paulo, marking the beginning of Brazilian Modernism. [175] 1 March
The land now known as Brazil was claimed by the Portuguese for the first time on 23 April 1500 when the Navigator Pedro Álvares Cabral landed on its coast. Permanent settlement by the Portuguese followed in 1534, and for the next 300 years they slowly expanded into the territory to the west until they had established nearly all of the frontiers which constitute modern Brazil's borders.
[10] [11] On 12 October, the prince was acclaimed Pedro I, first Emperor of the newly created Empire of Brazil, a constitutional monarchy. [12] [13] The declaration of independence was opposed throughout Brazil by armed military units loyal to Portugal. The ensuing war of independence was fought across the country, with battles in the northern ...
Pedro around age 2, c.1800, by Agustín Esteve. Pedro was born at 08:00 on 12 October 1798 in the Queluz Royal Palace near Lisbon, Portugal. [1] He was named after St. Peter of Alcantara, and his full name was Pedro de Alcântara Francisco António João Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquim José Gonzaga Pascoal Cipriano Serafim.
"Brief Chronology of Brazilian History". A History of Modern Brazil, 1889-1964. Stanford University Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-0238-6. E. Bradford Burns (1993). "Chronology of Significant Dates in Brazilian History". A History of Brazil. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-07954-9. Robert M. Levine (2003). "Timeline of Historical Events".
The first parliamentary experience began with emperor Pedro II in 1847, and was maintained during the last 42 years of the Empire of Brazil. The first de jure officeholder was Manuel Alves Branco, Viscount of Caravelas , who was sworn in on 20 July 1847 after the office was formally created by Decree No. 523.
The monarchs of Brazil (Portuguese: monarcas do Brasil) were the imperial heads of state and hereditary rulers of Brazil from the House of Braganza that reigned from the creation of the Brazilian monarchy in 1815 as a constituent kingdom of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves until the republican coup d'état that overthrew the Empire of Brazil in 1889.