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Flag map of the Empire of Brazil: Date: 26 January 2012, 02:37 (UTC) Source: This file was derived from: Flag of Empire of Brazil (1870-1889).svg: Brazilian Empire 1828 (orthographic projection).svg: Author: File:Flag of Empire of Brazil (1870-1889).svg; File:Brazilian Empire 1828 (orthographic projection).svg
The Empire of Brazil was a 19th-century state that broadly comprised the territories which form modern Brazil and Uruguay until the latter achieved independence in 1828. The empire's government was a representative parliamentary constitutional monarchy under the rule of Emperors Pedro I and his son Pedro II .
The Arquivo Nacional (in English: The Brazilian National Archives) is an institution of the Brazilian Ministry of Justice and Public Security responsible for the management and preservation of documents pertaining to the federal public administration and located in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
File:First Brazilian Empire (orthographic projection).svg licensed with Cc-by-sa-3.0-migrated, GFDL, GFDL-GMT 2010-03-31T00:00:11Z Milenioscuro 541x541 (468390 Bytes) fixed borders of South America and Africa countries
The provinces of Brazil were the primary subdivisions of the country during the period of the Empire of Brazil (1822 – 1889). [1]On February 28, 1821, the provinces were established in the Kingdom of Brazil (then part of the United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves), superseding the captaincies that were in place at the time.
The Empire responded with a declaration of war, which "was to draw Brazil into a long, inglorious, and ultimately futile war in the south" – the Cisplatine War. [53] João VI died in March 1826, a few months after the outbreak, and Pedro I inherited the Portuguese crown, becoming King Pedro IV.
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Flag of the Second Empire of Brazil, with 20 stars, representing the new provincies of Rio Negro (1850, later Amazonas) and Paraná (1853), furthermore the loss of the province of Cisplatina (1828). Reformed standard according to this book, an official publication of the government of Brazil, on page 74 .