Empire of Brazil
Also known as Brazilian Empire, Imperio do Brazil
empire in South America between 1822 and 1889
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The Empire of Brazil was an independent nation in South America that existed for 67 years, from 1822 until 1889. It matters historically because it represented Brazil's transition from Portuguese colonial rule to an independent state and was one of the last countries in the Americas to abolish slavery.
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Wikidata facts
- Population
- 14333915
- Image
- Paço imperial 1840.png
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- Commons category
- Empire of Brazil
- inception
- 1822-09-07
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1889-11-15
- native label
- Império do Brasil
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Today part ofBrazil Uruguay
The Empire of Brazil (Portuguese: Império do Brasil) 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. A colony of the Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil became the seat of the Portuguese Empire in 1808, when the Portuguese Prince regent, later King Dom John VI, fled from Napoleon's invasion of Portugal and established himself and his government in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro. John VI later returned to Portugal, leaving his eldest son and heir-apparent, Pedro, to rule the Kingdom of Brazil as regent. On 7 September 1822, Pedro declared the independence of Brazil and, after waging a successful war against his father's kingdom, was acclaimed on 12 October as Pedro I, the first Emperor of Brazil. The new country was huge, sparsely populated, and ethnically diverse.