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Landing of Dom Pedro on Lisbon: The imperial boat approaching the Navy's Arsenal. The last photograph of the Brazilian imperial family, 1889. The monarchist reaction after the fall of the empire "was not small, and even less so its repression."
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 ...
Dom Pedro II (2 December 1825 – 5 December 1891), nicknamed the Magnanimous (Portuguese: O Magnânimo), [1] was the second and last monarch of the Empire of Brazil, reigning for over 58 years. [ a ]
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.
Dom Pedro (Lord Peter) is the traditional Portuguese appellation of several kings of Portugal: Peter I of Portugal; Peter II of Portugal; Peter III of Portugal;
Dom Pedro, who saw the impossibility of occupying the north of the country as originally he had planned, reorganized the army and created the General Staff. He dispatched Pedro de Sousa Holstein, 1st Duke of Palmela , to London, with the mission of obtaining financial support to the cause and contracting officers and soldiers.
It was initially introduced from England in 1681 by Dr. Fernando Mendes, who “received a handsome gift from (King Dom Pedro) on condition that he should reveal to him the secret of his composition and withhold it from the public”. However, the popularity of the mixture was short-lived, either because it did not perform as claimed or because ...
He was born at Montemor-o-Velho, and became a knight of the Order of Aviz in the service of the Infante Dom Pedro, son of the Regent Infante Peter, Duke of Coimbra.After Peter's defeat and death in the battle of Alfarrobeira (1449), he accompanied his master into exile.